Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the Olympic Games
Flag of the Soviet Union IOC code  URS NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
Competitors	101 (78 men, 23 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Andrei Bukin (figure skating)
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 11	Silver 9	Bronze 9	Total 29
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Winter Games
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
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Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)  Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)  Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)  Unified Team (1992)  Armenia (1994–)  Belarus (1994–)  Georgia (1994–)  Kazakhstan (1994–)  Kyrgyzstan (1994–)  Moldova (1994–)  Russia (1994–)  Ukraine (1994–)  Uzbekistan (1994–)  Azerbaijan (1996–)  Tajikistan (1996–)  Turkmenistan (1996–)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. It would be the last Winter Olympic Games before the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Six of the former Soviet republics would compete together as the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics, and each republic would be individually represented at subsequent Games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Gold	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km classical
Gold	Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km classical
Gold	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km classical
Gold	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 km freestyle
Gold	Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Gold	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Evgeny Belosheikin   Alexei Kasatonov   Sergei Makarov Ilya Byakin   Andrei Khomutov   Alexander Mogilny Vyacheslav Bykov   Vladimir Krutov   Sergei Mylnikov Viacheslav Fetisov   Igor Larionov   Vitali Samoilov Alexei Gusarov   Aleksandr Kozhevnikov   Anatoly Semenov Sergei Yashin   Igor Kravchuk   Sergei Starikov Valeri Kamensky   Andrei Lomakin   Igor Stelnov Sergei Svetlov   Aleksandr Chernykh	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Gold	Nikolay Gulyayev	Speed skating	Men's 1000m
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km classical
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Silver	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km classical
Silver	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km classical
Silver	Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 km freestyle
Silver	Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Bronze	Sergei Tchepikov	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Bronze	Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km classical
Bronze	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km classical
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 km freestyle
Bronze	Viktor Petrenko	Figure skating	Men's singles
Bronze	Yury Kharchenko	Luge	Men's individual
Bronze	Allar Levandi	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Igor Zhelezovsky	Speed skating	Men's 1000m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sergey Petrik	Super-G			DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov				DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov	Giant Slalom	1:10.09	1:06.58	2:16.67	35
Sergey Petrik		1:09.78	1:05.38	2:15.16	30
Konstantin Chistyakov	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sergey Petrik		55.39	DNF	DNF	–

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov	1:55.99	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sergey Petrik	1:55.82	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Golnur Postnikova	Downhill			1:28.23	16

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Golnur Postnikova	DNF	–	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Juri Kashkarov	3	26:49.1	18
	Dmitry Vasilyev	1	26:09.7	9
	Sergei Tchepikov	0	25:29.4
	Valeriy Medvedtsev	0	25:23.7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Aleksandr Popov	56:24.0	3	59:24.0	12
	Juri Kashkarov	55:43.1	2	57:43.1	5
	Sergei Tchepikov	56:17.5	1	57:17.5	4
	Valeriy Medvedtsev	54:54.6	2	56:54.6

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev	0	1'22:30.0

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
URS-1	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov	Two-man	57.43	4	58.05	1	59.52	2	58.48	2	3:53.48
URS-2	Zintis Ekmanis Aivars Trops	Two-man	57.95	10	59.12	6	1:00.72	14	59.13	6	3:56.92	9

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
URS-1	Māris Poikāns Olafs Kļaviņš Ivars Bērzups Juris Jaudzems	Four-man	56.75	6	57.66	7	56.70	10	57.24	2	3:48.35	5
URS-2	Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov	Four-man	56.72	4	57.28	1	56.41	4	57.85	7	3:48.26

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Aleksey Prokurorov	43:36.9	18
	Aleksandr Batyuk	43:08.7	15
	Vladimir Smirnov	41:48.5
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	41:18.9
30 km C	Yury Burlakov	1'28:02.4	12
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	1'25:31.3	4
	Vladimir Smirnov	1'24:35.1
	Aleksey Prokurorov	1'24:26.3
50 km F	Aleksey Prokurorov	2'14:01.0	38
	Yury Burlakov	2'12:02.2	26
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	2'12:01.7	25
	Vladimir Sakhnov	2'09:00.1	12

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov	1'44:11.3

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Raisa Smetanina	15:35.9	10
	Svetlana Nageykina	15:29.9	8
	Vida Vencienė	15:11.1
	Tamara Tikhonova	15:05.3
10 km C	Tamara Tikhonova	30:38.9	5
	Svetlana Nageykina	30:26.5	4
	Raisa Smetanina	30:17.0
	Vida Vencienė	30:08.3
20 km F	Nina Gavrilyuk	DSQ	–
	Raisa Smetanina	57:22.1
	Anfisa Reztsova	56:12.8
	Tamara Tikhonova	55:53.6

