Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1976 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Innsbruck
Competitors79 (59 men, 20 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearerVladislav Tretiak (ice hockey)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
13
Silver
6
Bronze
8
Total
27
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–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1998–)
 Tajikistan (2002–)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

During the games, the Soviet Union won 13 gold medals, the most any country won at a single Winter Olympics.[1] Norway tied this record during the Salt Lake City games,[1] and Canada broke it with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Nikolay Kruglov Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Gold
Aleksandr Tikhonov
 Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
 Gold Nikolay Bazhukov Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
 Gold Sergey Savelyev Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
 Gold Raisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Gold
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Zinaida Amosova
Raisa Smetanina
Galina Kulakova
 Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay
 Gold
Alexander Zaitsev
 Figure skating Pairs
 Gold
Liudmila Pakhomova
Alexander Gorshkov
 Figure skating Ice dancing
 Gold
Vladimir Petrov
  • Valeri Kharlamov
  • Vladimir Shadrin
  • Valeri Vasiliev
  • Viktor Shalimov
  • Viktor Zhluktov
    		•  Ice hockey Men's competition
     Gold Yevgeny Kulikov Speed skating Men's 500m
     Gold
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 Speed skating Women's 1000m
     Gold Galina Stepanskaya Speed skating Women's 1500m
     Gold
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 Speed skating Women's 3000m
     Silver Yevgeny Belyayev Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km
     Silver Raisa Smetanina Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
     Silver
    Vladimir Kovalev
    		 Figure skating Men's singles
     Silver
    Andrei Minenkov
    		 Figure skating Ice dancing
     Silver Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 500m
     Silver
    Yury Kondakov
    		 Speed skating Men's 1500m
     Bronze Aleksandr Elizarov Biathlon Men's 20 km
     Bronze Ivan Garanin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
     Bronze Yevgeny Belyayev
    Nikolay Bazhukov
    Sergey Savelyev
    Ivan Garanin    		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
     Bronze
    Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
    		 Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km
     Bronze Galina Kulakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
     Bronze Valery Muratov Speed skating Men's 1000m
     Bronze
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 Speed skating Women's 500m
     Bronze
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 Speed skating Women's 1500m

    Alpine skiing

    Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
    Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
    Vladimir Andreyev Downhill 1:53.61 44
    Vladimir Andreyev Giant Slalom DNF – – – DNF –
    Vladimir Andreyev Slalom 1:07.01 31 1:10.55 26 2:17.56 25
    Women
    Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
    Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
    Alla Askarova Downhill 1:53.19 28
    Alla Askarova Giant Slalom 1:36.86 32
    Alla Askarova Slalom DNF – – – DNF –

    Biathlon

    Main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Event Athlete Time Penalties Adjusted time 1 Rank
    20 km
    Aleksandr Tikhonov
    		 1'10:18.33 7 1'17:18.33 5
    Aleksandr Elizarov 1'13:05.57 3 1'16:05.57 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Nikolay Kruglov 1'12:12.26 2 1'14:12.26 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
    Athletes Race
    Misses 2 Time Rank
    Aleksandr Tikhonov
    		 0 1'57:55.64 1st place, gold medalist(s)

    Cross-country skiing

    Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    15 km
    Yury Skobov
    		 46:16.27 16
    Ivan Garanin 44:41.98 4
    Yevgeny Belyayev 44:01.10 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Nikolay Bazhukov 43:58.47 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    30 km Vasily Rochev 1'32:39.42 10
    Nikolay Bazhukov 1'31:33.14 5
    Ivan Garanin 1'31:09.29 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Sergey Savelyev 1'30:29.38 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    50 km Yevgeny Belyayev 2'54:00.55 38
    Sergey Savelyev 2'46:01.36 21
    Vasily Rochev 2'44:31.23 12
    Ivan Garanin 2'40:38.94 4
    Men's 4 × 10 km relay
    Athletes Race
    Time Rank
    Yevgeny Belyayev
    Nikolay Bazhukov
    Sergey Savelyev
    Ivan Garanin     		2'10:51.46 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Women
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    5 km Galina Kulakova DSQ (doping) –
    Zinaida Amosova 16:33.78 6
    Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
    		 16:12.82 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Raisa Smetanina 15:49.73 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    10 km Zinaida Amosova 31:11.23 6
    Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
    		 30:52.58 4
    Galina Kulakova 30:38.61 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Raisa Smetanina 30:13.41 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    Women's 4 × 5 km relay
    Athletes Race
    Time Rank
    Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
    Zinaida Amosova
    Raisa Smetanina
    Galina Kulakova
    		 1'07:49.75 1st place, gold medalist(s)

    Figure skating

    Main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Athlete CF SP FS Points Places Rank
    Yuri Ovchinnikov 12 8 7 180.04 75 8
    Sergei Volkov
    		 1 5 9 184.08 53 5
    Vladimir Kovalev
    		 3 6 4 187.64 28 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Women
    Athlete CF SP FS Points Places Rank
    Elena Vodorezova 18 13 5 175.58 104 12
    Pairs
    Athletes SP FS Points Places Rank
    Marina Leonidova
    Vladimir Bogolyubov     		9 9 127.06 76 9
    Alexander Vlasov
    		 3 5 134.52 35 4
    Alexander Zaitsev
    		 1 1 140.54 9 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    Ice Dancing
    Athletes CD FD Points Places Rank
    Gennadi Karponossov
    		 4 4 199.10 35 4
    Andrei Minenkov
    		 2 2 204.88 20 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Liudmila Pakhomova
    Alexander Gorshkov
    		 1 1 209.92 9 1st place, gold medalist(s)

