Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Calgary | |
Competitors | 101 (78 men, 23 women) in 10 sports |
Flag bearer | Andrei Bukin (figure skating) |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, 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 independently represented at subsequent Games.
The Soviet Union had its best showing at the Winter Olympics in terms of total medals (overtaking its 1976 result with 27 medals) and second-best in terms of gold medals (after the aforementioned 1976 result with 13 gold medals).
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. [1]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Biathlon | 5 | – | 5 |
Bobsleigh | 10 | – | 10 |
Cross-country skiing | 6 | 6 | 12 |
Figure skating | 9 | 8 | 17 |
Ice hockey | 21 | – | 21 |
Luge | 7 | 3 | 10 |
Nordic combined | 4 | – | 4 |
Ski jumping | 2 | – | 2 |
Speed skating | 12 | 5 | 17 |
Total | 78 | 23 | 101 |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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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 | – |
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |
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Time | Time | Time | Rank | ||
Golnur Postnikova | Downhill | 1:28.23 | 16 |
Women's combined
Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Total | ||
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Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank | |
Golnur Postnikova | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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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 |
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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 | ![]() |
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev | 0 | 1'22:30.0 | ![]() |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | ![]() |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov | 1'44:11.3 | ![]() |
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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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 | ![]() |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova | 59:51.1 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
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Anna Kondrashova | 9 | 7 | 7 | 15.2 | 8 |
Kira Ivanova | 1 | 10 | 9 | 13.6 | 7 |
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 | ![]() |
Athletes | CD | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
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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 | ![]() |
Top three teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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![]() | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10 | 10 |
![]() | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 8 |
![]() | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 6 |
![]() | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 4 |
![]() | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 29 | 1 |
![]() | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 32 | 1 |
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 | |
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![]() ![]() | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 8 |
![]() | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 7 |
![]() | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 6 |
![]() | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 5 |
![]() | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 2 |
![]() | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 2 |
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 |
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 |
Men's individual
Events:
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:
Athletes | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank | |
Andrey Dundukov Vasily Savin Allar Levandi | 282.5 | 11 | DNF | DNF | – |
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 |
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 |
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 Tumanova | 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 |
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