# Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Anatoly Alyabyev | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Gold | Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev | Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Gold | Nikolay Zimyatov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
| Gold | Nikolay Zimyatov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Gold | Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Gold | Raisa Smetanina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km |
| Gold | Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Gold | Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponossov | Figure skating | Ice dancing |
| Gold | Vera Zozuļa | Luge | Women's individual |
| Gold | Nataliya Petrusyova | Speed skating | Women's 1000m |
| Silver | Vladimir Alikin | Biathlon | Men's 10 km sprint |
| Silver | Vasily Rochev | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km |
| Silver | Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 × 5 km relay |
| Silver | Marina Cherkasova Sergei Shakhrai | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Silver | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladimir MyshkinVladislav TretiakViacheslav FetisovVasily PervukhinValery VasilievAlexei KasatonovSergei StarikovZinetula BilyaletdinovVladimir KrutovAlexander MaltsevYuri LebedevBoris MikhailovVladimir PetrovValery KharlamovHelmut BalderisViktor ZhluktovAleksandr GolikovSergei MakarovVladimir GolikovAleksandr Skvortsov | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| Silver | Yevgeny Kulikov | Speed skating | Men's 500m |
| Bronze | Anatoly Alyabyev | Biathlon | Men's 10 km sprint |
| Bronze | Aleksandr Zavyalov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| Bronze | Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov | Figure skating | Ice dancing |
| Bronze | Ingrīda Amantova | Luge | Women's individual |
| Bronze | Vladimir Lobanov | Speed skating | Men's 1000m |
| Bronze | Nataliya Petrusyova | 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 |
| Vladimir Makeev | Downhill | | | | | 1:49.87 | 22 |
| Valeri Tsyganov | Downhill | | | | | 1:47.34 | 8 |
| Vladimir Andreyev | Giant Slalom | 1:22.19 | 21 | 1:22.75 | 11 | 2:44.94 | 15 |
| Aleksandr Zhirov | Giant Slalom | 1:21.53 | 10 | 1:22.54 | 9 | 2:44.07 | 9 |
| Valeri Tsyganov | Giant Slalom | 1:21.22 | 6 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Aleksandr Zhirov | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Vladimir Andreyev | Slalom | 54.97 | 10 | 51.68 | 9 | 1:46.65 | 9 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Nadezhda Patrikeyeva | Giant Slalom | 1:17.44 | 14 | 1:29.65 | 12 | 2:47.09 | 12 |
| Nadezhda Patrikeyeva | Slalom | 43.42 | 3 | 45.78 | 11 | 1:29.20 | 6 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Aleksandr Tikhonov | 2 | 34:14.88 | 9 |
| 10 km Sprint | Anatoly Alyabyev | 1 | 33:09.16 | |
| 10 km Sprint | Vladimir Alikin | 0 | 32:53.10 | |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Vladimir Alikin | 1'06:05.30 | 6 | 1'12:05.30 | 8 |
| 20 km | Vladimir Barnashov | 1'07:49.49 | 4 | 1'11:49.49 | 7 |
| 20 km | Anatoly Alyabyev | 1'08:16.31 | 0 | 1'08:16.31 | |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev | 0 | 1'34:03.27 | |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Vasily Rochev | 43:16.86 | 13 |
| 15 km | Aleksandr Zavyalov | 43:00.81 | 7 |
| 15 km | Yevgeny Belyayev | 42:46.02 | 5 |
| 15 km | Nikolay Zimyatov | 42:33.96 | 4 |
| 30 km | Nikolay Bazhukov | 1'31:06.28 | 14 |
| 30 km | Yevgeny Belyayev | 1'30:35.32 | 11 |
| 30 km | Vasily Rochev | 1'27:34.22 | |
| 30 km | Nikolay Zimyatov | 1'27:02.80 | |
| 50 km | Yevgeny Belyayev | 2'31:21.19 | 6 |
| 50 km | Sergey Savelyev | 2'31:15.82 | 5 |
| 50 km | Aleksandr Zavyalov | 2'30:51.52 | |
| 50 km | Nikolay Zimyatov | 2'27:24.60 | |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov | 1'57:03.46 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Nina Rocheva | 15:50.39 | 15 |
| 5 km | Galina Kulakova | 15:29.58 | 6 |
| 5 km | Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova | 15:29.03 | 5 |
| 5 km | Raisa Smetanina | 15:06.92 | |
| 10 km | Iraida Suslova | 31:48.39 | 14 |
| 10 km | Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova | 31:22.93 | 6 |
| 10 km | Galina Kulakova | 30:58.46 | 5 |
| 10 km | Raisa Smetanina | 30:54.48 | 4 |

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina | 1'03:18.30 | |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Vladimir Kovalev | 5 | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |
| Konstantin Kokora | 10 | 11 | 10 | 168.18 | 91 | 10 |
| Igor Bobrin | 7 | 6 | 8 | 177.40 | 55 | 6 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Kira Ivanova | 18 | 16 | 13 | 161.54 | 144 | 16 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Marina Pestova Stanislav Leonovich | 3 | 4 | 141.14 | 31 | 4 |
| Marina Cherkasova Sergei Shakhrai | 2 | 2 | 143.80 | 19 | |
| Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev | 1 | 1 | 147.26 | 9 | |

### Ice Dancing

| Athletes | CD | FD | Points | Places | Rank |
| Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin | 9 | 9 | 188.18 | 75 | 8 |
| Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov | 3 | 3 | 201.86 | 27 | |
| Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponossov | 1 | 2 | 205.48 | 13 | |

## Ice hockey
### First round

* Team advanced to the Final Round
* Team advanced to consolation round
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 11 | 10 |
| Finland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 18 | 6 |
| Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 12 | 6 |
| Poland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 23 | 4 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 43 | 3 |
| Japan | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 36 | 1 |
All times are local (UTC-5).

