Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

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

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)
Individual Neutral Athletes (2026)

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.

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

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event  | Date

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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

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

Sport  | Men  | Women  | Total

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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

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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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

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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

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Time  | Time  | Time  | Rank
Golnur Postnikova | Downhill  |  | 1:28.23  | 16

Women's combined

Athlete  | Downhill  | Slalom  | Total

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Time  | Time 1  | Time 2  | Points  | Rank
Golnur Postnikova | DNF  | - | - | DNF  | -

## Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Misses 1 | Time  | Rank

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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

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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

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

## Bobsleigh

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Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sled  | Athletes  | Event  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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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

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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

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

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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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

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

Women
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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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

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

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | CF  | SP  | FS  | TFP  | Rank

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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

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Anna Kondrashova | 9  | 7  | 7  | 15.2  | 8
Kira Ivanova | 1  | 10  | 9  | 13.6  | 7

Pairs
Athletes  | SP  | FS  | TFP  | Rank

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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

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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

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

### First round

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Main article: Luge at the 1988 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
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Points  | Rank  | Start at  | Time  | Rank
Andrey Dundukov
Vasily Savin
Allar Levandi | 282.5  | 11  | DNF  | DNF  | -

## Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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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

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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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

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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

## 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| 38| 9| 4| 51
2|  Latvian SSR| 2| 0| 3| 5
3|  Kazakh SSR| 1| 4| 1| 6
4|  Lithuanian SSR| 1| 0| 1| 2
5|  Ukrainian SSR| 0| 0| 2| 2
6|  Byelorussian SSR| 0| 0| 1| 1
Estonian SSR| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (7 entries)| 42| 13| 13| 68

## References

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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

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Nations at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada

Africa|

* Morocco

America|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Canada
* Chile
* Costa Rica
* Guatemala
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Netherlands Antilles
* Puerto Rico
* United States
* Virgin Islands

Asia|

* China
* Chinese Taipei
* India
* Japan
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Lebanon
* Mongolia
* Philippines

Europe|

* Andorra
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Cyprus
* Czechoslovakia
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* East Germany
* West Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
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* Liechtenstein
* Luxembourg
* Monaco
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* San Marino
* Soviet Union
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Yugoslavia

Oceania|

* Australia
* Fiji
* Guam
* New Zealand

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Soviet Union at the Olympics

| Summer Olympic Games|

* 1952
* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988

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Winter Olympic Games|

* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988

The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. The Soviet Union did not participate in 1984 due to a boycott.

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* 1924:  Norway
* 1928:  Norway
* 1932:  United States
* 1936:  Norway
* 1948:  Norway and  Sweden
* 1952:  Norway
* 1956:  Soviet Union
* 1960:  Soviet Union
* 1964:  Soviet Union
* 1968:  Norway
* 1972:  Soviet Union
* 1976:  Soviet Union
* 1980:  Soviet Union
* 1984:  East Germany
* 1988:  Soviet Union
* 1992:  Germany
* 1994:  Russia
* 1998:  Germany
* 2002:  Norway
* 2006:  Germany
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