Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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).

Unified Team at the
1992 Winter Olympics
The team competed under the Olympic flag
IOC codeEUN
in Albertville, France
Competitors129 (86 men, 43 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer Valeriy Medvedtsev (biathlon)
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
9
Silver
6
Bronze
8
Total
23
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1928, 1992–)
 Soviet Union (1956–1988)
 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 team finished second in the medal rankings, narrowly losing to a re-unified Germany.

Members

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Medals by winter sport

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SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
  Cross-country skiing3249
  Figure skating3115
  Biathlon2226
  Ice hockey1001
  Freestyle skiing0101
  Short track speed skating0011
Totals (6 entries)96823

Medalists

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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
  Gold Yevgeniy Redkin   Belarus[2][3] Biathlon Men's 20 km
  Gold Anfisa Reztsova   Russia Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint
  Gold Lyubov Yegorova   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
  Gold Lyubov Yegorova   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical)
  Gold Yelena Välbe
Raisa Smetanina
Larisa Lazutina
Lyubov Yegorova
  Russia (all) Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay
  Gold Viktor Petrenko   Ukraine Figure skating Men's singles
  Gold Natalia Mishkutenok
Artur Dmitriev
  Russia Figure skating Pairs
  Gold Marina Klimova
Sergei Ponomarenko
  Russia Figure skating Ice dancing
  Gold Unified team men's national ice hockey team
  Russia (all except
Kasparaitis and Zhitnik)
Ice hockey Men's competition
  Silver Svetlana Petcherskaia   Russia Biathlon Women's 15 km
  Silver Valeriy Medvedtsev
Alexandr Popov
Valeri Kiriyenko
Sergei Tchepikov
  Russia (Medvedtsev,
Kiriyenko and Tchepikov)
  Belarus (Popov)
Biathlon Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
  Silver Lyubov Yegorova   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical)
  Silver Lyubov Yegorova   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle)
  Silver Elena Bechke
Denis Petrov
  Russia (both) Figure skating Pairs
  Silver Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova   Russia Freestyle skiing Women's moguls
  Bronze Yelena Belova   Russia Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint
  Bronze Yelena Belova
Anfisa Reztsova
Yelena Melnikova
  Russia (all) Biathlon Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
  Bronze Yelena Välbe   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical)
  Bronze Yelena Välbe   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
  Bronze Yelena Välbe   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical)
  Bronze Yelena Välbe   Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle)
  Bronze Maya Usova
Alexander Zhulin
  Russia (both) Figure skating Ice dancing
  Bronze Yuliya Allagulova
Natalya Isakova
Viktoriya Troytskaya
Yuliya Vlasova
  Russia (all) Short track speed skating Women's 3000 m relay

Competitors

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

Sport Men Women 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

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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

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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
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
  Valeriy Medvedtsev
  Aleksandr Popov
  Valery Kiriyenko
  Sergei Tchepikov
0 1'25:06.3  
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
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
  Yelena Belova
  Anfisa Reztsova
  Yelena Melnikova
2 1'16:54.6  

Bobsleigh

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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

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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
pursuit1
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
Athletes Race
Time Rank
  Andrey Kirillov
  Vladimir Smirnov
  Mikhail Botvinov
  Aleksey Prokurorov
1'43:03.6 5
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
pursuit2
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
Athletes Race
Time Rank
  Yelena Välbe
  Raisa Smetanina
  Larisa Lazutina
  Lyubov Yegorova
59:34.8  

Figure skating

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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

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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

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First round

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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
Team GP W L T GF GA DIF PTS
  Canada 5 4 1 0 28 9 19 8
  Unified Team 5 4 1 0 32 10 22 8
  Czechoslovakia 5 4 1 0 25 15 10 8
  France 5 2 3 0 14 22 -8 4
   Switzerland 5 1 4 0 13 25 -12 2
  Norway 5 0 5 0 7 38 -31 0
  Unified Team 8:1    Switzerland
  Unified Team 8:1   Norway
  Czechoslovakia 4:3   Unified Team
  France 0:8   Unified Team
  Unified Team 5:4   Canada

Final round

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Quarter-finals

  Unified Team 6:1   Finland

Semi-finals

  Unified Team 5:2   United States

Final

  Unified Team   3:1   Canada
Gold:
  Unified Team

Sergei Bautin
Igor Boldin
Nikolai Borschevsky
Vyacheslav Butsayev
Vyacheslav Bykov
Evgeni Davydov
Alexei Zhitnik
Darius Kasparaitis
Nikolai Khabibulin
Yuri Kmylev
Andrei Khomutov
Andrei Kovalenko
Alexei Kovalev
Igor Kravchuk
Vladimir Malakhov
Dmitri Mironov
Sergei Petrenko
Vitali Prokhorov
Mikhail Shtalenkov
Andrei Trefilov
Dmitri Yushkevich
Alexei Zhamnov
Sergei Zubov

Luge

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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

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Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
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 (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
  • 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
  Andrey Dundukov
  Sergey Shvagirev
  Valery Stolyarov
545.3 9 +8:19.0 1'37:57.2 11

Short track speed skating

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Men
Athlete Event Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
  Dmitry Yershov 1000 m 1:37.71 2 Q 1:34.02 3 Did not advance
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

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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
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
  Mikhail Yesin
  Dionis Vodnyev
  Andrey Verveykin
  Yury Dudarev
503.4 11
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "The Role of Sports in the Soviet Union | Guided History".
  2. ^ "Yevgeny Redkin".
  3. ^ "Yevgeny REDKIN".
  4. ^ Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics