# Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It would be the last Winter Olympic Games before the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Six of the former Soviet republics would compete together as the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics, and each republic would be independently represented at subsequent Games.
The Soviet Union had its best showing at the Winter Olympics in terms of total medals (overtaking its 1976 result with 27 medals) and second-best in terms of gold medals (after the aforementioned 1976 result with 13 gold medals).

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Vida Vencienė | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 kilometre classical | 14 February |
| Gold | Aleksey Prokurorov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 kilometre classical | 15 February |
| Gold | Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov | Figure skating | Pair skating | 16 February |
| Gold | Nikolay Gulyayev | Speed skating | Men's 1000 metres | 18 February |
| Gold | Mikhail Devyatyarov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 kilometre classical | 19 February |
| Gold | Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov | Bobsleigh | Two-man | 21 February |
| Gold | Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay | 21 February |
| Gold | Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin | Figure skating | Ice dance | 23 February |
| Gold | Tamara Tikhonova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 20 kilometre freestyle | 25 February |
| Gold | Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev | Biathlon | Relay | 26 February |
| Gold | Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Evgeny BelosheikinIlya ByakinVyacheslav BykovViacheslav FetisovAlexei GusarovSergei YashinValeri KamenskySergei SvetlovAlexei KasatonovAndrei KhomutovVladimir KrutovIgor LarionovAleksandr KozhevnikovIgor KravchukAndrei LomakinAleksandr ChernykhSergei MakarovAlexander MogilnySergei MylnikovVitali SamoilovAnatoly SemenovSergei StarikovIgor Stelnov | Ice hockey | Men's competition | 28 February |
| Silver | Raisa Smetanina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 kilometre classical | 14 February |
| Silver | Vladimir Smirnov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 kilometre classical | 15 February |
| Silver | Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev | Figure skating | Pair skating | 16 February |
| Silver | Tamara Tikhonova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 kilometre classical | 17 February |
| Silver | Valeriy Medvedtsev | Biathlon | Individual | 20 February |
| Silver | Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay | 22 February |
| Silver | Valeriy Medvedtsev | Biathlon | Sprint | 23 February |
| Silver | Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko | Figure skating | Ice dance | 23 February |
| Silver | Anfisa Reztsova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 20 kilometre freestyle | 25 February |
| Bronze | Yury Kharchenko | Luge | Men's singles | 15 February |
| Bronze | Vida Vencienė | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 kilometre classical | 17 February |
| Bronze | Igor Zhelezovsky | Speed skating | Men's 1000 metres | 18 February |
| Bronze | Vladimir Smirnov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 kilometre classical | 19 February |
| Bronze | Viktor Petrenko | Figure skating | Men's singles | 20 February |
| Bronze | Sergei Tchepikov | Biathlon | Sprint | 23 February |
| Bronze | Raisa Smetanina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 20 kilometre freestyle | 25 February |
| Bronze | Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov | Bobsleigh | Four-man | 28 February |
| Bronze | Allar Levandi | Nordic combined | Individual | 28 February |

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Alpine skiing | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Biathlon | 5 | – | 5 |
| Bobsleigh | 10 | – | 10 |
| Cross-country skiing | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Figure skating | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| Ice hockey | 21 | – | 21 |
| Luge | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| Nordic combined | 4 | – | 4 |
| Ski jumping | 2 | – | 2 |
| Speed skating | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| Total | 78 | 23 | 101 |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Time | Time | Rank |
| Sergey Petrik | Super-G | | | DNF | – |
| Konstantin Chistyakov | Super-G | | | DNF | – |
| Konstantin Chistyakov | Giant Slalom | 1:10.09 | 1:06.58 | 2:16.67 | 35 |
| Sergey Petrik | Giant Slalom | 1:09.78 | 1:05.38 | 2:15.16 | 30 |
| Konstantin Chistyakov | Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Sergey Petrik | Slalom | 55.39 | DNF | DNF | – |
Men's combined
| Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Slalom | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank |
| Konstantin Chistyakov | 1:55.99 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Sergey Petrik | 1:55.82 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Time | Time | Rank |
| Golnur Postnikova | Downhill | | | 1:28.23 | 16 |
Women's combined
| Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Slalom | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank |
| Golnur Postnikova | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Juri Kashkarov | 3 | 26:49.1 | 18 |
| 10 km Sprint | Dmitry Vasilyev | 1 | 26:09.7 | 9 |
| 10 km Sprint | Sergei Tchepikov | 0 | 25:29.4 | |
| 10 km Sprint | Valeriy Medvedtsev | 0 | 25:23.7 | |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Aleksandr Popov | 56:24.0 | 3 | 59:24.0 | 12 |
| 20 km | Juri Kashkarov | 55:43.1 | 2 | 57:43.1 | 5 |
| 20 km | Sergei Tchepikov | 56:17.5 | 1 | 57:17.5 | 4 |
| 20 km | Valeriy Medvedtsev | 54:54.6 | 2 | 56:54.6 | |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Dmitry Vasilyev Sergei Tchepikov Aleksandr Popov Valeriy Medvedtsev | 0 | 1'22:30.0 | |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| URS-1 | Jānis Ķipurs Vladimir Kozlov | Two-man | 57.43 | 4 | 58.05 | 1 | 59.52 | 2 | 58.48 | 2 | 3:53.48 | |
| URS-2 | Zintis Ekmanis Aivars Trops | Two-man | 57.95 | 10 | 59.12 | 6 | 1:00.72 | 14 | 59.13 | 6 | 3:56.92 | 9 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| URS-1 | Māris Poikāns Olafs Kļaviņš Ivars Bērzups Juris Jaudzems | Four-man | 56.75 | 6 | 57.66 | 7 | 56.70 | 10 | 57.24 | 2 | 3:48.35 | 5 |
| URS-2 | Jānis Ķipurs Guntis Osis Juris Tone Vladimir Kozlov | Four-man | 56.72 | 4 | 57.28 | 1 | 56.41 | 4 | 57.85 | 7 | 3:48.26 | |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km C | Aleksey Prokurorov | 43:36.9 | 18 |
| 15 km C | Aleksandr Batyuk | 43:08.7 | 15 |
| 15 km C | Vladimir Smirnov | 41:48.5 | |
| 15 km C | Mikhail Devyatyarov | 41:18.9 | |
| 30 km C | Yury Burlakov | 1'28:02.4 | 12 |
| 30 km C | Mikhail Devyatyarov | 1'25:31.3 | 4 |
| 30 km C | Vladimir Smirnov | 1'24:35.1 | |
| 30 km C | Aleksey Prokurorov | 1'24:26.3 | |
| 50 km F | Aleksey Prokurorov | 2'14:01.0 | 38 |
| 50 km F | Yury Burlakov | 2'12:02.2 | 26 |
| 50 km F | Mikhail Devyatyarov | 2'12:01.7 | 25 |
| 50 km F | Vladimir Sakhnov | 2'09:00.1 | 12 |
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Aleksey Prokurorov | 1'44:11.3 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km C | Raisa Smetanina | 15:35.9 | 10 |
| 5 km C | Svetlana Nageykina | 15:29.9 | 8 |
| 5 km C | Vida Vencienė | 15:11.1 | |
| 5 km C | Tamara Tikhonova | 15:05.3 | |
| 10 km C | Tamara Tikhonova | 30:38.9 | 5 |
| 10 km C | Svetlana Nageykina | 30:26.5 | 4 |
| 10 km C | Raisa Smetanina | 30:17.0 | |
| 10 km C | Vida Vencienė | 30:08.3 | |
| 20 km F | Nina Gavrilyuk | DSQ | – |
| 20 km F | Raisa Smetanina | 57:22.1 | |
| 20 km F | Anfisa Reztsova | 56:12.8 | |
| 20 km F | Tamara Tikhonova | 55:53.6 | |
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrilyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova | 59:51.1 | |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
| Vladimir Kotin | 5 | 6 | 8 | 13.4 | 6 |
| Alexander Fadeev | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8.2 | 4 |
| Viktor Petrenko | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7.8 | |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
| Anna Kondrashova | 9 | 7 | 7 | 15.2 | 8 |
| Kira Ivanova | 1 | 10 | 9 | 13.6 | 7 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
| Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov | 6 | 4 | 6.0 | 4 |
| Elena Valova Oleg Vassiliev | 2 | 2 | 3.0 | |
| Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | |

### Ice dancing

| Athletes | CD | OD | FD | TFP | Rank |
| Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8.0 | 4 |
| Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 | |
| Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | |

## Ice hockey
### First round

Top three teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.
| | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10 | 10 |
| West Germany | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 8 |
| Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 6 |
| United States | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 4 |
| Austria | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 29 | 1 |
| Norway | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 32 | 1 |
* Soviet Union 5-0 Norway
* Soviet Union 8-1 Austria
* Soviet Union 7-5 USA
* West Germany 3-6 Soviet Union
* Soviet Union 6-1 Czechoslovakia

### Medal round

The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.
| | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 8 |
| Finland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 7 |
| Sweden | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 6 |
| Canada | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 5 |
| West Germany | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 2 |
* Soviet Union 5-0 Canada
* Soviet Union 7-1 Sweden
* Finland 2-1 Soviet Union
* Roster:
* Evgeny Belosheikin Ilya Byakin Vyacheslav Bykov Viacheslav Fetisov Alexei Gusarov Sergei Yashin Valeri Kamensky Alexei Kasatonov Andrei Khomutov Vladimir Krutov Igor Larionov Aleksandr Kozhevnikov Igor Kravchuk Andrei Lomakin Sergei Makarov Alexander Mogilny Sergei Mylnikov Vitali Samoilov Anatoly Semenov Sergei Starikov Igor Stelnov Sergei Svetlov Aleksandr Chernykh

