# Soviet Union at the 1964 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Vladimir Melanin | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Gold | Klavdiya Boyarskikh | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km |
| Gold | Klavdiya Boyarskikh | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Gold | Alevtina Kolchina Yevdokiya Mekshilo Klavdiya Boyarskikh | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 x 5 km relay |
| Gold | Liudmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Gold | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Viktor KonovalenkoBoris ZaytsevVitaly DavydovEduard IvanovAleksandr RagulinViktor KuzkinKonstantin LoktevAleksandr AlmetovVeniamin AleksandrovYevgeny MayorovVyacheslav StarshinovBoris MayorovLeonid VolkovViktor YakushevAnatoly FirsovOleg ZaytsevStanislav Petukhov | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Gold | Ants Antson | Speed skating | Men's 1500 m |
| Gold | Lidiya Skoblikova | Speed skating | Women's 500 m |
| Gold | Lidiya Skoblikova | Speed skating | Women's 1000 m |
| Gold | Lidiya Skoblikova | Speed skating | Women's 1500 m |
| Gold | Lidiya Skoblikova | Speed skating | Women's 3000 m |
| Silver | Aleksandr Privalov | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Silver | Yevdokiya Mekshilo | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Silver | Nikolay Kiselyov | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Silver | Vladimir Orlov | Speed skating | Men's 500 m (tie) |
| Silver | Yevgeny Grishin | Speed skating | Men's 500 m (tie) |
| Silver | Irina Yegorova | Speed skating | Women's 500 m |
| Silver | Irina Yegorova | Speed skating | Women's 1000 m |
| Silver | Valentina Stenina | Speed skating | Women's 3000 m |
| Bronze | Igor Voronchikhin | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
| Bronze | Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Voronchikhin Pavel Kolchin | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Bronze | Alevtina Kolchina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km |
| Bronze | Mariya Gusakova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Bronze | Tatyana Sidorova | Speed skating | Women's 500 m |
| Bronze | Berta Kolokoltseva | Speed skating | Women's 1500 m |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Valery Shein | Downhill | 2:38.13 | 54 |
| Tally Monastyryov | Downhill | 2:35.27 | 47 |
| Vasily Melnikov | Downhill | 2:30.83 | 36 |
| Vasily Melnikov | Giant slalom | DNF | – |
| Tally Monastyryov | Giant slalom | 2:01.94 | 37 |
| Valery Shein | Giant slalom | 2:01.18 | 34 |
| Viktor Talyanov | Giant slalom | 2:00.38 | 31 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Valery Shein | 56.33 | 32 | DNF | – | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Tally Monastyryov | 55.71 | 28 | 56.09 | 10 QF | DNS | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Vasily Melnikov | 53.59 | 9 QF | – | – | 1:16.18 | 26 | 1:06.43 | 25 | 2:22.61 | 25 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina | Downhill | | | | | 2:09.28 | 40 |
| Galina Sidorova | Downhill | | | | | 2:08.32 | 39 |
| Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova | Downhill | | | | | 2:05.19 | 37 |
| Galina Sidorova | Giant slalom | | | | | 2:12.98 | 39 |
| Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova | Giant slalom | | | | | 2:11.06 | 38 |
| Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina | Giant slalom | | | | | 2:10.11 | 35 |
| Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova | Slalom | 52.00 | 25 | 1:07.48 | 28 | 1:59.48 | 27 |
| Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina | Slalom | 51.88 | 24 | 53.09 | 17 | 1:44.97 | 18 |
| Galina Sidorova | Slalom | 51.72 | 23 | 56.54 | 24 | 1:48.26 | 20 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Nikolay Puzanov | 1'21:21.5 | 4 | 1'29:21.5 | 10 |
| 20 km | Valentin Pshenitsyn | 1'22:59.0 | 2 | 1'26:59.0 | 7 |
| 20 km | Aleksandr Privalov | 1'23:42.5 | 0 | 1'23:42.5 | |
| 20 km | Vladimir Melanin | 1'20:26.8 | 0 | 1'20:26.8 | |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Valery Tarakanov | 52:58.2 | 17 |
| 15 km | Gennady Vaganov | 52:46.8 | 14 |
| 15 km | Igor Voronchikhin | 51:53.9 | 7 |
| 15 km | Pavel Kolchin | 51:52.0 | 6 |
| 30 km | Gennady Vaganov | 1'35:03.1 | 19 |
| 30 km | Ivan Utrobin | 1'34:10.4 | 17 |
| 30 km | Bayazit Gizatullin | 1'33:33.4 | 12 |
| 30 km | Igor Voronchikhin | 1'32:15.8 | |
| 50 km | Ivan Lyubimov | 2'52:28.1 | 17 |
| 50 km | Aleksandr Gubin | 2'51:39.7 | 14 |
| 50 km | Bayazit Gizatullin | 2'51:02.4 | 12 |
| 50 km | Igor Voronchikhin | 2'49:21.7 | 11 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Voronchikhin Pavel Kolchin | 2'18:46.9 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Rita Achkina | 18:51.1 | 10 |
| 5 km | Yevdokiya Mekshilo | 18:16.7 | 4 |
| 5 km | Alevtina Kolchina | 18:08.4 | |
| 5 km | Klavdiya Boyarskikh | 17:50.5 | |
| 10 km | Alevtina Kolchina | 41:26.2 | 7 |
| 10 km | Mariya Gusakova | 40:46.6 | |
| 10 km | Yevdokiya Mekshilo | 40:26.6 | |
| 10 km | Klavdiya Boyarskikh | 40:24.3 | |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Alevtina Kolchina Yevdokiya Mekshilo Klavdiya Boyarskikh | 59:20.2 | |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Valery Meshkov | DNS | – | – | – | DNS |

### Pairs

| Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
| Tatiana Zhuk Aleksandr Gavrilov | 96.6 | 45 | 5 |
| Liudmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov | 104.4 | 13 | |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st–8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th–16th places.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Soviet Union | 19–1 | Hungary |

### Medal round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 10 | 14 |
| 2 | Sweden | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 10 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 10 |
| 4 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 10 |
| 5 | United States | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 4 |
| 6 | Finland | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 4 |
| 7 | Germany | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 4 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 0 |
* USSR 5–1 USA
* USSR 7–5 Czechoslovakia
* USSR 15–0 Switzerland
* USSR 10–0 Finland
* USSR 10–0 Germany (UTG)
* USSR 4–2 Sweden
* USSR 3–2 Canada
* Roster Viktor Konovalenko Boris Zaytsev Vitaly Davydov Eduard Ivanov Aleksandr Ragulin Viktor Kuzkin Konstantin Loktev Aleksandr Almetov Veniamin Aleksandrov Yevgeny Mayorov Vyacheslav Starshinov Boris Mayorov Leonid Volkov Viktor Yakushev Anatoly Firsov Oleg Zaytsev Stanislav Petukhov

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (three jumps, best two counted and shown here)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Nikolay Kiselyov | Individual | 70.0 | 62.0 | 233.0 | 3 | 51:49.1 | 220.04 | 8 | 453.04 | |
| Vyacheslav Dryagin | Individual | 64.5 | 67.0 | 216.2 | 10 | 52:58.3 | 206.55 | 12 | 422.75 | 7 |
| Nikolay Gusakov | Individual | 66.0 | 69.5 | 223.4 | 7 | 51:19.8 | 225.96 | 5 | 449.36 | 4 |

## Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.
| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Nikolay Shamov | Normal hill | 71.5 | 96.7 | 70.0 | 95.4 | 192.1 | 36 |
| Nikolay Kamensky | Normal hill | 72.0 | 100.4 | 73.5 | 100.7 | 201.1 | 21 |
| Pyotr Kovalenko | Normal hill | 75.0 | 101.1 | 77.5 | 104.0 | 205.1 | 12 |
| Aleksandr Ivannikov | Normal hill | 75.0 | 101.6 | 73.5 | 101.7 | 203.3 | 17 |
| Nikolay Kamensky | Large hill | 79.5 | 94.3 | 73.0 | 89.9 | 184.2 | 38 |
| Pyotr Kovalenko | Large hill | 87.0 | 99.1 | 81.0 | 102.3 | 201.4 | 20 |
| K'oba Ts'akadze | Large hill | 87.0 | 99.1 | 80.5 | 96.5 | 195.6 | 27 |
| Aleksandr Ivannikov | Large hill | 90.0 | 106.8 | 83.5 | 106.5 | 213.3 | 6 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Boris Gulyayev | 41.7 | 15 |
| 500 m | Rafael Grach | 41.4 | 10 |
| 500 m | Vladimir Orlov | 40.6 | |
| 500 m | Yevgeny Grishin | 40.6 | |
| 1500 m | Yevgeny Grishin | 2:13.3 | 11 |
| 1500 m | Eduard Matusevich | 2:12.2 | 6 |
| 1500 m | Lev Zaytsev | 2:12.1 | 5 |
| 1500 m | Ants Antson | 2:10.3 | |
| 5000 m | Muzakhid Khabibulin | 7:52.3 | 10 |
| 5000 m | Viktor Kosichkin | 7:45.8 | 4 |
| 10000 m | Igor Ostashov | 16:45.5 | 12 |
| 10000 m | Viktor Kosichkin | 16:19.3 | 6 |
| 10000 m | Ants Antson | 16:08.7 | 5 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Tatyana Sidorova | 45.5 | |
| 500 m | Irina Yegorova | 45.4 | |
| 500 m | Lidiya Skoblikova | 45.0 OR | |
| 1000 m | Valentina Stenina | 1:36.0 | 5 |
| 1000 m | Irina Yegorova | 1:34.3 | |
| 1000 m | Lidiya Skoblikova | 1:33.2 OR | |
| 1500 m | Valentina Stenina | 2:29.9 | 7 |
| 1500 m | Berta Kolokoltseva | 2:27.1 | |
| 1500 m | Lidiya Skoblikova | 2:22.6 OR | |
| 3000 m | Klara Nesterova-Guseva | 5:22.5 | 4 |
| 3000 m | Valentina Stenina | 5:18.5 | |
| 3000 m | Lidiya Skoblikova | 5:14.9 | |

## 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 | 28 | 7 | 9 | 44 |
| 2 | Estonian SSR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Ukrainian SSR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Belarusian SSR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 30 | 8 | 9 | 47 |