Armed Forces (sports society)

Central Sports Klub of the Army or (CSKA) (Russian: Центральный спортивный клуб армии) is the Russian sports society and the successor of the Soviet CSKA.

Overview

The society was one of the largest sports societies in the USSR. In the Soviet era all CSKA and SKA teams that resided in the Soviet Union belonged to the Armed Forces sports society. There was one SKA club in each Military district and naval fleet of the USSR, and a central club - CSKA.^[1] SKAs maintained several teams for different sports disciplines, as did CSKA. Armed Forces sports society functioned under the leadership of the Sports Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR and sports committees of military districts and naval fleets.^[1]

Members of the society at Olympics

City represented and sports discipline are given in parentheses.

Summer Olympics

1952 Summer Olympics

1. Yuriy Lituyev (Leningrad, athletics)
2. Boris Tokarev (Leningrad, athletics)
3. Anatoly Konev (Moscow, basketball)
4. Aleksandr Moiseyev (Moscow, basketball)
5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1956 Summer Olympics

1. Yuriy Lituyev (Moscow, athletics)
2. Yevgeniy Maskinskov (Saransk, athletics)
3. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
4. Boris Tokarev (Moscow, athletics)
5. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kiev, athletics)
6. Vladimir Safronov (Chita, boxing)
7. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1960 Summer Olympics

1. Gusman Kosanov (Kishinev, athletics)
2. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
3. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kiev, athletics)
4. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1964 Summer Olympics

1. Oleg Fyodoseyev (Moscow, athletics)
2. Gusman Kosanov (Alma-Ata, athletics)
3. Edvin Ozolin (Leningrad, athletics)
4. Oleg Grigoryev (Moscow, boxing)
5. Stanislav Stepashkin (Moscow, boxing)
6. Volodymyr Morozov (Krasnovodsk, canoeing)
7. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
8. Oleg Stepanov (Moscow, judo)
9. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
10. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Zaporozhye, weightlifting)

1968 Summer Olympics

1. Gennadiy Bliznetsov (Kharkov, athletics)
2. Galina Bukharina (Moscow, athletics)
3. Romuald Klim (Minsk, athletics)
4. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
5. Volodymyr Morozov (Kiev, canoeing)
6. Valery Yardy (Moscow, cycling)
7. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
8. Viktor Sidyak (Lvov, fencing)
9. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Kiev, weightlifting)

1972 Summer Olympics

1. Nadezhda Besfamilnaya (Moscow, athletics)
2. Galina Bukharina (Moscow, athletics)
3. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
4. Veniamin Soldatenko (Alma-Ata, athletics)
5. Sergei Belov (Moscow, basketball)
6. Ivan Edeshko (Moscow, basketball)
7. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (Moscow, basketball)
8. Vyacheslav Lemeshev (Moscow, boxing)
9. Volodymyr Morozov (Kiev, canoeing)
10. Valery Yardy (Cheboksary, cycling)
11. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
12. Viktor Sidyak (Minsk, fencing)
13. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)

1976 Summer Olympics

1. Lidiya Alfeyeva (Moscow, athletics)
2. Vera Anisimova (Moscow, athletics)
3. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
4. Sergei Belov (Moscow, basketball)
5. Ivan Edeshko (Moscow, basketball)
6. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (Moscow, basketball)
7. Viktor Sidyak (Minsk, fencing)
8. Yevgeni Chernyshov (Moscow, handball)
9. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)
10. Vladimir Bure (Moscow, swimming)
11. Oleg Moliboga (Dnepropetrovsk, volleyball)

1980 Summer Olympics

1. Yevgeni Chernyshov (Moscow, handball)
2. Anatoli Fedyukin (Moscow, handball)

1988 Summer Olympics

1. Dmitry Bilozerchev (Moscow, artistic gymnastics)
2. Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (Odessa, athletics)

Winter Olympics

1956 Winter Olympics

1. Fyodor Terentyev (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
2. Nikolay Gusakov (Moscow, nordic combined)

1960 Winter Olympics

1. Vladimir Melanin (Kirov, biathlon)
2. Gennady Vaganov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
3. Nikolay Gusakov (Leningrad, nordic combined)

1964 Winter Olympics

1. Vladimir Melanin (Kirov, biathlon)
2. Rita Achkina (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
3. Yevdokiya Mekshilo (Leningrad, cross-country skiing)
4. Gennady Vaganov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
5. Nikolay Gusakov (Leningrad, nordic combined)
6. Nikolay Fyodorovich Kiselyov (Leningrad, nordic combined)

1968 Winter Olympics

1. Rita Achkina (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
2. Vladimir Voronkov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
3. Vladimir Belussov (Leningrad Oblast, ski jumping)

1972 Winter Olympics

1. Vladimir Voronkov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
2. Irina Rodnina (Moscow, figure skating)
3. Alexei Ulanov (Moscow, figure skating)

1976 Winter Olympics

1. Zinaida Amosova (Novosibirsk, cross-country skiing)
2. Nikolay Bazhukov (Syktyvkar, cross-country skiing)
3. Sergey Savelyev (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
4. Irina Rodnina (Moscow, figure skating)
5. Valery Muratov (Kolomna, speed skating)

1980 Winter Olympics

1984 Winter Olympics

1988 Winter Olympics

• Vyacheslav Bykov (Moscow, ice hockey)

Overall Olympic performance by the society

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 sports societies in one team.

Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

See also

• Soviet Union at the Olympics

Sources

1. ^ ^{a b} Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "СССР. Физическая культура и спорт", available online here

Bibliography

• Boris Khavin (1979) (in Russian). All about Olympic Games. (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.  - for tables and lists on 1952-1976 Olympics

External links

• Official website
• Sport committee of friendly armies