# Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) was the host nation of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. 489 competitors, 340 men and 149 women, took part in 202 events in 23 sports.
The Soviet Union won a record 80 gold medals (although since surpassed by the United States), and their 195 total medals are the second best result in history.

## Medalists

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 80 gold and 195 total medals.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Yury Kashirin Oleg Logvin Sergey Shelpakov Anatoly Yarkin | Cycling | Men's team time trial | 20 July |
| Gold | Alexander Melentyev | Shooting | Mixed 50 metre pistol | 20 July |
| Gold | Sergey Fesenko | Swimming | Men's 200 metre butterfly | 20 July |
| Gold | Kanybek Osmonaliyev | Weightlifting | Men's 52 kg | 20 July |
| Gold | Irina Kalinina | Diving | Women's 3 metre springboard | 21 July |
| Gold | Sergey Koplyakov | Swimming | Men's 200 metre freestyle | 21 July |
| Gold | Vladimir Salnikov | Swimming | Men's 1500 metre freestyle | 22 July |
| Gold | Viktor Mazin | Weightlifting | Men's 60 kg | 22 July |
| Gold | Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg | 22 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Portnov | Diving | Men's 3 metre springboard | 23 July |
| Gold | Vladimir Smirnov | Fencing | Men's foil | 23 July |
| Gold | Yelena Davydova Maria Filatova Nellie Kim Yelena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Stella Zakharova | Gymnastics | Women's artistic team all-around | 23 July |
| Gold | Sergey Koplyakov Serhiy Krasyuk Andrey Krylov Yuri Presekin Sergey Rusin Vladimir Salnikov Ivar Stukolkin | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay | 23 July |
| Gold | Lina Kačiušytė | Swimming | Women's 200 metre breaststroke | 23 July |
| Gold | Vakhtang Blagidze | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg | 23 July |
| Gold | Nikolai Andrianov Eduard Azaryan Alexander Dityatin Bohdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Aleksandr Tkachyov | Gymnastics | Men's artistic team all-around | 24 July |
| Gold | Viktor Vlasov | Shooting | Mixed 50 metre rifle three positions | 24 July |
| Gold | Igor Sokolov | Shooting | Mixed 50 metre running target | 24 July |
| Gold | Jaak Uudmäe | Athletics | Men's triple jump | 24 July |
| Gold | Nadiya Tkachenko | Athletics | Women's pentathlon | 24 July |
| Gold | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's artistic individual all-around | 24 July |
| Gold | Yelena Davydova | Gymnastics | Women's artistic individual all-around | 24 July |
| Gold | Anatoli Starostin | Modern pentathlon | Men's individual | 24 July |
| Gold | Pavel Lednyov Yevgeny Lipeyev Anatoli Starostin | Modern pentathlon | Men's team | 24 July |
| Gold | Vladimir Salnikov | Swimming | Men's 400 metre freestyle | 24 July |
| Gold | Shamil Serikov | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg | 24 July |
| Gold | Gennady Korban | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg | 24 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Kolchinsky | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg | 24 July |
| Gold | Viktor Krovopuskov | Fencing | Men's sabre | 25 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Tkachyov | Gymnastics | Men's parallel bars | 25 July |
| Gold | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's rings | 25 July |
| Gold | Nikolai Andrianov | Gymnastics | Men's vault | 25 July |
| Gold | Nellie Kim | Gymnastics | Women's floor | 25 July |
| Gold | Natalia Shaposhnikova | Gymnastics | Women's vault | 25 July |
| Gold | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Athletics | Women's 100 metres | 26 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Krasnov Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vitaly Petrakov | Cycling | Men's team pursuit | 26 July |
| Gold | Yelena Khloptseva Larisa Popova | Rowing | Women's double sculls | 26 July |
| Gold | Robertas Žulpa | Swimming | Men's 200 metre breaststroke | 26 July |
| Gold | Yurik Vardanyan | Weightlifting | Men's 82.5 kg | 26 July |
| Gold | Dainis Kūla | Athletics | Men's javelin throw | 27 July |
| Gold | Nadezhda Olizarenko | Athletics | Women's 800 metres | 27 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Blinov Yuri Salnikov Valery Volkov Sergey Rogozhin | Equestrian | Team eventing | 27 July |
| Gold | Oleksandr Sydorenko | Swimming | Men's 400 metre individual medley | 27 July |
| Gold | Viktor Rashchupkin | Athletics | Men's discus throw | 28 July |
| Gold | Vera Komisova | Athletics | Women's 100 metres hurdles | 28 July |
| Gold | Sergei Sukhoruchenkov | Cycling | Men's individual road race | 28 July |
| Gold | Viktor Asmaev Vyacheslav Chukanov Nikolai Korolkov Viktor Poganovsky | Equestrian | Team jumping | 29 July |
| Gold | Mikhail Burtsev Viktor Krovopuskov Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Nikolay Alyokhin [ru] | Fencing | Men's team sabre | 29 July |
| Gold | Shota Khabareli | Judo | Men's 78 kg | 29 July |
| Gold | Valentin Mankin Aleksandr Muzychenko | Sailing | Star | 29 July |
| Gold | Soviet Union women's national volleyball teamYelena AkhaminovaYelena AndreyukSvetlana BadulinaLyudmila ChernyshyovaLyubov KozyrevaLidiya LoginovaIrina MakogonovaSvetlana NikishinaLarisa PavlovaNadezhda RadzevichNataliya RazumovaOlga Solovova | Volleyball | Women's tournament | 29 July |
| Gold | Soviet Union men's national water polo teamVladimir AkimovAleksei BarkalovYevgeny GrishinMikhail IvanovAleksandr KabanovSergey KotenkoGiorgi MshvenieradzeMait RiismanViacheslav SobchenkoYevgeny SharonovErkin Shagaev | Water polo | Men's tournament | 29 July |
| Gold | Leonid Taranenko | Weightlifting | Men's 110 kg | 29 July |
| Gold | Magomedgasan Abushev | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 62 kg | 29 July |
| Gold | Sanasar Oganisyan | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 90 kg | 29 July |
| Gold | Soviet Union women's national handball teamLarysa KarlovaTetyana KocherhinaValentyna LutayevaAldona NenėnienėLyubov OdynokovaIryna PalchykovaLyudmila PoradnykYuliya SafinaLarisa SavkinaSigita StrečenNataliya TymoshkinaZinaida TurchynaOlha ZubaryevaNatalya Lukyanenko | Handball | Women's tournament | 30 July |
| Gold | Viktor Markin | Athletics | Men's 400 metres | 30 July |
| Gold | Vladimir Kiselyov | Athletics | Men's shot put | 30 July |
| Gold | Soviet Union women's national basketball teamOlga BaryshevaVida BeselienėNelli FeryabnikovaTatyana IvinskayaTetiana NadyrovaLyudmila RogozhinaAngelė RupšienėUljana SemjonovaLyubov SharmayNadezhda Shuvayeva-OlkhovaOlga SukharnovaTatyana Ovechkina | Basketball | Women's tournament | 30 July |
| Gold | Sultan Rakhmanov | Weightlifting | Men's +110 kg | 30 July |
| Gold | Anatoly Beloglazov | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 52 kg | 30 July |
| Gold | Ilya Mate | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 100 kg | 30 July |
| Gold | Yuriy Sedykh | Athletics | Men's hammer throw | 31 July |
| Gold | Tatyana Kolpakova | Athletics | Women's long jump | 31 July |
| Gold | Yuri Kovshov Vira Misevych Viktor Ugryumov | Equestrian | Team dressage | 31 July |
| Gold | Nikolay Solodukhin | Judo | Men's 65 kg | 31 July |
| Gold | Sergei Beloglazov | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 57 kg | 31 July |
| Gold | Saypulla Absaidov | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 68 kg | 31 July |
| Gold | Soslan Andiyev | Wrestling | Men's freestyle +100 kg | 31 July |
| Gold | Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Muravyov Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov | Athletics | Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1 August |
| Gold | Viktor Burakov Nikolay Chernetskiy Mikhail Linge Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 metres relay | 1 August |
| Gold | Tatyana Kazankina | Athletics | Women's 1500 metres | 1 August |
| Gold | Tatyana Goyshchik Irina Nazarova Tatyana Prorochenko Nina Zyuskova | Athletics | Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | 1 August |
| Gold | Sergei Postrekhin | Canoeing | Men's C-1 500 metres | 1 August |
| Gold | Vladimir Parfenovich | Canoeing | Men's K-1 500 metres | 1 August |
| Gold | Sergei Chukhray Vladimir Parfenovich | Canoeing | Men's K-2 500 metres | 1 August |
| Gold | Soviet Union men's national volleyball teamVladimir ChernyshyovVladimir DorokhovAleksandr ErmilovVladimir KondraValeriy KryvovFedir LashchonovViljar LoorOleg MolibogaYury PanchenkoAleksandr SavinPāvels SeļivanovsVyacheslav Zaytsev | Volleyball | Men's tournament | 1 August |
| Gold | Keto Losaberidze | Archery | Women's individual | 2 August |
| Gold | Shamil Sabirov | Boxing | Light flyweight | 2 August |
| Gold | Sergei Chukhray Vladimir Parfenovich | Canoeing | Men's K-2 1000 metres | 2 August |
| Silver | Andrey Krylov | Swimming | Men's 200 metre freestyle | 21 July |
| Silver | Viktor Kuznetsov | Swimming | Men's 100 metre backstroke | 21 July |
| Silver | Yurik Sarkisyan | Weightlifting | Men's 56 kg | 21 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Panfilov | Cycling | Men's track time trial | 22 July |
| Silver | Rustam Yambulatov | Shooting | Mixed trap | 22 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Chayev | Swimming | Men's 1500 metre freestyle | 22 July |
| Silver | Arsens Miskarovs | Swimming | Men's 100 metre breaststroke | 22 July |
| Silver | Igor Kanygin | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg | 22 July |
| Silver | Svetlana Varganova | Swimming | Women's 200 metre breaststroke | 23 July |
| Silver | Anatoly Bykov | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg | 23 July |
| Silver | Pyotr Pochynchuk | Athletics | Men's 20 kilometres walk | 24 July |
| Silver | Viktor Saneyev | Athletics | Men's triple jump | 24 July |
| Silver | Svetlana Krachevskaya | Athletics | Women's shot put | 24 July |
| Silver | Olga Rukavishnikova | Athletics | Women's pentathlon | 24 July |
| Silver | Nikolai Andrianov | Gymnastics | Men's artistic individual all-around | 24 July |
