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Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States.

Soviet Union at the
1960 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Squaw Valley
Competitors62 (49 men, 13 women)[1] in 8 sports
Flag bearerNikolai Sologubov
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
7
Silver
5
Bronze
9
Total
21
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1928, 1992–)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2014)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1998–)
 Tajikistan (2002–)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event
  Gold Maria Gusakova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Gold Yevgeny Grishin Speed skating Men's 500 m
  Gold Yevgeny Grishin Speed skating Men's 1500 m
  Gold Viktor Kosichkin Speed skating Men's 5000 m
  Gold Klara Nesterova-Guseva Speed skating Women's 1000 m
  Gold Lidiya Skoblikova Speed skating Women's 1500 m
  Gold Lidiya Skoblikova Speed skating Women's 3000 m
  Silver Lyubov Baranova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Silver Radya Yeroshina
Maria Gusakova
Lyubov Baranova		 Cross-country skiing Women's 3 x 5 km relay
  Silver Viktor Kosichkin Speed skating Men's 10000 m
  Silver Natalya Donchenko Speed skating Women's 500 m
  Silver Valentina Stenina Speed skating Women's 3000 m
  Bronze Aleksandr Privalov Biathlon Men's 20 km
  Bronze Nikolay Anikin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km
  Bronze Anatoly Shelyukhin
Gennady Vaganov
Aleksey Kuznetsov
Nikolay Anikin		 Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay
  Bronze Radya Yeroshina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
  Bronze Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team
 Ice hockey Men's competition
  Bronze Nikolay Gusakov Nordic combined Men's individual (15 km)
  Bronze Rafael Grach Speed skating Men's 500 m
  Bronze Boris Stenin Speed skating Men's 1500 m
  Bronze Tamara Rylova Speed skating Women's 1000 m

Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Women
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Total Rank
Stalina Korzukhina Downhill 1:46.5 19
Giant slalom 1:45.7 21
Slalom 58.5 59.9 1:58.4 7
Yevgeniya Kabina Downhill 1:46.7 20
Giant slalom 1:50.0 31
Slalom 1:03.3 1:01.0 2:04.3 18
Lyubov Volkova Downhill 1:49.2 23
Giant slalom 1:48.9 30
Slalom 1:00.8 1:16.5 2:17.3 30

Biathlon

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Main article: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Aleksandr Privalov 20 km 1:34:54.2 3  
Vladimir Melanin 20 km 1:35:42.4 4 4
Valentin Pshenitsyn 20 km 1:36:45.8 3 5
Dmitry Sokolov 20 km 1:38:16.7 5 6

Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Total Rank
Nikolay Anikin 15 km 52:55.0 10
30 km 1:52:28.2  
50 km 3:10:13.9 13
Aleksandr Gubin 15 km 53:29.1 15
Aleksey Kuznetsov 30 km 1:54:23.9 8
50 km 3-11:47.0 15
Ivan Lyubimov 50 km 3:25:06.4 18
Pavel Morshchinin 15 km 53:36.6 16
Anatoly Shelyukhin 30 km 1:58:21.3 15
Gennady Vaganov 15 km 52:18.0 4
30 km 1:52:49.2 4
50 km 3:05:27.6 7
Anatoly Shelyukhin
Gennady Vaganov
Aleksey Kuznetsov
Nikolay Anikin 		Relay 4 x 10 km 2:21:21.6  
Women
Athlete Event Final
Total Rank
Lyubov Baranova 10 km 40:04.2  
Maria Gusakova 10 km 39:46.6  
Alevtina Kolchina 10 km 40:12.6 4
Radya Yeroshina 10 km 40:06.0  
Radya Yeroshina
Maria Gusakova
Lyubov Baranova 		Relay 3 x 5 km 1:05:02.6  

Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Points Places Rank
Nina Zhuk
Stanislav Zhuk 		Pairs 72.3 38.6 6
Ludmila Belousova
Oleg Protopopov 		Pairs 68.6 60.5 9

Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Men
Pos. No. Player Team
GK Nikolai Puchkov
GK Yevgeni Yorkin
D Nikolai Sologubov
D Yury Baulin
D Nikolay Karpov
D Genrikh Sidorenkov
D Alfred Kuchevsky
F Veniamin Alexandrov
F Aleksandr Almetov
F Konstantin Loktev
F Mikhail Bychkov
F Vladimir Grebennikov
F Yury Tsitsinov
F Viktor Yakushev
F Yevgeny Groshev
F Stanislav Petukhov
F Viktor Pryazhnikov
Preliminary round
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
  Soviet Union 2 2 0 0 16 4 4
  Germany 2 1 1 0 4 9 2
  Finland 2 0 2 0 5 12 0
19 February 1960Soviet Union  8–0
(3–0, 3–0, 2–0)		  Germany
Yevgeni YorkinGoaliesMichael HobelsbergerReferees:
Marsh Ryman
Everett Riley
Baulin (Alexandrov) – 1:321–0
Pryazhnikov (Petukhov) – 4:012–0
Alexandrov – 18:443–0
Petukhov (Sologubov) – 22:444–0
Groshev (Yakushev) – 31:535–0
Almetov (Alexandrov) – 38:166–0
Sologubov (Tsitsinov) – 45:197–0
Loktev (Alexandrov, Kuchevsky) – 49:068–0
16 minPenalties20 min
32Shots18
20 February 1960Soviet Union  8–4
(2–1, 4–0, 2–3)		  Finland
Nikolai Puchkov
Yevgeni Yorkin		GoaliesEsko NiemiReferees:
Bill MacKenzie
Hugh McLean
Grebennikov (Petukhov, Tsitsinov) – 4:431–0
Groshev (Yakushev, Karpov) (PP) – 9:352–0
2–118:09 – Lampainen (PP2)
Karpov – 22:363–1
Yakushev (Petukhov) – 29:364–1
Tsitsinov (Grebennikov, Karpov) – 36:215–1
Groshev (Petukhov) – 37:306–1
6–243:20 – Pulli
Loktev (Alexandrov) – 44:317–2
7–347:15 – Nieminen (Pulli)
Grebennikov (Tsitsinov) (PP) – 56:288–3
8–459:42 – Nieminen
26 minPenalties8 min
41Shots36
Final round
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
  United States 5 5 0 0 29 11 10
  Canada 5 4 1 0 31 12 8
  Soviet Union 5 2 2 1 24 19 5
  Czechoslovakia 5 2 3 0 21 23 4
  Sweden 5 1 3 1 19 19 3
  Germany 5 0 5 0 5 45 0
22 February 1960
13:00		Soviet Union  8–5
(3–2, 2–1, 3–2)		  Czechoslovakia
Nikolai PuchkovGoaliesVladimír Nadrchal
Vladimír Dvořáček
Tsitsinov (Bychkov, Sologubov) (PP) – 7:331–0
1–114:17 – Bubník
Loktev (Almetov, Alexandrov) – 15:562–1
Alexandrov – 18:263–1
3–219:44 – Černý
Tsitsinov (Grebennikov) – 25:384–2
Loktev (Almetov, Sologubov) – 30:315–2
5–335:01 – Pantůček (Potsch, Bubník) (PP)
Alexandrov (Almetov, Loktev) – 41:086–3
Petukhov (Yakushev) – 44:287–3
7–445:03 – Pantůček (Bubník, Bronislav Danda)
7–550:13 – Pantůček (Bronislav Danda)
Loktev (Grebennikov, Groshev) – 53:098–5
14 minPenalties8 min
43Shots37
24 February 1960
15:30		Soviet Union  2–2
(0–0, 0–0, 2–2)		  Sweden
Nikolai PuchkovGoaliesKjell Svensson
0–142:30 – Nilsson (Lundvall)
Loktev (Groshev, Sologubov) (PP) – 48:071–1
Alexandrov (Sologubov) – 51:492–1
2–258:32 – Nilsson (Lundvall, Pettersson)
4 minPenalties4 min
34Shots28
25 February 1960
13:00		Soviet Union  7–1
(0–1, 4–0, 3–0)		  Germany
Yevgeni YorkinGoaliesMichael HobelsbergerReferees:
Barry Riley
Bill Riley
0–13:17 – Huber
Grebennikov (Tsitsinov) – 27:471–1
Tsitsinov (Baulin) – 31:332–1
Alexandrov (Kuchevsky, Yakushev) – 33:403–1
Petukhov (Kuchevsky) – 34:424–1
Tsitsinov (Bychkov) (PP) – 50:415–1
Petukhov (Sidorenkov) – 53:246–1
Sidorenkov (PP2) – 59:167–1
6 minPenalties10 min
37Shots13
27 February 1960
13:30		United States  3–2
(1–2, 1–0, 1–0)		  Soviet Union
Jack McCartanGoaliesNikolai PuchkovReferees:
Kurt Hauser
Richard Wagner
Bill Cleary (Bob Cleary) – 4:041–0
1–15:03 – Alexandrov (Sologubov)
1–29:37 – Bychkov (Grebennikov)
B. Christian (R. Christian) – 31:012–2
B. Christian (Williams, R. Christian) – 54:593–2
4 minPenalties6 min
34Shots29
28 February 1960Canada  8–5
(3–0, 1–3, 4–2)		  Soviet Union
Harold Hurley
Don Head		GoaliesNikolai PuchkovReferees:
Kurt Hauser
Richard Wagner
Etcher (Attersley) – 7:321–0
Sinden (Attersley, Etcher) – 18:122–0
Samolenko (Attersley, Sinden) – 18:273–0
Rope (Rousseau) – 22:374–0
4–125:28 – Almetov (Alexandrov) (PP)
4–225:51 – Alexandrov (Sologubov, Loktev) (PP)
4–329:56 – Grebennikov (Bychkov, Sologubov)
Etcher (Attersley) – 45:335–3
Connelly – 46:486–3
Martin Connelly, Laufman – 47:537–3
7–450:16 – Groshev (Sidorenkov) (PP)
7–555:02 – Pryazhnikov (Groshev, Baulin)
Attersley (Etcher) – 59:528–5
12 minPenalties6 min
47Shots33
  Bronze

