Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	URS
Nocname:	Soviet Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1988
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Soviet Union
Location:	Calgary
Competitors:	101 (78 men, 23 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Andrei Bukin (figure skating)
Rank:	1
Gold:	11
Silver:	9
Bronze:	9
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1956
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 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

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				14 February
				15 February
				16 February
				18 February
				19 February
				21 February
				21 February
				23 February
				25 February
				26 February
	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team			28 February
				14 February
				15 February
				16 February
				17 February
				20 February
				22 February
				23 February
				23 February
				25 February
				15 February
				17 February
				18 February
				19 February
				20 February
				23 February
				25 February
				28 February
				28 February

Competitors

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

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
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

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		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
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov	1:55.99	DNF	-	DNF	-
Sergey Petrik	1:55.82	DSQ	-	DSQ	-

Women

Women's combined

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
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
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

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 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 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
			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

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		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

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		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

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
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
Anna Kondrashova	9	7	7	15.2	8
Kira Ivanova	1	10	9	13.6	7

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
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
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

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

First round

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

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
align = left		5	4	1	0	19	12	8
	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
	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

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
	5	4	1	0	25	7	8
	5	3	1	1	18	10	7
	5	2	1	2	15	16	6
	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

• Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
• Soviet Union 7-1 Sweden
• Finland 2-1 Soviet Union

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	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
	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
	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

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
		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
• 10 km cross-country skiing

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		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

See main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		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
		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

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.

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/URS/editions/43 Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics