Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1976 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
IOC code URS
NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
in Innsbruck
Competitors79 (59 men, 20 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer Vladislav Tretiak (ice hockey)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
13
Silver
6
Bronze
8
Total
27
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)
Olympic flag.svg  ROC (2022)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

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During the games, the Soviet Union won 13 gold medals, the most any country won at a single Winter Olympics. [1] Norway tied this record during the Salt Lake City games, [1] and Canada broke it with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games. [1]

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nikolay Kruglov Biathlon Men's 20 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Aleksandr Elizarov
Ivan Biakov
Nikolay Kruglov
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nikolay Bazhukov Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sergey Savelyev Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Raisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Zinaida Amosova
Raisa Smetanina
Galina Kulakova
Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Irina Rodnina
Alexander Zaitsev
Figure skating Pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Liudmila Pakhomova
Alexander Gorshkov
Figure skating Ice dancing
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team
Ice hockey Men's competition
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Yevgeny Kulikov Speed skating Men's 500m
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Tatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 1000m
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Galina Stepanskaya Speed skating Women's 1500m
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Tatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 3000m
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yevgeny Belyayev Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Raisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Vladimir Kovalev Figure skating Men's singles
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Irina Moiseeva
Andrei Minenkov
Figure skating Ice dancing
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 500m
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Yury Kondakov Speed skating Men's 1500m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Aleksandr Elizarov Biathlon Men's 20 km
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ivan Garanin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Sergey Savelyev
Ivan Garanin
Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 1000m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Tatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 500m
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Tatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 1500m

Alpine skiing

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Vladimir Andreyev Downhill1:53.6144
Vladimir Andreyev Giant SlalomDNFDNF
Vladimir Andreyev Slalom1:07.01311:10.55262:17.5625
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Alla Askarova Downhill1:53.1928
Alla Askarova Giant Slalom1:36.8632
Alla Askarova SlalomDNFDNF

Biathlon

Men
EventAthleteTimePenaltiesAdjusted time 1Rank
20 km Aleksandr Tikhonov 1'10:18.3371'17:18.335
Aleksandr Elizarov 1'13:05.5731'16:05.57Bronze medal icon.svg
Nikolay Kruglov 1'12:12.2621'14:12.26Gold medal icon.svg
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
AthletesRace
Misses 2TimeRank
Aleksandr Elizarov
Ivan Biakov
Nikolay Kruglov
Aleksandr Tikhonov
01'57:55.64Gold medal icon.svg

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
15 km Yury Skobov 46:16.2716
Ivan Garanin 44:41.984
Yevgeny Belyayev 44:01.10Silver medal icon.svg
Nikolay Bazhukov 43:58.47Gold medal icon.svg
30 km Vasily Rochev 1'32:39.4210
Nikolay Bazhukov 1'31:33.145
Ivan Garanin 1'31:09.29Bronze medal icon.svg
Sergey Savelyev 1'30:29.38Gold medal icon.svg
50 km Yevgeny Belyayev 2'54:00.5538
Sergey Savelyev 2'46:01.3621
Vasily Rochev 2'44:31.2312
Ivan Garanin 2'40:38.944
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Sergey Savelyev
Ivan Garanin
2'10:51.46Bronze medal icon.svg
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
5 km Galina Kulakova DSQ (doping)
Zinaida Amosova 16:33.786
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 16:12.82Bronze medal icon.svg
Raisa Smetanina 15:49.73Silver medal icon.svg
10 km Zinaida Amosova 31:11.236
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 30:52.584
Galina Kulakova 30:38.61Bronze medal icon.svg
Raisa Smetanina 30:13.41Gold medal icon.svg
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Zinaida Amosova
Raisa Smetanina
Galina Kulakova
1'07:49.75Gold medal icon.svg

