Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics

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

Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Innsbruck
Competitors	79 (59 men, 20 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Vladislav Tretiak (ice hockey)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 13 Silver 6 Bronze 8 Total 27
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
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During the games, the Soviet Union won 13 gold medals, the most any country won at a single Winter Olympics. Norway tied this record during the Salt Lake City games, and Canada broke it with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Nikolay Kruglov	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Aleksandr Elizarov Ivan Biakov Nikolay Kruglov 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	Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Liudmila Pakhomova Alexander Gorshkov	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladislav Tretiak Aleksandr Sidelnikov Aleksandr Gusev Vladimir Lutchenko Sergei Babinov Yury Lyapkin Gennadiy Tsygankov Sergey Kapustin Aleksandr Maltsev Boris Aleksandrov Boris Mikhailov Alexander Yakushev 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	Irina Moiseeva 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
	Nikolay Kruglov	1'12:12.26	2	1'14:12.26

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 2	Time	Rank
Aleksandr Elizarov Ivan Biakov Nikolay Kruglov Aleksandr Tikhonov	0	1'57:55.64

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
	Nikolay Bazhukov	43:58.47
30 km	Vasily Rochev	1'32:39.42	10
	Nikolay Bazhukov	1'31:33.14	5
	Ivan Garanin	1'31:09.29
	Sergey Savelyev	1'30:29.38
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

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Galina Kulakova	DSQ (doping)	–
	Zinaida Amosova	16:33.78	6
	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	16:12.82
	Raisa Smetanina	15:49.73
10 km	Zinaida Amosova	31:11.23	6
	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	30:52.58	4
	Galina Kulakova	30:38.61
	Raisa Smetanina	30:13.41

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	1'07:49.75

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

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
Irina Vorobieva Alexander Vlasov	3	5	134.52	35	4
Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev	1	1	140.54	9

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponossov	4	4	199.10	35	4
Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	2	2	204.88	20
Liudmila Pakhomova Alexander Gorshkov	1	1	209.92	9

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	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:

Vladislav Tretiak Aleksandr Sidelnikov Aleksandr Gusev Vladimir Lutchenko Sergei Babinov Yury Lyapkin Gennadiy Tsygankov Sergey Kapustin Aleksandr Maltsev Boris Aleksandrov Boris Mikhailov Alexander Yakushev 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
Dainis Bremze 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
	Yevgeny Kulikov	39.17 OR
1000 m	Andrey Malikov	1:27.57	29
	Aleksandr Safronov	1:20.84	4
	Valery Muratov	1:20.57
1500 m	Sergey Marchuk	2:04.65	13
	Sergey Ryabev	2:02.15	4
	Yury Kondakov	1:59.97
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
1000 m	Tatyana Shelekhova	1:32.08	15
	Lyudmila Titova	1:30.06	7
	Tatyana Averina-Barabash	1:28.43 OR
1500 m	Nina Statkevich	2:22.59	15
	Tatyana Averina-Barabash	2:17.96
	Galina Stepanskaya	2:16.58 OR
3000 m	Tatyana Shelekhova	4:54.03	14
	Nina Statkevich	4:53.94	13
	Tatyana Averina-Barabash	4:45.19 OR

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	36	7	11	54
2	Kazakh SSR	2	0	0	2
Totals (2 entries)		38	7	11	56

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com