Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the Olympic Games
Flag of the Soviet Union IOC code  URS NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo
Competitors	78 (58 men, 20 women)[1] in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing)
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 8	Silver 5	Bronze 3	Total 16
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Winter Games
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912) Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–) Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–) Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–) Unified Team (1992) Armenia (1994–) Belarus (1994–) Georgia (1994–) Kazakhstan (1994–) Kyrgyzstan (1994–) Moldova (1994–) Russia (1994–) Ukraine (1994–) Uzbekistan (1994–) Azerbaijan (1996–) Tajikistan (1996–) Turkmenistan (1996–)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. The use of both the English alphabet and abbreviations threw it directly behind the USA in the Parade of Nations.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Tikhonov, AleksandrAleksandr Tikhonov Safin, RinnatRinnat Safin Biakov, IvanIvan Biakov Mamatov, ViktorViktor Mamatov	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	Vedenin, VyacheslavVyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Voronkov, VladimirVladimir Voronkov Skobov, YuryYury Skobov Simashov, FyodorFyodor Simashov Vedenin, VyacheslavVyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Gold	Kulakova, GalinaGalina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Gold	Kulakova, GalinaGalina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Mukhachova, LyubovLyubov Mukhachova Olyunina-Smirnova, AlevtinaAlevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Kulakova, GalinaGalina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Gold	Rodnina, IrinaIrina Rodnina Ulanov, AlexeiAlexei Ulanov	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladislav Tretiak   Vladimir Vasiliev   Valeri Kharlamov Alexander Pashkov   Igor Romishevsky   Yury Blinov Vitaly Davidov   Yevgeny Mishakov   Boris Mikhailov Viktor Kuskin   Alexander Maltsev   Vladimir Petrov Alexander Ragulin   Alexander Yakushev   Vladimir Shadrin Gennadi Tsygankov   Vladimir Vikulov   Yevgeny Zimin Vladimir Lutchenko   Anatoly Firsov	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Silver	Smishov, FyodorFyodor Smishov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Olyunina-Smirnova, AlevtinaAlevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Chetverukhin, SergeiSergei Chetverukhin	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Smirnova, LiudmilaLiudmila Smirnova Suraikin, AndreiAndrei Suraikin	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Krasnova, VeraVera Krasnova	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Vedenin, VyacheslavVyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Muratov, ValeryValery Muratov	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Bronze	Titova, LyudmilaLyudmila Titova	Speed skating	Women's 500m

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

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 Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov	3	1'51:44.92

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	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 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Dedenin	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 x 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

Leading scorers

Player	GP	G	A	Pts
1st Valeri Kharlamov	5	9	6	15
3rd Vladimir Vikulov	5	5	4	9
5th Aleksandr Maltsev	5	4	3	7
7th Anatoli Firsov	5	2	5	7
8th Yuri Blinov	5	3	3	6

Gold:

Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davidov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadi Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Vladimir Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeny Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeny Zimin

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

Bibliography

A. Dobrov (1973). XI Winter Olympic Games. Year 1972. (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.

References

1. "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (International Olympic Committee) (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com