Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code  URS
NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
Competitors 79 (59 men, 20 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer Vladislav Tretiak (ice hockey)
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
13		 Silver
6		 Bronze
8		 Total
27
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

During the games, the Soviet Union won 13 gold medals, the most any country won at a single Winter Olympics.[1] Norway tied this record during the Salt Lake City games,[1] and Canada broke it with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Kruglov, NikolayNikolay Kruglov Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Gold Yelizarov, AleksandrAleksandr Yelizarov
Byakov, IvanIvan Byakov
Kruglov, NikolayNikolay Kruglov
Tikhonov, AleksandrAleksandr Tikhonov 		Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
 Gold Bazhukov, NikolayNikolay Bazhukov Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
 Gold Savelyev, SergeySergey Savelyev Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
 Gold Smetanina, RaisaRaisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Gold Baldycheva-Fyodorova, NinaNina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Amosova, ZinaidaZinaida Amosova
Smetanina, RaisaRaisa Smetanina
Kulakova, GalinaGalina Kulakova 		Cross-country skiing Women's 4 x 5 km relay
 Gold Rodnina, IrinaIrina Rodnina
Zaitsev, AlexanderAlexander Zaitsev 		Figure skating Pairs
 Gold Pakhomova, LiudmilaLiudmila Pakhomova
Gorshkov, AlexanderAlexander Gorshkov 		Figure skating Ice dancing
 Gold Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team
Vladislav Tretiak Sergey Kapustin Vladimir Shadrin
Aleksandr Sidelnikov Aleksandr Maltsev Valeri Vasiliev
Aleksandr Gusev Boris Aleksandrov Viktor Shalimov
Vladimir Lutchenko Boris Mikhailov Viktor Zhluktov
Sergei Babinov Alexander Yakushev
Yury Lyapkin Vladimir Petrov
Gennadiy Tsygankov Valeri Kharlamov
 Ice hockey Men's competition
 Gold Kulikov, YevgenyYevgeny Kulikov Speed skating Men's 500m
 Gold Averina-Barabash, TatyanaTatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 1000m
 Gold Stepanskaya, GalinaGalina Stepanskaya Speed skating Women's 1500m
 Gold Averina-Barabash, TatyanaTatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 3000m
 Silver Belyayev, YevgenyYevgeny Belyayev Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
 Silver Smetanina, RaisaRaisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
 Silver Kovalev, VladimirVladimir Kovalev Figure skating Men's singles
 Silver Moiseeva, IrinaIrina Moiseeva
Minenkov, AndreiAndrei Minenkov 		Figure skating Ice dancing
 Silver Muratov, ValeryValery Muratov Speed skating Men's 500m
 Silver Kondakov, YuryYury Kondakov Speed skating Men's 1500m
 Bronze Yelizarov, AleksandrAleksandr Yelizarov Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Bronze Garanin, IvanIvan Garanin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
 Bronze Belyayev, YevgenyYevgeny Belyayev
Bazhukov, NikolayNikolay Bazhukov
Savelyev, SergeySergey Savelyev
Garanin, IvanIvan Garanin 		Cross-country skiing Men's 4 x 10 km relay
 Bronze Baldycheva-Fyodorova, NinaNina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
 Bronze Kulakova, GalinaGalina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Bronze Muratov, ValeryValery Muratov Speed skating Men's 1000m
 Bronze Averina-Barabash, TatyanaTatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 500m
 Bronze Averina-Barabash, TatyanaTatyana Averina-Barabash Speed skating Women's 1500m

Alpine skiing

Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Vladimir Andreyev Downhill 1:53.61 44
Vladimir Andreyev Giant Slalom DNF – – – DNF –
Vladimir Andreyev Slalom 1:07.01 31 1:10.55 26 2:17.56 25
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Alla Askarova Downhill 1:53.19 28
Alla Askarova Giant Slalom 1:36.86 32
Alla Askarova Slalom DNF – – – DNF –

Biathlon

Men
Event Athlete Time Penalties Adjusted time 1 Rank
20 km Aleksandr Tikhonov 1'10:18.33 7 1'17:18.33 5
Aleksandr Yelizarov 1'13:05.57 3 1'16:05.57 3rd
Nikolay Kruglov 1'12:12.26 2 1'14:12.26 1st
1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 2 Time Rank
Aleksandr Yelizarov
Ivan Byakov
Nikolay Kruglov
Aleksandr Tikhonov		 0 1'57:55.64 1st
2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km Yury Skobov 46:16.27 16
Ivan Garanin 44:41.98 4
Yevgeny Belyayev 44:01.10 2nd
Nikolay Bazhukov 43:58.47 1st
30 km Vasily Rochev 1'32:39.42 10
Nikolay Bazhukov 1'31:33.14 5
Ivan Garanin 1'31:09.29 3rd
Sergey Savelyev 1'30:29.38 1st
50 km Yevgeny Belyayev 2'54:00.55 38
Sergey Savelyev 2'46:01.36 21
Vasily Rochev 2'44:31.23 12
Ivan Garanin 2'40:38.94 4
Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Sergey Savelyev
Ivan Garanin		 2'10:51.46 3rd
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km Galina Kulakova DSQ (doping) –
Zinaida Amosova 16:33.78 6
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 16:12.82 3rd
Raisa Smetanina 15:49.73 2nd
10 km Zinaida Amosova 31:11.23 6
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 30:52.58 4
Galina Kulakova 30:38.61 3rd
Raisa Smetanina 30:13.41 1st
Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Zinaida Amosova
Raisa Smetanina
Galina Kulakova		 1'07:49.75 1st