| Silver | Andrey Krylov | Swimming | Men's 400 metre freestyle | 24 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Fedorovsky Sergey Koplyakov Serhiy Krasyuk Viktor Kuznetsov Aleksey Markovsky Arsens Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Vladimir Shemetov | Swimming | Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | 24 July |
| Silver | Oleksandr Perviy | Weightlifting | Men's 75 kg | 24 July |
| Silver | Saida Gunba | Athletics | Women's javelin throw | 25 July |
| Silver | Mikhail Burtsev | Fencing | Men's sabre | 25 July |
| Silver | Nikolai Andrianov | Gymnastics | Men's floor | 25 July |
| Silver | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's horizontal bar | 25 July |
| Silver | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's parallel bars | 25 July |
| Silver | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's pommel horse | 25 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Tkachyov | Gymnastics | Men's rings | 25 July |
| Silver | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's vault | 25 July |
| Silver | Yelena Davydova | Gymnastics | Women's balance beam | 25 July |
| Silver | Vasil Yakusha | Rowing | Men's single sculls | 25 July |
| Silver | Vasyl Arkhypenko | Athletics | Men's 400 metres hurdles | 26 July |
| Silver | Yuriy Kutsenko | Athletics | Men's decathlon | 26 July |
| Silver | Sirvard Emirzyan | Diving | Women's 10 metre platform | 26 July |
| Silver | Ashot Karagyan Vladimir Lapitsky Alexandr Romankov Sabirzhan Ruziyev Vladimir Smirnov | Fencing | Men's team foil | 26 July |
| Silver | Antonina Makhina | Rowing | Women's single sculls | 26 July |
| Silver | Nina Cheremisina Nadezhda Lyubimova Yelena Matiyevskaya Antonina Pustovit Olga Vasilchenko | Rowing | Women's quadruple sculls | 26 July |
| Silver | Nina Frolova Maria Paziun Olga Pivovarova Nina Preobrazhenskaya Nadezhda Prishchepa Tatyana Stetsenko Elena Tereshina Nina Umanets Valentina Zhulina | Rowing | Women's eight | 26 July |
| Silver | Elvira Vasilkova | Swimming | Women's 100 metre breaststroke | 26 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Makarov | Athletics | Men's javelin throw | 27 July |
| Silver | Olga Mineyeva | Athletics | Women's 800 metres | 27 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Blinov | Equestrian | Individual eventing | 27 July |
| Silver | Nailya Gilyazova Elena Belova Valentina Sidorova Larisa Tsagarayeva Irina Ushakova | Fencing | Women's team foil | 27 July |
| Silver | Tengiz Khubuluri | Judo | Men's 95 kg | 27 July |
| Silver | Evgeniy Barbakov Mykola Dovhan Valeriy Kleshnyov Yuriy Shapochka | Rowing | Men's quadruple sculls | 27 July |
| Silver | Nikolay Pimenov Yuriy Pimenov | Rowing | Men's coxless pair | 27 July |
| Silver | Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) Viktor Pereverzev | Rowing | Men's coxed pair | 27 July |
| Silver | Valeriy Dolinin Vitaliy Eliseyev Aleksey Kamkin Aleksandr Kulagin | Rowing | Men's coxless four | 27 July |
| Silver | Artūrs Garonskis Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Žoržs Tikmers Juris Bērziņš (cox) | Rowing | Men's coxed four | 27 July |
| Silver | Sergey Fesenko | Swimming | Men's 400 metre individual medley | 27 July |
| Silver | Vladimir Aleynik | Diving | Men's 10 metre platform | 28 July |
| Silver | Igor Nikitin | Weightlifting | Men's 100 kg | 28 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Budnikov Boris Budnikov Nikolay Polyakov | Sailing | Soling | 29 July |
| Silver | Konstantin Volkov | Athletics | Men's pole vault | 30 July |
| Silver | Aleksandr Baryshnikov | Athletics | Men's shot put | 30 July |
| Silver | Natalya Bochina | Athletics | Women's 200 metres | 30 July |
| Silver | Soviet Union men's national handball teamAleksandr AnpilogovVladimir BelovYevgeni ChernyshovAnatoli FedyukinMykhaylo IshchenkoAleksandr KarshakevichYury KidyayevVladimir KravtsovSerhiy KushniryukViktor MakhorinVoldemaras NovickisVladimir RepyevMykola TomynAleksey Zhuk | Handball | Men's tournament | 30 July |
| Silver | Sergey Litvinov | Athletics | Men's hammer throw | 31 July |
| Silver | Magomedkhan Aratsilov | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 82 kg | 31 July |
| Silver | Vera Anisimova Natalya Bochina Vera Komisova Lyudmila Maslakova | Athletics | Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1 August |
| Silver | Galina Alexeyeva Nina Trofimova | Canoeing | Women's K-2 500 metres | 1 August |
| Silver | Yuri Kovshov | Equestrian | Individual dressage | 1 August |
| Silver | Boris Isachenko | Archery | Men's individual | 2 August |
| Silver | Natalya Butuzova | Archery | Women's individual | 2 August |
| Silver | Viktor Miroshnichenko | Boxing | Flyweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Viktor Demyanenko | Boxing | Lightweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Serik Konakbayev | Boxing | Light welterweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Aleksandr Koshkin | Boxing | Light middleweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Viktor Savchenko | Boxing | Middleweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Pyotr Zayev | Boxing | Heavyweight | 2 August |
| Silver | Sergei Postrekhin | Canoeing | Men's C-1 1000 metres | 2 August |
| Silver | Nikolai Korolkov | Equestrian | Individual jumping | 3 August |
| Bronze | Irina Aksyonova Alla Grishchenkova Olga Klevakina Yelena Kruglova Natalya Strunnikova Elvira Vasilkova | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | 20 July |
| Bronze | Vladimir Dolgov | Swimming | Men's 100 metre backstroke | 21 July |
| Bronze | Boris Kramarenko | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 62 kg | 22 July |
| Bronze | Alexandr Romankov | Fencing | Men's foil | 23 July |
| Bronze | Yuliya Bogdanova | Swimming | Women's 200 metre breaststroke | 23 July |
| Bronze | Olga Kuragina | Athletics | Women's pentathlon | 24 July |
| Bronze | Pavel Lednyov | Modern pentathlon | Men's individual | 24 July |
| Bronze | Aleksandr Gazov | Shooting | Mixed 50 metre running target | 24 July |
| Bronze | Ivar Stukolkin | Swimming | Men's 400 metre freestyle | 24 July |
| Bronze | Alexander Dityatin | Gymnastics | Men's floor | 25 July |
| Bronze | Nikolai Andrianov | Gymnastics | Men's horizontal bar | 25 July |
| Bronze | Natalia Shaposhnikova | Gymnastics | Women's balance beam | 25 July |
| Bronze | Natalia Shaposhnikova | Gymnastics | Women's floor | 25 July |
| Bronze | Maria Filatova | Gymnastics | Women's uneven bars | 25 July |
| Bronze | Nikolay Kirov | Athletics | Men's 800 metres | 26 July |
| Bronze | Sergey Zhelanov | Athletics | Men's decathlon | 26 July |
| Bronze | Sergei Kopylov | Cycling | Men's sprint | 26 July |
| Bronze | Liana Tsotadze | Diving | Women's 10 metre platform | 26 July |
| Bronze | Hryhoriy Dmytrenko Viktor Kokoshyn Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Jonas Narmontas Jonas Pinskus Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko | Rowing | Men's eight | 26 July |
| Bronze | Nina Cheremisina Mariya Fadeyeva Svetlana Semyonova Galina Sovetnikova Marina Studneva | Rowing | Women's coxed four | 26 July |
| Bronze | Arsens Miskarovs | Swimming | Men's 200 metre breaststroke | 26 July |
| Bronze | Aleksandr Puchkov | Athletics | Men's 110 metres hurdles | 27 July |
| Bronze | Tatyana Providokhina | Athletics | Women's 800 metres | 27 July |
| Bronze | Yuri Salnikov | Equestrian | Individual eventing | 27 July |
| Bronze | Valeriy Pidluzhnyy | Athletics | Men's long jump | 28 July |
| Bronze | Yuri Barinov | Cycling | Men's individual road race | 28 July |
| Bronze | David Hambartsumyan | Diving | Men's 10 metre platform | 28 July |
| Bronze | Aleksandrs Jackēvičs | Judo | Men's 86 kg | 28 July |
| Bronze | Soviet Union men's national field hockey teamMinneula AzizovValeri BelyakovViktor DeputatovAleksandr GoncharovAleksandr GusevSos HayrapetyanSergei KlevtsovVyacheslav LampeyevAleksandr MyasnikovMikhail NichepurenkoLeonid PavlovskiSergei PleshakovVladimir PleshakovAleksandr SychyovOleg ZagorodnevFarit Zigangirov | Field hockey | Men's tournament | 29 July |
| Bronze | Andrey Balashov | Sailing | Finn | 29 July |
| Bronze | Sergey Kornilayev | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 48 kg | 29 July |
| Bronze | Yevgeniy Ivchenko | Athletics | Men's 50 kilometres walk | 30 July |
| Bronze | Soviet Union men's national basketball teamAlexander BelostennySergei BelovNikolay DeryuginSergejus JovaišaAndrey LopatovValery MiloserdovAnatoly MyshkinAleksandr SalnikovSergei TarakanovVladimir TkachenkoStanislav YeryominVladimir Zhigily | Basketball | Men's tournament | 30 July |
| Bronze | Jüri Tamm | Athletics | Men's hammer throw | 31 July |
| Bronze | Tetyana Skachko | Athletics | Women's long jump | 31 July |
| Bronze | Viktor Rybakov | Boxing | Featherweight | 31 July |
| Bronze | Aleksandr Abushakhmetov Ashot Karagyan Boris Lukomsky Aleksandr Mozhayev Vladimir Smirnov | Fencing | Men's team épée | 31 July |
| Bronze | Soviet Union women's national field hockey teamLeyla AkhmerovaNatalia BuzunovaNatalia BykovaNadezhda FilippovaLyudmila FrolovaLidiya GlubokovaNelli GorbatkovaYelena GuryevaGalina InzhuvatovaAlina KhamNatella KrasnikovaNadezhda OvechkinaTatyana ShvyganovaGalina VyuzhaninaTatyana YembakhtovaValentina Zazdravnykh | Field hockey | Women's tournament | 31 July |
| Bronze | Satymkul Dzhumanazarov | Athletics | Men's marathon | 1 August |
| Bronze | Nadezhda Olizarenko | Athletics | Women's 1500 metres | 1 August |
| Bronze | Tatyana Lesovaya | Athletics | Women's discus throw | 1 August |
| Bronze | Antonina Melnikova | Canoeing | Women's K-1 500 metres | 1 August |
| Bronze | Viktor Ugryumov | Equestrian | Individual dressage | 1 August |
| Bronze | Soviet Union national football teamSergey AndreyevSergei BaltachaVolodymyr BezsonovRevaz ChelebadzeFyodor CherenkovAleksandre ChivadzeRinat DasayevYuri GavrilovValery GazzaevVagiz KhidiyatullinSergei NikulinKhoren OganesianVladimir PilguyAleksandr ProkopenkoOleg RomantsevSergey ShavloTengiz Sulakvelidze | Football | Men's tournament | 1 August |
| Bronze | Aramby Emizh | Judo | Men's 60 kg | 1 August |
| Bronze | Yuri Lobanov Vasyl Yurchenko | Canoeing | Men's C-2 1000 metres | 2 August |

## Competitors

| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Archery | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Athletics | 64 | 35 | 99 |
| Basketball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Boxing | 11 | — | 11 |
| Canoeing | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| Cycling | 13 | — | 13 |
| Diving | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Equestrian | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| Fencing | 14 | 5 | 19 |
| Field hockey | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| Football | 17 | — | 17 |
| Gymnastics | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Handball | 14 | 13 | 27 |
| Judo | 8 | — | 8 |
| Modern pentathlon | 3 | — | 3 |
| Rowing | 30 | 24 | 54 |
| Sailing | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Shooting | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Swimming | 24 | 15 | 39 |
| Volleyball | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| Water polo | 11 | — | 11 |
| Weightlifting | 10 | — | 10 |
| Wrestling | 20 | — | 20 |
| Total | 341 | 149 | 490 |

## Archery
### Men

| Athlete | Event | 90 m | 70 m | 50 m | 30 m | Total | Rank |
| Boris Isachenko | Men's individual | 271 | 303 | 302 | 341 | 2452 | |
| Boris Isachenko | Men's individual | 289 | 312 | 300 | 334 | 2452 | |
| Vladimir Yesheyev | Men's individual | 278 | 307 | 294 | 343 | 2432 | 6 |
| Vladimir Yesheyev | Men's individual | 268 | 310 | 306 | 326 | 2432 | 6 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | 70 m | 60 m | 50 m | 30 m | Total |
| Natalya Butuzova | Women's individual | 301 | 314 | 301 | 335 | 2477 |
| Natalya Butuzova | Women's individual | 278 | 306 | 300 | 342 | 2477 |
| Keto Losaberidze | Women's individual | 299 | 317 | 295 | 346 | 2491 |
| Keto Losaberidze | Women's individual | 282 | 304 | 304 | 344 | 2491 |

## Athletics
### Men's competition

Men's 100 metres
* Aleksandr Aksinin
   * Heat — 10.26
   * Quarterfinals — 10.29
   * Semifinals — 10.45
   * Final — 10.42 (→ 4th place)
* Vladimir Muravyov
   * Heat — 10.37
   * Quarterfinals — 10.34
   * Semifinals — 10.42
   * Final — 10.44 (→ 6th place)
* Andrei Shlyapnikov
   * Heat — 10.43
   * Quarterfinals — 10.59 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200 metres
* Nikolay Sidorov
   * Heat — 21.15
   * Quarterfinals — 20.83
   * Semifinals — 21.17 (→ did not advance)
* Vladimir Muravyov
   * Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)
* Aleksandr Stasevich
   * Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 400 metres
* Viktor Markin
   * Heat — 46.88
   * Quarterfinals — 45.58
   * Semifinals — 45.60
   * Final — 44.60 (→ Gold medal)
* Viktor Burakov
   * Heat — 46.41
   * Quarterfinals — 46.23
   * Semifinals — 45.97 (→ did not advance)
* Nikolay Chernetsky
   * Heat — 47.04
   * Quarterfinals — 46.30
   * Semifinals — 45.94 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
* Nikolay Kirov
   * Heat — 1:47.5
   * Semifinals — 1:46.7
   * Final — 1:46.0 (→ Bronze medal)
* Anatoliy Reshetnyak
   * Heat — 1:47.9
   * Semifinals — 1:48.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's 1,500 metres
* Vladimir Malozemlin
   * Heat — 3:38.7
   * Semifinals — 3:43.6 (→ did not advance)
* Vitaliy Tyshchenko
   * Heat — 3:44.4
   * Semifinals — 3:41.5 (→ did not advance)
* Pavel Yakovlev
   * Heat — 3:44.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5,000 metres
* Aleksandr Fyodotkin
   * Heat — 13:45.6
   * Semifinals — 13:31.9
   * Final — 13:24.1 (→ 8th place)
* Valery Abramov
   * Heat — 13:42.9
   * Semifinals — 13:40.7 (→ did not advance)
* Enn Sellik
   * Heat — 13:52.4 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
* Enn Sellik
   * Heat — 29:12.1
   * Final — 28:13.8 (→ 8th place)
* Vladimir Shesterov
   * Heat — 29:32.4 (→ did not advance)
* Aleksandras Antipovas
   * Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres relay
* Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin and Andrey Prokofyev
   * Heat — 38.68
   * Final — 38.26 (→ Gold medal)
Men's 4x400 metres relay
* Nikolay Chernetskiy, Mikhail Linge, Remigijus Valiulis and Viktor Burakov
   * Heat — 3:01.8
* Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolay Chernetskiy and Viktor Markin
   * Final — 3:01.1 (→ Gold medal)
Men's 110 m hurdles
* Aleksandr Puchkov
   * Heat — 13.84
   * Semifinals — 13.50
   * Final — 13.44 (→ Bronze medal)
* Andrey Prokofyev
   * Heat — 13.61
   * Semifinals — 13.59
   * Final — 13.49 (→ 4th place)
* Yuriy Chervanev
   * Heat — 13.75
   * Semifinals — 13.78
   * Final — 15.80 (→ 8th place)
Men's 400 m hurdles
* Vasyl Arkhypenko
   * Heat — 50.22
   * Semifinals — 49.80
   * Final — 48.86 (→ Silver medal)
* Nikolay Vasilyev
   * Heat — 50.09
   * Semifinals — 49.87
   * Final — 49.34 (→ 4th place)
* Aleksandr Kharlov
   * Heat — 50.79
   * Semifinals — 50.64 (→ did not advance)
Men's 3,000 m steeplechase
* Anatoliy Dimov
   * Heat — 8:33.2
   * Semifinals — 8:24.9
   * Final — 8:19.8 (→ 8th place)
* Serhiy Olizarenko
   * Heat — 8:34.3
   * Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)
* Aleksandr Vorobey
   * Heat — 8:42.6
   * Semifinals — 8:44.3 (→ did not advance)
Men's marathon
* Setymkul Dzhumanazarov
   * Final — 2:11:35 (→ Bronze medal)
* Vladimir Kotov
   * Final — 2:12:05 (→ 4th place)
* Leonid Moseyev
   * Final — 2:12:14 (→ 5th place)
Men's 20 km walk
* Pyotr Pochenchuk
   * Final — 1:24:45.4 (→ Silver medal)
* Yevgeniy Yevsyukov
   * Final — 1:26:28.3 (→ 4th place)
* Anatoliy Solomin
   * Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's 50 km walk
* Yevgeniy Ivchenko
   * Final — 3:56:32 (→ Bronze medal)
* Vyacheslav Fursov
   * Final — 3:58:32 (→ 5th place)
* Boris Yakovlev
   * Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's long jump
* Valeriy Podluzhniy
   * Qualification — 8.02 m
   * Final — 8.18 m (→ Bronze medal)
* Viktor Belskiy
   * Qualification — 8.01 m
   * Final — 8.10 m (→ 6th place)
Men's high jump
* Aleksandr Grigoryev
   * Qualification — 2.21 m
   * Final — 2.21 m (→ 8th place)
* Gennadiy Belkov
   * Qualification — 2.21 m
   * Final — 2.21 m (→ 10th place)
* Aleksey Demyanyuk
   * Qualification — 2.21 m
   * Final — 2.21 m (→ 11th place)
Men's pole vault
* Konstantin Volkov
   * Qualification — 5.35 m
   * Final — 5.65 m (→ Silver medal)
* Sergey Kulibaba
   * Qualification — 5.35 m
   * Final — 5.45 m (→ 8th place)
* Yury Prokhorenko
   * Qualification — no mark (→ did not advance)
Men's triple jump
* Jaak Uudmäe
   * Qualification — 16.69 m
   * Final — 17.35 m (→ Gold medal)
* Viktor Saneyev
   * Qualification — 16.57 m
   * Final — 17.24 m (→ Silver medal)
* Yevgeni Anikin
   * Qualification — 16.77 m
   * Final — 16.12 m (→ 9th place)
Men's hammer throw
* Yuriy Sedykh
   * Qualification — 78.22 m
   * Final Round — 81.80 m (→ Gold medal)
* Sergey Litvinov
   * Qualification — 75.24 m
   * Final Round — 80.64 m (→ Silver medal)
* Jüri Tamm
   * Qualification — 76.24 m
   * Final Round — 78.96 m (→ Bronze medal)
Men's discus throw
* Viktor Rashchupkin
   * Qualification — 64.78 m
   * Final — 66.64 m (→ Gold medal)
* Yuriy Dumchev
   * Qualification — 62.82 m
   * Final — 65.58 m (→ 5th place)
* Ihor Duhinets
   * Qualification — 63.10 m
   * Final — 64.04 m (→ 6th place)
Men's shot put
* Vladimir Kiselyov
   * Qualification — 20.72 m
   * Final — 21.35 m (→ Gold medal)
* Aleksandr Baryshnikov
   * Qualification — 20.58 m
   * Final — 21.08 m (→ Silver medal)
* Anatoli Yarosh
   * Qualification — 20.19 m
   * Final — 19.93 m (→ 9th place)
Men's javelin throw
* Dainis Kula
   * Qualification — 85.76 m
   * Final — 91.20 m (→ Gold medal)
* Aleksandr Makarov
   * Qualification — 83.32 m
   * Final — 89.64 m (→ Silver medal)
* Heino Puuste
   * Qualification — 82.96 m
   * Final — 86.10 m (→ 4th place)
Men's decathlon
* Yuriy Kutsenko
   * Final — 8331 points (→ Silver medal)
* Sergei Zhelanov
   * Final — 8135 points (→ Bronze medal)
* Valeri Kachanov
   * Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

### Women's competition

Women's 100 metres
* Lyudmila Kondratyeva
   * Heat — 11.13
   * Quarterfinals — 11.06
   * Semifinals — 11.11
   * Final — 11.06 (→ Gold medal)
* Vera Anisimova
   * Heat — 11.53
   * Quarterfinals — 11.33
   * Semifinals — 11.51 (→ did not advance)
* Natalya Bochina
   * Heat — 11.38
   * Quarterfinals — 11.30
   * Semifinals — 11.38 (→ did not advance)
Women's 200 metres
* Natalya Bochina
   * Heat — 23.28
   * Quarterfinals — 22.26
   * Semifinals — 22.75
   * Final — 22.19 (→ Silver medal)
* Lyudmila Maslakova
   * Heat — 23.49
   * Quarterfinals — 23.24
   * Semifinals — 23.27 (→ did not advance)
Women's 400 metres
* Irina Nazarova
   * Heat — 51.66
   * Semifinals — 50.18
   * Final — 50.07 (→ 4th place)
* Nina Ziuskova
   * Heat — 51.42
   * Semifinals — 51.12
   * Final — 50.17 (→ 5th place)
* Lyudmila Chernova
   * Heat — 51.51
   * Semifinals — 51.30 (→ did not advance)
Women's 800 metres
* Nadiya Olizarenko
   * Heat — 1:59.3
   * Semifinals — 1:57.7
   * Final — 1:53.5 (→ Gold medal)
* Olga Mineyeva
   * Heat — 2:01.5
   * Semifinals — 1:57.5
   * Final — 1:54.9 (→ Silver medal)
* Tatyana Providokhina
   * Heat — 1:58.5
   * Semifinals — 1:58.3
   * Final — 1:55.5 (→ Bronze medal)
Women's 1,500 metres
* Tatyana Kazankina
   * Heat — 3:59.2
   * Final — 3:56.6 (→ Gold medal)
* Nadiya Olizarenko
   * Heat — 3:59.5
   * Final — 3:59.6 (→ Bronze medal)
* Lyubov Smolka
   * Heat — 4:04.4
   * Final — 4:01.3 (→ 6th place)
Women's 100 m hurdles
* Vera Komisova
   * Heat — 12.67
   * Semifinal — 12.78
   * Final — 12.56 (→ Gold medal)
* Irina Litovchenko
   * Heat — 12.97
   * Semifinal — 12.84
   * Final — 12.84 (→ 6th place)
* Tatyana Anisimova
   * Heat — 13.31
   * Semifinal — did not start (→ did not advance)
Women's 4x100 metres relay
* Vera Komisova, Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Anisimova and Natalya Bochina
   * Final — 42.10 (→ Silver medal)
Women's 4x400 metres relay
* Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Lyudmila Chernova and Olga Mineyeva
   * Heat — 3:25.3
* Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova and Irina Nazarova
   * Final — 3:20.2 (→ Gold medal)
Women's high jump
* Marina Sysoeva
   * Qualification — 1.88 m
   * Final — 1.91 m (→ 5th place)
* Tamara Bykova
   * Qualification — 1.88 m
   * Final — 1.88 m (→ 9th place)
* Marina Serkova
   * Qualification — 1.80 m (→ did not advance)
Women's long jump
* Tatyana Kolpakova
   * Qualification — 6.70 m
   * Final — 7.06 m (→ Gold medal)
* Tetyana Skachko
   * Qualification — 6.56 m
   * Final — 7.01 m (→ Bronze medal)
* Lidiya Alfeyeva
   * Qualification — 6.78 m
   * Final — 6.71 m (→ 8th place)
Women's discus throw
* Tatyana Lesovaya
   * Qualification — 62.20 m
   * Final — 67.40 m (→ Bronze medal)
* Galina Murašova
   * Qualification — 60.32 m
   * Final — 63.84 m (→ 7th place)
* Faina Melnik
   * Qualification — 53.76 m (→ did not advance)
Women's javelin throw
* Saida Gunba
   * Qualification — 63.98 m
   * Final — 67.76 m (→ Silver medal)
* Tatyana Biryulina
   * Qualification — 59.86 m
   * Final — 65.08 m (→ 6th place)
* Yadviga Putiniene
   * Qualification — 62.96 m
   * Final — 59.94 m (→ 11th place)
Women's shot put
* Svetlana Krachevskaia
   * Final — 21.42 m (→ Silver medal)
* Nunu Abashidze
   * Final — 21.15 m (→ 4th place)
* Natalya Akhrimenko
   * Final — 19.74 m (→ 7th place)
Women's pentathlon
* Nadiya Tkachenko — 5083 points (→ Gold medal)
** 100 metres — 13.29s
** Shot put — 16.84m
** High jump — 1.84m
** Long jump — 6.73m
** 800 metres — 2:05.20
* Olga Rukavishnikova — 4937 points (→ Silver medal)
** 100 metres — 13.66s
** Shot put — 14.09m
** High jump — 1.88m
** Long jump — 6.79m
** 800 metres — 2:04.80
* Olga Kuragina — 4875 points (→ Bronze medal)
** 100 metres — 13.26s
** Shot put — 12.49m
** High jump — 1.84m
** Long jump — 6.77m
** 800 metres — 2:03.60

