Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Soviet Union at the
1972 Winter Olympics

Flag of the Soviet Union

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|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

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

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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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

* 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

| 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Misses 2 | Time  | Rank
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Rinnat Safin
Ivan Biakov
Viktor Mamatov | 3  | 1'51:44.92  |

## Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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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

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Time  | Rank
Vladimir Voronkov
Yury Skobov
Fyodor Simashov
Vyacheslav Vedenin | 2'04:47.94  |

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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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

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Time  | Rank
Lyubov Mukhachova
Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova
Galina Kulakova | 48:16.15  |

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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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

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Marina Sanaya | 19  | 18  | 2198.6  | 160  | 18

Pairs
Athletes  | SP  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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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

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics

### Medal round

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Rank  | Team  | Pld  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | Pts

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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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

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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

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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

## Medals by republic

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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

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1|  Russian SFSR| 36| 6| 3| 45
Totals (1 entries)| 36| 6| 3| 45

## Bibliography

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A. Dobrov (1973). XI Winter Olympic Games. Year 1972 (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19.

## References

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1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557\. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.530-557&rft.date=1974-10&rft_id=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1974/ore84/ore84k.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Soviet+Union+at+the+1972+Winter+Olympics" class="Z3988">

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Winter Olympics medal table leaders by year

* 1924:  Norway
* 1928:  Norway
* 1932:  United States
* 1936:  Norway
* 1948:  Norway and  Sweden
* 1952:  Norway
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* 1960:  Soviet Union
* 1964:  Soviet Union
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* 1976:  Soviet Union
* 1980:  Soviet Union
* 1984:  East Germany
* 1988:  Soviet Union
* 1992:  Germany
* 1994:  Russia
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