Russia at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Russia at the Olympic Games
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IOC code:	RUS
NOC:	Russian Olympic Committee external link (Russian)
1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Medals	Gold 26	Silver 21	Bronze 16	Total 63
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 1996 • 2000 • 2004
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006
Other related appearances
Soviet Union (1952–1988) Unified Team (1992)

Russia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the first time that the nation participated separately from the other former republics of the Soviet Union. Russia had been a member of the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Archery 2.2 Athletics 2.3 Boxing 2.4 Modern Pentathlon 2.5 Swimming 2.6 Tennis 2.7 Water Polo 2.7.1 Men's Team Competition

[edit] Medals

Russia finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 26 gold and 63 total medals.

[edit] Gold

• Svetlana Masterkova — Athletics, Women's 800 metres

• Svetlana Masterkova — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres

• Yelena Nikolayeva — Athletics, Women's 10 km Walk

• Oleg Saitov — Boxing, Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Zulfiya Zabirova — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Time Trial

• Dmitry Sautin — Diving, Men's Platform

• Ilgar Mamedov, Vladislav Pavlovich, Dmitry Shevchenko, and Aleksandr Beketov — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition

• Stanislav Pozdniakov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual Competition

• Stanislav Pozdniakov, Grigory Kiriyenko, and Sergey Sharikov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition

• Alexei Nemov — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault

• Sergey Kharkov, Nikolay Krukov, Alexei Nemov, Evgeni Podgorni, Dmitri Trush, Dmitri Vasilenko, and Alexey Voropayev — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

• Svetlana Khorkina — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars

• Boris Kokorev — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol

• Artem Khadzhibekov — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle

• Olga Klochneva — Shooting, Women's Air Pistol

• Aleksandr Popov — Swimming, Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Aleksandr Popov — Swimming, Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Denis Pankratov — Swimming, Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Denis Pankratov — Swimming, Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Aleksey Petrov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Andrey Chemerkin — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight (> 108 kg)

• Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight (> 100 kg)

• Vadim Bogiyev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight (68 kg)

• Buvaysa Saytyev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight (74 kg)

• Khadzhimurad Magomedov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight (82 kg)

[edit] Silver

• Ilya Markov — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk

• Mikhail Shchennikov — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk

• Igor Trandenkov — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault

• Valentina Yegorova — Athletics, Women's Marathon

• Natalya Sadova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw

• Inna Lasovskaya — Athletics, Women's Triple Jump

• Yevgeniy Anashkin, Anton Chantyr, Edouard Gritsoun, Pavel Khamidulin, Aleksandr Kirichenko, and Nikolay Kuznetsov — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit

• Irina Lashko — Diving, Women's Springboard

• Pavel Kolobkov, Valery Zakharevich, and Aleksandr Beketov — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition

• Sergey Sharikov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual Competition

• Alexei Nemov — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around

• Elena Dolgopolova, Rozalia Galiyeva, Elena Grosheva, Svetlana Khorkina, Dina Kotchetkova, Eugenia Kuznetsova, and Oksana Liapina — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises

• Ianina Batyrchina — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

• Eduard Zenovka — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition

• Marina Logvinenko-Dobrancheva — Shooting, Women's Air Pistol

• Irina Gerasimenok — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

• Aleksandr Popov, Vladimir Predkin, Vladimir Pyshnenko, and Roman Yegerov — Swimming, Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Stanislav Lopukhov, Denis Pankratov, Aleksandr Popov, and Vladimir Selkov — Swimming, Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Sergey Syrtsov — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (108 kg)

• Makharbek Khadartsev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

• Dmitriy Shabanov, Georgiy Shayduko and Igor Skalin — Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition

[edit] Bronze

• Irina Khudorozhkina — Athletics, Women's Shot Put

• Albert Pakeyev — Boxing, Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

• Raimul Malakbekhov — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• Alexei Lezin — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