## Basketball
### Summary

| Team | Event | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Final round / Classification round | Final round / Classification round | Final round / Classification round | Final round / Classification round | Final round / Classification round | | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Men's tournament | India W 121–65 | Brazil W 101–88 | Czechoslovakia W 99–82 | 1 Q | Spain W 102–81 | Italy L 85–87 | Yugoslavia L 91–101 | Cuba W 109–90 | — | 3 q | Spain W 117–74 | |
| Soviet Union women's | Women's tournament | — | — | — | — | Yugoslavia W 97–62 | Bulgaria W 122–83 | Italy W 119–53 | Cuba W 95–56 | Hungary W 120–62 | 1 Q | Bulgaria W 104–73 | |

## Boxing

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Shamil Sabirov | Light flyweight | — | Bye | Miguel (POR) W 5–0 | Geilich (GDR) W 4–1 | Li (PRK) W 5–0 | Ramos (CUB) W 3–2 | |
| Viktor Miroshnichenko | Flyweight | — | Bye | Hernández (CUB) W 4–1 | Średnicki (POL) W 5–0 | Váradi (HUN) W 4–1 | Lesov (BUL) L RSC | |
| Samson Khachatryan | Bantamweight | Bye | Tena (DOM) W 5–0 | Ahanda (CMR) W 5–0 | Cipere (ROU) L 1–4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Viktor Rybakov | Featherweight | Bye | Londas (FRA) W 5–0 | Hanlon (GBR) W 5–0 | Andreykovski (BUL) W 4–1 | Fink (GDR) L 1–4 | Did not advance | |
| Viktor Demyanenko | Lightweight | — | Bangura (SLE) W DSQ | Jong (PRK) W 5–0 | Lesov (BUL) W 5–0 | Nowakowski (GDR) W RSC | Herrera (CUB) L RSC | |
| Serik Konakbayev | Light welterweight | — | Cuțov (ROU) W 5–0 | Bacskai (HUN) W RET | Molina (PUR) W WO | Aguilar (CUB) W 4–1 | Oliva (ITA) L 1–4 | |
| Israel Akopkokhyan | Welterweight | — | Bye | Aldama (CUB) L 2–3 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Aleksandr Koshkin | Light middleweight | — | Bye | Beden (IRQ) W KO | Wilshire (GBR) W KO | Kästner (GDR) W 5–0 | Martínez (CUB) L 1–4 | |
| Viktor Savchenko | Middleweight | — | Škaro (YUG) L RSC | Pfitscher (AUT) W RSC | Trauten (GDR) W RSC | Rybicki (POL) W RSC | Gómez (CUB) L 1–4 | |
| David Kvachadze | Light heavyweight | — | — | Straughn (GBR) W RSC | Kačar (YUG) L 1–4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Pyotr Zayev | Heavyweight | — | — | Salihu (YUG) W 5–0 | Damiani (ITA) W 5–0 | Fanghänel (GDR) W 5–0 | Stevenson (CUB) L 1–4 | |

## Canoeing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Sergei Postrekhin | C-1 500 m | 1:54.13 | 1 QF | — | — | Bye | Bye | 1:53.37 | |
| Sergei Postrekhin | C-1 1000 m | 4:07.39 | 3 QF | — | — | Bye | Bye | 4:13.53 | |
| Serhiy Petrenko Aleksandr Vinogradov | C-2 500 m | 1:44.54 | 3 QS | — | — | Bye | Bye | 1:46.95 | 6 |
| Vasyl Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov | C-2 1000 m | 3:41.32 | 2 QF | — | — | Bye | Bye | 3:51.28 | |
| Vladimir Parfenovich | K-1 500 m | 1:44.80 | 1 QS | Bye | Bye | 1:43.24 | 1 QF | 1:43.43 | |
| Rasmutis Višinskis | K-1 1000 m | 3:48.57 | 4 QR | 3:50.29 | 1 QS | 3:54.52 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray | K-2 500 m | 1:33.75 | 1 QS | Bye | Bye | 1:34.71 | 1 QF | 1:32.38 | |
| Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray | K-2 1000 m | 3:24.61 | 1 QS | Bye | Bye | 3:35.81 | 1 QF | 3:26.72 | |
| Gennady Makhnev Serhei Nahorny Aleksandr Avdeyev Vladimir Tainikov | K-4 1000 m | 3:02.70 | 1 QF | — | — | Bye | Bye | 3:19.83 | 7 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Antonina Melnikova | K-1 500 m | 1:58.74 | 1 QF | Bye | Bye | 1:59.66 | |
| Galina Alekseyeva Nina Trofimova | K-2 500 m | 1:47.07 | 1 QF | Bye | Bye | 1:46.91 | |

## Cycling

Thirteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1980.

### Road

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Yuri Barinov | Road race | | |
| Yury Kashirin | Road race | | 23 |
| Sergei Sukhoruchenkov | Road race | 4:48:28.9 | |
| Anatoly Yarkin | Road race | | 6 |
| Yury Kashirin Oleg Logvin Sergey Shelpakov Anatoly Yarkin | Team time trial | 2:01:21.74 | |

### Track
#### Pursuit

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Rank |
| Vladimir Osokin | Individual pursuit | 4:41.51 | 5 Q | Dill-Bundi (SUI) L 4:38.17 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Aleksandr Krasnov Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vladimir Osokin Vitaly Petrakov | Team pursuit | 4:16.62 | 1 Q | Australia (AUS) W 4:14.64 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) W 4:26.52 | East Germany (GDR) W 4:15.70 | |

#### Sprint

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary Round 1 | Round 1 Repechage | Preliminary Round 2 | Round 2 Repechage | Round of 16 | Round of 16 Repechage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Opposition Time | Rank |
| Sergei Kopylov | Sprint | Ahokas (FIN) W WO | Bye | Joseph (GUY) W 10.55 | Bye | Tucker (AUS) W 10.55 | Bye | Dazzan (ITA) W 10.76, W 11.00 | Heßlich (GDR) L, L | Tkáč (TCH) W 10.56, W 10.47 | |

#### Time trial

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Aleksandr Panfilov | 1 km time trial | 1:04.845 | |

## Diving
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Aleksandr Kosenkov | 3 m springboard | 558.90 | 4 Q | 575.67 | 4 | 279.450 | 5 |
| Aleksandr Portnov | 3 m springboard | 580.11 | 2 Q | 614.97 | 1 | 905.025 | |
| Vyacheslav Troshin | 3 m springboard | 552.42 | 7 Q | 543.84 | 7 | 820.050 | 7 |
| Vladimir Aleynik | 10 m platform | 539.07 | 2 Q | 550.17 | 4 | 819.705 | |
| David Hambartsumyan | 10 m platform | 518.82 | 4 Q | 558.03 | 2 | 817.440 | |
| Sergey Nemtsanov | 10 m platform | 487.20 | 8 Q | 532.26 | 6 | 775.860 | 7 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Irina Kalinina | 3 m springboard | 478.86 | 1 Q | 486.48 | 1 | 725.910 | |
| Irina Sidorova | 3 m springboard | 432.57 | 5 Q | 433.98 | 8 | 650.265 | 7 |
| Zhanna Tsiryulnikova | 3 m springboard | 454.35 | 2 Q | 446.49 | 5 | 673.665 | 4 |
| Sirvard Emirzyan | 10 m platform | 381.99 | 1 Q | 385.47 | 3 | 576.465 | |
| Yelena Matyushenko | 10 m platform | 351.00 | 6 Q | 364.68 | 4 | 540.180 | 5 |
| Liana Tsotadze | 10 m platform | 360.87 | 2 Q | 395.49 | 2 | 575.925 | |

## Equestrian
### Dressage, Individual

* Yuriy Kovshov → Silver medal
* Viktor Ugryumov → Bronze medal
* Vera Misevich → 4th place

### Team dressage

* Yuriy Kovshov, Viktor Ugryumov, Vera Misevich → Gold medal

### Three-Day Event, Individual

* Aleksandr Blinov → Silver medal
* Yuri Salnikov → Bronze medal
* Valery Volkov → 4th place
* Sergey Rogozhin → 11th place

### Three-Day Event, Team

* Aleksandr Blinov, Yuri Salnikov, Valery Volkov, Sergey Rogozhin → Gold medal

### Jumping, Individual

* Nikolai Korolkov → Silver medal
* Viktor Poganovsky → 5th place
* Vyacheslav Chukanov → 9th place

### Jumping, Team

* Nikolai Korolkov, Viktor Poganovsky, Vyacheslav Chukanov, Viktor Asmaev → Gold medal

## Fencing

18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented Soviet Union in 1980.

