Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	URS
Nocname:	Soviet Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Soviet Union
Location:	Seoul, South Korea
Competitors:	481 (319 men, 162 women)
Sports:	27
Flagbearer:	Aleksandr Karelin (wrestling)
Rank:	1
Gold:	55
Silver:	31
Bronze:	46
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1952
App End Year:	1988
See also:	(1900–1912) (1920–1936, 1992–) (1924–1936, 1992–) (1924–1928, 1992–) (1992) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1994–) (1996–) (1996–) (1996–)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 481 competitors, 319 men and 162 women, took part in 221 events in 27 sports.^[1] Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.

The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. It is the largest Olympic medal tally in history achieved by a non-host nation. Currently, China's and the USA 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and USA's 121 total medals in 2016 are the closest results to USSR's 1988 performance. The Soviet Union medal tally currently ranks fourth both in terms of gold and total medals, after USA's 1984 performance, USSR's 1980 performance, USA's 1904 performance, and Britain's 1908 performance.

Medalists

The Soviet Union finished first in the medal standings with 55 gold and 132 total medals.| width="78%" align="left" valign="top" |

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				18 September
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				19 September
				20 September
				20 September
				20 September
				20 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				22 September
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				22 September
				22 September
				23 September
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				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				19 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				26 September
				26 September
				27 September
				27 September
				28 September
				29 September
				29 September
	Soviet Union women's national volleyball team			29 September
				30 September
				30 September
	Soviet Union men's national basketball team			30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
	Soviet Union men's national handball team			1 October
	Soviet Union Olympic football team			1 October
				2 October
				21 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				23 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				27 September
				28 September
				28 September
				29 September
				29 September
				29 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				2 October
	Soviet Union men's national volleyball team			2 October
				18 September
				18 September
				19 September
				20 September
				21 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				22 September
				22 September
				23 September
				23 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				26 September
				26 September
				27 September
				27 September
				28 September
				28 September
	Soviet Union women's national basketball team			28 September
				29 September
				29 September
				29 September
				29 September
	Soviet Union women's national handball team			29 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
	Soviet Union men's national water polo team			1 October
				1 October

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Archery	0	0	1	1
Athletics	10	6	10	26
Basketball	1	0	1	2
Boxing	1	1	2	4
Canoeing	3	3	0	6
Cycling	4	1	2	7
Fencing	1	1	3	5
Football	1	0	0	1
Gymnastics	12	5	4	21
Handball	1	0	1	2
Judo	0	1	4	5
Modern Pentathlon	0	0	1	1
Rowing	0	2	1	3
Sailing	0	1	1	2
Shooting	4	1	6	11
Swimming	2	2	5	9
Volleyball	1	1	0	2
Water Polo	0	0	1	1
Weightlifting	6	2	0	8
Wrestling	8	4	3	15
Total	55	31	46	132

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	39	44	85
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	12	–	12
Canoeing	12	5	17
Cycling	14	4	18
Diving	4	4	8
Equestrian	6	2	8
Fencing	15	5	20
Field hockey	15	0	15
Football	18	–	18
Gymnastics	6	8	14
Handball	14	15	29
Judo	7	–	7
Modern pentathlon	3	–	3
Rowing	30	23	53
Sailing	13	2	15
Shooting	17	6	23
Swimming	19	8	27
Synchronized swimming	–	3	3
Table tennis	2	3	5
Tennis	4	3	6
Volleyball	12	12	24
Water polo	13	–	13
Weightlifting	9	–	9
Wrestling	20	–	20
Total	321	162	483

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Lioudmila Arjannikova – final, 4th place
• T. Mountain – final, 8th place
• N. Boutouzova – quarterfinal, 18th place

Men's Individual Competition:

• Vladimir Echeev – final, bronze medal
• K. Chkolny – 1/8 final, 20th place
• Juri Leontiev – preliminary round, 29th place

Women's tournament:

• Arjannikova, Mountain and Boutouzova – final, 4th place

Men's tournament:

• Echeev, Chkolny and Leontiev – final, 5th place

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's competition

Men's Marathon

• Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)

Men's long jump

• Leonid Volochine

• Qualification — 7.89m

• Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)
• Robert Emmiyan

• Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)
• Vladimir Otchkan

• Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's discus throw

• Romas Ubartas

• Qualification – 65.58m

• Final – 67.48m (→ Silver medal)
• Yuriy Dumchev

• Qualification – 62.08m

• Final – 66.42m (→ 4th place)
• Vaclavas Kidykas

• Qualification – 60.88m (→ did not advance)

Men's shot put

• Sergey Smirnov

• Qualification — 20.48m

• Final — 20.36m (→ 8th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Sergey Litvinov

• Qualification — 81.24m

• Final — 84.80m (→ Gold medal)
• Yuriy Sedykh

• Qualification — 78.48m

• Final — 83.76m (→ Silver medal)
• Jüri Tamm

• Qualification — 69.68m

• Final — 81.16m (→ Bronze medal)

Men's javelin throw

• Qualification — 79.26m

• Final — 82.32m (→ 5th place)

• Qualification — 80.26m

• Final — 79.12m (→ 7th place)

Men's decathlon

• Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place)

1. 100 metres — 11.23s

1. Long Jump — 7.28m

1. Shot Put — 15.25m

1. High Jump — 1.97m

1. 400 metres — 48.60s

1. 110m Hurdles — 14.76s

1. Discus Throw — 48.02m

1. Pole Vault — 5.20m

1. Javelin Throw — 59.48m

1. 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s

Men's 20 km Walk

• Mikhail Shchennikov

• Final — 1:20:47 (→ 6th place)
• Aleksey Pershin

• Final — 1:22:32 (→ 14th place)
• Yevgeniy Misyulya

• Final — 1:24:39 (→ 27th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Vyacheslav Ivanenko

• Final — 3:38:29 (→ Gold medal)
• Aleksandr Potashov

• Final — 3:41:00 (→ 4th place)
• Vitaliy Popovych

• Final — 3:59:23 (→ 26th place)

Women's competition

Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

• Heat — 3:27.14

• Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold medal)

Women's Marathon

• Final — 2:27.05 (→ 4th place)

• Final — 2:30.25 (→ 9th place)

• Final — 2:33.19 (→ 16th place)

Women's discus throw

• Ellina Zvereva

• Qualification – 63.26m

• Final – 68.94m (→ 5th place)
• Larisa Mikhalchenko

• Qualification – 64.32m

• Final – 64.08m (→ 10th place)
• Galina Murasova

• Qualification – 62.54m

• Final – NM (→ no ranking)

Women's javelin throw

• Irina Kostyuchenkova

• Qualification – 63.24m

• Final – 67.00m (→ 4th place)
• Natalya Yermolovich

• Qualification – 64.44m

• Final – 64.84m (→ 6th place)

Women's shot put

• Natalya Lisovskaya

• Qualification – 19.78m

• Final – 22.24m (→ Gold medal)
• Natalya Akhrimenko

• Qualification – 19.40m

• Final – 20.13m (→ 7th place)
• Valentina Fedjuschina

• Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Natalya Shubenkova

• Final Result — 6540 points (→ 4th place)
• Remigija Sablovskaitė

• Final Result — 6456 points (→ 5th place)
• Svetlana Buraga

• Final Result — 6232 points (→ 10th place)

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Women's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Alexander Makhmutov

• First Round — Bye

• Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0

• Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1

• Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Timofey Skryabin

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Aleksandr Artemyev

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Mekhak Ghazaryan

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Kostya Tszyu

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Vyacheslav Yanovsky

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Vladimir Yereshchenko

Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Yevgeni Zaytsev

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Ruslan Taramov

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Nurmagomed Shanavazov

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Ramzan Sebiyev

Men's Super-Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

• Alex Miroshnichenko

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Men's road race

• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
• Asiat Saitov
• Riho Suun

Men's team time trial

• Vasil Zhdanov
• Viktor Klimov
• Asiat Saitov
• Igor Sumnikov

Men's sprint

• Nikolai Kovsh

Men's 1 km time trial

• Aleksandr Kirichenko

Men's individual pursuit

• Gintautas Umaras

Men's team pursuit

• Viatcheslav Ekimov
• Artūras Kasputis
• Dmitry Nelyubin
• Gintautas Umaras
• Mindaugas Umaras

Men's points race

• Marat Ganeyev

Women's road race

• Laima Zilporytė — 2:00:52 (→ Bronze medal)
• Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
• Alla Jakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)

Women's sprint

• Erika Salumäe

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's 10m Platform

• Georgy Chogovadze

• Preliminary Round — 540.90

• Final — 585.96 (→ 4th place)
• Vladimir Timoshinin

• Preliminary Round — 570.75

• Final — 534.66 (→ 8th place)

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's show jump team

• Raimundas Udrakis

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. 20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Men's foil

• Aleksandr Romankov
• Ilgar Mamedov
• Boris Koretsky

Men's team foil

• Aleksandr Romankov, Ilgar Mamedov, Vladimer Aptsiauri, Anvar Ibragimov, Boris Koretsky

Men's épée

• Andrey Shuvalov
• Wladimir Reznitschenko
• Mykhailo Tyshko

Men's team épée

• Andrey Shuvalov, Pavel Kolobkov, Wladimir Reznitschenko, Mykhailo Tyshko, Igor Tikhomirov