Figure skating

Men
AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Yuri Ovchinnikov 1287180.04758
Sergei Volkov 159184.08535
Vladimir Kovalev 364187.6428Silver medal icon.svg
Women
AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Elena Vodorezova 18135175.5810412
Pairs
AthletesSPFSPointsPlacesRank
Marina Leonidova
Vladimir Bogolyubov
99127.06769
Irina Vorobieva
Alexander Vlasov
35134.52354
Irina Rodnina
Alexander Zaitsev
11140.549Gold medal icon.svg
Ice Dancing
AthletesCDFDPointsPlacesRank
Natalia Linichuk
Gennadi Karponossov
44199.10354
Irina Moiseeva
Andrei Minenkov
22204.8820Silver medal icon.svg
Liudmila Pakhomova
Alexander Gorshkov
11209.929Gold medal icon.svg

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Team 1 Score Team 2
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 16–3Flag of Austria.svg  Austria

Medal round

RankPldWLTGFGAPts
1Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Gold medal icon.svg5500401110
2Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 532017106
3Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 523021244
4Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 523019184
5Flag of the United States.svg  United States 523015214
6Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 51409372
Gold:
Vladislav Tretiak
Aleksandr Sidelnikov
Aleksandr Gusev
Vladimir Lutchenko
Sergei Babinov
Yury Lyapkin
Gennadiy Tsygankov
Sergey Kapustin
Aleksandr Maltsev
Boris Aleksandrov
Boris Mikhailov
Alexander Yakushev
Vladimir Petrov
Valeri Kharlamov
Vladimir Shadrin
Valeri Vasiliev
Viktor Shalimov
Viktor Zhluktov

Luge

Men
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Aigars Krikis 54.2431653.4151153.2731553.764173:34.69513
Vladimir Shitov 53.4851153.025952.9271053.133113:32.57010
Dainis Bremze 52.984952.567852.364952.66193:30.5768

(Men's) Doubles

AthletesRun 1Run 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Dainis Bremze
Aigars Krikis
43.667843.74081:27.4078
Rolands Upatnieks
Valdis Ķuzis
43.732943.82591:27.5579
Women
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Vera Zozuļa 44.1791442.973842.651642.85832:52.6619

Nordic combined

Events:

AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotal
Distance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRank
Aleksey Baranov Individual69.070.0185.72351:58.45184.4721370.1723
Nikolay Nogovitsyn 72.074.0196.11649:05.97210.343406.446
Valery Kopayev 71.575.0202.9949:53.26203.248406.147

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank
Sergey Saychik Normal hill74.0105.276.0108.4213.625
Yury Kalinin 74.5105.579.0113.2218.722
Aleksey Borovitin 77.5111.378.0113.6224.915
Aleksandr Karapuzov 78.0112.679.0114.2226.812
Yury Kalinin Large hill85.094.080.087.5181.524
Aleksey Borovitin 85.095.582.592.0187.519
Sergey Saychik 90.0101.587.598.5200.011
Aleksandr Karapuzov 91.0104.981.588.6193.515

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Andrey Malikov 40.098
Valery Muratov 39.25Silver medal icon.svg
Yevgeny Kulikov 39.17 ORGold medal icon.svg
1000 m Andrey Malikov 1:27.5729
Aleksandr Safronov 1:20.844
Valery Muratov 1:20.57Bronze medal icon.svg
1500 m Sergey Marchuk 2:04.6513
Sergey Ryabev 2:02.154
Yury Kondakov 1:59.97Silver medal icon.svg
5000 m Sergey Marchuk 7:51.3714
Vladimir Ivanov 7:37.737
Viktor Varlamov 7:30.974
10,000 m Vladimir Ivanov 16:16.2015
Sergey Marchuk 15:43.8111
Viktor Varlamov 15:06.064
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Lyubov Sadchikova 43.806
Vera Krasnova 43.235
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 43.17Bronze medal icon.svg
1000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 1:32.0815
Lyudmila Titova 1:30.067
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 1:28.43 ORGold medal icon.svg
1500 m Nina Statkevich 2:22.5915
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 2:17.96Bronze medal icon.svg
Galina Stepanskaya 2:16.58 ORGold medal icon.svg
3000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 4:54.0314
Nina Statkevich 4:53.9413
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 4:45.19 ORGold medal icon.svg

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Canadian Press (February 27, 2010). "Canada sets Olympic gold record". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2010-02-27.

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