### Men's foil

* Volodymyr Smyrnov → Gold medal
* Aleksandr Romankov → Bronze medal
* Sabirzhan Ruziyev → 4th place

### Men's team foil

* Aleksandr Romankov, Volodymyr Smyrnov, Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Ashot Karagyan, Vladimir Lapitsky → Silver medal

### Men's épée

* Aleksandr Mozhayev → 5th place
* Boris Lukomsky → 7th place
* Aleksandr Abushakhmetov → 9th place

### Men's team épée

* Ashot Karagyan, Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Aleksandr Mozhayev, Boris Lukomsky, Volodymyr Smyrnov → Bronze medal

### Men's sabre

* Viktor Krovopuskov → Gold medal
* Mikhail Burtsev → Silver medal
* Vladimir Nazlymov → 8th place

### Men's team sabre

* Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Krovopuskov, Mikhail Burtsev, Nikolai Alyokhin → Gold medal

### Women's foil

* Nailya Gilyazova → 9th place
* Yelena Novikova-Belova → 9th place
* Valentina Sidorova → 13th place

### Women's team foil

* Valentina Sidorova, Nailya Gilyazova, Yelena Novikova-Belova, Irina Ushakova, Larisa Tsagarayeva → Silver medal

## Field hockey
### Summary

| Team | Event | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Final / BM / Pl | Final / BM / Pl |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Men's tournament | Spain L 1–2 | Cuba W 11–2 | Poland W 5–1 | Tanzania W 11–2 | India L 2–4 | 3 q | Poland W 2–1 | |
| Soviet Union women's | Women's tournament | Czechoslovakia W 2–0 | Austria L 0–2 | Zimbabwe L 0–2 | Poland W 6–0 | India W 3–1 | | — | — |

## Football
### Summary

| Team | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Team | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Venezuela W 4–0 | Zambia W 3–1 | Cuba W 8–0 | 1 Q | Kuwait W 2–1 | East Germany L 0–1 | Yugoslavia W 2–0 | |
Team roster
   * Rinat Dasayev
   * Tengiz Sulakvelidze
   * Aleksandre Chivadze
   * Vagiz Khidiyatullin
   * Oleg Romantsev
   * Sergey Shavlo
   * Sergey Andreyev
   * Volodymyr Bezsonov
   * Yuri Gavrilov
   * Fyodor Cherenkov
   * Valery Gazzaev
   * Vladimir Pilguy
   * Sergei Baltacha
   * Sergei Nikulin
   * Khoren Oganesian
   * Aleksandr Prokopenko
   * Revaz Chelebadze

## Gymnastics
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Event | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Event | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | Total | Rank |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Qualification | C | 9.90 | 9.75 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 9.80 | 59.075 | 2 Q |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Qualification | O | 9.85 | 9.85 | 9.85 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.85 | 59.075 | 2 Q |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Qualification | Total | 9.875 Q | 9.800 | 9.825 | 9.900 Q | 9.850 | 9.825 Q | 59.075 | 2 Q |
| Nikolai Andrianov | All-around | All-around | 9.800 | 9.900 | 9.950 | 10.000 | 9.850 | 9.950 | 118.225 | |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Floor | Floor | 9.850 | — | — | — | — | — | 19.725 | |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Vault | Vault | — | — | — | 9.925 | — | — | 19.825 | |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Horizontal bar | Horizontal bar | — | — | — | — | — | 9.850 | 19.675 | |
| Eduard Azaryan | Qualification | C | 9.75 | 9.80 | 9.75 | 9.75 | 9.65 | 9.75 | 58.700 | 4 |
| Eduard Azaryan | Qualification | O | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.85 | 9.85 | 9.75 | 9.80 | 58.700 | 4 |
| Eduard Azaryan | Qualification | Total | 9.775 | 9.850 | 9.800 | 9.800 | 9.700 | 9.775 | 58.700 | 4 |
| Alexander Dityatin | Qualification | C | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.85 | 9.80 | 9.80 | 59.200 | 1 Q |
| Alexander Dityatin | Qualification | O | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.95 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 59.200 | 1 Q |
| Alexander Dityatin | Qualification | Total | 9.800 Q | 9.900 Q | 9.925 Q | 9.875 Q | 9.850 Q | 9.850 Q | 59.200 | 1 Q |
| Alexander Dityatin | All-around | All-around | 9.800 | 9.900 | 9.950 | 10.000 | 9.850 | 9.950 | 118.650 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Floor | Floor | 9.900 | — | — | — | — | — | 19.700 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Pommel horse | Pommel horse | — | 9.900 | — | — | — | — | 19.800 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Rings | Rings | — | — | 9.950 | — | — | — | 19.875 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Vault | Vault | — | — | — | 9.925 | — | — | 19.800 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Parallel bars | Parallel bars | — | — | — | — | 9.900 | — | 19.750 | |
| Alexander Dityatin | Horizontal bar | Horizontal bar | — | — | — | — | — | 9.900 | 19.750 | |
| Bohdan Makuts | Qualification | C | 9.75 | 9.70 | 9.55 | 9.90 | 9.60 | 9.65 | 58.475 | 6 |
| Bohdan Makuts | Qualification | O | 9.80 | 9.75 | 9.80 | 9.85 | 9.90 | 9.70 | 58.475 | 6 |
| Bohdan Makuts | Qualification | Total | 9.775 | 9.725 | 9.675 | 9.875 | 9.750 | 9.675 | 58.475 | 6 |
| Vladimir Markelov | Qualification | C | 9.70 | 9.80 | 9.65 | 9.80 | 9.10 | 9.75 | 57.800 | 9 |
| Vladimir Markelov | Qualification | O | 9.70 | 9.80 | 9.85 | 9.60 | 9.80 | 9.85 | 57.800 | 9 |
| Vladimir Markelov | Qualification | Total | 9.700 | 9.800 | 9.750 | 9.700 | 9.450 | 9.800 | 57.800 | 9 |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Qualification | C | 9.60 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.85 | 9.10 | 58.700 | 4 Q |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Qualification | O | 9.90 | 9.85 | 9.85 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.95 | 58.700 | 4 Q |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Qualification | Total | 9.750 | 9.875 Q | 9.825 Q | 9.850 | 9.875 Q | 9.525 | 58.700 | 4 Q |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | All-around | All-around | 9.550 | 9.800 | 9.850 | 9.900 | 9.900 | 10.000 | 117.700 | 4 |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Pommel horse | Pommel horse | — | 9.600 | — | — | — | — | 19.475 | 5 |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Rings | Rings | — | — | 9.900 | — | — | — | 19.725 | |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Parallel bars | Parallel bars | — | — | — | — | 9.900 | — | 19.775 | |
| Nikolai Andrianov Eduard Azaryan Alexander Dityatin Bogdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Aleksandr Tkachyov | Team all-around | Team all-around | 98.05 | 98.45 | 98.25 | 98.65 | 98.10 | 98.10 | 589.60 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Event | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Event | V | UB | BB | F | Total | Rank |
| Yelena Davydova | Qualification | C | 9.90 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 39.500 | 5 Q |
| Yelena Davydova | Qualification | O | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 10.00 | 39.500 | 5 Q |
| Yelena Davydova | Qualification | Total | 9.900 Q | 9.850 | 9.850 Q | 9.900 | 39.500 | 5 Q |
| Yelena Davydova | All-around | All-around | 9.900 | 9.950 | 9.850 | 9.950 | 79.150 | |
| Yelena Davydova | Vault | Vault | 9.675 | — | — | — | 19.575 | 4 |
| Yelena Davydova | Balance beam | Balance beam | — | — | 9.900 | — | 19.750 | |
| Maria Filatova | Qualification | C | 9.90 | 9.85 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 39.400 | 7 |
| Maria Filatova | Qualification | O | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.70 | 9.95 | 39.400 | 7 |
| Maria Filatova | Qualification | Total | 9.850 | 9.875 | 9.80 | 9.875 | 39.400 | 7 |
| Nellie Kim | Qualification | C | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 39.475 | 6 Q |
| Nellie Kim | Qualification | O | 9.75 | 9.85 | 9.80 | 9.95 | 39.475 | 6 Q |
| Nellie Kim | Qualification | Total | 9.825 | 9.875 Q | 9.850 | 9.925 Q | 39.475 | 6 Q |
| Nellie Kim | All-around | All-around | 9.700 | 9.850 | 9.950 | 9.450 | 78.425 | 5 |
| Nellie Kim | Uneven bars | Uneven bars | — | 9.850 | — | — | 19.725 | 6 |
| Nellie Kim | Floor | Floor | — | — | — | 9.950 | 19.875 | |
| Yelena Naimushina | Qualification | C | 9.85 | 9.75 | 9.80 | 9.85 | 39.200 | 12 |
| Yelena Naimushina | Qualification | O | 9.60 | 9.75 | 9.85 | 9.95 | 39.200 | 12 |
| Yelena Naimushina | Qualification | Total | 9.725 | 9.750 | 9.825 | 9.900 | 39.200 | 12 |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Qualification | C | 10.00 | 9.95 | 9.95 | 9.95 | 39.575 | 2 Q |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Qualification | O | 9.80 | 9.80 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 39.575 | 2 Q |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Qualification | Total | 9.900 Q | 9.875 | 9.875 Q | 9.925 | 39.575 | 2 Q |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | All-around | All-around | 9.900 | 9.900 | 9.900 | 9.750 | 79.025 | 4 |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Vault | Vault | 9.825 | — | — | — | 19.725 | |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Balance beam | Balance beam | — | — | 9.850 | — | 19.725 | |
| Stella Zakharova | Qualification | C | 9.90 | 9.90 | 9.80 | 9.80 | 39.375 | 8 |
| Stella Zakharova | Qualification | O | 9.75 | 9.80 | 9.90 | 9.90 | 39.375 | 8 |
| Stella Zakharova | Qualification | Total | 9.825 | 9.850 | 9.850 | 9.850 | 39.375 | 8 |
| Yelena Davydova Maria Filatova Nellie Kim Yelena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Stella Zakharova | Team all-around | Team all-around | 98.600 | 98.650 | 98.600 | 99.050 | 394.900 | |

## Handball
### Summary

| Team | Event | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Final / BM / Pl | Final / BM / Pl |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Men's tournament | Switzerland W 22–15 | Kuwait W 38–11 | Algeria W 33–10 | Romania L 19–22 | Yugoslavia W 22–17 | 1 Q | East Germany L 22–23 (OT) | |
| Soviet Union women's | Women's tournament | Congo W 30–11 | Czechoslovakia W 17–7 | Hungary W 16–12 | Yugoslavia W 18–9 | East Germany W 18–13 | | — | — |

## Judo

Extra lightweight (60 kg)
* Aramby Yemizh → Bronze medal
Half lightweight (65 kg)
* Nikolai Solodukhin → Gold medal
Lightweight (71 kg)
* Tamaz Namgalauri → 12th place
Half middleweight (78 kg)
* Shota Khabareli → Gold medal
Middleweight (86 kg)
* Aleksandrs Jackēvičs → Bronze medal
Half heavyweight (95 kg)
* Tengiz Khubuluri → Silver medal
Heavyweight (+95 kg)
* Vitaly Kuznetsov → 10th place
Open category
* Sergey Novikov → 5 place

## Modern pentathlon

| Athlete | Event | Riding | Riding | Riding | Riding | Fencing (épée one touch) | Fencing (épée one touch) | Fencing (épée one touch) | Shooting (10 m air pistol) | Shooting (10 m air pistol) | Shooting (10 m air pistol) | Swimming (300 m freestyle) | Swimming (300 m freestyle) | Swimming (300 m freestyle) | Running | Running | Running | Total points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Penalties | Rank | MP Points | Results | Rank | MP Points | Points | Rank | MP Points | Time | Rank | MP Points | Time | Rank | MP Points | Total points | Final rank |
| Pavel Lednyov | Individual | 2:01.8 | 74 | 21 | 1026 | 30–12 | =2 | 1026 | 195 | =13 | 1022 | 3:41.494 | 31 | 1104 | 13:07.7 | 4 | 1204 | 5382 | |
| Yevgeny Lipeyev | Individual | 1:59.0 | 0 | 5 | 1100 | 24–18 | =11 | 870 | 186 | =40 | 824 | 3:25.358 | 7 | 1232 | 13:25.2 | 10 | 1150 | 5176 | 14 |
| Anatoly Starostin | Individual | 2:00.9 | 32 | 13 | 1068 | 29–13 | =4 | 1000 | 199 | 2 | 1110 | 3:27.418 | 10 | 1216 | 13:17.2 | 8 | 1174 | 5568 | |
| Pavel Lednyov Yevgeny Lipeyev Anatoly Starostin | Team | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16126 | |

## Rowing

The Soviet Union had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1980.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Vasil Yakusha | Single sculls | 7:47.15 | 1 Q | Bye | Bye | 7:15.14 | 2 FA | 7:11.66 | |
| Aleksandr Fomchenko Yevgeniy Duleyev | Double sculls | 7:07.12 | 3 R | 6:37.77 | 1 FA | — | — | 6:35.34 | 5 |
| Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov | Coxless pair | 7:25.09 | 1 Q | Bye | Bye | 6:52.11 | 1 FA | 6:50.50 | |
| Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov | oxed pair | 7:38.49 | 2 R | 7:15.38 | 1 FA | — | — | 7:03.35 | |
| Yuriy Shapochka Evgeni Barbakov Valeri Kleshnyov Mykola Dovhan | Quadruple sculls | 6:14.67 | 4 R | 5:57.82 | 1 FA | — | — | 5:51.47 | |
| Aleksey Kamkin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev | Coxless four | 6:31.71 | 1 FA | Bye | Bye | — | — | 6:11.81 | |
| Artūrs Garonskis Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Žoržs Tikmers Juris Bērziņš | Coxed four | 6:50.29 | 3 R | 6:28.14 | 1 FA | — | — | 6:19.05 | |
| Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Hryhoriy Dmytrenko | Eight | 5:50.76 | 1 FA | Bye | Bye | — | — | 5:52.66 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Antonina Makhina | Single sculls | 4:13.39 | 3 R | 3:54.10 | 1 Q | 3:43.68 | 2 FA | 3:47.22 | |
| Yelena Khloptseva Larisa Popova | Double sculls | 3:25.51 | 1 FA | Bye | Bye | — | — | 3:16.27 | |
| Larisa Zavarzina Galina Stepanova | Coxless pair | 3:55.08 | 1 FA | Bye | Bye | — | — | 4:12.53 | 5 |
| Antonina Pustovit Yelena Matiyevskaya Olga Vasilchenko Nadezhda Lyubimova Nina Cheremisina Nataliya Kazak | Quadruple sculls | 3:16.76 | 2 R | 3:19.88 | 2 FA | — | — | 3:15.73 | |
| Mariya Fadeyeva Galina Sovetnikova Marina Studneva Svetlana Semyonova Nina Cheremisina Nataliya Kazak | Coxed four | 3:28.72 | 2 R | 3:21.51 | 1 FA | — | — | 3:20.92 | |
| Nina Frolova Maria Paziun Olga Pivovarova Nina Preobrazhenskaya Nadezhda Prishchepa Tatyana Stetsenko Elena Tereshina Nina Umanets Valentina Zhulina | Eight | 3:11.72 | 1 FA | Bye | Bye | — | — | 3:04.29 | |

## Sailing

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Net points | Final rank |
| Vladimir Ignatenko Sergei Zhdanov | 470 | 8 | 14.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 2 | 3.0 | DSQ | 22.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 68.0 | 10 |
| Andrey Balashov | Finn | 6 | 11.7 | 14 | 20.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 16 | 22.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 47.4 | |
| Vladimir Leontiev Valeri Zubanov | Flying Dutchman | 6 | 11.7 | 7 | 13.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 8 | 14.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 9 | 15.0 | 51.7 | 5 |
| Boris Budnikov Aleksandr Budnikov Nikolay Polyakov | Soling | 3 | 5.7 | 8 | 14.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 2 | 3.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 30.4 | |
| Valentin Mankin Aleksandr Muzychenko | Star | 2 | 3.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 10.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6 | 11.7 | 7 | 13.0 | 24.7 | |
| Viktor Potapov Aleksandr Zybin | Tornado | 6 | 11.7 | 3 | 5.7 | 5 | 10.0 | 4 | 8.0 | 3 | 5.7 | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 0.0 | 35.1 | 4 |

## Shooting
### Open

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Score | Rank |
| Aleksandr Asanov | Trap | 195 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Bulkin | 50 m rifle prone | 596 | 11 |
| Aleksandr Gazov | 50 m running target | 587 | |
| Tamaz Imnaishvili | Skeet | 195 | 9 |
| Afanasijs Kuzmins | 25 m rapid fire pistol | 595 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Mastyanin | 50 m rifle prone | 597 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Melentyev | 50 m free pistol | 581 | |
| Aleksandr Mitrofanov | 50 m rifle three positions | 1164 | 5 |
| Sergei Pyzhianov | 50 m free pistol | 564 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Sokolov | Skeet | 194 | 11 |
| Igor Sokolov | 50 m running target | 589 | |
| Vladas Turla | 25 m rapid fire pistol | 595 | 4 |
| Viktor Vlasov | 50 m rifle three positions | 1173 | |
| Rustam Yambulatov | Trap | 196 (+24 +25) | |