    Ice hockey

    Main article: Ice hockey at the 1976 Winter Olympics

    First round

    Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

    Team 1  Score  Team 2
     Soviet Union 16–3  Austria

    Medal round

    Rank Pld W L T GF GA Pts
    1  Soviet Union 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 5 0 0 40 11 10
    2  Czechoslovakia 5 3 2 0 17 10 6
    3  
    West Germany
    		 5 2 3 0 21 24 4
    4  Finland 5 2 3 0 19 18 4
    5  United States 5 2 3 0 15 21 4
    6  Poland 5 1 4 0 9 37 2
    • USSR 6-2 USA
    • USSR 16-1 Poland
    • USSR 7-3 West Germany
    • USSR 7-2 Finland
    • USSR 4-3 Czechoslovakia
    Gold:
    Vladimir Petrov
    Valeri Kharlamov
    Vladimir Shadrin
    Valeri Vasiliev
    Viktor Shalimov
    Viktor Zhluktov

    Luge

    Main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
    Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
    Aigars Krikis
    		 54.243 16 53.415 11 53.273 15 53.764 17 3:34.695 13
    Vladimir Shitov 53.485 11 53.025 9 52.927 10 53.133 11 3:32.570 10
    Dainis Bremze 52.984 9 52.567 8 52.364 9 52.661 9 3:30.576 8

    (Men's) Doubles

    Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
    Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
    Aigars Krikis
    		 43.667 8 43.740 8 1:27.407 8
    Rolands Upatnieks
    Valdis Ķuzis     		43.732 9 43.825 9 1:27.557 9
    Women
    Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
    Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
    Vera Zozuļa
    		 44.179 14 42.973 8 42.651 6 42.858 3 2:52.661 9

    Nordic combined

    Main article: Nordic combined at the 1976 Winter Olympics

    Events:

    • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
    • 15 km cross-country skiing
    Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
    Distance 1 Distance 2 Points Rank Time Points Rank Points Rank
    Aleksey Baranov Individual 69.0 70.0 185.7 23 51:58.45 184.47 21 370.17 23
    Nikolay Nogovitsyn 72.0 74.0 196.1 16 49:05.97 210.34 3 406.44 6
    Valery Kopayev
    		 71.5 75.0 202.9 9 49:53.26 203.24 8 406.14 7

    Ski jumping

    Main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
    Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
    Sergey Saychik Normal hill 74.0 105.2 76.0 108.4 213.6 25
    Yury Kalinin 74.5 105.5 79.0 113.2 218.7 22
    Aleksey Borovitin 77.5 111.3 78.0 113.6 224.9 15
    Aleksandr Karapuzov 78.0 112.6 79.0 114.2 226.8 12
    Yury Kalinin Large hill 85.0 94.0 80.0 87.5 181.5 24
    Aleksey Borovitin 85.0 95.5 82.5 92.0 187.5 19
    Sergey Saychik 90.0 101.5 87.5 98.5 200.0 11
    Aleksandr Karapuzov 91.0 104.9 81.5 88.6 193.5 15

    Speed skating

    Main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
    Men
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    500 m Andrey Malikov 40.09 8
    Valery Muratov 39.25 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    Yevgeny Kulikov 39.17 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    1000 m Andrey Malikov 1:27.57 29
    Aleksandr Safronov 1:20.84 4
    Valery Muratov 1:20.57 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    1500 m Sergey Marchuk 2:04.65 13
    Sergey Ryabev 2:02.15 4
    Yury Kondakov
    		 1:59.97 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
    5000 m Sergey Marchuk 7:51.37 14
    Vladimir Ivanov 7:37.73 7
    Viktor Varlamov 7:30.97 4
    10,000 m Vladimir Ivanov 16:16.20 15
    Sergey Marchuk 15:43.81 11
    Viktor Varlamov 15:06.06 4
    Women
    Event Athlete Race
    Time Rank
    500 m Lyubov Sadchikova 43.80 6
    Vera Krasnova 43.23 5
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 43.17 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    1000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 1:32.08 15
    Lyudmila Titova 1:30.06 7
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 1:28.43 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    1500 m Nina Statkevich 2:22.59 15
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 2:17.96 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    Galina Stepanskaya 2:16.58 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
    3000 m Tatyana Shelekhova 4:54.03 14
    Nina Statkevich 4:53.94 13
    Tatyana Averina-Barabash
    		 4:45.19 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)

    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.

    RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
    1 Russian SFSR3671154
    2 Kazakh SSR2002
    Totals (2 entries)3871156

    Notes

    1. ^ a b c Canadian Press (February 27, 2010). "Canada sets Olympic gold record". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2010-02-27.

    References

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