• Oleg Gorobiy, Anatoliy Tishchenko, Georgy Tsybulnikov, and Sergey Verlin — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours

• Karina Aznavourian, Yuliya Gurayeva, and Maria Mazina — Fencing, Women's Épée Team Competition

• Alexei Nemov — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse

• Alexei Nemov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

• Evguenia Botchkareva, Olga Chtyrenko, Irina Dziouba, Angelina Iouchkova, Ioulia Ivanova, and Elena Krivochei — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic Team Competition

• Nikolay Aksyonov, Anton Chermashentsev, Andrey Glukhov, Aleksandr Lukyanov, Sergey Matveyev, Pavel Melnikov, Roman Monchenko, Dmitriy Rozinkevich and Vladimir Volodenkov — Rowing, Men's Eights

• Marina Logvinenko-Dobrancheva — Shooting, Women's Sport Pistol

• Andrey Korneyev — Swimming, Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Vladislav Kulikov — Swimming, Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Zafar Guliev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Aleksandr Tretyakov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight (68 kg)

• Makharbek Khadartsev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

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[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

Russia's archers were not very successful in their first Olympic competition. The highest-placing archer was Rita Galinovskaya, at 14th place.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Rita Galinovskaya → Round of 16, 14th place (2-1)
• Makhlukhanum Murzayeva → Round of 64, 50th place (0-1)
• Elena Tutatchikova → Round of 64, 53rd place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Baljinima Tsirempilov → Round of 32, 18th place (1-1)
• Andrey Podlazov → Round of 64, 50th place (0-1)
• Bair Badenov → Round of 64, 53rd place (0-1)

Women's Team Competition:

• Galinovskaya, Murzayeva, and Tutatchikova → Round of 16, 10th place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

• Tsirempilov, Podlazov, and Badenov → Round of 16, 11th place (0-1)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 400m Hurdles

• Ruslan Mashchenko
  1. Heat — 49.94s (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

• Nikolay Afanasyev

• Final Result — 6711 points (→ 31st place)

Men's Discus Throw

• Sergey Lyakhov

• Qualification — 62.42m
• Final — 60.62m (→ 11th place)

• Aleksandr Borichevskiy

• Qualification — 56.46m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Oleg Strizakov — 2:19.51 (→ 37th place)
• Leonid Chvetsov — 2:24.49 (→ 66th place)

Women's Triple Jump

• Inna Lasovskaya

• Qualification — 14.75m
• Final — 14.98m (→ Silver Medal)

• Anna Biryukova

• Qualification — 14.19m (→ did not advance)

• Natalya Kayukova

• Qualification — 13.54m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Yelena Gulyayeva

• Qualification — 1.93m
• Final — 1.99m (→ 5th place)

• Tatyana Motkova

• Qualification — 1.93m
• Final — 1.96m (→ 6th place)

• Yuliya Lyakhova

• Qualification — 1.85m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Oksana Ovchinnikova

• Qualification — 57.28m (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw

• Natalya Sadova

• Qualification — 62.28m
• Final — 66.48m (→ Silver Medal)

• Olga Chernyavskaya

• Qualification — 63.02m
• Final — 64.70m (→ 6th place)

• Valentina Ivanova

• Qualification — 58.38m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Svetlana Moskalets

• Final Result — 6118 points (→ 14th place)

• Yelena Lebedenko

• Final Result — 6082 points (→ 17th place)

• Irina Tyukhay

• Final Result — 5903 points (→ 19th place)

Women's Marathon

• Valentina Yegorova — 2:28.05 (→ Silver Medal)
• Ramilya Burangulova — 2:38.04 (→ 35th place)
• Alla Zhilyayeva — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10km Walk

• Yelena Nikolayeva — 41:49 (→ Gold Medal)
• Yelena Gruzinova — 43:50 (→ 10th place)
• Irina Stankina — dsq (→ no ranking)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

