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Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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

Soviet Union at the
1980 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Lake Placid
Competitors86 (63 men, 23 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearerAlexander Tikhonov (biathlon)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
10
Silver
6
Bronze
6
Total
22
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 edit

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
 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 edit

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Vladimir Makeev Downhill 1:49.87 22
Valeri Tsyganov 1:47.34 8
Vladimir Andreyev Giant Slalom 1:22.19 21 1:22.75 11 2:44.94 15
Aleksandr Zhirov 1:21.53 10 1:22.54 9 2:44.07 9
Valeri Tsyganov 1:21.22 6 DNF – DNF –
Aleksandr Zhirov Slalom DNF – – – DNF –
Vladimir Andreyev 54.97 10 51.68 9 1:46.65 9
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
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 edit

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Aleksandr Tikhonov 2 34:14.88 9
Anatoly Alyabyev 1 33:09.16  
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
Vladimir Barnashov 1'07:49.49 4 1'11:49.49 7
Anatoly Alyabyev 1'08:16.31 0 1'08:16.31  
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Vladimir Alikin
Aleksandr Tikhonov
Vladimir Barnashov
Anatoly Alyabyev 		0 1'34:03.27  

Cross-country skiing edit

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km Vasily Rochev 43:16.86 13
Aleksandr Zavyalov 43:00.81 7
Yevgeny Belyayev 42:46.02 5
Nikolay Zimyatov 42:33.96 4
30 km Nikolay Bazhukov 1'31:06.28 14
Yevgeny Belyayev 1'30:35.32 11
Vasily Rochev 1'27:34.22  
Nikolay Zimyatov 1'27:02.80  
50 km Yevgeny Belyayev 2'31:21.19 6
Sergey Savelyev 2'31:15.82 5
Aleksandr Zavyalov 2'30:51.52  
Nikolay Zimyatov 2'27:24.60  
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Vasily Rochev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Zimyatov 		1'57:03.46  
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km Nina Rocheva 15:50.39 15
Galina Kulakova 15:29.58 6
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 15:29.03 5
Raisa Smetanina 15:06.92  
10 km Iraida Suslova 31:48.39 14
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova 31:22.93 6
Galina Kulakova 30:58.46 5
Raisa Smetanina 30:54.48 4
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova
Nina Rocheva
Galina Kulakova
Raisa Smetanina 		1'03:18.30  

Figure skating edit

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
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 edit

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First round edit

     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).

12 February 1980
20:40		Japan  0 – 16
(0–8, 0–5, 0–3)		  Soviet UnionOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Kompalla
0 – 103:42 - Starikov (Petrov, Mikhailov)
0 – 207:55 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov)
0 – 309:47 - A. Golikov (Makarov, Starikov)
0 – 412:19 - Fetisov (Petrov, Kharlamov)
0 – 514:59 - A. Golikov (Makarov)
0 – 617:30 - Balderis (Starikov, Zhluktov)
0 – 719:00 - V. Golikov (Makarov)
0 – 819:27 - V. Golikov (Fetisov, A. Golikov)
0 – 920:06 - Petrov (Kasatonov)
0 – 1021:20 - Kasatonov (Mikhailov, Balderis)
0 – 1124:20 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Vasiliev)
0 – 1226:33 - Mikhailov (Starikov, Kharlamov)
0 – 1338:06 - Fetisov (Mikhailov, Kharlamov)
0 – 1446:26 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov)
0 – 1551:21 - Petrov (Pervukhin, Kharlamov)
0 – 1654:49 - A. Golikov (Makarov, V. Golikov)
0 minPenalties2 min
17Shots67
14 February 1980
16:30		Netherlands  4 – 17
(1–8, 1–7, 2–2)		  Soviet UnionOlympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
  Vladimir Šubrt
0 – 104:24 - Fetisov (Krutov, Maltsev)
0 – 204:43 - Krutov (Lebedev, Kasatonov)
0 – 309:59 - Vasiliev (Lebedev, Starikov) (SH)
0 – 410:12 - Petrov (Pervukhin) (SH)
0 – 511:43 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov, Pervukhin) (SH)
Hille (van Wieren, de Heer) (PP) - 11:511 – 5
1 – 614:41 - Lebedev (Maltsev)
1 – 716:41 - Maltsev (Zhluktov)
1 – 822:02 - Lebedev (Fetisov, Maltsev)
1 – 921:14 - Zhluktov (Bilyaletdinov)
1 – 1022:02 - Lebedev (Zhluktov, Skvortsov)
1 – 1124:32 - A. Golikov (V. Golikov)
1 – 1230:21 - A. Golikov
1 – 1331:07 - Krutov (Maltsev, Pervukhin)
1 – 1436:09 - Krutov (Lebedev, Kasatonov)
deGraauw (Klooster, de Cloe) - 33:492 – 14
2 – 1539:14 - Maltsev (Krutov)
de Cloe - 41:523 – 15
3 – 1647:12 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Starikov)
deGraauw (Klooster) - 56:144 – 16
4 – 1756:12 - Makarov (V. Golikov, A. Golikov)
14 minPenalties13 min
26Shots49
16 February 1980
16:30		Soviet Union  8 – 1
(5–1, 1–0, 2–0)		  PolandOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Neagles
Skvortsov (Zhluktov) - 01:531 – 0
Balderis (Zhluktov, Skvortsov) - 10:272 – 0
Balderis (Zhluktov) - 10:363 – 0
Mikhailov (Fetisov, Kharlamov) - 13:374 – 0
4 – 117:15 - Małysiak (Jobczyk) (PP)
Balderis (Pervukhin, Bilyaletdinov) - 23:125 – 1
Kharlamov - 25:196 – 1
Bilyaletdinov (Kharlamov) (PP) - 43:417 – 1
Maltsev (Fetisov) - 48:588 – 1
8 minPenalties6 min
60Shots19
18 February 1980
17:00		Finland  2 – 4
(1–0, 0–1, 1–3)		  Soviet UnionOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Haley
Porvari (Suoraniemi) - 17:441 – 0
1 – 136:01 - Fetisov (Makarov, A. Golikov)
Porvari (SH) - 42:382 – 1
2 – 254:59 - Krutov (Lebedev)
2 – 356:07 - Maltsev (Krutov, Lebedev)
2 – 456:18 - Mikhailov (Kasatonov)
14 minPenalties8 min
13Shots48
20 February 1980
17:00		Soviet Union  6 – 4
(1–1, 1–2, 4–1)		  CanadaOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Neagles
0 – 101:35 - Nill (Davidson, G. Anderson)
Balderis (Skvortsov, Zhluktov) - 13:421 – 1
1 – 220:19 - Gregg
1 – 322:38 - Pirie (Zupancich, d'Alvise)
Kasatonov (Krutov) - 39:472 – 3
Mikhailov (A. Golikov) - 41:533 – 3
A. Golikov (Makarov) - 42:054 – 3
4 – 443:05 - d'Alvise
Mikhailov (Starikov) - 48:415 – 4
A. Golikov - 56:516 – 4
6 minPenalties12 min
35Shots26

Final round edit

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
22 February 1980
17:00		United States  4 – 3
(2–2, 0–1, 2–0)		  Soviet UnionOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
  Karl-Gustav Kaisla
0 – 109:12 - Krutov (Kasatonov)
Schneider (Pavelich) - 14:031 – 1
1 – 217:34 - Makarov (A. Golikov)
Johnson (Christian, Silk) - 19:592 – 2
2 – 322:18 - Maltsev (Krutov) (PP)
Johnson (Silk) (PP) - 48:393 – 3
Eruzione (Pavelich, Harrington) - 50:004 – 3
6 minPenalties6 min
16Shots39
24 February 1980
14:30		Sweden  2 – 9
(0–4, 0–5, 2–0)		  Soviet UnionOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Haley
0 – 100:36 - Petrov (Kharlamov)
0 – 205:52 - Makarov (A. Golikov)
0 – 310:31 - Maltsev (Bilyaletdinov, Pervukhin)
0 – 417:38 - Mikhailov (Kharlamov, Pervukhin)
0 – 520:33 - Vasiliev
0 – 627:18 - Krutov (Pervukhin)
0 – 728:14 - Skvortsov (Balderis, Pervukhin)
0 – 834:51 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov)
0 – 935:02 - Fetisov
Åhlberg (Weinstock, Holmgren) - 49:171 – 9
Holmgren (Näslund) - 54:212 – 9
8 minPenalties12 min
26Shots28

Carried over group match:

  •   Finland 2–4 USSR  

Roster


Coaches

Luge edit

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
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 2 Total
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 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
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 edit

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
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 72.5 75.0 176.3 21 49:33.6 203.635 10 379.935 19
Aleksandr Mayorov 75.5 78.0 194.4 13 48:19.6 214.735 6 409.135 7

Ski jumping edit

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Andrey Shakirov Normal hill 61.0 72.8 63.5 74.3 147.1 46
Yury Ivanov 71.0 93.8 78.0 106.5 200.3 33
Vladimir Vlasov 80.0 109.2 71.5 95.6 204.8 31
Aleksey Borovitin 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 96.5 99.3 90.0 87.7 187.0 39
Yury Ivanov 97.0 103.5 92.0 93.5 197.0 34
Vladimir Vlasov 97.0 103.5 96.5 101.8 205.3 28

Speed skating edit

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Sergey Khlebnikov 39.25 15
Anatoly Medennikov 38.88 7
Yevgeny Kulikov 38.37  
1000 m Anatoly Medennikov 1:18.92 15
Sergey Khlebnikov 1:17.96 9
Vladimir Lobanov 1:16.91  
1500 m Yevgeny Solunsky 1:59.47 9
Vladimir Lobanov 1:59.30 8
Yury Kondakov 1:57.36 5
5000 m Sergey Berezin 7:19.93 15
Dmitry Ogloblin 7:16.92 13
Viktor Lyoskin 7:16.24 11
10,000 m Dmitry Ogloblin 15:20.14 16
Sergey Berezin 15:04.68 10
Viktor Lyoskin 14:51.72 7
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova 43.50 10
Tatyana Tarasova 43.26 8
Nataliya Petrusyova 42.42  
1000 m Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova 1:29.94 20
Valentina Lalenkova 1:28.57 11
Nataliya Petrusyova 1:24.50 OR  
1500 m Vera Bryndzy 2:16.32 18
Tatyana Averina-Barabash 2:16.32 18
Nataliya Petrusyova 2:14.15 8
3000 m Valentina Lalenkova 4:51.72 17
Olga Pleshkova 4:43.11 9
Nataliya Petrusyova 4:42.59 8

References edit

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