Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	URS
Nocname:	Soviet Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1972
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Soviet Union
Location:	Sapporo
Competitors:	78 (58 men, 20 women)^[1]
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing)
Rank:	1
Gold:	8
Silver:	5
Bronze:	3
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 Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
			Men's 30 km
			Men's 4 × 10 km relay
			Women's 5 km
			Women's 10 km
			Women's 3 × 5 km relay
			Pairs
	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team		Men's competition
			Men's 15 km
			Women's 10 km
			Men's singles
			Pairs
			Women's 500m
			Men's 50 km
			Men's 500m
			Women's 500m

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sergey Grishchenko	Downhill					2:03.19	46
Sergey Grishchenko	Giant Slalom	?	39	DNF	-	DNF	-

Men's slalom

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Svetlana Isakova	Downhill					1:44.83	39
Nina Merkulova						1:44.48	37
Galina Shikhova						1:43.88	34
Galina Shikhova	Giant Slalom					1:43.74	34
Nina Merkulova						1:41.18	33
Svetlana Isakova						1:40.20	31
Nina Merkulova	Slalom	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Svetlana Isakova		DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Galina Shikhova		52.07	23	53.74	18	1:45.81	19

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Rinnat Safin	1'15:22.59	7	1'22:22.59	19
	Ivan Biakov	1'17:42.78	3	1'20:42.78	12
	Viktor Mamatov	1'16:16.26	2	1'18:16.26	7
	Aleksandr Tikhonov	1'12:48.65	4	1'16:48.65	4

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Valery Tarakanov	46:48.32	16
	Vladimir Voronkov	46:33.43	12
	Yury Skobov	46:04.59	5
	Fyodor Smishov	46:00.84
30 km	Vladimir Dolganov	1'40:48.85	16
	Yury Skobov	1'40:18.70	15
	Fyodor Simashov	1'38:22.50	6
	Vyacheslav Vedenin	1'36:31.15
50 km	Ivan Garanin	2'50:00.78	17
	Ivan Pronin	2'49:45.59	15
	Fyodor Simashov	2'45:08.93	8
	Vyacheslav Vedenin	2'44:00.19

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	17:25.62	10
	Lyubov Mukhachova	17:12.08	6
	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	17:07.40	4
	Galina Kulakova	17:00.50
10 km	Nina Shebalina	35:54.59	10
	Lyubov Mukhachova	34:58.56	4
	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	34:54.11
	Galina Kulakova	34:17.82

Women's 3 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Yuri Ovchinnikov	15	6	2477.5	104.5	12
Vladimir Kovalev	7	11	2521.6	80	8
Sergei Chetverukhin	3	1	2672.4	20

Women

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Irina Cherniaeva Vasili Blagov	6	5	399.1	52	6
Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin	2	2	419.4	15
Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov	1	1	420.4	12

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Medal round

Rank	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	5	4	0	1	33	13	9
2	5	3	2	0	18	15	6
3	5	3	2	0	26	13	6
4	5	2	2	1	17	13	5
5	5	2	3	0	14	24	4
6	5	0	5	0	9	39	0

USSR 9-3 Finland
USSR 3-3 Sweden
USSR 7-2 USA
USSR 9-3 Poland
USSR 5-2 Czechoslovakia

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yury Svetikov	1:00.82	44	55.01	29	54.08	30	53.78	31	3:43.69	41
Viktor Ilyin	56.12	39	55.50	37	55.21	41	55.25	39	3:42.08	37
Sergey Osipov	55.48	35	55.27	36	54.06	29	54.18	34	3:38.99	33
Yury Yegorov	55.08	28	54.58	26	54.64	35	53.70	28	3:38.00	29

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yury Svetikov Sergey Osipov	45.64	12	45.48	12	1:31.12	12
Yury Yegorov Viktor Ilyin	45.66	13	45.53	13	1:31.19	13

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nataliya Omsheva	47.18	18	47.39	20	46.85	20	46.85	20	3:08.27	20
Nina Ignatyeva	46.82	15	46.84	17	46.70	17	46.09	16	3:06.45	17
Nina Shashkova	46.18	13	46.38	12	46.36	16	45.46	11	3:04.38	12

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mikhail Artyukhov	Individual	73.5	74.0	183.0	14	50:57.0	197.185	12	380.185	11
Vyacheslav Dryagin		66.0	70.0	146.2	35	50:29.4	201.325	9	347.525	29
Anatoly Zaytsev		66.5	68.0	158.3	26	50:10.4	204.175	8	362.475	22
Aleksandr Nosov		77.5	79.5	201.3	3	52:08.7	186.430	27	387.730	7

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Anatoly Zheglanov	Normal hill	73.5	102.3	75.0	107.7	210.0	21
K'oba Ts'akadze		77.5	109.7	77.5	110.2	219.9	9
Yury Kalinin		78.5	111.8	73.5	99.8	211.6	20
Gary Napalkov		79.5	112.4	76.0	107.8	220.2	7
K'oba Ts'akadze	Large hill	93.0	69.7	90.0	95.5	165.2	35
Anatoly Zheglanov		80.5	73.7	90.0	97.0	170.7	32
Sergey Yanin		89.0	93.1	87.0	88.3	181.4	21
Gary Napalkov		99.5	111.3	92.0	98.8	210.1	6

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Vladimir Komarov	40.65	14
500 m	Valery Muratov	39.80
1500 m	Valery Muratov	2:11.83	21
1500 m	Valery Lavrushkin	2:07.16	6
5000 m	Valery Lavrushkin	7:39.26	7
10,000 m	Valery Lavrushkin	15:20.08	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Alle Butova	45.17	8
	Lyudmila Titova	44.45
	Vera Krasnova	44.01
1000 m	Lyudmila Savrulina	1:33.41	10
	Nina Statkevich	1:32.21	5
	Lyudmila Titova	1:31.85	4
1500 m	Lyudmila Savrulina	2:25.85	14
	Kapitolina Seregina	2:24.29	9
	Nina Statkevich	2:23.19	6
3000 m	Lyudmila Savrulina	5:06.61	8
	Kapitolina Seregina	5:01.88	6
	Nina Statkevich	5:01.79	5

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.

Bibliography

Book: XI Winter Olympic Games. Year 1972.. A. Dobrov. Fizkultura i sport. 1973. Moscow. ru. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070819033425/http://www.sportlib.ru/books/olimp/olimp72zimn/. 2007-08-19.

References

Notes and References

The USSR and Olympism . . . 84 . 530–557 . October 1974 . 2008-03-28.