Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It would be the last Winter Olympic Games before the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Six of the former Soviet republics would compete together as the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics, and each republic would be independently represented at subsequent Games.

Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Calgary
Competitors	101 (78 men, 23 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Andrei Bukin (figure skating)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 11 Silver 9 Bronze 9 Total 29
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
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)

The Soviet Union had its best showing at the Winter Olympics in terms of total medals (overtaking its 1976 result with 27 medals) and second-best in terms of gold medals (after the aforementioned 1976 result with 13 gold medals).

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical	14 February
Gold	Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre classical	15 February
Gold	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Figure skating	Pair skating	16 February
Gold	Nikolay Gulyayev	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Gold	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre classical	19 February
Gold	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Two-man	21 February
Gold	Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay	21 February
Gold	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Figure skating	Ice dance	23 February
Gold	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Gold	Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Relay	26 February
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Evgeny Belosheikin Ilya Byakin Vyacheslav Bykov Viacheslav Fetisov Alexei Gusarov Sergei Yashin Valeri Kamensky Sergei Svetlov Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Khomutov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Igor Kravchuk Andrei Lomakin Aleksandr Chernykh Sergei Makarov Alexander Mogilny Sergei Mylnikov Vitali Samoilov Anatoly Semenov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov	Ice hockey	Men's competition	28 February
Silver	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical	14 February
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 kilometre classical	15 February
Silver	Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev	Figure skating	Pair skating	16 February
Silver	Tamara Tikhonova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	17 February
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Individual	20 February
Silver	Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay	22 February
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev	Biathlon	Sprint	23 February
Silver	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Figure skating	Ice dance	23 February
Silver	Anfisa Reztsova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Bronze	Yury Kharchenko	Luge	Men's singles	15 February
Bronze	Vida Vencienė	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 kilometre classical	17 February
Bronze	Igor Zhelezovsky	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre classical	19 February
Bronze	Viktor Petrenko	Figure skating	Men's singles	20 February
Bronze	Sergei Tchepikov	Biathlon	Sprint	23 February
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	25 February
Bronze	Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov	Bobsleigh	Four-man	28 February
Bronze	Allar Levandi	Nordic combined	Individual	28 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	1	3
Biathlon	5	–	5
Bobsleigh	10	–	10
Cross-country skiing	6	6	12
Figure skating	9	8	17
Ice hockey	21	–	21
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	2	–	2
Speed skating	12	5	17
Total	78	23	101

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Sergey Petrik	Super-G			DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov				DNF	–
Konstantin Chistyakov	Giant Slalom	1:10.09	1:06.58	2:16.67	35
Sergey Petrik		1:09.78	1:05.38	2:15.16	30
Konstantin Chistyakov	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sergey Petrik		55.39	DNF	DNF	–

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov	1:55.99	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sergey Petrik	1:55.82	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Golnur Postnikova	Downhill			1:28.23	16

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Golnur Postnikova	DNF	–	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Juri Kashkarov	3	26:49.1	18
	Dmitry Vasilyev	1	26:09.7	9
	Sergei Tchepikov	0	25:29.4
	Valeriy Medvedtsev	0	25:23.7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Aleksandr Popov	56:24.0	3	59:24.0	12
	Juri Kashkarov	55:43.1	2	57:43.1	5
	Sergei Tchepikov	56:17.5	1	57:17.5	4
	Valeriy Medvedtsev	54:54.6	2	56:54.6

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev	0	1'22:30.0

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
URS-1	Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov	Two-man	57.43	4	58.05	1	59.52	2	58.48	2	3:53.48
URS-2	Zintis Ekmanis Aivars Trops	Two-man	57.95	10	59.12	6	1:00.72	14	59.13	6	3:56.92	9

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
URS-1	Māris Poikāns Olafs Kļaviņš Ivars Bērzups Juris Jaudzems	Four-man	56.75	6	57.66	7	56.70	10	57.24	2	3:48.35	5
URS-2	Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov	Four-man	56.72	4	57.28	1	56.41	4	57.85	7	3:48.26

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Aleksey Prokurorov	43:36.9	18
	Aleksandr Batyuk	43:08.7	15
	Vladimir Smirnov	41:48.5
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	41:18.9
30 km C	Yury Burlakov	1'28:02.4	12
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	1'25:31.3	4
	Vladimir Smirnov	1'24:35.1
	Aleksey Prokurorov	1'24:26.3
50 km F	Aleksey Prokurorov	2'14:01.0	38
	Yury Burlakov	2'12:02.2	26
	Mikhail Devyatyarov	2'12:01.7	25
	Vladimir Sakhnov	2'09:00.1	12

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov	1'44:11.3

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Raisa Smetanina	15:35.9	10
	Svetlana Nageykina	15:29.9	8
	Vida Vencienė	15:11.1
	Tamara Tikhonova	15:05.3
10 km C	Tamara Tikhonova	30:38.9	5
	Svetlana Nageykina	30:26.5	4
	Raisa Smetanina	30:17.0
	Vida Vencienė	30:08.3
20 km F	Nina Gavrilyuk	DSQ	–
	Raisa Smetanina	57:22.1
	Anfisa Reztsova	56:12.8
	Tamara Tikhonova	55:53.6

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	59:51.1

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Vladimir Kotin	5	6	8	13.4	6
Alexander Fadeev	1	9	5	8.2	4
Viktor Petrenko	6	3	3	7.8

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Anna Kondrashova	9	7	7	15.2	8
Kira Ivanova	1	10	9	13.6	7

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	6	4	6.0	4
Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev	2	2	3.0
Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	1	1	1.5

Ice dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	4	4	4	8.0	4
Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	2	2	2	4.0
Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	1	1	1	2.0

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

First round

Top three teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
West Germany	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
United States	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
Austria	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
Norway	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

• Soviet Union 5-0 Norway
• Soviet Union 8-1 Austria
• Soviet Union 7-5 USA
• West Germany 3-6 Soviet Union
• Soviet Union 6-1 Czechoslovakia

Medal round

The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	4	1	0	25	7	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	18	10	7
Sweden	5	2	1	2	15	16	6
Canada	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
West Germany	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

• Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
• Soviet Union 7-1 Sweden
• Finland 2-1 Soviet Union

Roster:

Evgeny Belosheikin Ilya Byakin Vyacheslav Bykov Viacheslav Fetisov Alexei Gusarov Sergei Yashin Valeri Kamensky Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Khomutov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Igor Kravchuk Andrei Lomakin Sergei Makarov Alexander Mogilny Sergei Mylnikov Vitali Samoilov Anatoly Semenov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov Sergei Svetlov Aleksandr Chernykh

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Valery Dudin	47.812	28	46.982	13	47.061	13	47.025	9	3:08.880	17
Sergey Danilin	46.564	5	46.827	7	46.648	5	47.059	10	3:07.098	6
Yury Kharchenko	46.391	3	46.605	3	46.475	3	46.803	4	3:06.274

Men's doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vitaly Melnik Dmitry Alekseyev	46.060	6	46.399	6	1:32.459	6
Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	45.973	3	46.580	8	1:32.553	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Irina Kusakina	46.690	11	47.071	12	46.643	8	46.639	9	3:07.043	10
Nadezhda Danilina	46.597	10	46.447	6	46.613	6	46.707	11	3:06.364	8
Yuliya Antipova	46.449	7	46.425	5	46.610	5	46.303	4	3:05.787	5

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (best two out of three jumps)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Sergey Nikiforov	Individual	191.8	30	4:04.7	42:43.0	402.905	14
Andrey Dundukov		194.0	26	3:50.0	42:21.1	406.185	12
Vasily Savin		203.7	17	2:45.4	41:22.9	414.925	10
Allar Levandi		216.6	4	1:19.4	40:31.8	422.590

Men's team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Andrey Dundukov Vasily Savin Allar Levandi	282.5	11	DNF	DNF	–

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Eduard Suboch	Normal hill	76.0	83.7	78.0	89.9	173.6	38
Mikhail Yesin		80.0	92.1	74.0	79.5	171.6	39

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:02.86	36
	Vitaly Makovetsky	37.35	12
	Igor Zhelezovsky	36.94	6
	Sergey Fokichev	36.82	4
1000 m	Boris Repnin	1:14.41	12
	Andrey Bakhvalov	1:14.39	11
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:13.19
	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:13.03 OR
1500 m	Andrey Bobrov	1:58.97	35
	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:53.04	7
	Aleksandr Klimov	1:52.97	6
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:52.63	4
5000 m	Yury Klyuyev	7:00.01	26
	Sergey Berezin	6:58.08	23
	Dmitry Bochkaryov	6:56.57	17
10,000 m	Aleksandr Mozin	14:28.91	18
	Sergey Berezin	14:20.48	9
	Yury Klyuyev	14:09.68	6

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yelena Ilyina	41.15	16
	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	40.66	9
1000 m	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	1:22.99	20
	Yelena Ilyina	1:22.40	18
1500 m	Yelena Tumanova	2:07.71	15
	Yelena Lapuga	2:04.24	5
3000 m	Yelena Tumanova	4:24.07	9
	Yelena Lapuga	4:23.29	7
	Svetlana Boyko	4:22.90	6
5000 m	Yelena Tumanova	7:40.82	15
	Yelena Lapuga	7:28.65	5
	Svetlana Boyko	7:28.39	4

References

1. Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com