Russia at the 1998 Winter Olympics

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Russia at the
1998 Winter Olympics
Flag of Russia.svg
IOC code RUS
NOC Russian Olympic Committee
Website www.roc.ru  (in Russian)
in Nagano
Competitors122 (79 men, 43 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer Alexey Prokurorov
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
9
Silver
6
Bronze
3
Total
18
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union (1956–1988)
Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team (1992)
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
Olympic flag.svg  ROC (2022)

Russia competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Contents

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Galina Koukleva Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Yuliya Chepalova Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km freestyle
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Olga Danilova Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km classical
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Larisa Lazutina Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km classical
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Larisa Lazutina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Olga Danilova , Nina Gavrilyuk
Larisa Lazutina, Yelena Välbe
Cross-country skiing Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ilia Kulik Figure skating Men's
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Oksana Kazakova , Artur Dmitriev Figure skating Pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Oksana Grishuk , Evgeny Platov Figure skating Ice dance
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Albina Akhatova , Galina Koukleva
Olga Melnik, Olga Romasko
Biathlon Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Olga Danilova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Larisa Lazutina Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km classical
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Elena Berezhnaya , Anton Sikharulidze Figure skating Pairs
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Anjelika Krylova , Oleg Ovsyannikov Figure skating Ice dance
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Pavel Bure , Valeri Bure
Sergei Gonchar, Alexei Gusarov
Valeri Kamensky, Darius Kasparaitis
Igor Kravchuk, Sergei Krivokrasov
Boris Mironov, Dmitri Mironov
Aleksey Morozov, Sergei Nemchinov
Oleg Shevtsov, Mikhail Shtalenkov
German Titov, Andrei Trefilov
Alexei Yashin, Dmitri Yushkevich
Valeri Zelepukin, Alexei Zhamnov
Alexei Zhitnik
Ice hockey Men's team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Vladimir Drachev , Viktor Maigourov
Pavel Muslimov, Sergei Tarasov
Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Larisa Lazutina Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km freestyle
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Valeri Stolyarov Nordic combined Men's individual 15 km

Alpine skiing

Men
AthleteEventFinal
Run 1Run 2Run 3TotalRank
Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn Downhill 1:54.2724
Super-G 1:39.3929
Giant slalom did not finish
Andrey Filichkin Downhill 1:52.6518
Super-G 1:37.2921
Giant slalom did not finish
Women
AthleteEventFinal
Run 1Run 2Run 3TotalRank
Olesya Aliyeva Super-G 1:22.0037
Svetlana Gladisheva Downhill 1:29.505
Super-G 1:18.8213
Anna Larionova Downhill 1:34.3632
Super-G 1:20.6133
Yekaterina Nesterenko Downhill 1:32.5429
Varvara Zelenskaya Downhill 1:30.3813
Super-G 1:18.7212

Biathlon

Men
AthleteEventFinal
TimeMissesRank
Vladimir Drachev 10 km sprint 28:46.4112
20 km individual 1:01:13.9635
Aleksei Kobelev 10 km sprint 31:02.8456
Viktor Maigourov 10 km sprint 28:36.004
Pavel Muslimov 20 km individual 59:26.5317
Sergei Tarasov 10 km sprint 29:23.2322
20 km individual 59:24.3415
Pavel Vavilov 20 km individual 1:03:59.4753
Pavel Muslimov
Vladimir Drachev
Sergei Tarasov
Viktor Maigourov
4 x 7.5 km relay 1:22:19.30+7Bronze medal icon.svg
Women
AthleteEventFinal
TimeMissesRank
Albina Akhatova 7.5 km sprint 24:06.4213
15 km individual 56:21.717
Galina Koukleva 7.5 km sprint 23:08.01Gold medal icon.svg
15 km individual 1:00:29.2631
Olga Melnik 15 km individual 57:10.8213
Olga Romasko 7.5 km sprint 25:03.6327
15 km individual 1:00:58.8333
Anna Volkova 7.5 km sprint 25:42.7444
Olga Melnik
Galina Koukleva
Albina Akhatova
Olga Romasko
4 x 7.5 km relay 1:40:25.20+9Silver medal icon.svg

Bobsleigh

AthleteEventFinal
Run 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalRank
Pavel Shcheglovsky
Konstantin Dyomin
Two-man 55.4155.0954.8454.973:40.3116
Yevgeni Popov
Oleg Petrov
Two-man 55.5355.3755.2555.313:41.4621
Pavel Shcheglovsky
Alexei Seliverstov
Vladislav Posedkin
Konstantin Dyomin
Four-man 53.7253.9554.712:42.3819

Cross-country skiing

Men
AthleteEventFinal
TotalRank
Aleksandr Kravchenko 30 km classical 1:41:22.331
Sergey Kriyanin 10 km classical 30:03.242
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:10:33.425
Vladimir Legotin 10 km classical 31:10.362
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:12:19.539
30 km classical 1:38:23.79
Grigori Menkhenin 50 km freestyle did not finish
Andrei Nutrikhin 50 km freestyle 2:12:21.915
Maksim Pichugin 30 km classical 1:42:41.739
50 km freestyle 2:18:19.137
Alexey Prokurorov 10 km classical 29:27.331
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:09:48.118
50 km freestyle 2:06:41.54
Sergei Tchepikov 10 km classical 28:55.922
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:08:24.39
30 km classical 1:41:59.932
Vladimir Legotin
Alexey Prokurorov
Sergey Kriyanin
Sergei Tchepikov
4 x 10 km relay 1:42:39.55
Women
AthleteEventFinal
TotalRank
Yuliya Chepalova 5 km classical 18:20.013
10 km freestyle pursuit 46:28.46
30 km freestyle 1:22:01.5Gold medal icon.svg
Olga Danilova 5 km classical 17:51.35
10 km freestyle pursuit 46:13.4Silver medal icon.svg
15 km classical 46:55.4Gold medal icon.svg
30 km freestyle 1:28:08.113
Nina Gavrilyuk 5 km classical 17:50.34
10 km freestyle pursuit 46:49.37
Larisa Lazutina 5 km classical 17:37.9Gold medal icon.svg
10 km freestyle pursuit 46:06.9Gold medal icon.svg
15 km classical 47:01.0Silver medal icon.svg
30 km freestyle 1:23:15.7Bronze medal icon.svg
Svetlana Nageykina 15 km classical 49:22.516
Yelena Välbe 15 km classical 49:25.917
30 km freestyle 1:24:52.85
Nina Gavrilyuk
Olga Danilova
Yelena Välbe
Larisa Lazutina
4 x 5 km relay 55:13.5Gold medal icon.svg

Figure skating

AthleteEventCD1CD2SP/ODFS/FDPointsRank
Ilia Kulik Men's 111.5Gold medal icon.svg
Alexei Yagudin Men's 457.05
Maria Butyrskaya Ladies' 345.54
Irina Slutskaya Ladies' 557.55
Elena Sokolova Ladies' 10712.07
Elena Berezhnaya
Anton Sikharulidze
Pairs 323.5Silver medal icon.svg
Marina Eltsova
Andrei Bushkov
Pairs 579.57
Oksana Kazakova
Artur Dmitriev
Pairs 111.5Gold medal icon.svg
Oksana Grishuk
Evgeny Platov
Ice dance 11112.0Gold medal icon.svg
Anjelika Krylova
Oleg Ovsyannikov
Ice dance 22224.0Silver medal icon.svg
Irina Lobacheva
Ilia Averbukh
Ice dance 45559.85

Freestyle skiing

Men
AthleteEventQualifyingFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Vitali Glushchenko Moguls did not finishdid not advance
Andrei Ivanov Moguls 18.7327did not advance
Aleksandr Mikhaylov Aerials 246.213 Q229.986
Yevgeni Sennikov Moguls 22.7624did not advance
Women
AthleteEventQualifyingFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Lyudmila Dymchenko Moguls 22.537 Q21.0215
Yelena Korolyova Moguls 20.9717did not advance
Nataliya Orekhova Aerials 118.6122did not advance
Nadezhda Radovitskaya Moguls 13.4125did not advance
Yelena Vorona Moguls 20.5418did not advance

