Russia at the Olympics explained

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Nocname:Russian Olympic Committee
Games:Olympics
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Rank:11
Gold:194
Silver:165
Bronze:185

Russia, referred to by its formal name; the Russian Federation, by the International Olympic Committee, has competed at the modern Olympic Games on many occasions, but as different nations in its history. As the Russian Empire, the nation first competed at the 1900 Games, and returned again in 1908 and 1912. After the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, it would be thirty years until Russian athletes once again competed at the Olympics, as the Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in 1992, and finally returned once again as Russia at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The Russian Olympic Committee was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the Russian Federation hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In six appearances Russian athletes have won a total of 425 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 121 at the Winter Olympic Games. Over the most recent twelve Games (since 1994), Russia's 546 total medals, including 195 gold medals, are third behind only the United States and China.

In 2017, Russia was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR). They were also allowed to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics, representing the Russian Olympic Committee.[1]

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate at the 2024 Summer Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes.

Hosted Games

Russia has hosted the Games on two occasions. Moscow was the host of the 1980 Summer Games, when Russia (Russian SFSR) was part of the Soviet Union. Sochi was the host of the 2014 Winter Games, as part of the Russian Federation.

Games Host city Dates Nations Participants Events
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union 19 July–3 August 80 5,179 203
Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation 7–23 February 88 2,873 98

Participation

Timeline of participation

Date Team
1900–1912
1920
1924–1936 ,
1952–1988
1992 ,
1994 ,,,,,,
1996–2016 ,,
2018
2020–2022 Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)
2024

Combined medals

The Russian Federation, the Russian Empire, the Olympic Athletes from Russia and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) are sometimes combined outside of IOC sources. The Soviet Union is often combined with the post-union team that competed in 1992.[2] [3] [4] Some sources combine the Soviet Union and Russia, despite the fact that many republics which subsequently gained or re-gained independence (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) contributed to the medal tally of the USSR, and there are sources that combine all medals of RU1, URS, EUN, OAR, ROC and RUS.[5] [6] On 31 January 1992, the United Nations recognized, without objection, Russia as legal successor of the rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union,[7] but this has no significance in medal tallies.

Medal counts:
Russia combined with precursors
status after the 2022 Olympics

Summer GamesWinter GamesCombined total
6147126150423647393512112194165185544
314380000031438
939531929610109785759194184733763551204
14538291121968232544437135
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style='text-align: left;" Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)120282371151215322254038103
Total20608515501162418141120126387387496356272011

Medal tables

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table.

Medals by Summer Games

GamesAthleteswidth:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"TotalRank
did not participate
as part of the
did not participate
as part of the
as part of the
26 21 16 63 2
32 28 29 89 2
28 26 36 90 3
24 13 23 60 3
18 21 26 65 4
19 17 20 56 4
1 as the
as part of the
future event
Total 147 126 150 423 13

Medals by Winter Games

GamesAthleteswidth:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"width:3em; font-weight:bold;"TotalRank
did not participate
as part of the
as part of the
11 8 4 23 1
9 6 3 18 3
5 4 4 13 5
8 6 8 22 4
3 5 7 15 11
11 10 9 30 1
1 as the
1 as the
future event
Total 47 39 35 121 10
Notes

1: nominally banned due to the state-sponsored doping program.

Medals by Winter Sports

Notes

Stripped Olympic medals

See also: List of stripped Olympic medals and Doping in Russia. Due to doping violations, Russia has been stripped of 46 Olympic medals – the most of any country, four times the number of the runner-up, and 30% of the global total. It was the leading country in terms of the number of medals removed due to doping at the 2002 Winter Olympics (5 medals), the 2006 Winter Olympics (1 medal), the 2008 Summer Olympics (14 medals), the 2012 Summer Olympics (17 medals), 2014 Winter Olympics (4 medals — 10 others were stripped and returned) and the joint most at the 2004 Summer Olympics (3 medals), the 2016 Summer Olympics (1 medal), and the 2022 Winter Olympics (1 medal).

OlympicsAthleteMedalEventRef
2002 Winter OlympicsOlga DanilovaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit[11]
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 10 km classical
Larisa LazutinaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 30 km classical[12]
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 15 km freestyle[13]
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
2004 Summer OlympicsIrina KorzhanenkoGoldAthletics, women's shot put[14]
Svetlana KrivelyovaBronzeAthletics, women's shot put[15]
Oleg PerepetchenovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 77 kg[16]
2006 Winter OlympicsOlga PylevaSilverBiathlon, women's individual[17]
2008 Summer OlympicsRelay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya)GoldAthletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay[18]
Relay team
(Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova)		SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay[19] [20]
Maria AbakumovaSilverAthletics, women's javelin throw[21]
Relay team (Denis Alexeev)BronzeAthletics, men's 4 × 400 m relay
Yekaterina VolkovaBronzeAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase[22] [23]
Anna ChicherovaBronzeAthletics, women's high jump[24] [25]
Khadzhimurat AkkayevBronzeWeightlifting, men's 94 kg[26]
Dmitry LapikovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 105 kg
Marina ShainovaSilverWeightlifting, women's 58 kg
Nadezhda EvstyukhinaBronzeWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
Khasan BaroyevSilverWrestling, men's Greco-Roman 120 kg
Tatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's triple jump[27]
Tatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's long jump
Tatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, Women's heptathlon[28]
2012 Summer OlympicsTatyana LysenkoGoldAthletics, women's hammer throw[29]
Yuliya ZaripovaGoldAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase[30] [31]
Sergey KirdyapkinGoldAthletics, men's 50 km walk[32]
Tatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, women's heptathlon[33]
Darya PishchalnikovaSilverAthletics, women's discus throw[34]
Yevgeniya KolodkoSilverAthletics, women's shot put[35]
Olga KaniskinaSilverAthletics, women's 20 km walk[36]
Apti AukhadovSilverWeightlifting, men's 85 kg[37]
Aleksandr IvanovSilverWeightlifting, men's 94 kg
Natalia ZabolotnayaSilverWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
Svetlana TsarukayevaSilverWeightlifting, women's 63 kg
Relay (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh)SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay[38] [39]
Mariya SavinovaGoldAthletics, women's 800 m
Natalya AntyukhGoldAthletics, women's 400 m hurdles[40]
Ruslan AlbegovBronzeWeightlifting, Men's +105 kg[41]
2014 Winter OlympicsAlexandr Zubkov, Alexey VoyevodaGoldBobsleigh, Two-man[42] [43]
Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey VoyevodaGold[44] [45]
Relay team (Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, Olga Zaitseva)SilverBiathlon, Women's relay
2016 Summer OlympicsMikhail AloyanSilverBoxing, men's flyweight[46]
2022 Winter OlympicsTeam event (Mark Kondratiuk, Kamila Valieva, Anastasia Mishina, Aleksandr Galliamov, Victoria Sinitsina, Nikita Katsalapov)Gold → BronzeFigure Skating, Team event[47]

2016–present partial ban

See main article: Doping in Russia.

Russia was partially banned from participation at the 2016 Summer Olympics due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were then allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), and in both the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Russian Olympic Committee athletes (ROC).[48] [49]

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in January 2023 plans to have Russian athletes introduced as neutrals at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[50] [51] The IOC also published a statement stating that it supported the return of Russian athletes, as long as they did not "actively" advocate for the war and as long as their flag, anthem, colors, and organizations were excluded (thus preventing them from competing under the Russian Olympic Committee as in 2020 and 2022).[52]

Flag bearers

See main article: article and List of flag bearers for Russia at the Olympics.

See also

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IOC suspends Russian NOC and creates a path for clean individual athletes to compete in PyeongChang 2018 under the Olympic Flag. 19 June 2018. International Olympic Committee.
  2. Web site: Team USA has more medals in the Summer Olympics than the next two countries combined . businessinsider . July 28, 2016 . February 10, 2022.
  3. Web site: All-Time Olympic Games Medal Tally (Summer Olympics) . topendsports. August 2021 . February 10, 2022.
  4. Web site: Medal standings for all Olympic Games . olympteka . February 2022 . February 10, 2022.
  5. Web site: CHART:The United States Dominates When It Comes To Olympic Gold Medals . businessinsider . February 13, 2014 . February 10, 2022.
  6. Web site: Countries With The Most Summer Olympic Medals . WorldAtlas The Original Online Geography Resource . July 23, 2021 . February 10, 2022.
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20031123143520/http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf397.shtml Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations from the President of the Russian Federation
  8. News: Russia Has Its First Ladies Figure Skating Gold Medalist, But It's Not Lipnitskaya . https://web.archive.org/web/20140220232620/http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2014/02/20/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-figure-skating-yulia-lipnitskaya/ . dead . February 20, 2014 . 20 February 2014 . Alice Park . Time .
  9. News: Viktor Ahn: For Russia, with love . Mark Zeigler . 10 February 2014 . U-T San Diego .
  10. News: Viktor Ahn wins 1st Olympic gold and 2nd short track medal for his adopted Russia . Beth Harris . 15 February 2014 . Associated Press . Yahoo Sports . 17 January 2017 . 17 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140317195944/http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/viktor-ahn-wins-1st-olympic-gold-2nd-short-152158238--oly.html . dead .
  11. Web site: Muehlegg, Lazutina test positive, stripped of golds. https://web.archive.org/web/20021226171337/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340028. dead. December 26, 2002. February 24, 2002. Associated Press. ESPN.com.
  12. News: Drugs test denies Lazutina gold . BBC News . February 24, 2002.
  13. News: Lazutina loses Olympic medals . BBC News . June 29, 2003.
  14. News: Shot-put champion will lose gold . CNN . August 22, 2004.
  15. News: Four Athens competitors stripped of medals . Al Jazeera. December 5, 2012.
  16. News: Russian weightlifter, Oleg Perepetchenov, stripped of Athens bronze medal . . February 12, 2013.
  17. Web site: Russian Woman Stripped of Biathlon Medal. February 16, 2006. NBCSports.com. Associated Press. March 4, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20110519105941/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/11382529/site/21683474/. May 19, 2011. dead.
  18. Web site: IOC sanctions Yulia Chermoshanskaya for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. 6 February 2018. International Olympic Committee.
  19. News: IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. 2016-08-19. International Olympic Committee. 2016-08-19.
  20. News: IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. 2016-08-31. International Olympic Committee. 2016-08-31.
  21. News: IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. 2016-09-13. International Olympic Committee. 2016-09-13.
  22. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/ioc-doping-olympians-beijing-1.3822355 "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping"
  23. News: IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. 2016-10-26. International Olympic Committee. 2016-10-26.
  24. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-doping-chicherova-medal-idUSKCN1261Q5 "Russian Chicherova stripped of 2008 Olympics high jump medal"
  25. Web site: IOC sanctions Anna Chicherova for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. 25 January 2017. International Olympic Committee.
  26. News: IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. 2016-11-17. International Olympic Committee. 2016-11-18.
  27. Web site: IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. 31 May 2017. International Olympic Committee.
  28. Web site: IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. 18 May 2017. International Olympic Committee.
  29. Web site: IOC sanctions Tatyana Lysenko for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. 25 January 2017. International Olympic Committee.
  30. Web site: The decisions of the Lausanne (Switzerland) Court of Arbitration for Sport regarding the Russian Athletes. 2016-03-16. 2017-07-10. 2016-06-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20160625081035/http://www.rusada.ru/en/press/news/the-decisions-of-the-lausanne-switzerland-court-of-arbitration-for-sport-regarding-the-ru. dead.
  31. News: IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. 2016-11-21. International Olympic Committee. 2016-11-21.
  32. Web site: London 2012 50km walk men – Olympic Athletics. 7 March 2019. International Olympic Committee.
  33. Web site: Jessica Ennis-Hill in line for 2011 gold as Chernova is stripped of world title. November 29, 2016. Ingle. Sean. The Guardian.
  34. Web site: Russia's Pishchalnikova given 10-year doping ban . Reuters. 2013-05-01. 2013-05-01.
  35. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-evgeniia-kolodko-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-london-2012 "IOC sanctions Evgeniia Kolodko for failing anti-doping test at London 2012"
  36. Web site: London 2012 20km race walk women – Olympic Athletics. 7 March 2019. International Olympic Committee.
  37. News: IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. 2016-10-18. International Olympic Committee. 2016-10-18.
  38. News: IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012. 2017-02-01. International Olympic Committee. 2017-02-01.
  39. Web site: More Russian track athletes banned for doping at London Olympics. www.cbc.ca. 2017-11-28.
  40. Web site: Lashinda Demus in line for 2012 Olympics gold after Russian DQ'd. ESPN. 24 October 2022. 12 December 2022.
  41. Web site: IOC Executive Board approves medal reallocation from Olympic Games London 2012. Olympics. March 19, 2024. March 19, 2024.
  42. Web site: IOC sanctions four Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings. 24 November 2017. International Olympic Committee.
  43. Web site: Russian bobsledder banned over doping. France 24. 18 December 2017.
  44. News: IOC sanctions five Russian athletes and publishes first full decision as part of the Oswald Commission findings. 2017-11-27. International Olympic Committee. 2017-11-27. en.
  45. Web site: IOC sanctions three Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings. 6 February 2018. International Olympic Committee.
  46. http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/18237623/cas-strip-olympic-medals-russian-boxer-romanian-weightlifter "CAS to strip Olympic medals from Russian boxer, Romanian weightlifter"
  47. Web site: 2022-02-11 . Breaking down ROC figure skater Kamila Valieva, trimetazidine and possible consequences . 2024-01-06 . KCRA . en.
  48. News: With one year until 2018 Winter Games, Russia's status murky. 2017-02-09 .
  49. 5 December 2017 . IOC suspends Russian NOC and creates a path for clean individual athletes to compete in Pyeongchang 2018 under the Olympic Flag . . 5 December 2017.
  50. News: Miller . David . Western nations considering Paris 2024 boycott if Russia is allowed to compete . 3 February 2023 . Inside the games . 6 January 2023 . 3 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230203155811/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132213/paris-2024-boycott . live .
  51. News: Llewellyn . Liam . 'Up to 40 countries' could boycott Olympic Games making Paris 2024 "pointless" . 3 February 2023 . Mirror . 2 February 2023 . 3 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230203082313/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/paris-olympics-2024-boycott-russia-29120574 . live .
  52. Web site: Statement on solidarity with Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and Belarus, and the status of athletes from these countries. International Olympic Committee. 25 January 2023 . 29 May 2023.

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