Nordic combined

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Main article: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Time Points Rank Points Rank
Leonid Fyodorov Individual 15 km 202.0 17 1:02:13.1 225.548 15 427.548 16
Nikolay Gusakov Individual 15 km 212.0 10 58:29.4 240.000 1 452.000  
Dmitry Kochkin Individual 15 km 219.5 2 1:01:32.1 228.194 11 447.694 5
Mikhail Pryakin Individual 15 km 200.5 21 1:00:25.7 232.452 9 432.952 12

Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event First round Final
Points Rank Points Total Rank
Leonid Fyodorov Normal hill 97.2 26 95.9 193.1 27
Nikolay Kamenskiy Normal hill 110.2 3 106.7 216.9 4
Nikolay Shamov Normal hill 103.2 15 107.4 210.6 10
Koba Zakadze Normal hill 107.0 7 104.1 211.1 9

Speed skating

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Yury Malyshev 41.2 10
Gennady Voronin 40.7 5
Rafael Grach 40.4  
Yevgeny Grishin 40.2 OR  
1500 m Lev Zaytsev 2:22.1 31
Gennady Voronin 2:14.7 12
Boris Stenin 2:11.5  
Yevgeny Grishin 2:10.4  
5000 m Oleg Goncharenko 8:06.6 6
Valery Kotov 8:05.4 5
Viktor Kosichkin 7:51.3  
10000 m Nikolajs Štelbaums DSQ –
Vladimir Shilykovsky 17:13.9 20
Viktor Kosichkin 15:49.2  
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Klara Nesterova-Guseva 46.8 6
Tamara Rylova 46.2 4
Natalya Donchenko 46.0  
1000 m Lidiya Skoblikova 1:35.3 4
Tamara Rylova 1:34.8  
Klara Nesterova-Guseva 1:34.1  
1500 m Valentina Stenina 2:29.2 5
Klara Nesterova-Guseva 2:28.7 4
Lidiya Skoblikova 2:25.2  
3000 m Tamara Rylova 5:30.0 9
Valentina Stenina 5:16.9  
Lidiya Skoblikova 5:14.3  

Medals by republic

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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.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russian SFSR762740
2  Byelorussian SSR0101
3  Ukrainian SSR0011
Totals (3 entries)772842

References

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  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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