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Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

January 01, 1970

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Soviet Union at the
1972 Winter Olympics
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Sapporo
Competitors78 (58 men, 20 women)[1] in 9 sports
Flag bearerVyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
8
Silver
5
Bronze
3
Total
16
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1928, 1992–)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2014)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1998–)
 Tajikistan (2002–)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

Medalists edit

Medal Name Sport Event
  Gold Aleksandr Tikhonov
Rinnat Safin
Ivan Biakov
Viktor Mamatov		 Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
  Gold Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
  Gold Vladimir Voronkov
Yury Skobov
Fyodor Simashov
Vyacheslav Vedenin		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
  Gold Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
  Gold Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Gold Lyubov Mukhachova
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova
Galina Kulakova		 Cross-country skiing Women's 3 × 5 km relay
  Gold Irina Rodnina
Alexei Ulanov		 Figure skating Pairs
  Gold Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team
 Ice hockey Men's competition
  Silver Fyodor Smishov Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
  Silver Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Silver Sergei Chetverukhin Figure skating Men's singles
  Silver Liudmila Smirnova
Andrei Suraikin		 Figure skating Pairs
  Silver Vera Krasnova Speed skating Women's 500m
  Bronze Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km
  Bronze Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 500m
  Bronze Lyudmila Titova Speed skating Women's 500m

Alpine skiing edit

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 edit

Main article: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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
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  

Cross-country skiing edit

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 × 10 km relay
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 × 5 km relay

Figure skating edit

Main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 edit

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Medal round edit

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

Luge edit

Main article: Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 edit

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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 edit

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 edit

Main article: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
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 edit

A. Dobrov (1973). (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19.

References edit

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

January 01, 1970
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The Soviet Union USSR competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo Japan Soviet Union at the1972 Winter OlympicsFlag of the Soviet UnionIOC codeURSNOCSoviet Olympic Committeein SapporoCompetitors78 58 men 20 women 1 in 9 sportsFlag bearerVyacheslav Vedenin cross country skiing MedalsRanked 1stGold 8 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 16Winter Olympics appearances overview 195619601964196819721976198019841988Other related appearances Latvia 1924 1936 1992 Estonia 1928 1936 1992 Lithuania 1928 1992 Unified Team 1992 Armenia 1994 Belarus 1994 Georgia 1994 Kazakhstan 1994 Kyrgyzstan 1994 Moldova 1994 Russia 1994 2014 Ukraine 1994 Uzbekistan 1994 Azerbaijan 1998 Tajikistan 2002 Olympic Athletes from Russia 2018 ROC 2022 Contents 1 Medalists 2 Alpine skiing 3 Biathlon 4 Cross country skiing 5 Figure skating 6 Ice hockey 6 1 Medal round 7 Luge 8 Nordic combined 9 Ski jumping 10 Speed skating 11 Bibliography 12 ReferencesMedalists editMedal Name Sport Event nbsp Gold Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov Biathlon Men s 4 x 7 5 km relay nbsp Gold Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross country skiing Men s 30 km nbsp Gold Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross country skiing Men s 4 10 km relay nbsp Gold Galina Kulakova Cross country skiing Women s 5 km nbsp Gold Galina Kulakova Cross country skiing Women s 10 km nbsp Gold Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina Smirnova Galina Kulakova Cross country skiing Women s 3 5 km relay nbsp Gold Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov Figure skating Pairs nbsp Gold Soviet Union men s national ice hockey teamVladislav TretiakAlexander PashkovVitaly DavidovViktor KuskinAlexander RagulinGennadi TsygankovVladimir LutchenkoVladimir VasilievIgor RomishevskyYevgeny MishakovAlexander MaltsevAlexander YakushevVladimir VikulovAnatoly FirsovValeri KharlamovYury BlinovBoris MikhailovVladimir PetrovVladimir ShadrinYevgeny Zimin Ice hockey Men s competition nbsp Silver Fyodor Smishov Cross country skiing Men s 15 km nbsp Silver Alevtina Olyunina Smirnova Cross country skiing Women s 10 km nbsp Silver Sergei Chetverukhin Figure skating Men s singles nbsp Silver Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin Figure skating Pairs nbsp Silver Vera Krasnova Speed skating Women s 500m nbsp Bronze Vyacheslav Vedenin Cross country skiing Men s 50 km nbsp Bronze Valery Muratov Speed skating Men s 500m nbsp Bronze Lyudmila Titova Speed skating Women s 500mAlpine skiing editMain article Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 19Biathlon editMain article Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 Men s 4 x 7 5 km relay Athletes Race Misses 2 Time Rank Aleksandr TikhonovRinnat SafinIvan BiakovViktor Mamatov 3 1 51 44 92 nbsp Cross country skiing editMain article Cross country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 nbsp 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 nbsp 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 nbsp Men s 4 10 km relay Athletes Race Time Rank Vladimir VoronkovYury SkobovFyodor SimashovVyacheslav Vedenin 2 04 47 94 nbsp 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 nbsp 10 km Nina Shebalina 35 54 59 10 Lyubov Mukhachova 34 58 56 4 Alevtina Olyunina Smirnova 34 54 11 nbsp Galina Kulakova 34 17 82 nbsp Women s 3 5 km relay Athletes Race Time Rank Lyubov MukhachovaAlevtina Olyunina SmirnovaGalina Kulakova 48 16 15 nbsp Figure skating editMain article Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 nbsp Women Athlete CF FS Points Places Rank Marina Sanaya 19 18 2198 6 160 18 Pairs Athletes SP FS Points Places Rank Irina CherniaevaVasili Blagov 6 5 399 1 52 6 Liudmila SmirnovaAndrei Suraikin 2 2 419 4 15 nbsp Irina RodninaAlexei Ulanov 1 1 420 4 12 nbsp Ice hockey editMain article Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics Medal round edit Rank Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts 1 nbsp Soviet Union nbsp 5 4 0 1 33 13 9 2 nbsp United States 5 3 2 0 18 15 6 3 nbsp Czechoslovakia 5 3 2 0 26 13 6 4 nbsp Sweden 5 2 2 1 17 13 5 5 nbsp Finland 5 2 3 0 14 24 4 6 nbsp 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 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 ZiminLuge editMain article Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 SvetikovSergey Osipov 45 64 12 45 48 12 1 31 12 12 Yury YegorovViktor 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 12Nordic combined editMain article Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 7Ski jumping editMain article Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics 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 6Speed skating editMain article Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics Men Event Athlete Race Time Rank 500 m Vladimir Komarov 40 65 14 Valery Muratov 39 80 nbsp 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 nbsp Vera Krasnova 44 01 nbsp 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 5Bibliography editA Dobrov 1973 XI Winter Olympic Games Year 1972 in Russian Moscow Fizkultura i sport Archived from the original on 2007 08 19 References edit The USSR and Olympism PDF Olympic Review 84 International Olympic Committee 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 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics amp oldid 1130759898, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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