Soviet Union at the 1984 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Soviet Union at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Sarajevo
Competitors	99 (74 men, 25 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Vladislav Tretiak (ice hockey)
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 6 Silver 10 Bronze 9 Total 25
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)  Individual Neutral Athletes (2026)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Algimantas Šalna Sergei Bulygin	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7,5 km relay
Gold	Nikolay Zimyatov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Elena Valova Oleg Vasiliev	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladislav Tretyak Zinetula Biljaletdinov Sergei Chepelev Nikolai Drozdetski Viacheslav Fetisov Aleksandr Gerasimov Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Komutov Vladimir Kovin Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Sergei Makarov Vladimir Myshkin Vasili Pervukhine Aleksandr Skvortsov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov Viktor Tumenev Mikhail Vasiliev	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Gold	Sergey Fokichev	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Gold	Igor Malkov	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m
Silver	Aleksandr Zavyalov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Silver	Aleksandr Batyuk Aleksandr Zavyalov Vladimir Nikitin Nikolay Zimyatov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Silver	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 20 km
Silver	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Silver	Sergey Danilin	Luge	Men's individual
Silver	Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	Luge	Men's doubles
Silver	Sergey Khlebnikov	Speed skating	Men's 1000m
Silver	Sergey Khlebnikov	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Silver	Igor Malkov	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Bronze	Zintis Ekmanis Vladimir Aleksandrov	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Kira Ivanova	Figure skating	Women's singles
Bronze	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Figure skating	Pairs
Bronze	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Bronze	Valery Dudin	Luge	Men's individual
Bronze	Oleg Bozhev	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Bronze	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Nataliya Petrusyova	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Bronze	Nataliya Petrusyova	Speed skating	Women's 1500m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Valeri Tsyganov	Downhill					1:48.46	23
Vladimir Makeev						1:47.87	16
Vladimir Andreyev	Giant Slalom	1:24.53	23	DNF	–	DNF	–
Vladimir Andreyev	Slalom	54.01	21	DNF	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nadezhda Andreyeva	Giant Slalom	1:12.46	35	1:14.39	27	2:26.85	29
Nadezhda Andreyeva	Slalom	50.80	18	49.42	13

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Sergei Bulygin	1	32:19.1	11
	Juri Kashkarov	2	32:15.2	10
	Algimantas Šalna	2	31:20.8	5

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Juri Kashkarov	1'11:53.8	11	1'22:53.8	35
	Dmitry Vasilyev	1'14:09.2	8	1'22:09.2	32
	Sergei Bulygin	1'12:28.0	7	1'19:28.0	17

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Dmitry Vasilyev Juri Kashkarov Algimantas Šalna Sergei Bulygin	2	1'38:51.7

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1984 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 Aivars Šnepsts	Two-man	52.06	5	51.92	1	51.30	4	51.14	2	3:26.42	4
URS-2	Zintis Ekmanis Vladimir Aleksandrov	Two-man	51.56	2	52.10	4	51.24	3	51.26	3	3:26.16

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 Māris Poikāns Ivars Bērzups Aivars Šnepsts	Four-man	50.19	4	50.96	7	51.19	9	51.17	6	3:23.51	6
URS-2	Zintis Ekmanis Jānis Skrastiņš Rihards Kotāns Vladimir Aleksandrov	Four-man	51.08	14	51.36	15	51.28	11	51.48	13	3:25.20	12

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Aleksandr Zavyalov	42:59.0	16
	Aleksandr Batyuk	42:42.2	10
	Nikolay Zimyatov	42:34.5	6
	Vladimir Nikitin	42:31.6	5
30 km	Yury Burlakov	1'32:19.6	11
	Vladimir Sakhnov	1'30:30.4	4
	Aleksandr Zavyalov	1'29:23.3
	Nikolay Zimyatov	1'28:56.3
50 km	Aleksandr Batyuk	2'23:17.0	16
	Nikolay Zimyatov	2'22:15.0	13
	Vladimir Sakhnov	2'20:53.7	8
	Aleksandr Zavyalov	2'20:27.6	7

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Aleksandr Batyuk Aleksandr Zavyalov Vladimir Nikitin Nikolay Zimyatov	1'55:16.5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Liliya Vasilchenko	18:07.6	17
	Nadezhda Buryakova	17:58.7	14
	Yuliya Stepanova	17:53.5	12
	Raisa Smetanina	17:52.0	11
10 km	Lyubov Lyadova	33:05.8	12
	Nadezhda Buryakova	32:55.8	9
	Yuliya Stepanova	32:45.7	8
	Raisa Smetanina	32:02.9
20 km	Yuliya Stepanova	1'05:33.4	15
	Tamara Markashanskaya	1'05:01.7	13
	Lyubov Lyadova	1'03:53.3	7
	Raisa Smetanina	1'02:26.7

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Yuliya Stepanova Lyubov Lyadova Nadezhda Buryakova Raisa Smetanina	1'07:55.0	4

