Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 78 (58 men, 20 women) [1] in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing) |
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 at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Sergey Grishchenko | Downhill | 2:03.19 | 46 | ||||
Sergey Grishchenko | Giant Slalom | ? | 39 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
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Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Sergey Grishchenko | 1:49.64 | 5 | 1:02.97 | 32 | 59.70 | 21 | 2:02.67 | 22 |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Svetlana Isakova | Downhill | 1:44.83 | 39 | ||||
Nina Merkulova | 1:44.48 | 37 | |||||
Galina Shikhova | 1:43.88 | 34 | |||||
Galina Shikhova | Giant Slalom | 1:43.74 | 34 | ||||
Nina Merkulova | 1:41.18 | 33 | |||||
Svetlana Isakova | 1:40.20 | 31 | |||||
Nina Merkulova | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Svetlana Isakova | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Galina Shikhova | 52.07 | 23 | 53.74 | 18 | 1:45.81 | 19 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Rinnat Safin | 1'15:22.59 | 7 | 1'22:22.59 | 19 |
Ivan Biakov | 1'17:42.78 | 3 | 1'20:42.78 | 12 | |
Viktor Mamatov | 1'16:16.26 | 2 | 1'18:16.26 | 7 | |
Aleksandr Tikhonov | 1'12:48.65 | 4 | 1'16:48.65 | 4 |
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov | 3 | 1'51:44.92 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Valery Tarakanov | 46:48.32 | 16 |
Vladimir Voronkov | 46:33.43 | 12 | |
Yury Skobov | 46:04.59 | 5 | |
Fyodor Smishov | 46:00.84 | ||
30 km | Vladimir Dolganov | 1'40:48.85 | 16 |
Yury Skobov | 1'40:18.70 | 15 | |
Fyodor Simashov | 1'38:22.50 | 6 | |
Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1'36:31.15 | ||
50 km | Ivan Garanin | 2'50:00.78 | 17 |
Ivan Pronin | 2'49:45.59 | 15 | |
Fyodor Simashov | 2'45:08.93 | 8 | |
Vyacheslav Vedenin | 2'44:00.19 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin | 2'04:47.94 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova | 17:25.62 | 10 |
Lyubov Mukhachova | 17:12.08 | 6 | |
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova | 17:07.40 | 4 | |
Galina Kulakova | 17:00.50 | ||
10 km | Nina Shebalina | 35:54.59 | 10 |
Lyubov Mukhachova | 34:58.56 | 4 | |
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova | 34:54.11 | ||
Galina Kulakova | 34:17.82 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova | 48:16.15 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yuri Ovchinnikov | 15 | 6 | 2477.5 | 104.5 | 12 |
Vladimir Kovalev | 7 | 11 | 2521.6 | 80 | 8 |
Sergei Chetverukhin | 3 | 1 | 2672.4 | 20 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marina Sanaya | 19 | 18 | 2198.6 | 160 | 18 |
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irina Cherniaeva Vasili Blagov | 6 | 5 | 399.1 | 52 | 6 |
Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin | 2 | 2 | 419.4 | 15 | |
Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov | 1 | 1 | 420.4 | 12 |
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
3 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
4 | Sweden | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
5 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
6 | Poland | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 0 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Yury Svetikov | 1:00.82 | 44 | 55.01 | 29 | 54.08 | 30 | 53.78 | 31 | 3:43.69 | 41 |
Viktor Ilyin | 56.12 | 39 | 55.50 | 37 | 55.21 | 41 | 55.25 | 39 | 3:42.08 | 37 |
Sergey Osipov | 55.48 | 35 | 55.27 | 36 | 54.06 | 29 | 54.18 | 34 | 3:38.99 | 33 |
Yury Yegorov | 55.08 | 28 | 54.58 | 26 | 54.64 | 35 | 53.70 | 28 | 3:38.00 | 29 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Yury Svetikov Sergey Osipov | 45.64 | 12 | 45.48 | 12 | 1:31.12 | 12 |
Yury Yegorov Viktor Ilyin | 45.66 | 13 | 45.53 | 13 | 1:31.19 | 13 |
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Nataliya Omsheva | 47.18 | 18 | 47.39 | 20 | 46.85 | 20 | 46.85 | 20 | 3:08.27 | 20 |
Nina Ignatyeva | 46.82 | 15 | 46.84 | 17 | 46.70 | 17 | 46.09 | 16 | 3:06.45 | 17 |
Nina Shashkova | 46.18 | 13 | 46.38 | 12 | 46.36 | 16 | 45.46 | 11 | 3:04.38 | 12 |
Events:
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Mikhail Artyukhov | Individual | 73.5 | 74.0 | 183.0 | 14 | 50:57.0 | 197.185 | 12 | 380.185 | 11 |
Vyacheslav Dryagin | 66.0 | 70.0 | 146.2 | 35 | 50:29.4 | 201.325 | 9 | 347.525 | 29 | |
Anatoly Zaytsev | 66.5 | 68.0 | 158.3 | 26 | 50:10.4 | 204.175 | 8 | 362.475 | 22 | |
Aleksandr Nosov | 77.5 | 79.5 | 201.3 | 3 | 52:08.7 | 186.430 | 27 | 387.730 | 7 |
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Anatoly Zheglanov | Normal hill | 73.5 | 102.3 | 75.0 | 107.7 | 210.0 | 21 |
K'oba Ts'akadze | 77.5 | 109.7 | 77.5 | 110.2 | 219.9 | 9 | |
Yury Kalinin | 78.5 | 111.8 | 73.5 | 99.8 | 211.6 | 20 | |
Gary Napalkov | 79.5 | 112.4 | 76.0 | 107.8 | 220.2 | 7 | |
K'oba Ts'akadze | Large hill | 93.0 | 69.7 | 90.0 | 95.5 | 165.2 | 35 |
Anatoly Zheglanov | 80.5 | 73.7 | 90.0 | 97.0 | 170.7 | 32 | |
Sergey Yanin | 89.0 | 93.1 | 87.0 | 88.3 | 181.4 | 21 | |
Gary Napalkov | 99.5 | 111.3 | 92.0 | 98.8 | 210.1 | 6 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Vladimir Komarov | 40.65 | 14 |
Valery Muratov | 39.80 | ||
1500 m | Valery Muratov | 2:11.83 | 21 |
Valery Lavrushkin | 2:07.16 | 6 | |
5000 m | Valery Lavrushkin | 7:39.26 | 7 |
10,000 m | Valery Lavrushkin | 15:20.08 | 5 |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Alle Butova | 45.17 | 8 |
Lyudmila Titova | 44.45 | ||
Vera Krasnova | 44.01 | ||
1000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 1:33.41 | 10 |
Nina Statkevich | 1:32.21 | 5 | |
Lyudmila Titova | 1:31.85 | 4 | |
1500 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 2:25.85 | 14 |
Kapitolina Seregina | 2:24.29 | 9 | |
Nina Statkevich | 2:23.19 | 6 | |
3000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 5:06.61 | 8 |
Kapitolina Seregina | 5:01.88 | 6 | |
Nina Statkevich | 5:01.79 | 5 |
A. Dobrov (1973). XI Winter Olympic Games. Year 1972 (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19.
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