# Russia at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Russia competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Galina Koukleva | Biathlon | Women's 7.5 km sprint |
| Gold | Yuliya Chepalova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 30 km freestyle |
| Gold | Olga Danilova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 15 km classical |
| Gold | Larisa Lazutina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km classical |
| Gold | Larisa Lazutina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit |
| Gold | Olga Danilova, Nina Gavrilyuk Larisa Lazutina, Yelena Välbe | Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 x 5 km relay |
| Gold | Ilia Kulik | Figure skating | Men's |
| Gold | Oksana Kazakova, Artur Dmitriev | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Gold | Oksana Grishuk, Evgeny Platov | Figure skating | Ice dance |
| Silver | Albina Akhatova, Galina Koukleva Olga Melnik, Olga Romasko | Biathlon | Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Silver | Olga Danilova | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit |
| Silver | Larisa Lazutina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 15 km classical |
| Silver | Elena Berezhnaya, Anton Sikharulidze | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Silver | Anjelika Krylova, Oleg Ovsyannikov | Figure skating | Ice dance |
| Silver | Pavel Bure, Valeri Bure Sergei Gonchar, Alexei Gusarov Valeri Kamensky, Darius Kasparaitis Igor Kravchuk, Sergei Krivokrasov Boris Mironov, Dmitri Mironov Aleksey Morozov, Sergei Nemchinov Oleg Shevtsov, Mikhail Shtalenkov German Titov, Andrei Trefilov Alexei Yashin, Dmitri Yushkevich Valeri Zelepukin, Alexei Zhamnov Alexei Zhitnik | Ice hockey | Men's team |
| Bronze | Vladimir Drachev, Viktor Maigourov Pavel Muslimov, Sergei Tarasov | Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Bronze | Larisa Lazutina | Cross-country skiing | Women's 30 km freestyle |
| Bronze | Valeri Stolyarov | Nordic combined | Men's individual 15 km |

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Alpine skiing | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Biathlon | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Bobsleigh | 6 | – | 6 |
| Cross-country skiing | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| Figure skating | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| Freestyle skiing | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Ice hockey | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| Luge | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Nordic combined | 5 | – | 5 |
| Short track speed skating | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Ski jumping | 4 | – | 4 |
| Speed skating | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Total | 79 | 43 | 122 |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | Rank |
| Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn | Downhill | | | | 1:54.27 | 24 |
| Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn | Super-G | | | | 1:39.39 | 29 |
| Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn | Giant slalom | | | | did not finish | did not finish |
| Andrey Filichkin | Downhill | | | | 1:52.65 | 18 |
| Andrey Filichkin | Super-G | | | | 1:37.29 | 21 |
| Andrey Filichkin | Giant slalom | | | | did not finish | did not finish |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | Rank |
| Olesya Aliyeva | Super-G | | | | 1:22.00 | 37 |
| Svetlana Gladisheva | Downhill | | | | 1:29.50 | 5 |
| Svetlana Gladisheva | Super-G | | | | 1:18.82 | 13 |
| Anna Larionova | Downhill | | | | 1:34.36 | 32 |
| Anna Larionova | Super-G | | | | 1:20.61 | 33 |
| Yekaterina Nesterenko | Downhill | | | | 1:32.54 | 29 |
| Varvara Zelenskaya | Downhill | | | | 1:30.38 | 13 |
| Varvara Zelenskaya | Super-G | | | | 1:18.72 | 12 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Misses | Rank |
| Vladimir Drachev | 10 km sprint | 28:46.4 | 1 | 12 |
| Vladimir Drachev | 20 km individual | 1:01:13.9 | 6 | 35 |
| Aleksei Kobelev | 10 km sprint | 31:02.8 | 4 | 56 |
| Viktor Maigourov | 10 km sprint | 28:36.0 | 0 | 4 |
| Pavel Muslimov | 20 km individual | 59:26.5 | 3 | 17 |
| Sergei Tarasov | 10 km sprint | 29:23.2 | 3 | 22 |
| Sergei Tarasov | 20 km individual | 59:24.3 | 4 | 15 |
| Pavel Vavilov | 20 km individual | 1:03:59.4 | 7 | 53 |
| Pavel Muslimov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Viktor Maigourov | 4 x 7.5 km relay | 1:22:19.3 | 0+7 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Misses | Rank |
| Albina Akhatova | 7.5 km sprint | 24:06.4 | 2 | 13 |
| Albina Akhatova | 15 km individual | 56:21.7 | 1 | 7 |
| Galina Koukleva | 7.5 km sprint | 23:08.0 | 1 | |
| Galina Koukleva | 15 km individual | 1:00:29.2 | 6 | 31 |
| Olga Melnik | 15 km individual | 57:10.8 | 2 | 13 |
| Olga Romasko | 7.5 km sprint | 25:03.6 | 3 | 27 |
| Olga Romasko | 15 km individual | 1:00:58.8 | 3 | 33 |
| Anna Volkova | 7.5 km sprint | 25:42.7 | 4 | 44 |
| Olga Melnik Galina Koukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko | 4 x 7.5 km relay | 1:40:25.2 | 0+9 | |

## Bobsleigh

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Rank |
| Pavel Shcheglovsky Konstantin Dyomin | Two-man | 55.41 | 55.09 | 54.84 | 54.97 | 3:40.31 | 16 |
| Yevgeni Popov Oleg Petrov | Two-man | 55.53 | 55.37 | 55.25 | 55.31 | 3:41.46 | 21 |
| Pavel Shcheglovsky Alexei Seliverstov Vladislav Posedkin Konstantin Dyomin | Four-man | 53.72 | 53.95 | 54.71 | | 2:42.38 | 19 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Total | Rank |
| Aleksandr Kravchenko | 30 km classical | 1:41:22.3 | 31 |
| Sergey Kriyanin | 10 km classical | 30:03.2 | 42 |
| Sergey Kriyanin | 15 km freestyle pursuit | 1:10:33.4 | 25 |
| Vladimir Legotin | 10 km classical | 31:10.3 | 62 |
| Vladimir Legotin | 15 km freestyle pursuit | 1:12:19.5 | 39 |
| Vladimir Legotin | 30 km classical | 1:38:23.7 | 9 |
| Grigori Menkhenin | 50 km freestyle | did not finish | did not finish |
| Andrei Nutrikhin | 50 km freestyle | 2:12:21.9 | 15 |
| Maksim Pichugin | 30 km classical | 1:42:41.7 | 39 |
| Maksim Pichugin | 50 km freestyle | 2:18:19.1 | 37 |
| Alexey Prokurorov | 10 km classical | 29:27.3 | 31 |
| Alexey Prokurorov | 15 km freestyle pursuit | 1:09:48.1 | 18 |
| Alexey Prokurorov | 50 km freestyle | 2:06:41.5 | 4 |
| Sergei Tchepikov | 10 km classical | 28:55.9 | 22 |
| Sergei Tchepikov | 15 km freestyle pursuit | 1:08:24.3 | 9 |
| Sergei Tchepikov | 30 km classical | 1:41:59.9 | 32 |
| Vladimir Legotin Alexey Prokurorov Sergey Kriyanin Sergei Tchepikov | 4 x 10 km relay | 1:42:39.5 | 5 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Total | Rank |
| Yuliya Chepalova | 5 km classical | 18:20.0 | 13 |
| Yuliya Chepalova | 10 km freestyle pursuit | 46:28.4 | 6 |
| Yuliya Chepalova | 30 km freestyle | 1:22:01.5 | |
| Olga Danilova | 5 km classical | 17:51.3 | 5 |
| Olga Danilova | 10 km freestyle pursuit | 46:13.4 | |
| Olga Danilova | 15 km classical | 46:55.4 | |
| Olga Danilova | 30 km freestyle | 1:28:08.1 | 13 |
| Nina Gavrilyuk | 5 km classical | 17:50.3 | 4 |
| Nina Gavrilyuk | 10 km freestyle pursuit | 46:49.3 | 7 |
| Larisa Lazutina | 5 km classical | 17:37.9 | |
| Larisa Lazutina | 10 km freestyle pursuit | 46:06.9 | |
| Larisa Lazutina | 15 km classical | 47:01.0 | |
| Larisa Lazutina | 30 km freestyle | 1:23:15.7 | |
| Svetlana Nageykina | 15 km classical | 49:22.5 | 16 |
| Yelena Välbe | 15 km classical | 49:25.9 | 17 |
| Yelena Välbe | 30 km freestyle | 1:24:52.8 | 5 |
| Nina Gavrilyuk Olga Danilova Yelena Välbe Larisa Lazutina | 4 x 5 km relay | 55:13.5 | |

## Figure skating

| Athlete | Event | CD1 | CD2 | SP/OD | FS/FD | Points | Rank |
| Ilia Kulik | Men's | | | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | |
| Alexei Yagudin | Men's | | | 4 | 5 | 7.0 | 5 |
| Maria Butyrskaya | Ladies' | | | 3 | 4 | 5.5 | 4 |
| Irina Slutskaya | Ladies' | | | 5 | 5 | 7.5 | 5 |
| Elena Sokolova | Ladies' | | | 10 | 7 | 12.0 | 7 |
| Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze | Pairs | | | 3 | 2 | 3.5 | |
| Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov | Pairs | | | 5 | 7 | 9.5 | 7 |
| Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev | Pairs | | | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | |
| Oksana Grishuk Evgeny Platov | Ice dance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.0 | |
| Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov | Ice dance | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4.0 | |
| Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh | Ice dance | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9.8 | 5 |

## Freestyle skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Vitali Glushchenko | Moguls | did not finish | did not finish | did not advance | did not advance |
| Andrei Ivanov | Moguls | 18.73 | 27 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Aleksandr Mikhaylov | Aerials | 246.21 | 3 Q | 229.98 | 6 |
| Yevgeni Sennikov | Moguls | 22.76 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Lyudmila Dymchenko | Moguls | 22.53 | 7 Q | 21.02 | 15 |
| Yelena Korolyova | Moguls | 20.97 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Nataliya Orekhova | Aerials | 118.61 | 22 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Nadezhda Radovitskaya | Moguls | 13.41 | 25 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yelena Vorona | Moguls | 20.54 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance |

## Ice hockey
### Men

* Head coach: Vladimir Yurzinov
| Pos. | No. | Player | Team |
| GK | 1 | Oleg Shevtsov | Severstal Cherepovets |
| GK | 34 | Andrei Trefilov | Chicago Blackhawks |
| GK | 35 | Mikhail Shtalenkov | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |
| D | 2 | Boris Mironov | Edmonton Oilers |
| D | 3 | Dmitri Yushkevich | Toronto Maple Leafs |
| D | 5 | Alexei Gusarov | Colorado Avalanche |
| D | 11 | Darius Kasparaitis | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| D | 15 | Dmitri Mironov | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |
| D | 29 | Igor Kravchuk | Ottawa Senators |
| D | 44 | Alexei Zhitnik | Buffalo Sabres |
| D | 55 | Sergei Gonchar | Washington Capitals |
| F | 8 | Sergei Nemchinov | New York Islanders |
| F | 9 | Sergei Krivokrasov | Chicago Blackhawks |
| F | 10 | Pavel Bure | Vancouver Canucks |
| F | 13 | Valeri Kamensky | Colorado Avalanche |
| F | 14 | German Titov | Calgary Flames |
| F | 19 | Alexei Yashin | Ottawa Senators |
| F | 20 | Valeri Bure | Calgary Flames |
| F | 24 | Aleksey Morozov | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| F | 25 | Valeri Zelepukin | Edmonton Oilers |
| F | 33 | Alexei Zhamnov | Chicago Blackhawks |
| F | 51 | Andrei Kovalenko | Edmonton Oilers |
| F | 91 | Sergei Fedorov | Detroit Red Wings |

   ### Preliminary round

| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
| Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 6 |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 4 |
| Finland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 2 |
| Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 0 |

### Play-off
   ### Quarterfinal
   ### Semifinal
   ### Final
## Luge

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Rank |
| Albert Demtschenko | Men's singles | 50.224 | 50.011 | DQ | | did not finish | did not finish |
| Alexandr Zubkov | Men's singles | 50.488 | 50.944 | 50.650 | 50.619 | 3:22.701 | 20 |
| Irina Gubkina | Women's singles | 52.295 | 52.199 | 52.107 | 51.514 | 3:28.115 | 18 |
| Margarita Klimenko | Women's singles | 52.391 | 52.123 | 51.789 | 51.448 | 3:27.751 | 17 |
| Danil Chaban Viktor Kneib | Doubles | 51.370 | 51.023 | | | 1:42.393 | 9 |
| Albert Demtschenko Semen Kolobayev | Doubles | 51.515 | 51.041 | | | 1:42.556 | 10 |

## Nordic combined

| Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Deficit | Time | Rank |
| Alexey Fadeyev | Individual 15 km | 195.5 | 33 | 4:33 | 48:19.7 +6:58.6 | 37 |
| Dmitry Sinitsyn | Individual 15 km | 213.5 | 14 | 2:45 | 43:48.0 +2:26.9 | 10 |
| Valeri Stolyarov | Individual 15 km | 235.0 | 2 | 0:36 | 41:49.3 +28.2 | |
| Denis Tishagin | Individual 15 km | 198.5 | 31 | 4:15 | did not finish | did not finish |
| Alexey Fadeyev Vladimir Lysenin Dmitry Sinitsyn Valeri Stolyarov | Team | 826.0 | 8 | 2:13 | 58:34.2 +4:22.7 | 9 |

## Short track speed skating
### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Marina Pylayeva | 500 m | 46.359 | 2 Q | 46.220 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 12 |
| Marina Pylayeva | 1000 m | 1:39.340 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 26 |
| Yelena Tikhanina | 500 m | 46.980 | 2 Q | 46.206 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 11 |
| Yelena Tikhanina | 1000 m | 1:39.242 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 25 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | First round | First round | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Total | Rank |
| Arthur Khamidulin | Normal hill | 90.5 | 26 | 96.0 | 186.5 | 25 |
| Arthur Khamidulin | Large hill | 109.6 | 15 | 107.6 | 217.2 | 23 |
| Valery Kobelev | Normal hill | 68.0 | 54 | did not advance | did not advance | 54 |
| Valery Kobelev | Large hill | 92.9 | 35 | did not advance | did not advance | 35 |
| Nikolai Petrushin | Normal hill | 79.5 | 42 | did not advance | did not advance | 42 |
| Nikolai Petrushin | Large hill | 66.1 | 54 | did not advance | did not advance | 54 |
| Aleksandr Volkov | Normal hill | 90.5 | 26 | 93.5 | 184.0 | 27 |
| Aleksandr Volkov | Large hill | 98.3 | 27 | 81.2 | 179.5 | 27 |
| Nikolai Petrushin Arthur Khamidulin Aleksandr Volkov Valery Kobelev | Team | 264.9 | 9 | 374.8 | 639.7 | 9 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Andrey Anufriyenko | 1000 m | | | | | 1:12.61 | 23 |
| Andrey Anufriyenko | 1500 m | | | | | 1:50.99 | 10 |
| Aleksandr Golubev | 500 m | 36.67 | 21 | 36.54 | 21 | 73.21 | 20 |
| Aleksandr Kibalko | 500 m | 37.32 | 38 | 36.86 | 28 | 74.18 | 33 |
| Aleksandr Kibalko | 1000 m | | | | | 1:12.94 | 28 |
| Aleksandr Kibalko | 1500 m | | | | | 1:52.27 | 22 |
| Sergey Klevchenya | 500 m | 36.56 | 15 | 36.30 | 10 | 72.86 | 14 |
| Sergey Klevchenya | 1000 m | | | | | 1:13.51 | 33 |
| Yuri Kokhanets | 5000 m | | | | | 6:47.21 | 22 |
| Andrei Krivosheyev | 5000 m | | | | | 6:46.57 | 20 |
| Sergey Savelyev | 500 m | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| Vadim Sayutin | 1500 m | | | | | 1:51.31 | 11 |
| Vadim Sayutin | 5000 m | | | | | 6:39.92 | 15 |
| Vadim Sayutin | 10000 m | | | | | 13:54.57 | 13 |
| Dmitri Shepel | 1000 m | | | | | 1:13.31 | 32 |
| Dmitri Shepel | 1500 m | | | | | 1:51.64 | 14 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Varvara Barysheva | 1500 m | | | | | 2:03.34 | 20 |
| Svetlana Bazhanova | 1500 m | | | | | 2:01.54 | 9 |
| Svetlana Bazhanova | 3000 m | | | | | 4:16.45 | 10 |
| Tatyana Danshina | 500 m | 40.53 | 29 | 40.59 | 29 | 81.12 | 28 |
| Tatyana Danshina | 1000 m | | | | | 1:19.95 | 19 |
| Nataliya Polozkova | 1000 m | | | | | 1:19.78 | 17 |
| Nataliya Polozkova | 1500 m | | | | | 2:01.56 | 10 |
| Oksana Ravilova | 500 m | 39.99 | 21 | 40.04 | 21 | 80.03 | 21 |
| Anna Savelyeva | 1000 m | | | | | 1:21.83 | 27 |
| Tatyana Trapeznikova | 1500 m | | | | | 2:03.25 | 19 |
| Tatyana Trapeznikova | 3000 m | | | | | 4:17.76 | 13 |
| Svetlana Vysokova | 3000 m | | | | | 4:17.70 | 12 |
| Svetlana Vysokova | 5000 m | | | | | 7:22.18 | 12 |
| Svetlana Zhurova | 500 m | 39.11 | 7 | 39.38 | 11 | 78.49 | 9 |
| Svetlana Zhurova | 1000 m | | | | | 1:19.04 | 12 |