Men's sabre

• Heorhiy Pohosov
• Andrey Alshan
• Sergey Mindirgasov

Men's team sabre

• Sergey Mindirgasov, Mikhail Burtsev, Heorhiy Pohosov, Andrey Alshan, Sergey Koryashkin

Women's foil

• Tatyana Sadovskaya
• Yelena Glikina
• Olga Voshchakina

Women's team foil

• Yelena Glikina, Yelena Grishina, Tatyana Sadovskaya, Marina Soboleva, Olga Voshchakina

Football

See main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

• Preliminary round (group B)

• Soviet Union – India 1–0

• Soviet Union – South Korea 3–1

• Soviet Union – Canada 0–0

• Soviet Union – Great Britain 1–3

• Soviet Union – West Germany 0–6
• Classification Matches

• 5th–8th place: Soviet Union – Pakistan 0–1

• 7th–8th place: Soviet Union – Argentina 4–1 (→ 7th place)
• Team roster

• (01.) Vladimir Pleshakov (gk)

• (02.) Viktor Deputatov

• (03.) Igor Yulchiev

• (04.) Sos Hayrapetyan

• (05.) Nikolai Sankovetch

• (06.) Vladimir Antakov (captain)

• (07.) Vyacheslav Chechenev

• (08.) Igor Atanov

• (09.) Sergei Chakhvorostov

• (10.) Sergei Pleshakov

• (11.) Mikhail Nechipurenko

• (12.) Alexander Domachev (gk)

• (13.) Igor Davydov

• (14.) Aleksandr Miasnikov

• (15.) Yevgeni Nechaev

• (16.) Mikhail Bukatin
• Head coach: Leonid Pavlovsky

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1988. Vaho Iagorashvili won a bronze in the individual event.

Individual

• Vaho Iagorashvili
• German Yuferov
• Anatoly Avdeyev

Team

• Vaho Iagorashvili
• German Yuferov
• Anatoly Avdeyev

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

The Soviet Union had 30 male and 23 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1988.^[3]

Men's competition

• Jüri Jaanson

Men's double sculls

• Oleksandr Marchenko
• Vasil Yakusha

Men's coxless pair

• Igor Zuborenko
• Valery Vyrvich

Men's coxed pair

• Andrey Korikov
• Roman Kazantsev
• Andrey Lipsky (cox)

Men's quadruple sculls

• Pavel Krupko
• Oleksandr Zaskalko
• Sergey Kinyakin
• Yuriy Zelikovich

Men's coxless four

• Ivan Vysotskiy
• Sergey Smirnov
• Yuriy Pimenov
• Nikolay Pimenov

Men's coxed four

• Sigitas Kučinskas
• Jonas Narmontas
• Vladimir Romanishin
• Igor Zotov
• Sergey Titov (cox)

Men's eight

• Veniamin But
• Mykola Komarov
• Vasily Tikhonov
• Aleksandr Dumchev
• Pavlo Hurkovskiy
• Viktor Diduk
• Viktor Omelyanovich
• Andrey Vasilyev
• Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)

Women's competition

• Nataliya Kvasha

Women's double sculls

• Marina Zhukova
• Mariya Omelianovych

Women's coxless pair

• Sarmīte Stone
• Marina Smorodina

Women's quadruple sculls

• Irina Kalimbet
• Svitlana Maziy
• Inna Frolova
• Antonina Zelikovich

Women's coxed four

• Reda Ribinskaitė
• Elena Tereshina
• Irina Teterina
• Marina Suprun
• Valentina Khokhlova (cox)

Women's eight

• Margarita Teselko
• Marina Znak
• Nadezhda Sugako
• Sandra Brazauskaitė
• Olena Pukhaieva
• Sariya Zakyrova
• Nataliya Fedorenko
• Lidiya Averyanova
• Aušra Gudeliūnaitė (cox)

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 22.57
  2. Final – 22.71 (→ Bronze medal)
• Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 22.81
  2. Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 50.13
  2. Final – 49.75 (→ 4th place)
• Yuri Bashkatov
  1. Heat – 50.08
  2. Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Alexei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – 1:50.84
  2. B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)
• Yuri Bashkatov
  1. Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Alexandre Bazanov
  1. Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Vladimir Salnikov
  1. Heat – 15:07.83
  2. Final – 15:00.40 (→ Gold medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 55.04
  2. Final – 55.20 (→ Bronze medal)
• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 56.13
  2. Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 2:01.70
  2. Final – 1:59.37 (→ Gold medal)
• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 2:01.27
  2. Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Dmitry Volkov
  1. Heat – 1:02.49
  2. Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze medal)
• Alexei Matveev
  1. Heat – 1:03.25
  2. B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Valeri Lozik
  1. Heat – 2:16.31
  2. Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)
• Vadim Alexeev
  1. Heat – 2:17.15
  2. B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 54.17
  2. Final – 54.60 (→ 8th place)
• Konstantine Petrov
  1. Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:01.05
  2. B-Final – 2:00.34 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:02.77
  2. Final – 2:02.40 (→ Bronze medal)
• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 2:03.79
  2. Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 4:25.30
  2. B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 3:19.89
• Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

• Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev and Aleksei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Serguei Zabolotnov, Valeri Lozik, Konstantine Petrov and Nikolai Evseev
  1. Heat – 3:45.29
• Igor Polyansky, Dmitry Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk and Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Final – 3:39.96 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Inna Abramova
  1. Heat – 26.27
  2. B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 56.66
  2. B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)
• Svetlana Issakova
  1. Heat – 57.17
  2. B-Final – 57.07 (→ 15th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 2:00.54
  2. Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 4:12.20
  2. Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Yelena Volkova
  1. Heat – 1:09.86
  2. Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)
• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 1:10.83
  2. B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:28.94
  2. Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)
• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 2:30.93
  2. B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Ana Elizbarashvili
  1. Heat – 1:16.04
  2. Final – 1:14.05 (→ Qualified)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 1:01.65
  2. B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 2:15.26
  2. B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 2:15.30
  2. Final – 2:13.31 (→ Silver medal)
• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:19.07
  2. B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 4:46.63
  2. Final – 4:40.44 (→ 4th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Inna Abramova, Svetlana Issakova, Yelena Dendeberova and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 3:46.28
• Yelena Dendeberova, Svetlana Issakova, Natalia Trefilova and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Final – 3:44.99 (→ 5th place)

Synchronized swimming

See main article: Synchronised swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Three synchronized swimmers represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Women's solo

• Christina Thalassinidou
• Mariya Chernyayeva
• Tatyana Titova

Women's duet

• Mariya Chernyayeva
• Tatyana Titova

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's Singles Competition

• Alexander Volkov
  1. First round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (West Germany) 5–7 4–6 3–6

Women's Singles Competition

• Larisa Neiland
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Sara Gomer (Great Britain) 6–7 7–6 9–7
  3. Third Round – Defeated Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 6–3 7–6
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 2–6 6–4 3–6
• Leila Meskhi
  1. First Round – Defeated Regina Rajchrtová (Czechoslovakia) 7–5 7–5
  2. Second Round – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 5–7 1–6
• Natasha Zvereva
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Anne Minter (Australia) 6–4 3–6 6–1
  3. Third Round – Defeated Tine Scheuer-Larsen (Denmark) 6–1 6–2
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 4–6 3–6

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Defeated Bulgaria (3–0)

• Defeated Sweden (3–0)

• Defeated South Korea (3–0)

• Defeated Italy (3–1)

• Lost to Brazil (2–3)
• Semi Finals

• Defeated Argentina (3–0)
• Final

• Lost to the United States (1–3) → Silver medal
• Team roster

• Yuri Panchenko

• Andrei Kuzentsov

• Vyatcheslav Zaytsev

• Igor Runov

• Vladimir Chkourikhine

• Yevgueny Krasilnikov

• Raimond Vilde

• Valery Lossev

• Yuri Sapega

• Oleksandr Sorokalet

• Yaroslav Antonov

• Yuri Tcherednik
• Head coach: Guennady Parchine

Women's tournament

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Lost to Japan (2–3)

• Defeated South Korea (3–2)

• Defeated East Germany (3–0)
• Semi Finals

• Defeated PR China (3–0)
• Final

• Defeated Peru (3–2) → Gold medal
• Team roster

• • Tatyana Krainova Head coach: Nikolai Karpol

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Drew with Italy (9–9)

• Defeated Australia (11–4)

• Defeated France (14–8)

• Defeated South Korea (17–4)

• Lost to West Germany (8–9)
• Semi Finals

• Lost to United States (7–8)
• Bronze medal match

• Defeated West Germany (14–13) → Bronze medal
• Team roster

• Evgueni Charonov

• Nourlan Mendygaliev

• Evgeni Grichine

• Alexandre Kolotov

• Sergei Naoumov

• Victor Berendiouga

• Serguei Kotenko

• Dmitri Apanasenko

• Georgui Mchvenieradze

• Mikhail Ivanov

• Serguei Markotch

• Nikolai Smirnov

• Mikhail Giorgadze
• Head coach: Boris Popov

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's freestyle

• Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight

See also

• Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Paralympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043519/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1988/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 26 July 2011 . sports-reference.com.
2. Web site: Olympedia – Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics. www.olympedia.org.
3. Soviet Union Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162022/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1988/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 12 April 2018.