Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

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Unified Team at the
1992 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic flag (1988-1994).svg
IPC code EUN
in Tignes-Albertville
Competitors21
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
10
Silver
8
Bronze
3
Total
21
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
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Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia (1994–)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania (1994–)
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus (1994–)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan (1994–)
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia (1994–2014)
Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia (1998–)
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine (1998–)
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan (2014–)
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan (2014–)
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia (2018–)
Flag of Tajikistan.svg  Tajikistan (2018–)
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Unified Team competed at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes/Albertville, France. 21 competitors from Unified Team, 16 men and 5 women, won 21 medals including 10 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze and finished 3rd in the medal table, behind the United States and a reunified Germany. [1]

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The team was led by Nikolai Ilioutchenko  [ ru ]. [2]

At these Paralympic Games, only alpine and Nordic skiing (biathlon and cross-country skiing) competitions were held, as venues could not be made available for ice sports. [2]

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Boris Bogdanov [3] Biathlon Men's 7.5 kilometres B1
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valeri Kupchinski  [ ru; sv ] Cross-country skiing Men's 10 kilometres - short distance B1
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valeri Kupchinski  [ ru; sv ] Cross-country skiing Men's 30 kilometres - short distance B1
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Men's 10 kilometres - short distance B3
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Men's 30 kilometres - short distance B3
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko  [ ru ]
Valeri Kupchinski  [ ru; sv ]
Sergei Lozhkin
Cross-country skiing Men's 3 × 5 kilometres relay B1-3
Gold medal icon.svg GoldNazarenko Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B1
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Alevtina Elessina  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Lioubov Paninykh  [ it; ru ] Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B1
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Nadejda Tchirkova  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B2-3
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Boris Bogdanov Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B1
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Boris Bogdanov Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B1
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Vladimir Kolesnikov Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B2
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Vladimir Kolesnikov Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B2
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sergei Lozhkin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - short distance B3
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Nadejda Tchirkova  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
Silver medal icon.svg SilverNazarenko Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B1
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Alevtina Elessina  [ ru ] Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B2-3
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeSeleznev Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B2
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeSeleznev Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B2
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Andrei Venediktov Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B3

See also

References

  1. "Results Archive - Tignes Albertville 1992". paralympic.org. IPC. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  2. 1 2 "About Tignes-Albertville 1992". paralympic.org. IPC. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  3. "Factbox: Paralympic biathlon". tass.com. TASS. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2025-11-19.