Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 78 (58 men, 20 women)[1] in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing) |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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) |
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Sergey Grishchenko | Downhill | 2:03.19 | 46 | ||||
Sergey Grishchenko | Giant Slalom | ? | 39 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Classification | Final | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Sergey Grishchenko | 1:49.64 | 5 | 1:02.97 | 32 | 59.70 | 21 | 2:02.67 | 22 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Svetlana Isakova | Downhill | 1:44.83 | 39 | ||||
Nina Merkulova | 1:44.48 | 37 | |||||
Galina Shikhova | 1:43.88 | 34 | |||||
Galina Shikhova | Giant Slalom | 1:43.74 | 34 | ||||
Nina Merkulova | 1:41.18 | 33 | |||||
Svetlana Isakova | 1:40.20 | 31 | |||||
Nina Merkulova | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Svetlana Isakova | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – | |
Galina Shikhova | 52.07 | 23 | 53.74 | 18 | 1:45.81 | 19 |
Biathlon
- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
20 km | Rinnat Safin | 1'15:22.59 | 7 | 1'22:22.59 | 19 |
Ivan Biakov | 1'17:42.78 | 3 | 1'20:42.78 | 12 | |
Viktor Mamatov | 1'16:16.26 | 2 | 1'18:16.26 | 7 | |
Aleksandr Tikhonov | 1'12:48.65 | 4 | 1'16:48.65 | 4 |
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
---|---|---|---|
Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov |
3 | 1'51:44.92 |
Cross-country skiing
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Valery Tarakanov | 46:48.32 | 16 |
Vladimir Voronkov | 46:33.43 | 12 | |
Yury Skobov | 46:04.59 | 5 | |
Fyodor Smishov | 46:00.84 | ||
30 km | Vladimir Dolganov | 1'40:48.85 | 16 |
Yury Skobov | 1'40:18.70 | 15 | |
Fyodor Simashov | 1'38:22.50 | 6 | |
Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1'36:31.15 | ||
50 km | Ivan Garanin | 2'50:00.78 | 17 |
Ivan Pronin | 2'49:45.59 | 15 | |
Fyodor Simashov | 2'45:08.93 | 8 | |
Vyacheslav Vedenin | 2'44:00.19 |
- Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin |
2'04:47.94 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova | 17:25.62 | 10 |
Lyubov Mukhachova | 17:12.08 | 6 | |
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova | 17:07.40 | 4 | |
Galina Kulakova | 17:00.50 | ||
10 km | Nina Shebalina | 35:54.59 | 10 |
Lyubov Mukhachova | 34:58.56 | 4 | |
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova | 34:54.11 | ||
Galina Kulakova | 34:17.82 |
- Women's 3 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova |
48:16.15 |
Figure skating
- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yuri Ovchinnikov | 15 | 6 | 2477.5 | 104.5 | 12 |
Vladimir Kovalev | 7 | 11 | 2521.6 | 80 | 8 |
Sergei Chetverukhin | 3 | 1 | 2672.4 | 20 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marina Sanaya | 19 | 18 | 2198.6 | 160 | 18 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irina Cherniaeva Vasili Blagov |
6 | 5 | 399.1 | 52 | 6 |
Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin |
2 | 2 | 419.4 | 15 | |
Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov |
1 | 1 | 420.4 | 12 |
Ice hockey
Medal round
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
3 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
4 | Sweden | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
