Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1956 Winter Olympics
Soviet Union at the; 1956 Winter Olympics
	Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors	53 (47 men, 6 women) in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Oleg Goncharenko
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 7 Silver 3 Bronze 6 Total 16
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
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 in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Nikolay Anikin, Pavel Kolchin Vladimir Kuzin, Fyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's relay 4 x 10 km
Gold	Lyubov Kozyreva	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
Gold	Yevgeny Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov Alexei Guryshev, Nikolay Khlystov Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevsky Valentin Kuzin, Grigory Mkrtychan Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Pantyukhov Nikolai Puchkov, Viktor Shuvalov Genrikh Sidorenkov, Nikolai Sologubov Ivan Tregubov, Dmitry Ukolov Aleksandr Uvarov	Ice hockey	Men's team
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Yuri Mikhaylov	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Boris Shilkov	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Silver	Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
Silver	Alevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's relay 3 x 5 km
Silver	Rafayel Grach	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Bronze	Yevgeniya Sidorova	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 15 km
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Fyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Oleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Bronze	Oleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Gennady Chertishchev	Giant slalom			3:48.9	55
Gennady Chertishchev	Downhill			DSQ	DNF
Aleksandr Filatov	Giant slalom			3:27.8	33
	Slalom	1:33.5	2:36.0	4:09.5	30
	Downhill			3:16.6	16
Vyacheslav Melnikov	Slalom	TNK	DSQ	did not finish
Yury Sharkov	Giant slalom			3:41.8	46
Yury Sharkov	Slalom	DSQ		did not finish
Sergey Shustov	Downhill			DSQ	DNF
Viktor Talyanov	Giant slalom			3:45.2	52
	Slalom	1:49.2	2:06.9	3:56.1	24
	Downhill			3:26.5	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Aleksandra Artyomenko	Giant slalom			4:04.5	44
	Slalom	DSQ		did not finish
	Downhill			1:51.1	14
Yevgeniya Sidorova	Giant slalom			2:31.3	40
	Slalom	56.9	59.8	1:56.7
	Downhill			1:59.8	37

Cross-country skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Total	Rank
Nikolay Anikin	15 km	50:58	7
Viktor Baranov	50 km	3:03:55	7
Minnevali Galiyev	15 km	52:49	18
Pavel Kolchin	15 km	50:17
	30 km	1:45:45
	50 km	2:58:00	6
Vladimir Kuzin	15 km	51:36	10
Vladimir Kuzin	30 km	1:46:09	5
Anatoly Shelyukhin	30 km	1:45:46	4
Anatoly Shelyukhin	50 km	2:56:40	5
Fyodor Terentyev	30 km	1:46:43	6
Fyodor Terentyev	50 km	2:53:32
Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Relay 4 x 10 km	2:15:30

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Total	Rank
Anna Kaaleste	10 km	40:29	9
Alevtina Kolchina	10 km	38:46	4
Lyubov Kozyreva	10 km	38:11
Radya Yeroshina	10 km	38:16
Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Relay 3 x 5 km	1:09:28

Ice hockey

Men

Head coach: Arkady Chernyshev

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
GK		Nikolai Puchkov
GK		Grigory Mkrtychan
D		Nikolai Sologubov
D		Dmitry Ukolov
D		Ivan Tregubov
D		Genrikh Sidorenkov
D		Alfred Kuchevsky
F		Yevgeny Babich
F		Viktor Shuvalov
F		Vsevolod Bobrov
F		Yuri Krylov
F		Aleksandr Uvarov
F		Valentin Kuzin
F		Yuri Pantyukhov
F		Alexei Guryshev
F		Nikolay Khlystov
F		Viktor Nikiforov

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	2	2	0	15	4	4
Sweden	2	1	1	7	10	2
Switzerland	2	0	2	8	16	0

27 January 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

5–1
(1–1, 2–0, 2–0)

Sweden

Babich (2)
Bobrov
Kuzin (2)

Goals

Björn

29 January 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

10–3
(4–1, 2–0, 4–2)

Switzerland

Ukolov
Tregubov
Bobrov (4)
Krylov
Guryshev (2)
Peter (own goal)

Goals

Naef (2)
Bagnoud

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	25	5	10
United States	5	4	1	0	26	12	8
Canada	5	3	2	0	23	11	6
Sweden	5	1	3	1	10	17	3
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	20	30	2
Germany	5	0	4	1	6	35	1

30 January 1956
19:00

Soviet Union

4–1
(1–1, 1–0, 2–0)

Sweden

Shuvalov
Bobrov
Guryshev (2)

Goals

Bröms

31 January 1956
19:00

Soviet Union

8–0
(0–0, 7–0, 1–0)

Germany

Tregubov
Shuvalov
Bobrov
Krylov
Uvarov (2)
Guryshev (2)

Goals

2 February 1956
22:00

Soviet Union

7–4
(2–1, 3–0, 2–3)

Czechoslovakia

Sologubov
Shuvalov (3)
Bobrov
Pantyukhov
Guryshev

Goals

Gut
Bubník
Návrat
Pantucek

3 February 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

4–0
(0–0, 1–0, 3–0)

United States

Bobrov
Kuzin
Pantyukhov
Khlystov

Goals

4 February 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

2–0
(0–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Canada

Krylov
Kuzin

Goals

Gold

Nordic combined

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Leonid Fyodorov	Individual 15 km	201.0	12	59:17	228.500	12	429.500	10
Nikolay Gusakov	Individual 15 km	200.0	14	58:17	232.300	8	432.300	7
Uno Kajak	Individual 15 km	186.5	27	1:00:48	222.600	18	409.100	26
Yury Moshkin	Individual 15 km	217.5	1	1:04:18	209.100	31	426.600	13

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	First round		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Yury Moshkin	Normal hill	91.5	35	92.5	184.0	34
Nikolay Shamov	Normal hill	103.0	14	98.0	201.0	16
Koba Zakadze	Normal hill	107.0	8	78.0	185.0	30

Speed skating

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Oleg Goncharenko	5000 m	7:57.5
Oleg Goncharenko	10000 m	16:42.3
Rafayel Grach	500 m	40.8
Yevgeny Grishin	500 m	40.2 WR
Yevgeny Grishin	1500 m	2:08.6 WR
Robert Merkulov	1500 m	2:10.3	5
Yuri Mikhaylov	500 m	did not finish
Yuri Mikhaylov	1500 m	2:08.6 WR
Dmitry Sakunenko	5000 m	8:10.5	16
Yuri Sergeev	500 m	41.1	4
Boris Shilkov	1500 m	2:11.9	8
Boris Shilkov	5000 m	7:48.7 OR
Vladimir Shilykovsky	10000 m	17:17.6	16
Boris Tsybin	10000 m	17:03.4	9
Boris Yakimov	5000 m	8:12.6	19
Boris Yakimov	10000 m	16:59.7	7

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.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	26	5	4	35
2	Ukrainian SSR	0	0	2	2
Totals (2 entries)		26	5	6	37

References

^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

[1] "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

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