Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	EUN
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1992
Flagcaption:	The team competed under the Olympic flag
Location:	Albertville, France
Competitors:	129 (86 men, 43 women)
Sports:	12
Flagbearer:	Valeriy Medvedtsev (biathlon)
Rank:	2
Gold:	9
Silver:	6
Bronze:	8

The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics (Russian: Объединенная команда на Зимних Олимпийских играх 1992) in Albertville was a joint team consisting of five of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan that made a decision to collaborate and created a united team.^[1] The Unified Team's only other appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It competed under the IOC country code EUN (from the French Equipe Unifiée).

The team finished second in the medal rankings, narrowly losing to a re-unified Germany.

Members

• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
  • Ukraine
• Uzbekistan

Medalists

The Unified Team finished second to Germany both in the gold and overall medal tally with 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals for a total of 23 medals.

Medal	Name	Nationality	Sport	Event
		Belarus^[2] ^[3]		Men's 20 km
				Women's 7.5 km sprint
				Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
				Women's 15 km (classical)
		(all)		Women's 4 × 5 km relay
				Men's singles
				Pairs
				Ice dancing
	Unified team men's national ice hockey team	(all except Kasparaitis and Zhitnik)		Men's competition
				Women's 15 km
	Alexandr Popov	(Medvedtsev, Kiriyenko and Tchepikov) Belarus (Popov)		Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
				Women's 5 km (classical)
				Women's 30 km (freestyle)
		(both)		Pairs
				Women's moguls
				Women's 7.5 km sprint
	Yelena Belova	(all)		Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
				Women's 5 km (classical)
				Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
				Women's 15 km (classical)
				Women's 30 km (freestyle)
		(both)		Ice dancing
		(all)		Women's 3000 m relay

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[4]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	3	4	7
Biathlon	5	6	11
Bobsleigh	9	–	9
Cross-country skiing	6	6	12
Figure skating	9	8	17
Freestyle skiing	4	4	8
Ice hockey	22	–	22
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Short track speed skating	1	5	6
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	12	7	19
Total	86	43	129

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov	Downhill			1:53.93	24
Aleksey Maslov				1:53.68	22
Vitaly Andreyev				1:53.52	21
Vitaly Andreyev	Super-G			DNF	-
Aleksey Maslov				1:19.71	49
Konstantin Chistyakov				1:16.14	22

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Aleksey Maslov	1:48.53	DNF	-	DNF	-
Konstantin Chistyakov	1:47.95	DNF	-	DNF	-
Vitaly Andreyev	1:46.01	55.80	58.44	85.07	20

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Svetlana Novikova	Downhill			1:59.18	27
Tetiana Lebedeva				1:55.15	19
Svetlana Gladysheva				1:53.85	8
Tetiana Lebedeva	Super-G			1:26.92	28
Svetlana Gladysheva				1:26.51	25
Varvara Zelenskaya				1:26.39	24

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Varvara Zelenskaya	DNF	-	-	DNF	-
Svetlana Novikova	1:30.03	38.89	38.94	122.48	19
Tetiana Lebedeva	1:27.79	40.05	39.82	111.34	18
Svetlana Gladysheva	1:26.88	38.15	37.01	61.25	12

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Valeriy Medvedtsev	2	27:39.5	25
	Aleksandr Popov	1	27:31.3	18
	Valeri Kiriyenko	3	26:31.8	5
	Sergei Tchepikov	0	26:27.5	4

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Valeri Kiriyenko	55:12.6	4	59:12.6	11
	Sergei Tchepikov	55:47.6	3	58:47.6	10
	Aleksandr Popov	56:02.9	2	58:02.9	4
	Eugeni Redkine	57:34.4	0	57:34.4

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Yelena Golovina	1	26:50.3	20
	Svetlana Petcherskaia	0	26:09.7	13
	Yelena Belova	2	24:50.8
	Anfisa Reztsova	3	24:29.2

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Anfisa Reztsova	47:52.6	9	56:52.6	26
	Yelena Golovina	54:17.9	2	56:17.9	22
	Svetlana Paramygina	52:15.2	4	56:15.2	21
	Svetlana Petcherskaia	50:58.5	1	51:58.5

Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
EUN-1	Vladimir Yefimov Aleksey Golovin	Two-man	1:01.17	17	1:01.85	21	1:02.03	19	1:02.25	23	4:07.30	20
EUN-2	Oleg Sukhoruchenko Andrey Gorokhov	Two-man	1:01.77	27	1:02.06	23	1:02.19	23	1:02.31	24	4:08.33	26

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
EUN-1	Oleg Sukhoruchenko Oleksandr Bortiuk Vladimir Lyubovitsky Andrey Gorokhov	Four-man	59.05	19	1:00.05	22	58.94	12	59.39	19	3:57.43	19
EUN-2	Vladimir Yefimov Oleg Petrov Sergey Kruglov Aleksandr Pashkov	Four-man	59.80	23	1:00.19	23	1:00.34	23	1:00.26	23	4:00.59	22

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	German Karachevsky	32:12.6	62
	Andrey Kirillov	30:27.4	30
	Vladimir Smirnov	29:13.1	13
	Mikhail Botvinov	28:55.8	11
15 km pursuit^1 F	German Karachevsky	44:09.5	43
	Andrey Kirillov	41:14.9	17
	Mikhail Botvinov	41:07.1	15
	Vladimir Smirnov	39:59.8	8
30 km C	Aleksey Prokurorov	1'27:20.5	21
	Aleksandr Golubyov	1'25:56.1	14
	Mikhail Botvinov	1'25:36.9	12
	Vladimir Smirnov	1'25:27.6	9
50 km F	Vladimir Smirnov	2'15:48.5	35
	Mikhail Botvinov	2'14:20.8	28
	Aleksandr Golubyov	2'11:20.1	17
	Aleksey Prokurorov	2'07:06.1	4

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Larisa Lazutina	14:41.7	7
	Olga Danilova	14:37.2	6
	Yelena Välbe	14:22.7
	Lyubov Yegorova	14:14.7
10 km pursuit^2 F	Olga Danilova	28:10.2	11
	Larisa Lazutina	27:34.8	8
	Yelena Välbe	26:37.7
	Lyubov Yegorova	25:53.7
15 km C	Nataliya Martynova	45:16.1	12
	Raisa Smetanina	44:01.5	4
	Yelena Välbe	43:42.3
	Lyubov Yegorova	42:20.8
30 km F	Olga Danilova	1'30:30.7	20
	Larisa Lazutina	1'26:31.8	5
	Yelena Välbe	1'24:13.9
	Lyubov Yegorova	1'22:52.0

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk	10	8	13.0	8
Alexei Urmanov	5	5	7.5	5
Viktor Petrenko	1	1	1.5

Women

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Tatiana Rachkova	13	14	20.5	16
Julia Vorobieva	14	13	20.0	14

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Yevgenya Shishkova Vadim Naumov	5	5	7.5	5
Elena Bechke Denis Petrov	2	2	3.0
Natalia Mishkutenok Artur Dmitriev	1	1	1.5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Pasha Grishuk Evgeni Platov	4	4	4	4	8.0	4
Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin	2	2	3	3	5.6
Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	1	1	1	1	2.0

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Mikhail Lyzhin	Moguls	40.89	16.04	36	Did not advance
Aleksey Bannikov		35.79	17.12	33	Did not advance
Andrey Ivanov		36.52	21.24	21	Did not advance
Sergey Shupletsov		33.30	22.65	13 Q	34.49	21.60	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Larisa Udodova	Moguls	47.58	11.17	23	Did not advance
Olga Lychkina		42.42	18.04	12	Did not advance
Yelena Korolyova		43.52	20.01	10	Did not advance
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova		39.10	22.22	5 Q	39.47	23.50

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

First round

Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round

width=165	Team	width=40	GP	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	T	width=40	GF	width=40	GA	width=40	DIF	width=40	PTS
	5	4	1	0	28	9	19	8
	5	4	1	0	32	10	22	8
	5	4	1	0	25	15	10	8
	5	2	3	0	14	22	-8	4
	5	1	4	0	13	25	-12	2
	5	0	5	0	7	38	-31	0