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Vladimir Kotin	11	9	6	16.2	8
Alexander Fadeev	5	8	7	13.2	7

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Elena Vodorezova	2	8	11	15.4	8
Anna Kondrashova	7	4	6	11.8	5
Kira Ivanova	5	3	5	9.2

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Marina Avstriskaya Yuri Kvashnin	7	9	12.5	9
Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	2	3	4.0
Elena Valova Oleg Vasiliev	1	1	1.5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Olga Volozhinskaya Alexander Svinin	8	7	7	14.4	7
Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	4	4	3	7.0
Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	2	2	2	4.0

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics

First round

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

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	42	5	10
Sweden	5	3	1	1	34	15	7
West Germany	5	3	1	1	27	17	7
Poland	5	1	4	0	16	37	2
Italy	5	1	4	0	15	31	2
Yugoslavia	5	1	4	0	8	37	2

• USSR 12-1 Poland
• USSR 5-1 Italy
• USSR 9-1 Yugoslavia
• USSR 6-1 West Germany
• USSR 10-1 Sweden

Medal round

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	16	1	6
Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	0	6	2	4
Sweden	3	1	2	0	3	12	2
Canada	3	0	3	0	0	10	0

• USSR 4-0 Canada
• USSR 2-0 Czechoslovakia

Carried over group match:

• USSR 10-1 Sweden

Gold:

Vladislav Tretyak Zinetula Biljaletdinov Sergei Chepelev Nikolai Drozdetski Viacheslav Fetisov Aleksandr Gerasimov Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Komutov Vladimir Kovin Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Sergei Makarov Vladimir Myshkin Vasili Pervukhine Aleksandr Skvortsov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov Viktor Tumenev Mikhail Vasiliev

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sergey Danilin	46.433	8	46.284	3	46.176	2	46.069	2	3:04.962
Valery Dudin	46.385	6	46.334	5	46.201	3	46.092	3	3:05.012
Yury Kharchenko	46.310	5	46.469	6	46.337	5	46.432	8	3:05.548	7

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	41.813	1	41.847	2	1:23.660
Juris Eisaks Einārs Veikša	42.078	6	42.288	8	1:24.366	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nataliya Lisitsa	43.532	17	42.371	8	42.186	7	41.928	6	2:50.087	10
Ingrīda Amantova	42.101	5	42.337	7	42.239	10	41.803	4	2:48.480	4
Vera Zozuļa	42.079	4	42.169	5	42.077	5	42.316	12	2:48.641	5

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1984 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
Ildar Garifullin	Individual	74.0	77.0	166.5	26	49:56.5	189.325	19	355.825	23
Sergey Chervyakov		85.0	88.0	210.3	2	51:11.7	178.045	23	388.345	12
Aleksandr Mayorov		83.0	86.0	202.7	9	50:27.8	184.630	20	387.330	14
Aleksandr Prosvirnin		82.5	86.0	199.4	13	48:40.1	200.785	6	400.185	6

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Yury Golovchikov	Normal hill	66.0	57.6	84.0	96.9	154.5	50
Valery Savin		76.0	81.6	84.0	97.9	179.5	31
Gennady Prokopenko		79.0	88.4	82.0	95.7	184.1	26
Yury Golovchikov	Large hill	86.0	65.6	98.0	86.4	152.0	39
Gennady Prokopenko		93.5	79.1	97.0	88.0	167.1	30

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Aleksandr Danilin	38.66	9
	Vladimir Kozlov	38.57	6
	Sergey Fokichev	38.19
1000 m	Pavel Pegov	1:18.57	13
	Viktor Shasherin	1:17.42	6
	Sergey Khlebnikov	1:16.63
1500 m	Viktor Shasherin	1:59.81	8
	Oleg Bozhev	1:58.89
	Sergey Khlebnikov	1:58.83
5000 m	Sergey Berezin	7:45.94	32
	Oleg Bozhev	7:17.96	5
	Igor Malkov	7:12.30
10,000 m	Konstantin Korotkov	15:11.10	14
	Dmitry Bochkaryov	14:55.65	6
	Igor Malkov	14:39.90

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Nataliya Petrusyova	42.19	6
	Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova	41.70	4
	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	41.50
1000 m	Nataliya Shive-Glebova	1:55.42	37
	Valentina Lalenkova	1:23.68	4
	Nataliya Petrusyova	1:23.21
1500 m	Nataliya Kurova	2:08.41	7
	Valentina Lalenkova	2:08.17	6
	Nataliya Petrusyova	2:05.78
3000 m	Nataliya Petrusyova	4:39.36	9
	Valentina Lalenkova	4:37.36	8
	Olga Pleshkova	4:34.42	4

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	28	14	11	53
2	Lithuanian SSR	1	0	0	1
3	Ukrainian SSR	0	1	0	1
4	Kazakh SSR	0	0	1	1
	Latvian SSR	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		29	15	13	57

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com