# Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov | Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Gold | Vyacheslav Vedenin | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
| Gold | Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Gold | Galina Kulakova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km |
| Gold | Galina Kulakova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Gold | Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 3 × 5 km relay |
| Gold | Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Gold | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladislav TretiakAlexander PashkovVitaly DavidovViktor KuskinAlexander RagulinGennadi TsygankovVladimir LutchenkoVladimir VasilievIgor RomishevskyYevgeny MishakovAlexander MaltsevAlexander YakushevVladimir VikulovAnatoly FirsovValeri KharlamovYury BlinovBoris MikhailovVladimir PetrovVladimir ShadrinYevgeny Zimin | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Silver | Fyodor Smishov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
| Silver | Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Silver | Sergei Chetverukhin | Figure skating | Men's singles |
| Silver | Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Silver | Vera Krasnova | Speed skating | Women's 500m |
| Bronze | Vyacheslav Vedenin | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Bronze | Valery Muratov | Speed skating | Men's 500m |
| Bronze | Lyudmila Titova | Speed skating | Women's 500m |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | 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

| Athlete | Classification | Classification | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Sergey Grishchenko | 1:49.64 | 5 | 1:02.97 | 32 | 59.70 | 21 | 2:02.67 | 22 |

### Women

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

## Biathlon
### Men

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

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov | 3 | 1'51:44.92 | |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

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

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin | 2'04:47.94 | |

### Women

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

### Women's 3 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova | 48:16.15 | |

## Figure skating
### 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

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Marina Sanaya | 19 | 18 | 2198.6 | 160 | 18 |

### 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
### Medal round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 9 |
| 2 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 6 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 6 |
| 4 | Sweden | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 |
| 5 | Finland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 | 4 |
| 6 | Poland | 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
* Gold:
* Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davidov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadi Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Vladimir Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeny Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeny Zimin

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | 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

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 |
| Mikhail Artyukhov | Individual | 73.5 | 74.0 | 183.0 | 14 | 50:57.0 | 197.185 | 12 | 380.185 | 11 |
| Vyacheslav Dryagin | Individual | 66.0 | 70.0 | 146.2 | 35 | 50:29.4 | 201.325 | 9 | 347.525 | 29 |
| Anatoly Zaytsev | Individual | 66.5 | 68.0 | 158.3 | 26 | 50:10.4 | 204.175 | 8 | 362.475 | 22 |
| Aleksandr Nosov | Individual | 77.5 | 79.5 | 201.3 | 3 | 52:08.7 | 186.430 | 27 | 387.730 | 7 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | 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 | Normal hill | 77.5 | 109.7 | 77.5 | 110.2 | 219.9 | 9 |
| Yury Kalinin | Normal hill | 78.5 | 111.8 | 73.5 | 99.8 | 211.6 | 20 |
| Gary Napalkov | Normal hill | 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 | Large hill | 80.5 | 73.7 | 90.0 | 97.0 | 170.7 | 32 |
| Sergey Yanin | Large hill | 89.0 | 93.1 | 87.0 | 88.3 | 181.4 | 21 |
| Gary Napalkov | Large hill | 99.5 | 111.3 | 92.0 | 98.8 | 210.1 | 6 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | 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 | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Alle Butova | 45.17 | 8 |
| 500 m | Lyudmila Titova | 44.45 | |
| 500 m | Vera Krasnova | 44.01 | |
| 1000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 1:33.41 | 10 |
| 1000 m | Nina Statkevich | 1:32.21 | 5 |
| 1000 m | Lyudmila Titova | 1:31.85 | 4 |
| 1500 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 2:25.85 | 14 |
| 1500 m | Kapitolina Seregina | 2:24.29 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Nina Statkevich | 2:23.19 | 6 |
| 3000 m | Lyudmila Savrulina | 5:06.61 | 8 |
| 3000 m | Kapitolina Seregina | 5:01.88 | 6 |
| 3000 m | 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.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russian SFSR | 36 | 6 | 3 | 45 |
| Totals (1 entries) | Totals (1 entries) | 36 | 6 | 3 | 45 |