Figure skating

Men
Athlete CF SP FS Points Places Rank
Yuri Ovchinnikov 12 8 7 180.04 75 8
Sergei Volkov 1 5 9 184.08 53 5
Vladimir Kovalev 3 6 4 187.64 28 2nd
Women
Athlete CF SP FS Points Places Rank
Elena Vodorezova 18 13 5 175.58 104 12
Pairs
Athletes SP FS Points Places Rank
Marina Leonidova
Vladimir Bogoliubov		 9 9 127.06 76 9
Irina Vorobieva
Alexander Vlasov		 3 5 134.52 35 4
Irina Rodnina
Alexander Zaitsev		 1 1 140.54 9 1st
Ice Dancing
Athletes CD FD Points Places Rank
Natalia Linichuk
Gennadi Karponossov		 4 4 199.10 35 4
Irina Moiseeva
Andrei Minenkov		 2 2 204.88 20 2nd
Liudmila Pakhomova
Alexander Gorshkov		 1 1 209.92 9 1st

Ice hockey

First Round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
 Soviet Union 16–3  Austria

Medal round

Rank Pld W L T GF GA Pts
1  Soviet Union 1st 5500401110
2  Czechoslovakia 532017106
3  West Germany 523021244
4  Finland 523019184
5  United States 523015214
6  Poland 51409372

Leading scorers

Rk GP G A Pts
1st Vladimir Shadrin 56410
2nd Aleksandr Maltsev 55510
2nd Viktor Shalimov 55510
2nd Valeri Kharlamov 55510
7th Vladimir Petrov 5437
8th Alexander Yakushev 5347
Gold:
Vladislav Tretiak
Aleksandr Sidelnikov
Aleksandr Gusev
Vladimir Lutchenko
Sergei Babinov
Yury Lyapkin
Gennadiy Tsygankov
Sergey Kapustin
Aleksandr Maltsev
Boris Aleksandrov
Boris Mikhailov
Alexander Yakushev
Vladimir Petrov
Valeri Kharlamov
Vladimir Shadrin
Valeri Vasiliev
Viktor Shalimov
Viktor Zhluktov

Luge

Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Aigars Krikis 54.243 16 53.415 11 53.273 15 53.764 17 3:34.695 13
Vladimir Shitov 53.485 11 53.025 9 52.927 10 53.133 11 3:32.570 10
Dainis Bremze 52.984 9 52.567 8 52.364 9 52.661 9 3:30.576 8

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Dainis Bremze
Aigars Krikis		 43.667 8 43.740 8 1:27.407 8
Rolands Upatnieks
Valdis Ķuzis		 43.732 9 43.825 9 1:27.557 9
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Vera Zozuļa 44.179 14 42.973 8 42.651 6 42.858 3 2:52.661 9

Nordic combined

Events:

Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
Distance 1 Distance 2 Points Rank Time Points Rank Points Rank
Aleksey Baranov Individual 69.0 70.0 185.7 23 51:58.45 184.47 21 370.17 23
Nikolay Nogovitsyn 72.0 74.0 196.1 16 49:05.97 210.34 3 406.44 6
Valery Kopayev 71.5 75.0 202.9 9 49:53.26 203.24 8 406.14 7

Ski jumping

Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Sergey Saychik Normal hill 74.0 105.2 76.0 108.4 213.6 25
Yury Kalinin 74.5 105.5 79.0 113.2 218.7 22
Aleksey Borovitin 77.5 111.3 78.0 113.6 224.9 15
Aleksandr Karapuzov 78.0 112.6 79.0 114.2 226.8 12
Yury Kalinin Large hill 85.0 94.0 80.0 87.5 181.5 24
Aleksey Borovitin 85.0 95.5 82.5 92.0 187.5 19
Sergey Saychik 90.0 101.5 87.5 98.5 200.0 11
Aleksandr Karapuzov 91.0 104.9 81.5 88.6 193.5 15

Speed skating

Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Andrey Malikov 40.09 8
Valery Muratov 39.25 2nd
Yevgeny Kulikov 39.17 OR 1st
1000 m Andrey Malikov 1:27.57 29
Aleksandr Safronov 1:20.84 4
Valery Muratov 1:20.57 3rd
1500 m Sergey Marchuk 2:04.65 13
Sergey Ryabev 2:02.15 4
Yury Kondakov 1:59.97 2nd
5000 m Sergey Marchuk 7:51.37 14
Vladimir Ivanov 7:37.73 7
Viktor Varlamov 7:30.97 4
10,000 m Vladimir Ivanov 16:16.20 15
Sergey Marchuk 15:43.81 11
Viktor Varlamov 15:06.06 4
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Lyubov Sadchikova 43.80 6
Vera Krasnova 43.23 5
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 43.17 3rd
1000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 1:32.08 15
Lyudmila Titova 1:30.06 7
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 1:28.43 OR 1st
1500 m Nina Statkevich 2:22.59 15
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 2:17.96 3rd
Galina Stepanskaya 2:16.58 OR 1st
3000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 4:54.03 14
Nina Statkevich 4:53.94 13
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 4:45.19 OR 1st

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Canadian Press (February 27, 2010). "Canada sets Olympic gold record". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2010-02-27.

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