Ice hockey

Men
Pos.No.PlayerTeam
GK 1 Oleg Shevtsov Flag of Russia.svg Severstal Cherepovets
GK34 Andrei Trefilov Flag of the United States.svg Chicago Blackhawks
GK35 Mikhail Shtalenkov Flag of the United States.svg Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
D 2 Boris Mironov Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Edmonton Oilers
D3 Dmitri Yushkevich Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Toronto Maple Leafs
D5 Alexei Gusarov Flag of the United States.svg Colorado Avalanche
D11 Darius Kasparaitis Flag of the United States.svg Pittsburgh Penguins
D15 Dmitri Mironov Flag of the United States.svg Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
D29 Igor Kravchuk Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Ottawa Senators
D44 Alexei Zhitnik Flag of the United States.svg Buffalo Sabres
D55 Sergei Gonchar Flag of the United States.svg Washington Capitals
F8 Sergei Nemchinov Flag of the United States.svg New York Islanders
F9 Sergei Krivokrasov Flag of the United States.svg Chicago Blackhawks
F10 Pavel Bure Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Vancouver Canucks
F13 Valeri Kamensky Flag of the United States.svg Colorado Avalanche
F14 German Titov Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Calgary Flames
F19 Alexei Yashin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Ottawa Senators
F20 Valeri Bure Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Calgary Flames
F24 Aleksey Morozov Flag of the United States.svg Pittsburgh Penguins
F25 Valeri Zelepukin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Edmonton Oilers
F33 Alexei Zhamnov Flag of the United States.svg Chicago Blackhawks
F51 Andrei Kovalenko Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Edmonton Oilers
F91 Sergei Fedorov Flag of the United States.svg Detroit Red Wings
Preliminary round
TeamGPWLTGFGAPTS
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 33001566
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 32101244
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 312011152
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 30306250
13 February 1998Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 9–2
(2–1, 5–0, 2–1)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Aqua Wing Arena
Attendance: 3752
Mikhail Shtalenkov (out 50:46)
Andrei Trefilov (in 50:46)
Goalies Vitaliy Yeremeyev (out 32:14)
Aleksandr Shimin (in 32:14)
Fedorov (Kovalenko) – 1:301–0
1–12:15 – Sagymbayev (Pchelyakov)
Yashin (Fedorov) – 8:152–1
Yashin (Kasparaitis)- 20:553–1
P. Bure (D. Mironov) – 27:344–1
P. Bure – 32:015–1
Kovalenko – 32:146–1
Titov (Kamensky, Morozov) – 38:397–1
Kovalenko (B. Mironov) – 45:098–1
Zelepukin (Morozov) – 55:469–1
9–257:40 – E. Koreshkov (Shafranov, A. Koreshkov)
6 minPenalties8 min
31Shots18
14 February 1998Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 4–3
(1–2, 2–1, 1–0)
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Big Hat
Attendance: 9894
Andrei Trefilov Goalies Jarmo Myllys Referee:
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Bill McCreary
0–16:11 – Koivu (Lehtinen, Selänne) (PP)
0–27:04 – Lehtinen (Koivu, Selänne) PP
P. Bure (Fedorov, Kamensky) – 13:36 PP1–2
1–38:24 – Lehtinen (Selänne)
Nemchinov (Gonchar, Kravchuk) – 29:312–3
Yashin (Fedorov, Zhitnik)- 35:03 PP3–3
Morozov (Zelepukin) – 56:434–3
24 minPenalties24 min
28Shots33
16 February 1998Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2–1
(0–0, 0–1, 2–0)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Big Hat
Attendance: 9847
Mikhail Shtalenkov Goalies Dominik Hašek Referee:
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kerry Fraser
0–131:53 – Reichel (Patera) (PP)
V. Bure (Kravchuk, Gonchar) – 43:271–1
Zhamnov (Gusarov, D. Mironov) – 43:372–1
6 minPenalties14 min
24Shots31
Play-off
Quarterfinal
18 February 1998Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 4–1
(1–0, 1–0, 2–1)
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus Aqua Wing Arena
Attendance: 4628
Mikhail Shtalenkov Goalies Andrei Mezin Referee:
Flag of the United States.svg Mark Faucette
Kamensky (Yashin) – 19:001–0
Kovalenko (Fedorov, Yashin) – 21:312–0
P. Bure – 42:383–0
Morozov (Zelepukin, Kasparaitis) – 43:194–0
4–144:18 – Yerkovich (Khmyl, Roshchin)
16 minPenalties10 min
35Shots26
Semifinal
20 February 1998Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 4–7
(0–2, 3–2, 1–3)
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Big Hat
Attendance: 9640
Jarmo Myllys Goalies Mikhail Shtalenkov Referee:
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kerry Fraser
0–19:51 – P. Bure (Zhamnov) (PP)
0–217:28 – P. Bure (D. Mironov
0–320:59 – P. Bure
Helminen (Lind) – 23:281–3
Rintanen (Kurri, Timonen) – 24:592–3
Selänne (Kurri, Koivu) – 34:073–3
3–437:26 – Zhamnov (Zhitnik) PP
Koivu (Selänne) – 45:154–4
4–546:33 – Kovalenko (Fedorov)
4–655:58 – P. Bure
4–759:55 – P. Bure (EN)
6 minPenalties12 min
32Shots21
Final
21 February 1998Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1–0
(0–0, 0–0, 1–1)
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Big Hat
Attendance: 10 010
Dominik Hašek Goalies Mikhail Shtalenkov Referee:
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Bill McCreary
Svoboda (Patera, Procházka) – 48:081–0
8 minPenalties4 min
21Shots20
Silver medal icon.svg Silver

Luge

AthleteEventFinal
Run 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalRank
Albert Demtschenko Men's singles 50.22450.011DQdid not finish
Alexandr Zubkov Men's singles 50.48850.94450.65050.6193:22.70120
Irina Gubkina Women's singles 52.29552.19952.10751.5143:28.11518
Margarita Klimenko Women's singles 52.39152.12351.78951.4483:27.75117
Danil Chaban
Viktor Kneib
Doubles 51.37051.0231:42.3939
Albert Demtschenko
Semen Kolobayev
Doubles 51.51551.0411:42.55610

Nordic combined

AthleteEventSki jumpingCross-country
PointsRankDeficitTimeRank
Alexey Fadeyev Individual 15 km 195.5334:3348:19.7
+6:58.6
37
Dmitry Sinitsyn Individual 15 km 213.5142:4543:48.0
+2:26.9
10
Valeri Stolyarov Individual 15 km 235.020:3641:49.3
+28.2
Bronze medal icon.svg
Denis Tishagin Individual 15 km 198.5314:15did not finish
Alexey Fadeyev
Vladimir Lysenin
Dmitry Sinitsyn
Valeri Stolyarov
Team 826.082:1358:34.2
+4:22.7
9

Short track speed skating

Women
AthleteEventHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Marina Pylayeva 500 m 46.3592 Q46.2203did not advance12
1000 m 1:39.3404did not advance26
Yelena Tikhanina 500 m 46.9802 Q46.2063did not advance11
1000 m 1:39.2424did not advance25

Ski jumping

AthleteEventFirst roundFinal
PointsRankPointsTotalRank
Arthur Khamidulin Normal hill 90.52696.0186.525
Large hill 109.615107.6217.223
Valery Kobelev Normal hill 68.054did not advance54
Large hill 92.935did not advance35
Nikolai Petrushin Normal hill 79.542did not advance42
Large hill 66.154did not advance54
Aleksandr Volkov Normal hill 90.52693.5184.027
Large hill 98.32781.2179.527
Nikolai Petrushin
Arthur Khamidulin
Aleksandr Volkov
Valery Kobelev
Team 264.99374.8639.79

Speed skating

Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Final
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Andrey Anufriyenko 1000 m 1:12.6123
1500 m 1:50.9910
Aleksandr Golubev 500 m 36.672136.542173.2120
Aleksandr Kibalko 500 m 37.323836.862874.1833
1000 m 1:12.9428
1500 m 1:52.2722
Sergey Klevchenya 500 m 36.561536.301072.8614
1000 m 1:13.5133
Yuri Kokhanets 5000 m 6:47.2122
Andrei Krivosheyev 5000 m 6:46.5720
Sergey Savelyev 500 m Disqualified
Vadim Sayutin 1500 m 1:51.3111
5000 m 6:39.9215
10000 m 13:54.5713
Dmitri Shepel 1000 m 1:13.3132
1500 m 1:51.6414
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2Final
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Varvara Barysheva 1500 m 2:03.3420
Svetlana Bazhanova 1500 m 2:01.549
3000 m 4:16.4510
Tatyana Danshina 500 m 40.532940.592981.1228
1000 m 1:19.9519
Nataliya Polozkova 1000 m 1:19.7817
1500 m 2:01.5610
Oksana Ravilova 500 m 39.992140.042180.0321
Anna Savelyeva 1000 m 1:21.8327
Tatyana Trapeznikova 1500 m 2:03.2519
3000 m 4:17.7613
Svetlana Vysokova 3000 m 4:17.7012
5000 m 7:22.1812
Svetlana Zhurova 500 m 39.11739.381178.499
1000 m 1:19.0412

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