Kyrgyzstan competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Kyrgyz athletes had competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Results by event Athletics Men's 100 metres Vladislav Chernobay Men's 800 metres Boris Kaveshnikov Men's Marathon Nazirdin Akilbekov — 2:23:59 (→ 63rd place) Men's 110 metres Hurdles Yevgeny Shorokhov Men's Triple Jump Maksim Smetanin Women's Marathon Irina Bogachova — 2:35.44 (→ 21st place) Boxing Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) Sergey Kopenkin First Round — Defeated Cristian Giantomassi (Italy), 12-11 Second Round — Lost to Leonard Doroftei (Romania), 1-10 Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) Nourbek Kassenov First Round — Defeated Shane Heaps (Tonga), 11-2 Second Round — Lost to Nariman Atayev (Uzbekistan), 7-11 Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg) Andrey Kurnyavka First Round — Lost to Félix Savón (Cuba), 3-9 Canoeing Men's Kayak Doubles (500 metres) Andrey Mitkovets Yury Ulyachenko Men's Kayak Doubles (1,000 metres) Andrey Mitkovets and Yury Ulyachenko Cycling Track Competition Men's Points Race Yevgeny Vakker Final — 1 point (→ 16th place) Judo Men's Heavyweight Vadim Sergeyev Women's Extra-Lightweight Nataliya Kuligina Modern Pentathlon Men's Competition Igor Feldman – 4547 points (→ 30th place) Shooting Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres Yury Melentyev Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres Yury Melentyev Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres Yury Lomov Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres Yury Lomov Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres Yury Lomov Swimming Men's 100m Freestyle Sergey Ashikhmin Heat — 51.07 (→ did not advance, 29th place) Men's 400m Freestyle Andrey Kvasov Heat — 4:00.69 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Men's 200m Butterfly Konstantin Andriuchine Heat — 2:01.59 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Sergey Ashikhmin, Andrey Kvasov, Dmitri Lapine, and Vitaliy Vasilev Heat — 3:30.62 (→ did not advance, 18th place) Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Sergey Ashikhmin, Andrey Kvasov, Dmitri Lapine, and Vitaliy Vasilev Heat — 8:00.00 (→ did not advance, 17th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Konstantin Priahin, Evgeni Petrachov, Konstantin Andriuchine, and Sergey Ashikhmin Heat — 3:56.24 (→ did not advance, 21st place) Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Viktoria Polejaeva, Olga Titova, Olga Korotaeva, and Olga Bogatyreva Heat — 8:45.76 (→ did not advance, 20th place) Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight Raatbek Sanatbayev Men's Freestyle Light-Flyweight Vladimir Torgovkin Men's Freestyle Heavyweight Konstantin Aleksandrov