USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearers
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USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearers were Soviet sportsmen, who bore the State Flag of the USSR at the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Summer and Winter Olympics. Most of them were World and/or Olympic Champions.
[edit] Summer Olympics
| Games | Athlete | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Yakov Kutsenko | Weightlifting |
| 1956 | Aleksey Medvedev | Weightlifting |
| 1960 | Yury Vlasov | Weightlifting |
| 1964 | Yury Vlasov | Weightlifting |
| 1968 | Leonid Zhabotinsky | Weightlifting |
| 1972 | Alexander Medved | Wrestling |
| 1976 | Nikolai Balboshin | Wrestling |
| 1980 | Nikolai Balboshin | Wrestling |
| 1988 | Alexander Karelin | Wrestling |
[edit] Winter Olympics
| Games | Athlete | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Oleg Goncharenko | Speed skating |
| 1960 | Nikolai Sologubov | Ice hockey |
| 1964 | Yevgeny Grishin | Speed skating |
| 1968 | Viktor Mamatov | Biathlon |
| 1972 | Vyacheslav Vedenin | Cross-country skiing |
| 1976 | Vladislav Tretiak | Ice hockey |
| 1980 | Alexander Tikhonov | Biathlon |
| 1984 | Vladislav Tretiak | Ice hockey |
| 1988 | Andrei Bukin | Figure skating |