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	59:51.1

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Vladimir Kotin	5	6	8	13.4	6
Alexander Fadeev	1	9	5	8.2	4
Viktor Petrenko	6	3	3	7.8

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Anna Kondrashova	9	7	7	15.2	8
Kira Ivanova	1	10	9	13.6	7

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	6	4	6.0	4
Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev	2	2	3.0
Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	1	1	1.5

Ice dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	4	4	4	8.0	4
Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	2	2	2	4.0
Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	1	1	1	2.0

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Group B

Top three teams (shaded ones) entered the medal round.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
West Germany	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
United States	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
Austria	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
Norway	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

• Soviet Union 5-0 Norway
• Soviet Union 8-1 Austria
• Soviet Union 7-5 USA
• West Germany 3-6 Soviet Union
• Soviet Union 6-1 Czechoslovakia

Medal round

The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	4	1	0	25	7	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	18	10	7
Sweden	5	2	1	2	15	16	6
Canada	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
West Germany	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

• Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
• Soviet Union 7-1 Sweden
• Finland 2-1 Soviet Union

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1st	Vladimir Krutov	8	6	9	15	0
2nd	Igor Larionov	8	4	9	13	4
3rd	Vyacheslav Fetisov	8	4	9	13	6
6th	Sergei Makarov	8	3	8	11	10

Roster:

Evgeny Belosheikin Ilya Byakin Vyacheslav Bykov Viacheslav Fetisov Alexei Gusarov Sergei Yashin Valeri Kamensky Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Khomutov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Igor Kravchuk Andrei Lomakin Sergei Makarov Alexander Mogilny Sergei Mylnikov Vitali Samoilov Anatoly Semenov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov Sergei Svetlov Aleksandr Chernykh

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Valery Dudin	47.812	28	46.982	13	47.061	13	47.025	9	3:08.880	17
Sergey Danilin	46.564	5	46.827	7	46.648	5	47.059	10	3:07.098	6
Yury Kharchenko	46.391	3	46.605	3	46.475	3	46.803	4	3:06.274

Men's doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vitaly Melnik Dmitry Alekseyev	46.060	6	46.399	6	1:32.459	6
Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	45.973	3	46.580	8	1:32.553	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Irina Kusakina	46.690	11	47.071	12	46.643	8	46.639	9	3:07.043	10
Nadezhda Danilina	46.597	10	46.447	6	46.613	6	46.707	11	3:06.364	8
Yuliya Antipova	46.449	7	46.425	5	46.610	5	46.303	4	3:05.787	5

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (best two out of three jumps)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Sergey Nikiforov	Individual	191.8	30	4:04.7	42:43.0	402.905	14
Andrey Dundukov		194.0	26	3:50.0	42:21.1	406.185	12
Vasily Savin		203.7	17	2:45.4	41:22.9	414.925	10
Allar Levandi		216.6	4	1:19.4	40:31.8	422.590

Men's team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Andrey Dundukov Vasily Savin Allar Levandi	282.5	11	DNF	DNF	–

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Eduard Suboch	Normal hill	76.0	83.7	78.0	89.9	173.6	38
Mikhail Yesin		80.0	92.1	74.0	79.5	171.6	39

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:02.86	36
	Vitaly Makovetsky	37.35	12
	Igor Zhelezovsky	36.94	6
	Sergey Fokichev	36.82	4
1000 m	Boris Repnin	1:14.41	12
	Andrey Bakhvalov	1:14.39	11
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:13.19
	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:13.03 OR
1500 m	Andrey Bobrov	1:58.97	35
	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:53.04	7
	Aleksandr Klimov	1:52.97	6
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:52.63	4
5000 m	Yury Klyuyev	7:00.01	26
	Sergey Berezin	6:58.08	23
	Dmitry Bochkaryov	6:56.57	17
10,000 m	Aleksandr Mozin	14:28.91	18
	Sergey Berezin	14:20.48	9
	Yury Klyuyev	14:09.68	6

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yelena Ilyina	41.15	16
	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	40.66	9
1000 m	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	1:22.99	20
	Yelena Ilyina	1:22.40	18
1500 m	Yelena Tumanova	2:07.71	15
	Yelena Lapuga	2:04.24	5
3000 m	Yelena Tumonova	4:24.07	9
	Yelena Lapuga	4:23.29	7
	Svetlana Boyko	4:22.90	6
5000 m	Yelena Tumanova	7:40.82	15
	Yelena Lapuga	7:28.65	5
	Svetlana Boyko	7:28.39	4

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com