5 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
6 | Poland | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 0 |
- USSR 9-3 Finland
- USSR 3-3 Sweden
- USSR 7-2 USA
- USSR 9-3 Poland
- USSR 5-2 Czechoslovakia
Luge
- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Yury Svetikov | 1:00.82 | 44 | 55.01 | 29 | 54.08 | 30 | 53.78 | 31 | 3:43.69 | 41 |
Viktor Ilyin | 56.12 | 39 | 55.50 | 37 | 55.21 | 41 | 55.25 | 39 | 3:42.08 | 37 |
Sergey Osipov | 55.48 | 35 | 55.27 | 36 | 54.06 | 29 | 54.18 | 34 | 3:38.99 | 33 |
Yury Yegorov | 55.08 | 28 | 54.58 | 26 | 54.64 | 35 | 53.70 | 28 | 3:38.00 | 29 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Yury Svetikov Sergey Osipov |
45.64 | 12 | 45.48 | 12 | 1:31.12 | 12 |
Yury Yegorov Viktor Ilyin |
45.66 | 13 | 45.53 | 13 | 1:31.19 | 13 |
- Women
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Nataliya Omsheva | 47.18 | 18 | 47.39 | 20 | 46.85 | 20 | 46.85 | 20 | 3:08.27 | 20 |
Nina Ignatyeva | 46.82 | 15 | 46.84 | 17 | 46.70 | 17 | 46.09 | 16 | 3:06.45 | 17 |
Nina Shashkova | 46.18 | 13 | 46.38 | 12 | 46.36 | 16 | 45.46 | 11 | 3:04.38 | 12 |
Nordic combined
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Mikhail Artyukhov | Individual | 73.5 | 74.0 | 183.0 | 14 | 50:57.0 | 197.185 | 12 | 380.185 | 11 |
Vyacheslav Dryagin | 66.0 | 70.0 | 146.2 | 35 | 50:29.4 | 201.325 | 9 | 347.525 | 29 | |
Anatoly Zaytsev | 66.5 | 68.0 | 158.3 | 26 | 50:10.4 | 204.175 | 8 | 362.475 | 22 | |
Aleksandr Nosov | 77.5 | 79.5 | 201.3 | 3 | 52:08.7 | 186.430 | 27 | 387.730 | 7 |
Ski jumping
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Anatoly Zheglanov | Normal hill | 73.5 | 102.3 | 75.0 | 107.7 | 210.0 | 21 |
K'oba Ts'akadze | 77.5 | 109.7 | 77.5 | 110.2 | 219.9 | 9 | |
Yury Kalinin | 78.5 | 111.8 | 73.5 | 99.8 | 211.6 | 20 | |
Gary Napalkov | 79.5 | 112.4 | 76.0 | 107.8 | 220.2 | 7 | |
K'oba Ts'akadze | Large hill | 93.0 | 69.7 | 90.0 | 95.5 | 165.2 | 35 |
Anatoly Zheglanov | 80.5 | 73.7 | 90.0 | 97.0 | 170.7 | 32 | |
Sergey Yanin | 89.0 | 93.1 | 87.0 | 88.3 | 181.4 | 21 | |
Gary Napalkov | 99.5 | 111.3 | 92.0 | 98.8 | 210.1 | 6 |
Speed skating
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Vladimir Komarov | 40.65 | 14 |
Valery Muratov | 39.80 | ||
1500 m | Valery Muratov | 2:11.83 | 21 |
Valery Lavrushkin | 2:07.16 | 6 | |
5000 m | Valery Lavrushkin | 7:39.26 | 7 |
10,000 m | Valery Lavrushkin | 15:20.08 | 5 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Alle Butova | 45.17 | 8 |
Lyudmila Titova | 44.45 | ||
Vera Krasnova | 44.01 | ||
1000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 1:33.41 | 10 |
Nina Statkevich | 1:32.21 | 5 | |
Lyudmila Titova | 1:31.85 | 4 | |
1500 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 2:25.85 | 14 |
Kapitolina Seregina | 2:24.29 | 9 | |
Nina Statkevich | 2:23.19 | 6 | |
3000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 5:06.61 | 8 |
Kapitolina Seregina | 5:01.88 | 6 | |
Nina Statkevich | 5:01.79 | 5 |
Medals by republic
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Russian SFSR | 36 | 6 | 3 | 45 |
Totals (1 entries) | 36 | 6 | 3 | 45 |
Bibliography
A. Dobrov (1973). XI Winter Olympic Games. Year 1972 (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19.
References
- ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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