Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1960 Winter Olympics
Squaw Valley
Competitors62 (49 men, 13 women)[1] in 8 sports
Flag bearerNikolai Sologubov
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
7
Silver
5
Bronze
9
Total
21
Winter Olympics appearances (
overview)
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–)
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 Azerbaijan (1998–)
 Tajikistan (2002–)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

The

Squaw Valley, United States
.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Maria Gusakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Gold Yevgeny Grishin Speed skating Men's 500 m
 Gold Yevgeny Grishin Speed skating Men's 1500 m
 Gold Viktor Kosichkin Speed skating Men's 5000 m
 Gold
Klara Nesterova-Guseva
 Speed skating Women's 1000 m
 Gold Lidiya Skoblikova Speed skating Women's 1500 m
 Gold Lidiya Skoblikova Speed skating Women's 3000 m
 Silver Lyubov Baranova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Silver Radya Yeroshina
Maria Gusakova
Lyubov Baranova		 Cross-country skiing Women's 3 x 5 km relay
 Silver Viktor Kosichkin Speed skating Men's 10000 m
 Silver Natalya Donchenko Speed skating Women's 500 m
 Silver Valentina Stenina Speed skating Women's 3000 m
 Bronze Aleksandr Privalov Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Bronze Nikolay Anikin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
 Bronze Anatoly Shelyukhin
Gennady Vaganov
Aleksey Kuznetsov
Nikolay Anikin		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
 Bronze Radya Yeroshina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Bronze
Yevgeny Groshev
  • Stanislav Petukhov
  • Viktor Pryazhnikov
    		•  Ice hockey Men's competition
     Bronze Nikolay Gusakov Nordic combined Men's individual (15 km)
     Bronze
    Rafael Grach
    		 Speed skating Men's 500 m
     Bronze Boris Stenin Speed skating Men's 1500 m
     Bronze Tamara Rylova Speed skating Women's 1000 m

    Alpine skiing

    Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Women
    Athlete Event Final
    Run 1 Run 2 Total Rank
    Stalina Korzukhina Downhill 1:46.5 19
    Giant slalom 1:45.7 21
    Slalom 58.5 59.9 1:58.4 7
    Yevgeniya Kabina Downhill 1:46.7 20
    Giant slalom 1:50.0 31
    Slalom 1:03.3 1:01.0 2:04.3 18
    Lyubov Volkova Downhill 1:49.2 23
    Giant slalom 1:48.9 30
    Slalom 1:00.8 1:16.5 2:17.3 30

    Biathlon

    Main article: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Athlete Event Final
    Time Misses Rank
    Aleksandr Privalov 20 km 1:34:54.2 3 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Vladimir Melanin 20 km 1:35:42.4 4 4
    Valentin Pshenitsyn 20 km 1:36:45.8 3 5
    Dmitry Sokolov
    		 20 km 1:38:16.7 5 6

    Cross-country skiing

    Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Athlete Event Final
    Total Rank
    Nikolay Anikin
    15 km
    		 52:55.0 10
    30 km
    		 1:52:28.2 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    50 km
    		 3:10:13.9 13
    Aleksandr Gubin
    15 km
    		 53:29.1 15
    Aleksey Kuznetsov
    30 km
    		 1:54:23.9 8
    50 km
    		 3-11:47.0 15
    Ivan Lyubimov
    50 km
    		 3:25:06.4 18
    Pavel Morshchinin
    15 km
    		 53:36.6 16
    Anatoly Shelyukhin
    30 km
    		 1:58:21.3 15
    Gennady Vaganov
    15 km
    		 52:18.0 4
    30 km
    		 1:52:49.2 4
    50 km
    		 3:05:27.6 7
    Anatoly Shelyukhin
    Gennady Vaganov
    Aleksey Kuznetsov
    Nikolay Anikin
    Relay 4 x 10 km
    		 2:21:21.6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Women
    Athlete Event Final
    Total Rank
    Lyubov Baranova
    10 km
    		 40:04.2 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Maria Gusakova
    10 km
    		 39:46.6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    Alevtina Kolchina
    10 km
    		 40:12.6 4
    Radya Yeroshina
    10 km
    		 40:06.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Radya Yeroshina
    Maria Gusakova
    Lyubov Baranova         		Relay 3 x 5 km 1:05:02.6 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

    Figure skating

    Main article: Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Athlete Event Points Places Rank
    Nina Zhuk
    Stanislav Zhuk     		Pairs 72.3 38.6 6
    Ludmila Belousova
    Oleg Protopopov     		Pairs 68.6 60.5 9