• Albert Pakeyev → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Richard Sunee (Mauritius), 8-1
  2. Second Round — Defeated Borniface Muluka (Zambia), 13-4
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Daniel Reyes (Colombia), 13-13 (referee decision)
  4. Semi Finals — Lost to Maikro Romero (Cuba), 6-12

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• Raimkul Malakhbekov → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated José Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico), 16-6
  2. Second Round — Defeated Abdelaziz Boulehia (Algeria), referee stopped contest in third round
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Davaatseren Jamgan (Mongolia), 21-9
  4. Semi Finals — Lost to Arnaldo Mesa (Cuba), 14-14, referee decision

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

• Ramaz Paliani
  1. First Round — Defeated Soo Young Shin (South Korea), 10-7
  2. Second Round — Defeated Tigran Ouzlian (Greece), 27-2
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Kamsing Somluck (Thailand), 4-13

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

• Edward Zakharov
  1. First Round — Defeated Nitami Fumitaka (Japan), 21-6
  2. Second Round — Defeated Phillip Boudreault (Canada), 11-9
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Héctor Vinent (Cuba), 7-15

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Oleg Saitov → Gold Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Çahit Sume (Turkey), 11-1
  2. Second Round — Defeated Ho-Jo Bae (South Korea), 9-5
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Kamel Chater (Tunisia), 9-3
  4. Semi Finals — Defeated Daniel Santos (Puerto Rico), 13-11
  5. Final — Defeated Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba), 14-9

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

• Aleksandr Lebziak
  1. First Round — Defeated Rowan Donaldson (Jamaica), 20-4
  2. Second Round — Defeated Justann Crawford (Australia), referee stopped contest in third round
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Ariel Hernández (Cuba), 8-15

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

• Dmitri Vybornov
  1. First Round — Lost to Antonio Tarver (United States), 2-5

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Igor Kshinin
  1. First Round — Defeated Mustapha Amrou (Egypt), 17-4
  2. Second Round — Lost to Luan Krasniqi (Germany), 2-10

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

• Alexei Lezin → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Defeated Mikhail Jourchenko (Kazakhstan), referee stopped contest in first round
  3. Quarterfinals — Defeated René Monse (Germany), 9-5
  4. Semifinals — Lost to Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine), 1-4

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

• Eduard Zenovka → Silver Medal (5530 pts)
• Dmitriy Svatkovskiy → 4th place (5489 pts)
• Grigoriy Bremel → 28th place (4808 pts)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Aleksandr Popov
  1. Heat – 22.22
  2. Final – 22.13 (→ Gold Medal)

• Vladimir Predkin
  1. Heat – 23.03 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Aleksandr Popov
  1. Heat – 48.74
  2. Final – 48.74 (→ Gold Medal)

• Vladimir Predkin
  1. Heat – 50.75 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Vladimir Pyshnenko
  1. Heat – 1:49.79
  2. B-Final – 1:49.55 (→ 11th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Alexei Akatiev
  1. Heat – 3:56.40
  2. Final – 3:55.72 (→ 14th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Alexei Akatiev
  1. Heat – 15:16.47
  2. Final – 15:21.68 (→ 8th place)

• Alexei Butsenin
  1. Heat – 15:31.27 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Vladimir Selkov
  1. Heat – 55.87
  2. B-Final – scratched

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Vladimir Selkov
  1. Heat – 2:01.32
  2. B-Final – scratched

• Sergei Ostapchuk
  1. Heat – 2:03.50
  2. B-Final – 2:03.91 (→ 16th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Stanislav Lopukhov
  1. Heat – 1:02.00
  2. Final – 1:02.13 (→ 8th place)

• Roman Ivanovski
  1. Heat – 1:02.69
  2. B-Final – DSQ

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Andrei Korneev
  1. Heat – 2:14.11
  2. Final – 2:13.17 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Andrei Ivanov
  1. Heat – 2:15.56
  2. B-Final – 2:14.37 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Denis Pankratov
  1. Heat – 52.96
  2. Final – 52.27 (→ WR and Gold Medal)

• Vladislav Kulikov
  1. Heat – 53.54
  2. Final – 53.15 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Denis Pankratov
  1. Heat – 1:58.28
  2. Final – 1:56.51 (→ Gold Medal)

• Alexei Koleshnikov
  1. Heat – 2:00.77 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Roman Egorov, Denis Pimankov, Konstantin Ushkov, and Vladimir Pyshnenko
  1. Heat – 3:20.39
• Roman Egorov, Aleksandr Popov, Vladimir Predkin, and Vladimir Pyshnenko
  1. Final – 3:17.06 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Aleksandr Popov, Roman Ivanovski, Vladislav Kulikov, and Roman Egorov
  1. Heat – 3:41.49
• Vladimir Selkov, Stanislav Lopukhov, Denis Pankratov, and Aleksandr Popov
  1. Final – 3:37.55 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Natalia Mescheryakova
  1. Heat – 25.73
  2. Final – 25.88 (→ 8th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Natalia Mescheryakova
  1. Heat – 56.33
  2. B-Final – 56.17 (→ 13th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Tatiana Litovchenko
  1. Heat – 2:04.09 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

• Nadezda Chemezova
  1. Heat – 4:21.33 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Nina Zhivanevskaya
  1. Heat – 1:02.94
  2. B-Final – 1:02.38 (→ 9th place)

• Olga Kochetkova
  1. Heat – 1:03.17
  2. B-Final – 1:03.52 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Nina Zhivanevskaya
  1. Heat – 2:13.32
  2. Final – 2:14.59 (→ 8th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Olga Landik
  1. Heat – 1:12.55 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Elena Nazemnova
  1. Heat – 1:01.54
  2. B-Final – 1:00.93 (→ 10th place)

• Svetlana Pozdeeva
  1. Heat – 1:01.29
  2. B-Final – 1:01.62 (→ 16th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Daria Shmeleva
  1. Heat – 2:20.34 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Daria Shmeleva
  1. Heat – 4:57.06 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Svetlana Leshukova, Natalya Sorokina, Elena Nazemnova, and Natalia Mescheryakova
  1. Heat – 3:47.33
• Elena Nazemnova, Svetlana Leshukova, Natalia Mescheryakova, and Natalya Sorokina
  1. Final – DSQ

Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

• Tatyana Litovchenko, Inna Yaytskaya, Elena Nazemnova, and Nadezhda Chemezova
  1. Heat – 8:16.06 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Nina Zhivanevskaya, Elena Makarova, Svetlana Pozdeyeva, and Natalia Mescheryakova
  1. Heat – 4:10.65
• Nina Zhivanevskaya, Elena Makarova, Elena Nazemnova, and Natalia Mescheryakova
  1. Final – 4:10.56 (→ 7th place)

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

• Andrei Olhovskiy
  1. First round — Defeated Nicolás Lapentti (Ecuador) 6-1 3-6 8-6
  2. Second round — Defeated Daniel Vacek (Czech Republic) 6-3 7-6
  3. Third round — Defeated Christian Ruud (Norway) 6-4 6-3
  4. Quarter Finals — Lost to Fernando Meligeni (Brazil) 7-6 5-7 3-6

Women's Singles Competition

• Anna Kournikova
  1. First round — Lost to Laurence Courtois (Belgium) 6-1 2-6 2-6

• Elena Likhovtseva
  1. First round — Lost to Mary Joe Fernandez (USA) 2-6 4-6

• Elena Makarova
  1. First round — Lost to Florencia Labat (Argentina) 2-6 5-7

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Russia – Hungary 7-8
• Russia – Yugoslavia 9-9
• Russia – Germany 10-8
• Russia – Netherlands 10-5
• Russia – Spain 6-8

• Quarter Finals

• Russia – Italy 9-11

• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Russia – Yugoslavia 16-15
• 5th/6th place: Russia – Greece 10-8 (→ Fifth place)

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