Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Cortina d'Ampezzo | |
Competitors | 53 (47 men, 6 women) [1] in 6 sports |
Flag bearer | Oleg Goncharenko |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–) Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–) Lithuania (1928, 1992–) Unified Team (1992) Armenia (1994–) Belarus (1994–) Georgia (1994–) Kazakhstan (1994–) Kyrgyzstan (1994–) Moldova (1994–) Russia (1994–2014) Ukraine (1994–) Uzbekistan (1994–) Azerbaijan (1998–) Tajikistan (2002–) Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018) ROC (2022) |
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Athlete | Event | Final | |||
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Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Rank | ||
Gennady Chertishchev | Giant slalom | 3:48.9 | 55 | ||
Downhill | DSQ | DNF | |||
Aleksandr Filatov | Giant slalom | 3:27.8 | 33 | ||
Slalom | 1:33.5 | 2:36.0 | 4:09.5 | 30 | |
Downhill | 3:16.6 | 16 | |||
Vyacheslav Melnikov | Slalom | TNK | DSQ | did not finish | |
Yury Sharkov | Giant slalom | 3:41.8 | 46 | ||
Slalom | DSQ | did not finish | |||
Sergey Shustov | Downhill | DSQ | DNF | ||
Viktor Talyanov | Giant slalom | 3:45.2 | 52 | ||
Slalom | 1:49.2 | 2:06.9 | 3:56.1 | 24 | |
Downhill | 3:26.5 | 21 |
Athlete | Event | Final | |||
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Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Rank | ||
Aleksandra Artyomenko | Giant slalom | 4:04.5 | 44 | ||
Slalom | DSQ | did not finish | |||
Downhill | 1:51.1 | 14 | |||
Yevgeniya Sidorova | Giant slalom | 2:31.3 | 40 | ||
Slalom | 56.9 | 59.8 | 1:56.7 | ||
Downhill | 1:59.8 | 37 |
Athlete | Event | Final | |
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Total | Rank | ||
Nikolay Anikin | 15 km | 50:58 | 7 |
Viktor Baranov | 50 km | 3:03:55 | 7 |
Minnevali Galiyev | 15 km | 52:49 | 18 |
Pavel Kolchin | 15 km | 50:17 | |
30 km | 1:45:45 | ||
50 km | 2:58:00 | 6 | |
Vladimir Kuzin | 15 km | 51:36 | 10 |
30 km | 1:46:09 | 5 | |
Anatoly Shelyukhin | 30 km | 1:45:46 | 4 |
50 km | 2:56:40 | 5 | |
Fyodor Terentyev | 30 km | 1:46:43 | 6 |
50 km | 2:53:32 | ||
Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin | Relay 4 x 10 km | 2:15:30 |
Athlete | Event | Final | |
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Total | Rank | ||
Anna Kaaleste | 10 km | 40:29 | 9 |
Alevtina Kolchina | 10 km | 38:46 | 4 |
Lyubov Kozyreva | 10 km | 38:11 | |
Radya Yeroshina | 10 km | 38:16 | |
Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina | Relay 3 x 5 km | 1:09:28 |
Pos. | No. | Player | Team |
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GK | Nikolai Puchkov | ||
GK | Grigory Mkrtychan | ||
D | Nikolai Sologubov | ||
D | Dmitry Ukolov | ||
D | Ivan Tregubov | ||
D | Genrikh Sidorenkov | ||
D | Alfred Kuchevsky | ||
F | Yevgeny Babich | ||
F | Viktor Shuvalov | ||
F | Vsevolod Bobrov | ||
F | Yuri Krylov | ||
F | Aleksandr Uvarov | ||
F | Valentin Kuzin | ||
F | Yuri Pantyukhov | ||
F | Alexei Guryshev | ||
F | Nikolay Khlystov | ||
F | Viktor Nikiforov |
Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
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Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
27 January 1956 21:30 | Soviet Union | 5–1 (1–1, 2–0, 2–0) | Sweden |
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29 January 1956 21:30 | Soviet Union | 10–3 (4–1, 2–0, 4–2) | Switzerland |
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Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
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Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
30 January 1956 19:00 | Soviet Union | 4–1 (1–1, 1–0, 2–0) | Sweden |
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31 January 1956 19:00 | Soviet Union | 8–0 (0–0, 7–0, 1–0) | Germany |
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2 February 1956 22:00 | Soviet Union | 7–4 (2–1, 3–0, 2–3) | Czechoslovakia |
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3 February 1956 21:30 | Soviet Union | 4–0 (0–0, 1–0, 3–0) | United States |
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4 February 1956 21:30 | Soviet Union | 2–0 (0–0, 1–0, 1–0) | Canada |
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Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||
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Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Leonid Fyodorov | Individual 15 km | 201.0 | 12 | 59:17 | 228.500 | 12 | 429.500 | 10 |
Nikolay Gusakov | Individual 15 km | 200.0 | 14 | 58:17 | 232.300 | 8 | 432.300 | 7 |
Uno Kajak | Individual 15 km | 186.5 | 27 | 1:00:48 | 222.600 | 18 | 409.100 | 26 |
Yury Moshkin | Individual 15 km | 217.5 | 1 | 1:04:18 | 209.100 | 31 | 426.600 | 13 |
Athlete | Event | First round | Final | |||
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Points | Rank | Points | Total | Rank | ||
Yury Moshkin | Normal hill | 91.5 | 35 | 92.5 | 184.0 | 34 |
Nikolay Shamov | Normal hill | 103.0 | 14 | 98.0 | 201.0 | 16 |
Koba Zakadze | Normal hill | 107.0 | 8 | 78.0 | 185.0 | 30 |
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Oleg Goncharenko | 5000 m | 7:57.5 | |
10000 m | 16:42.3 | ||
Rafayel Grach | 500 m | 40.8 | |
Yevgeny Grishin | 500 m | 40.2 WR | |
1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | ||
Robert Merkulov | 1500 m | 2:10.3 | 5 |
Yuri Mikhaylov | 500 m | did not finish | |
1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | ||
Dmitry Sakunenko | 5000 m | 8:10.5 | 16 |
Yuri Sergeev | 500 m | 41.1 | 4 |
Boris Shilkov | 1500 m | 2:11.9 | 8 |
5000 m | 7:48.7 OR | ||
Vladimir Shilykovsky | 10000 m | 17:17.6 | 16 |
Boris Tsybin | 10000 m | 17:03.4 | 9 |
Boris Yakimov | 5000 m | 8:12.6 | 19 |
10000 m | 16:59.7 | 7 |
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