    Ice hockey

    Main article: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Men
    • Head coach:
      Anatoli Tarasov
    Pos. No. Player Team
    GK Nikolai Puchkov
    GK Yevgeny Yerkin
    D
    		 Nikolai Sologubov
    D
    Yury Baulin
    D
    Nikolay Karpov
    D Genrikh Sidorenkov
    D Alfred Kuchevsky
    F Veniamin Alexandrov
    F
    Aleksandr Almetov
    F Konstantin Loktev
    F Mikhail Bychkov
    F Vladimir Grebennikov
    F
    Yury Tsitsinov
    F Viktor Yakushev
    F
    Yevgeny Groshev
    F Stanislav Petukhov
    F Viktor Pryazhnikov
    Preliminary round
    Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
     Soviet Union 2 2 0 0 16 4 4
     Germany 2 1 1 0 4 9 2
     Finland 2 0 2 0 5 12 0
    19 February 1960
    Tsitsinov) – 45:19
    		7–0
    Loktev (Alexandrov, Kuchevsky) – 49:068–0
    16 minPenalties20 min32Shots18
    20 February 1960
    Tsitsinov) (PP) – 56:28
    		8–3
    8–459:42 – Nieminen
    26 minPenalties8 min41Shots36
    Final round
    Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
     United States 5 5 0 0 29 11 10
     Canada 5 4 1 0 31 12 8
     Soviet Union 5 2 2 1 24 19 5
     Czechoslovakia 5 2 3 0 21 23 4
     Sweden 5 1 3 1 19 19 3
     Germany 5 0 5 0 5 45 0
    22 February 1960
    13:00
    Groshev
    ) – 53:09    		8–5
    14 minPenalties8 min43Shots37
    24 February 1960
    15:30
    Nilsson (Lundvall, Pettersson
    )
    4 minPenalties4 min34Shots28
    25 February 1960
    13:00
    Tsitsinov (Bychkov) (PP) – 50:41
    		5–1
    Petukhov (Sidorenkov) – 53:246–1
    Sidorenkov (PP2) – 59:167–1
    6 minPenalties10 min37Shots13
    27 February 1960
    13:30
    Williams, R. Christian
    ) – 54:59    		3–2
    4 minPenalties6 min34Shots29
    28 February 1960
    Baulin)
    Attersley (Etcher) – 59:528–5
    12 minPenalties6 min47Shots33
     Bronze

    Nordic combined

    Main article: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Athlete Event Ski jumping Cross-country Total
    Points Rank Time Points Rank Points Rank
    Leonid Fyodorov
    		 Individual 15 km 202.0 17 1:02:13.1 225.548 15 427.548 16
    Nikolay Gusakov Individual 15 km 212.0 10 58:29.4 240.000 1 452.000 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Dmitry Kochkin Individual 15 km 219.5 2 1:01:32.1 228.194 11 447.694 5
    Mikhail Pryakin Individual 15 km 200.5 21 1:00:25.7 232.452 9 432.952 12

    Ski jumping

    Main article: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Athlete Event First round Final
    Points Rank Points Total Rank
    Leonid Fyodorov
    		 Normal hill 97.2 26 95.9 193.1 27
    Nikolay Kamenskiy Normal hill 110.2 3 106.7 216.9 4
    Nikolay Shamov
    		 Normal hill 103.2 15 107.4 210.6 10
    Koba Zakadze Normal hill 107.0 7 104.1 211.1 9

    Speed skating

    Main article: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    500 m Yury Malyshev 41.2 10
    Gennady Voronin 40.7 5
    Rafael Grach
    		 40.4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Yevgeny Grishin 40.2 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    1500 m Lev Zaytsev 2:22.1 31
    Gennady Voronin 2:14.7 12
    Boris Stenin 2:11.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Yevgeny Grishin 2:10.4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    5000 m Oleg Goncharenko 8:06.6 6
    Valery Kotov 8:05.4 5
    Viktor Kosichkin 7:51.3 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    10000 m Nikolajs Štelbaums DSQ –
    Vladimir Shilykovsky 17:13.9 20
    Viktor Kosichkin 15:49.2 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Women
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    500 m
    Klara Nesterova-Guseva
    		 46.8 6
    Tamara Rylova 46.2 4
    Natalya Donchenko 46.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    1000 m Lidiya Skoblikova 1:35.3 4
    Tamara Rylova 1:34.8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Klara Nesterova-Guseva
    		 1:34.1 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    1500 m Valentina Stenina 2:29.2 5
    Klara Nesterova-Guseva
    		 2:28.7 4
    Lidiya Skoblikova 2:25.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    3000 m Tamara Rylova 5:30.0 9
    Valentina Stenina 5:16.9 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Lidiya Skoblikova 5:14.3 1st place, gold medalist(s)

    References

    1. Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee
      : 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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