### Final round

| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 4 |
| Sweden | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 2 |
| Finland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
Carried over group match:
* Finland 2–4 USSR
Roster
* #1 Vladimir Myshkin G
* #20 Vladislav Tretiak G
* #2 Viacheslav Fetisov D
* #5 Vasily Pervukhin D
* #6 Valery Vasiliev D (A)
* #7 Alexei Kasatonov D
* #12 Sergei Starikov D
* #14 Zinetula Bilyaletdinov D
* #9 Vladimir Krutov F
* #10 Alexander Maltsev F
* #11 Yuri Lebedev F
* #13 Boris Mikhailov F (C)
* #16 Vladimir Petrov F
* #17 Valery Kharlamov F
* #19 Helmut Balderis F
* #22 Viktor Zhluktov F
* #23 Aleksandr Golikov F
* #24 Sergei Makarov F
* #25 Vladimir Golikov F
* #26 Aleksandr Skvortsov F
Coaches
* Head Coach - Victor Tikhonov

## 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 |
| Dainis Bremze | 43.559 | 3 | 1:21.445 | 25 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
(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 | 40.164 | 11 | 40.498 | 10 | 1:20.662 | 10 |
| Valery Yakushin Sergey Danilin | 39.951 | 7 | 45.193 | 18 | 1:25.144 | 17 |

### 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 |
| Astra Rībena | 39.617 | 8 | 39.780 | 7 | 39.816 | 8 | 39.798 | 8 | 2:39.011 | 8 |
| Ingrīda Amantova | 39.346 | 3 | 39.488 | 3 | 39.610 | 5 | 39.373 | 4 | 2:37.817 | |
| Vera Zozuļa | 38.978 | 1 | 39.167 | 1 | 39.271 | 1 | 39.121 | 1 | 2:36.537 | |

## 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 |
| Fjodor Koltšin | Individual | 70.0 | 70.0 | 171.0 | 26 | 48:08.8 | 216.355 | 3 | 387.355 | 15 |
| Sergey Omelchenko | Individual | 72.5 | 75.0 | 176.3 | 21 | 49:33.6 | 203.635 | 10 | 379.935 | 19 |
| Aleksandr Mayorov | Individual | 75.5 | 78.0 | 194.4 | 13 | 48:19.6 | 214.735 | 6 | 409.135 | 7 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Andrey Shakirov | Normal hill | 61.0 | 72.8 | 63.5 | 74.3 | 147.1 | 46 |
| Yury Ivanov | Normal hill | 71.0 | 93.8 | 78.0 | 106.5 | 200.3 | 33 |
| Vladimir Vlasov | Normal hill | 80.0 | 109.2 | 71.5 | 95.6 | 204.8 | 31 |
| Aleksey Borovitin | Normal hill | 80.5 | 115.0 | 76.0 | 105.3 | 220.3 | 21 |
| Aleksey Borovitin | Large hill | 91.5 | 91.8 | 96.0 | 101.6 | 193.4 | 36 |
| Andrey Shakirov | Large hill | 96.5 | 99.3 | 90.0 | 87.7 | 187.0 | 39 |
| Yury Ivanov | Large hill | 97.0 | 103.5 | 92.0 | 93.5 | 197.0 | 34 |
| Vladimir Vlasov | Large hill | 97.0 | 103.5 | 96.5 | 101.8 | 205.3 | 28 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Sergey Khlebnikov | 39.25 | 15 |
| 500 m | Anatoly Medennikov | 38.88 | 7 |
| 500 m | Yevgeny Kulikov | 38.37 | |
| 1000 m | Anatoly Medennikov | 1:18.92 | 15 |
| 1000 m | Sergey Khlebnikov | 1:17.96 | 9 |
| 1000 m | Vladimir Lobanov | 1:16.91 | |
| 1500 m | Yevgeny Solunsky | 1:59.47 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Vladimir Lobanov | 1:59.30 | 8 |
| 1500 m | Yury Kondakov | 1:57.36 | 5 |
| 5000 m | Sergey Berezin | 7:19.93 | 15 |
| 5000 m | Dmitry Ogloblin | 7:16.92 | 13 |
| 5000 m | Viktor Lyoskin | 7:16.24 | 11 |
| 10,000 m | Dmitry Ogloblin | 15:20.14 | 16 |
| 10,000 m | Sergey Berezin | 15:04.68 | 10 |
| 10,000 m | Viktor Lyoskin | 14:51.72 | 7 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova | 43.50 | 10 |
| 500 m | Tatyana Tarasova | 43.26 | 8 |
| 500 m | Nataliya Petrusyova | 42.42 | |
| 1000 m | Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova | 1:29.94 | 20 |
| 1000 m | Valentina Lalenkova | 1:28.57 | 11 |
| 1000 m | Nataliya Petrusyova | 1:24.50 OR | |
| 1500 m | Vera Bryndzy | 2:16.32 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Tatyana Averina-Barabash | 2:16.32 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Nataliya Petrusyova | 2:14.15 | 8 |
| 3000 m | Valentina Lalenkova | 4:51.72 | 17 |
| 3000 m | Olga Pleshkova | 4:43.11 | 9 |
| 3000 m | Nataliya Petrusyova | 4:42.59 | 8 |

## 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 | 17 | 28 | 6 | 51 |
| 2 | Latvian SSR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (2 entries) | Totals (2 entries) | 18 | 29 | 7 | 54 |