Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

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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
Winter Games
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–)
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 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 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 x 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 x 5 km relay
 Gold Irina Rodnina
Alexei 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 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

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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

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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
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 1st
2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

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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 2nd
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 1st
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 3rd
Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Vladimir Voronkov
Yury Skobov
Fyodor Simashov
Vyacheslav Dedenin		 2'04:47.94 1st
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 1st
10 km Nina Shebalina 35:54.59 10
Lyubov Mukhachova 34:58.56 4
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova 34:54.11 2nd
Galina Kulakova 34:17.82 1st
Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Lyubov Mukhachova
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova
Galina Kulakova		 48:16.15 1st

Figure skating

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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 2nd
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 2nd
Irina Rodnina
Alexei Ulanov		 1 1 420.4 12 1st

Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Medal round

Rank Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts
1  Soviet Union 1st 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

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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 pictogram.svg Nordic combined

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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 pictogram.svg Ski jumping

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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

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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 3rd
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 3rd
Vera Krasnova 44.01 2nd
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

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References

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