	8:1
	8:1
	4:3
	0:8
	5:4

Final round

Quarter-finals

6:1

Semi-finals

5:2

Final

3:1

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eduard Burmistrov	46.138	16	46.032	16	46.612	16	46.728	18	3:05.510	16
Oleg Yermolin	46.046	15	46.176	18	46.569	14	46.504	15	3:05.295	15
Sergey Danilin	45.708	11	45.622	9	46.281	10	46.162	10	3:03.773	9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Albert Demchenko Aleksey Zelensky	46.552	7	46.747	9	1:33.299	8
Igor Lobanov Gennady Belyakov	46.849	10	47.098	13	1:33.947	10

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nadezhda Danilina	47.324	14	47.215	10	47.264	11	47.025	9	3:08.828	12
Irina Gubkina	47.175	10	47.273	12	47.264	11	47.034	10	3:08.746	10
Nataliya Yakushenko	47.097	9	47.215	10	47.178	8	46.893	6	3:08.383	8

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1992 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	Rank
Vasily Savin	Individual	179.4	40	+5:27.4	49:24.8	22
Valery Stolyarov		192.0	32	+4:03.4	51:50.2	32
Sergey Shvagirev		205.0	16	+2:36.7	53:03.6	36
Andrey Dundukov		210.4	11	+2:00.7	47:44.2	11

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

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

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Nataliya Isakova	500 m	48.49	3	Did not advance
Marina Pylayeva		47.48	2 Q	47.95	1 Q	1:07.56	4 QB	48.42	5
Yuliya Vlasova		48.29	2 Q	48.63	2 Q	1:08.90	4 QB	48.70	7
Yuliya Allagulova Nataliya Isakova Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Yuliya Vlasova	3000 m relay		4:38.37	2 Q	4:42.69

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Yury Dudarev	Normal hill	76.5	84.9	73.5	77.6	162.5	54
Dionis Vodnyev		79.5	88.7	84.0	102.4	191.1	25
Andrey Verveykin		80.0	91.5	80.5	95.3	186.8	32
Mikhail Yesin		85.5	105.8	81.5	98.9	204.7	11
Yury Dudarev	Large hill	92.0	64.8	86.5	56.1	120.9	47
Andrey Verveykin		99.0	79.1	95.5	72.7	151.8	29
Dionis Vodnyev		101.5	83.6	95.5	72.7	156.3	24
Mikhail Yesin		108.0	96.2	99.5	80.3	176.5	10

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Sergey Klevchenya	38.26	21
	Vadim Shakshakbayev	37.86	14
	Igor Zhelezovsky	37.57	8
	Aleksandr Golubev	37.51	7
1000 m	Andrey Bakhvalov	1:17.21	25
	Aleksandr Klimov	1:16.05	13
	Nikolay Gulyayev	1:15.46	8
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:15.05	6
1500 m	Aleksandr Klimov	2:00.94	31
	Konstantin Kalistratov	1:59.02	22
	Yuriy Shulha	1:57.80	16
	Igor Zhelezovsky	1:57.24	10
5000 m	Bronislav Snetkov	7:28.93	29
	Vadim Sayutin	7:13.20	11
	Yevgeny Sanarov	7:11.38	8
10000 m	Vadim Sayutin	14:49.31	19
	Bronislav Snetkov	14:46.87	17
	Yevgeny Sanarov	14:38.99	10

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	43.19	31
	Yelena Tyushnyakova	42.65	29
	Oksana Ravilova	41.73	16
	Nataliya Polozkova	41.61	15
1000 m	Yelena Lapuga	1:25.21	28
	Nataliya Polozkova	1:24.30	20
	Oksana Ravilova	1:24.14	15
	Yelena Tyushnyakova	1:22.97	7
1500 m	Yelena Lapuga	2:11.72	25
	Lyudmila Prokasheva	2:08.71	10
	Svetlana Bazhanova	2:07.81	6
	Nataliya Polozkova	2:07.12	4
3000 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	4:30.76	10
	Svetlana Bazhanova	4:28.19	7
	Svetlana Boyko	4:28.00	5
5000 m	Svetlana Bazhanova	7:45.55	7
	Svetlana Boyko	7:44.19	6
	Lyudmila Prokasheva	7:41.65	5

See also

• CIS national football team, a football team created in a similar fashion for UEFA Euro 1992

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Role of Sports in the Soviet Union | Guided History.
2. Web site: Yevgeny Redkin.
3. Web site: Yevgeny REDKIN.
4. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/EUN/editions/44 Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics