Soviet_Union_at_the_1988_Winter_Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1988 Winter Olympics
Soviet Union at the; 1988 Winter Olympics
	Flag of the Soviet Union
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	Gold 11 Silver 9 Bronze 9 Total 29
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
Other related appearances
	Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–); Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–); Lithuania (1928, 1992–); Unified Team (1992); Armenia (1994–); Belarus (1994–); Georgia (1994–); Kazakhstan (1994–); Kyrgyzstan (1994–); Moldova (1994–); Russia (1994–2014); Ukraine (1994–); Uzbekistan (1994–); Azerbaijan (1998–); Tajikistan (2002–); Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018); ROC (2022)

Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

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.

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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).

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Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical	14 February
Gold	Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre classical	15 February
Gold	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Figure skating	Pair skating	16 February
Gold	Nikolay Gulyayev	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Gold	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre classical	19 February
Gold	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Two-man	21 February
Gold	Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay	21 February
Gold	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Figure skating	Ice dance	23 February
Gold	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Gold	Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Relay	26 February
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Evgeny Belosheikin Ilya Byakin Vyacheslav Bykov Viacheslav Fetisov Alexei Gusarov Sergei Yashin Valeri Kamensky Sergei Svetlov Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Khomutov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Igor Kravchuk Andrei Lomakin Aleksandr Chernykh Sergei Makarov Alexander Mogilny Sergei Mylnikov Vitali Samoilov Anatoly Semenov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov	Ice hockey	Men's competition	28 February
Silver	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical	14 February
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre classical	15 February
Silver	Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev	Figure skating	Pair skating	16 February
Silver	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	17 February
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Individual	20 February
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay	22 February
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Sprint	23 February
Silver	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Figure skating	Ice dance	23 February
Silver	Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Bronze	Yury Kharchenko	Luge	Men's singles	15 February
Bronze	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	17 February
Bronze	Igor Zhelezovsky	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre classical	19 February
Bronze	Viktor Petrenko	Figure skating	Men's singles	20 February
Bronze	Sergei Tchepikov	Biathlon	Sprint	23 February
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Bronze	Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Four-man	28 February
Bronze	Allar Levandi	Nordic combined	Individual	28 February

Sport	Men	Women	Total
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
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sergey Petrik	Super-G			DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov	Super-G			DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov	Giant Slalom	1:10.09	1:06.58	2:16.67	35
Sergey Petrik	Giant Slalom	1:09.78	1:05.38	2:15.16	30
Konstantin Chistyakov	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sergey Petrik	Slalom	55.39	DNF	DNF	–

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	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
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Golnur Postnikova	Downhill			1:28.23	16

Soviet_Union_at_the_1988_Winter_Olympics

Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Medalists

Competitors

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Ice hockey

First round

Medal round

Luge

Nordic combined

Ski jumping

Speed skating

References

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Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
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
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
Athletes	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
Sled	Athletes	Event	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

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

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
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

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
West Germany	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
United States	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
Austria	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
Norway	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	4	1	0	25	7	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	18	10	7
Sweden	5	2	1	2	15	16	6
Canada	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
West Germany	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Eduard Suboch	Normal hill	76.0	83.7	78.0	89.9	173.6	38
Mikhail Yesin	Normal hill	80.0	92.1	74.0	79.5	171.6	39

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Anna Kondrashova	9	7	7	15.2	8
Kira Ivanova	1	10	9	13.6	7

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	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

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
Athlete	Event	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

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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