## 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 |
| Valery Dudin | 47.812 | 28 | 46.982 | 13 | 47.061 | 13 | 47.025 | 9 | 3:08.880 | 17 |
| Sergey Danilin | 46.564 | 5 | 46.827 | 7 | 46.648 | 5 | 47.059 | 10 | 3:07.098 | 6 |
| Yury Kharchenko | 46.391 | 3 | 46.605 | 3 | 46.475 | 3 | 46.803 | 4 | 3:06.274 | |
Men's doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Vitaly Melnik Dmitry Alekseyev | 46.060 | 6 | 46.399 | 6 | 1:32.459 | 6 |
| Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov | 45.973 | 3 | 46.580 | 8 | 1:32.553 | 7 |

### 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 |
| Irina Kusakina | 46.690 | 11 | 47.071 | 12 | 46.643 | 8 | 46.639 | 9 | 3:07.043 | 10 |
| Nadezhda Danilina | 46.597 | 10 | 46.447 | 6 | 46.613 | 6 | 46.707 | 11 | 3:06.364 | 8 |
| Yuliya Antipova | 46.449 | 7 | 46.425 | 5 | 46.610 | 5 | 46.303 | 4 | 3:05.787 | 5 |

## Nordic combined

Men's individual
Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (best two out of three jumps)
* 15 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)
| Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Points | Rank |
| Sergey Nikiforov | Individual | 191.8 | 30 | 4:04.7 | 42:43.0 | 402.905 | 14 |
| Andrey Dundukov | Individual | 194.0 | 26 | 3:50.0 | 42:21.1 | 406.185 | 12 |
| Vasily Savin | Individual | 203.7 | 17 | 2:45.4 | 41:22.9 | 414.925 | 10 |
| Allar Levandi | Individual | 216.6 | 4 | 1:19.4 | 40:31.8 | 422.590 | |
Men's team
Three participants per team.
Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted)
* 10 km cross-country skiing (start delay, based on ski jumping results)
| Athletes | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total |
| Athletes | Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank |
| Andrey Dundukov Vasily Savin Allar Levandi | 282.5 | 11 | DNF | DNF | – |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Eduard Suboch | Normal hill | 76.0 | 83.7 | 78.0 | 89.9 | 173.6 | 38 |
| Mikhail Yesin | Normal hill | 80.0 | 92.1 | 74.0 | 79.5 | 171.6 | 39 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Nikolay Gulyayev | 1:02.86 | 36 |
| 500 m | Vitaly Makovetsky | 37.35 | 12 |
| 500 m | Igor Zhelezovsky | 36.94 | 6 |
| 500 m | Sergey Fokichev | 36.82 | 4 |
| 1000 m | Boris Repnin | 1:14.41 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Andrey Bakhvalov | 1:14.39 | 11 |
| 1000 m | Igor Zhelezovsky | 1:13.19 | |
| 1000 m | Nikolay Gulyayev | 1:13.03 OR | |
| 1500 m | Andrey Bobrov | 1:58.97 | 35 |
| 1500 m | Nikolay Gulyayev | 1:53.04 | 7 |
| 1500 m | Aleksandr Klimov | 1:52.97 | 6 |
| 1500 m | Igor Zhelezovsky | 1:52.63 | 4 |
| 5000 m | Yury Klyuyev | 7:00.01 | 26 |
| 5000 m | Sergey Berezin | 6:58.08 | 23 |
| 5000 m | Dmitry Bochkaryov | 6:56.57 | 17 |
| 10,000 m | Aleksandr Mozin | 14:28.91 | 18 |
| 10,000 m | Sergey Berezin | 14:20.48 | 9 |
| 10,000 m | Yury Klyuyev | 14:09.68 | 6 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Yelena Ilyina | 41.15 | 16 |
| 500 m | Nataliya Shive-Glebova | 40.66 | 9 |
| 1000 m | Nataliya Shive-Glebova | 1:22.99 | 20 |
| 1000 m | Yelena Ilyina | 1:22.40 | 18 |
| 1500 m | Yelena Tumanova | 2:07.71 | 15 |
| 1500 m | Yelena Lapuga | 2:04.24 | 5 |
| 3000 m | Yelena Tumanova | 4:24.07 | 9 |
| 3000 m | Yelena Lapuga | 4:23.29 | 7 |
| 3000 m | Svetlana Boyko | 4:22.90 | 6 |
| 5000 m | Yelena Tumanova | 7:40.82 | 15 |
| 5000 m | Yelena Lapuga | 7:28.65 | 5 |
| 5000 m | Svetlana Boyko | 7:28.39 | 4 |

## 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 | 38 | 9 | 4 | 51 |
| 2 | Latvian SSR | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Kazakh SSR | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Lithuanian SSR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Ukrainian SSR | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Byelorussian SSR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Estonian SSR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 42 | 13 | 13 | 68 |