## Swimming
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Aleksandr Buchenkov | 200 m butterfly | 2:03.98 | 10 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Aleksandr Chayev | 1500 m freestyle | 15:20.68 | 3 Q | — | — | 15:14.30 | |
| Vladimir Dolgov | 100 m backstroke | 57.87 | 2 Q | 58.04 | 7 Q | 57.63 | |
| Vladimir Dolgov | 200 m backstroke | 2:05.11 | 9 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Aleksandr Fedorovsky | 100 m breaststroke | 1:03.86 | 2 Q | — | — | 1:04.00 | 4 |
| Sergey Fesenko | 200 m butterfly | 2:00.20 | 1 Q | — | — | 1:59.76 | |
| Sergey Fesenko | 400 m individual medley | 4:28.18 | 5 Q | — | — | 4:23.43 | |
| Mikhail Gorelik | 200 m butterfly | 2:03.15 | 8 Q | — | — | 2:02.44 | 5 |
| Sergei Kiselyov | 100 m butterfly | 56.56 | 13 Q | 56.52 | 13 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Sergey Koplyakov | 100 m freestyle | 52.08 | 5 Q | 51.51 | 4 Q | 51.34 | 4 |
| Sergey Koplyakov | 200 m freestyle | 1:51.04 | 1 Q | — | — | 1:49.91 | |
| Sergey Krasyuk | 100 m freestyle | 52.08 | 5 Q | 51.81 | 6 Q | 51.80 | 6 |
| Andrey Krylov | 200 m freestyle | 1:51.21 | 2 Q | — | — | 1:50.76 | |
| Andrey Krylov | 400 m freestyle | 3:54.79 | 2 Q | — | — | 3:53.24 | |
| Viktor Kuznetsov | 100 m backstroke | 58.47 | 12 Q | 56.75 | 1 Q | 56.99 | |
| Viktor Kuznetsov | 200 m backstroke | 2:05.14 | 11 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Aleksey Markovsky | 100 m butterfly | 56.45 | 12 Q | 55.69 | 8 Q | 55.70 | 8 |
| Arsens Miskarovs | 100 m breaststroke | 1:04.06 | 3 Q | — | — | 1:03.82 | |
| Arsens Miskarovs | 200 m breaststroke | 2:19.57 | 2 Q | — | — | 2:17.28 | |
| Eduard Petrov | 1500 m freestyle | 15:32.32 | 8 Q | — | — | 15:28.24 | 8 |
| Vladimir Salnikov | 400 m freestyle | 3:54.54 | 1 Q | — | — | 3:51.31 | |
| Vladimir Salnikov | 1500 m freestyle | 15:08.25 | 1 Q | — | — | 14:58.27 | |
| Yevgeny Seredin | 100 m butterfly | 55.83 | 4 Q | 55.62 | 5 Q | 55.35 | 5 |
| Aleksandr Sidorenko | 400 m individual medley | 4:28.02 | 4 Q | — | — | 4:22.89 | |
| Vladimir Shemetov | 100 m backstroke | 59.01 | 18 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Vladimir Shemetov | 200 m backstroke | 2:04.20 | 4 Q | — | — | 2:03.48 | 4 |
| Vladimir Shemetov | 400 m individual medley | 4:34.01 | 15 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Sergey Smiryagin | 100 m freestyle | 52.21 | 10 Q | 52.18 | 11 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ivar Stukolkin | 200 m freestyle | 1:53.44 | 12 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ivar Stukolkin | 400 m freestyle | 3:56.60 | 5 Q | — | — | 3:53.95 | |
| Gennady Utenkov | 200 m breaststroke | 2:21.17 | 5 Q | — | — | 2:19.64 | 4 |
| Robertas Žulpa | 100 m breaststroke | 1:06.23 | 13 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Robertas Žulpa | 200 m breaststroke | 2:17.83 | 1 Q | — | — | 2:15.85 | |
| Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Salnikov Ivar Stukolkin Andrey Krylov Sergey Rusin* Sergey Krasyuk* Yuri Presekin* | 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:29.39 | 1 Q | — | — | 7:23.50 | |
| Viktor Kuznetsov Arsens Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Shemetov* Aleksandr Fedorovsky* Aleksey Markovsky* Sergey Krasyuk* | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:48.83 | 1 Q | — | — | 3:45.92 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Irina Aksyonova | 200 m freestyle | 2:03.63 | 7 Q | 2:04.00 | 8 |
| Irina Aksyonova | 400 m freestyle | 4:14.39 | 5 Q | 4:14.40 | 5 |
| Irina Aksyonova | 800 m freestyle | 8:44.42 | 4 Q | 8:38.05 | 4 |
| Yuliya Bogdanova | 100 m breaststroke | 1:15.04 | 16 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Yuliya Bogdanova | 200 m breaststroke | 2:33.45 | 4 Q | 2:32.39 | |
| Larisa Gorchakova | 100 m backstroke | 1:03.82 | 5 Q | 1:03.87 | 6 |
| Larisa Gorchakova | 200 m backstroke | 2:16.68 | 7 Q | 2:17.72 | 8 |
| Alla Grishchenkova | 100 m butterfly | 1:04.10 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Alla Grishchenkova | 200 m butterfly | 2:16.01 | 7 Q | 2:15.70 | 8 |
| Yelena Ivanova | 800 m freestyle | 8:47.33 | 8 Q | 8:46.45 | 8 |
| Lina Kačiušytė | 100 m breaststroke | 1:12.71 | 7 Q | 1:12.21 | 7 |
| Lina Kačiušytė | 200 m breaststroke | 2:33.04 | 3 Q | 2:29.54 | |
| Olga Klevakina | 100 m freestyle | 57.62 | 6 Q | 57.40 | 4 |
| Olga Klevakina | 200 m freestyle | 2:02.36 | 4 Q | 2:02.29 | 4 |
| Olga Klevakina | 400 m freestyle | 4:18.13 | 8 Q | 4:19.18 | 8 |
| Olga Klevakina | 400 m individual medley | 4:55.99 | 7 Q | 4:50.91 | 7 |
| Oksana Komissarova | 400 m freestyle | 4:18.61 | 9 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Oksana Komissarova | 800 m freestyle | 8:45.80 | 6 Q | 8:42.04 | 5 |
| Yelena Kruglova | 100 m backstroke | 1:04.63 | 11 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Yelena Kruglova | 200 m backstroke | 2:22.41 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Larisa Polivoda | 100 m butterfly | 1:04.50 | 18 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Larisa Polivoda | 200 m butterfly | 2:17.99 | 13 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Natalya Strunnikova | 100 m freestyle | 57.43 | 4 Q | 57.83 | 6 |
| Natalya Strunnikova | 200 m freestyle | 2:03.36 | 6 Q | 2:03.74 | 7 |
| Larisa Tsaryova | 100 m freestyle | 59.12 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Svetlana Varganova | 200 m breaststroke | 2:29.77 | 1 Q | 2:29.61 | |
| Elvira Vasilkova | 100 m breaststroke | 1:11.03 | 2 Q | 1:10.41 | |
| Irina Gerasimova Natalya Strunnikova Larisa Tsaryova Olga Klevakina | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | DSQ | DSQ | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Yelena Kruglova Elvira Vasilkova Alla Grishchenkova Natalya Strunnikova Irina Aksyonova* Olga Klevakina* | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 4:16.46 | 3 Q | 4:13.61 | |

## Volleyball
### Summary

| Team | Event | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Semifinals / Pl | Final / BM / Pl | Final / BM / Pl |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Men's tournament | Czechoslovakia W 3–1 | Italy W 3–0 | Bulgaria W 3–0 | Cuba W 3–0 | 1 Q | Romania W 3–0 | Bulgaria W 3–1 | |
| Soviet Union women's | Women's tournament | Peru W 3–1 | East Germany W 3–1 | Cuba W 3–0 | — | 1 Q | Hungary W 3–0 | East Germany W 3–1 | |

## Water polo
### Summary

| Team | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Final round | Final round | Final round | Final round | Final round | Final round |
| Team | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Soviet Union men's | Italy W 8–6 | Spain W 4–3 | Sweden W 12–1 | 1 Q | Hungary W 5–4 | Spain W 6–2 | Cuba W 8–5 | Netherlands W 7–3 | Yugoslavia W 8–7 | |

### Team roster

   * Evgeni Sharonov
   * Sergei Kotenko
   * Vladimir Akimov
   * Yevgeny Grishin
   * Mait Riisman
   * Aleksandr Kabanov
   * Aleksei Barkalov
   * Erkin Shagaev
   * Georgi Mshvenieradze
   * Mikhail Ivanov
   * Viacheslav Sobchenko

## Weightlifting

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Kanybek Osmonaliyev | 52 kg | 107.5 | 4 | 137.5 | 1 | 245.0 | |
| Yurik Sarkisyan | 56 kg | 112.5 | 6 | 157.5 | 1 | 270.0 | |
| Viktor Mazin | 60 kg | 130.0 | 1 | 160.0 | 2 | 290.0 | |
| Aleksandr Pervi | 75 kg | 157.5 | 3 | 200.0 | 1 | 357.5 | |
| Yurik Vardanyan | 82.5 kg | 177.5 | 1 | 222.5 | 1 | 400.0 | |
| David Rigert | 90 kg | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Igor Nikitin | 100 kg | 177.5 | 2 | 215.0 | 3 | 392.5 | |
| Leonid Taranenko | 110 kg | 182.5 | 2 | 240.0 | 1 | 422.5 | |
| Vasily Alekseyev | +110 kg | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sultan Rakhmanov | +110 kg | 195.0 | 1 | 245.0 | 1 | 440.0 | |

## 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 | Republic | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russian SFSR | 102 | 69 | 81 | 252 |
| 2 | Ukrainian SSR | 34 | 21 | 17 | 72 |
| 3 | Byelorussian SSR | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Lithuanian SSR | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Georgian SSR | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 6 | Tajik SSR | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Kirghiz SSR | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | Kazakh SSR | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | Estonian SSR | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Latvian SSR | 2 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
| 11 | Armenian SSR | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 12 | Uzbek SSR | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 | Turkmen SSR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Moldavian SSR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Azerbaijan SSR | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 182 | 125 | 126 | 433 |