Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Appearance
Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Sapporo | |
Competitors | 78 (58 men, 20 women)[1] in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing) |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Medalists
[edit]Alpine skiing
[edit]- 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]- 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]- 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
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin |
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 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova |
48:16.15 | ![]() |
Figure skating
[edit]- 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]Medal round
[edit]Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | ![]() ![]() |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
2 | ![]() |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
3 | ![]() |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
4 | ![]() |
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
5 | ![]() |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
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]- 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]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 | ||||||
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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]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]- 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). 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.