# Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
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 TretiakAleksandr SidelnikovAleksandr GusevVladimir LutchenkoSergei BabinovYury LyapkinGennadiy TsygankovSergey KapustinAleksandr MaltsevBoris AleksandrovBoris MikhailovAlexander YakushevVladimir PetrovValeri KharlamovVladimir ShadrinValeri VasilievViktor ShalimovViktor 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
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | 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 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | 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
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Aleksandr Tikhonov | 1'10:18.33 | 7 | 1'17:18.33 | 5 |
| 20 km | Aleksandr Elizarov | 1'13:05.57 | 3 | 1'16:05.57 | |
| 20 km | Nikolay Kruglov | 1'12:12.26 | 2 | 1'14:12.26 | |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

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

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Yury Skobov | 46:16.27 | 16 |
| 15 km | Ivan Garanin | 44:41.98 | 4 |
| 15 km | Yevgeny Belyayev | 44:01.10 | |
| 15 km | Nikolay Bazhukov | 43:58.47 | |
| 30 km | Vasily Rochev | 1'32:39.42 | 10 |
| 30 km | Nikolay Bazhukov | 1'31:33.14 | 5 |
| 30 km | Ivan Garanin | 1'31:09.29 | |
| 30 km | Sergey Savelyev | 1'30:29.38 | |
| 50 km | Yevgeny Belyayev | 2'54:00.55 | 38 |
| 50 km | Sergey Savelyev | 2'46:01.36 | 21 |
| 50 km | Vasily Rochev | 2'44:31.23 | 12 |
| 50 km | Ivan Garanin | 2'40:38.94 | 4 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Bazhukov Sergey Savelyev Ivan Garanin | 2'10:51.46 | |

### Women

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

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

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

## Figure skating
### 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
### 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
### 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 |
| 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 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | 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 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 |
| Vera Zozuļa | 44.179 | 14 | 42.973 | 8 | 42.651 | 6 | 42.858 | 3 | 2:52.661 | 9 |

## 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 |
| Aleksey Baranov | Individual | 69.0 | 70.0 | 185.7 | 23 | 51:58.45 | 184.47 | 21 | 370.17 | 23 |
| Nikolay Nogovitsyn | Individual | 72.0 | 74.0 | 196.1 | 16 | 49:05.97 | 210.34 | 3 | 406.44 | 6 |
| Valery Kopayev | Individual | 71.5 | 75.0 | 202.9 | 9 | 49:53.26 | 203.24 | 8 | 406.14 | 7 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Sergey Saychik | Normal hill | 74.0 | 105.2 | 76.0 | 108.4 | 213.6 | 25 |
| Yury Kalinin | Normal hill | 74.5 | 105.5 | 79.0 | 113.2 | 218.7 | 22 |
| Aleksey Borovitin | Normal hill | 77.5 | 111.3 | 78.0 | 113.6 | 224.9 | 15 |
| Aleksandr Karapuzov | Normal hill | 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 | Large hill | 85.0 | 95.5 | 82.5 | 92.0 | 187.5 | 19 |
| Sergey Saychik | Large hill | 90.0 | 101.5 | 87.5 | 98.5 | 200.0 | 11 |
| Aleksandr Karapuzov | Large hill | 91.0 | 104.9 | 81.5 | 88.6 | 193.5 | 15 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Andrey Malikov | 40.09 | 8 |
| 500 m | Valery Muratov | 39.25 | |
| 500 m | Yevgeny Kulikov | 39.17 OR | |
| 1000 m | Andrey Malikov | 1:27.57 | 29 |
| 1000 m | Aleksandr Safronov | 1:20.84 | 4 |
| 1000 m | Valery Muratov | 1:20.57 | |
| 1500 m | Sergey Marchuk | 2:04.65 | 13 |
| 1500 m | Sergey Ryabev | 2:02.15 | 4 |
| 1500 m | Yury Kondakov | 1:59.97 | |
| 5000 m | Sergey Marchuk | 7:51.37 | 14 |
| 5000 m | Vladimir Ivanov | 7:37.73 | 7 |
| 5000 m | Viktor Varlamov | 7:30.97 | 4 |
| 10,000 m | Vladimir Ivanov | 16:16.20 | 15 |
| 10,000 m | Sergey Marchuk | 15:43.81 | 11 |
| 10,000 m | Viktor Varlamov | 15:06.06 | 4 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Lyubov Sadchikova | 43.80 | 6 |
| 500 m | Vera Krasnova | 43.23 | 5 |
| 500 m | Tatyana Averina-Barabash | 43.17 | |
| 1000 m | Tatyana Shelekhova | 1:32.08 | 15 |
| 1000 m | Lyudmila Titova | 1:30.06 | 7 |
| 1000 m | Tatyana Averina-Barabash | 1:28.43 OR | |
| 1500 m | Nina Statkevich | 2:22.59 | 15 |
| 1500 m | Tatyana Averina-Barabash | 2:17.96 | |
| 1500 m | Galina Stepanskaya | 2:16.58 OR | |
| 3000 m | Tatyana Shelekhova | 4:54.03 | 14 |
| 3000 m | Nina Statkevich | 4:53.94 | 13 |
| 3000 m | 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) | Totals (2 entries) | 38 | 7 | 11 | 56 |