Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1972 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
IOC code URS
NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
in Sapporo
Competitors78 (58 men, 20 women) [1] in 9 sports
Flag bearer Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
8
Silver
5
Bronze
3
Total
16
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania (1928, 1992–)
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team (1992)
Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia (1994–)
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus (1994–)
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia (1994–)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan (1994–)
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova (1994–)
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia (1994–2014)
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine (1994–)
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan (1994–)
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan (1998–)
Flag of Tajikistan.svg  Tajikistan (2002–)
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC (2022)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Contents

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Aleksandr Tikhonov
Rinnat Safin
Ivan Biakov
Viktor Mamatov
Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Vladimir Voronkov
Yury Skobov
Fyodor Simashov
Vyacheslav Vedenin
Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Lyubov Mukhachova
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova
Galina Kulakova
Cross-country skiing Women's 3 × 5 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Irina Rodnina
Alexei Ulanov
Figure skating Pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team
Ice hockey Men's competition
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Fyodor Smishov Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sergei Chetverukhin Figure skating Men's singles
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Liudmila Smirnova
Andrei Suraikin
Figure skating Pairs
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Vera Krasnova Speed skating Women's 500m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 500m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Lyudmila Titova Speed skating Women's 500m

Alpine skiing

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Sergey Grishchenko Downhill2:03.1946
Sergey Grishchenko Giant Slalom?39DNFDNF
Men's slalom
AthleteClassificationFinal
TimeRankTime 1RankTime 2RankTotalRank
Sergey Grishchenko 1:49.6451:02.973259.70212:02.6722
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Svetlana Isakova Downhill1:44.8339
Nina Merkulova 1:44.4837
Galina Shikhova 1:43.8834
Galina Shikhova Giant Slalom1:43.7434
Nina Merkulova 1:41.1833
Svetlana Isakova 1:40.2031
Nina Merkulova SlalomDSQDSQ
Svetlana Isakova DNFDNF
Galina Shikhova 52.072353.74181:45.8119

Biathlon

Men
EventAthleteTimePenaltiesAdjusted time 1Rank
20 km Rinnat Safin 1'15:22.5971'22:22.5919
Ivan Biakov 1'17:42.7831'20:42.7812
Viktor Mamatov 1'16:16.2621'18:16.267
Aleksandr Tikhonov 1'12:48.6541'16:48.654
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
AthletesRace
Misses 2TimeRank
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Rinnat Safin
Ivan Biakov
Viktor Mamatov
31'51:44.92Gold medal icon.svg

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
15 km Valery Tarakanov 46:48.3216
Vladimir Voronkov 46:33.4312
Yury Skobov 46:04.595
Fyodor Smishov 46:00.84Silver medal icon.svg
30 km Vladimir Dolganov 1'40:48.8516
Yury Skobov 1'40:18.7015
Fyodor Simashov 1'38:22.506
Vyacheslav Vedenin 1'36:31.15Gold medal icon.svg
50 km Ivan Garanin 2'50:00.7817
Ivan Pronin 2'49:45.5915
Fyodor Simashov 2'45:08.938
Vyacheslav Vedenin 2'44:00.19Bronze medal icon.svg
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Vladimir Voronkov
Yury Skobov
Fyodor Simashov
Vyacheslav Vedenin
2'04:47.94Gold medal icon.svg
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
5 km Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 17:25.6210
Lyubov Mukhachova 17:12.086
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova 17:07.404
Galina Kulakova 17:00.50Gold medal icon.svg
10 km Nina Shebalina 35:54.5910
Lyubov Mukhachova 34:58.564
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova 34:54.11Silver medal icon.svg
Galina Kulakova 34:17.82Gold medal icon.svg
Women's 3 × 5 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Lyubov Mukhachova
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova
Galina Kulakova
48:16.15Gold medal icon.svg

Figure skating

Men
AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank
Yuri Ovchinnikov 1562477.5104.512
Vladimir Kovalev 7112521.6808
Sergei Chetverukhin 312672.420Silver medal icon.svg
Women
AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank
Marina Sanaya 19182198.616018
Pairs
AthletesSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Irina Cherniaeva
Vasili Blagov
65399.1526
Liudmila Smirnova
Andrei Suraikin
22419.415Silver medal icon.svg
Irina Rodnina
Alexei Ulanov
11420.412Gold medal icon.svg

Ice hockey

Medal round

RankTeamPldWLTGFGAPts
1Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Gold medal icon.svg540133139
2Flag of the United States.svg  United States 532018156
3Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 532026136
4Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 522117135
5Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 523014244
6Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 50509390
Gold:
Vladislav Tretiak
Alexander Pashkov
Vitaly Davidov
Viktor Kuskin
Alexander Ragulin
Gennadi Tsygankov
Vladimir Lutchenko
Vladimir Vasiliev
Igor Romishevsky
Yevgeny Mishakov
Alexander Maltsev
Alexander Yakushev
Vladimir Vikulov
Anatoly Firsov
Valeri Kharlamov
Yury Blinov
Boris Mikhailov
Vladimir Petrov
Vladimir Shadrin
Yevgeny Zimin

Luge

Men
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Yury Svetikov 1:00.824455.012954.083053.78313:43.6941
Viktor Ilyin 56.123955.503755.214155.25393:42.0837
Sergey Osipov 55.483555.273654.062954.18343:38.9933
Yury Yegorov 55.082854.582654.643553.70283:38.0029

(Men's) Doubles

AthletesRun 1Run 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Yury Svetikov
Sergey Osipov
45.641245.48121:31.1212
Yury Yegorov
Viktor Ilyin
45.661345.53131:31.1913
Women
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Nataliya Omsheva 47.181847.392046.852046.85203:08.2720
Nina Ignatyeva 46.821546.841746.701746.09163:06.4517
Nina Shashkova 46.181346.381246.361645.46113:04.3812

Nordic combined

Events:

AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotal
Distance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRank
Mikhail Artyukhov Individual73.574.0183.01450:57.0197.18512380.18511
Vyacheslav Dryagin 66.070.0146.23550:29.4201.3259347.52529
Anatoly Zaytsev 66.568.0158.32650:10.4204.1758362.47522
Aleksandr Nosov 77.579.5201.3352:08.7186.43027387.7307

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank
Anatoly Zheglanov Normal hill73.5102.375.0107.7210.021
K'oba Ts'akadze 77.5109.777.5110.2219.99
Yury Kalinin 78.5111.873.599.8211.620
Gary Napalkov 79.5112.476.0107.8220.27
K'oba Ts'akadze Large hill93.069.790.095.5165.235
Anatoly Zheglanov 80.573.790.097.0170.732
Sergey Yanin 89.093.187.088.3181.421
Gary Napalkov 99.5111.392.098.8210.16

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Vladimir Komarov 40.6514
Valery Muratov 39.80Bronze medal icon.svg
1500 m Valery Muratov 2:11.8321
Valery Lavrushkin 2:07.166
5000 m Valery Lavrushkin 7:39.267
10,000 m Valery Lavrushkin 15:20.085
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Alle Butova 45.178
Lyudmila Titova 44.45Bronze medal icon.svg
Vera Krasnova 44.01Silver medal icon.svg
1000 m Lyudmila Savrulina 1:33.4110
Nina Statkevich 1:32.215
Lyudmila Titova 1:31.854
1500 m Lyudmila Savrulina 2:25.8514
Kapitolina Seregina 2:24.299
Nina Statkevich 2:23.196
3000 m Lyudmila Savrulina 5:06.618
Kapitolina Seregina 5:01.886
Nina Statkevich 5:01.795

Bibliography

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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References

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