Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Sapporo
Competitors	78 (58 men, 20 women)[1] in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Vyacheslav Vedenin (cross-country skiing)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 8 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 16
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	Vyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Gold	Galina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Gold	Galina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 × 5 km relay
Gold	Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davidov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadi Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Vladimir Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeny Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeny Zimin	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Silver	Fyodor Smishov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Sergei Chetverukhin	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Vera Krasnova	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Vyacheslav Vedenin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Valery Muratov	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Bronze	Lyudmila Titova	Speed skating	Women's 500m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sergey Grishchenko	Downhill					2:03.19	46
Sergey Grishchenko	Giant Slalom	?	39	DNF	–	DNF	–

Men's slalom

Athlete	Classification		Final
	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Sergey Grishchenko	1:49.64	5	1:02.97	32	59.70	21	2:02.67	22

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Svetlana Isakova	Downhill					1:44.83	39
Nina Merkulova						1:44.48	37
Galina Shikhova						1:43.88	34
Galina Shikhova	Giant Slalom					1:43.74	34
Nina Merkulova						1:41.18	33
Svetlana Isakova						1:40.20	31
Nina Merkulova	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Svetlana Isakova		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Galina Shikhova		52.07	23	53.74	18	1:45.81	19

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Rinnat Safin	1'15:22.59	7	1'22:22.59	19
	Ivan Biakov	1'17:42.78	3	1'20:42.78	12
	Viktor Mamatov	1'16:16.26	2	1'18:16.26	7
	Aleksandr Tikhonov	1'12:48.65	4	1'16:48.65	4

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 2	Time	Rank
Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov	3	1'51:44.92

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Valery Tarakanov	46:48.32	16
	Vladimir Voronkov	46:33.43	12
	Yury Skobov	46:04.59	5
	Fyodor Smishov	46:00.84
30 km	Vladimir Dolganov	1'40:48.85	16
	Yury Skobov	1'40:18.70	15
	Fyodor Simashov	1'38:22.50	6
	Vyacheslav Vedenin	1'36:31.15
50 km	Ivan Garanin	2'50:00.78	17
	Ivan Pronin	2'49:45.59	15
	Fyodor Simashov	2'45:08.93	8
	Vyacheslav Vedenin	2'44:00.19

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Vladimir Voronkov Yury Skobov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin	2'04:47.94

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	17:25.62	10
	Lyubov Mukhachova	17:12.08	6
	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	17:07.40	4
	Galina Kulakova	17:00.50
10 km	Nina Shebalina	35:54.59	10
	Lyubov Mukhachova	34:58.56	4
	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	34:54.11
	Galina Kulakova	34:17.82

Women's 3 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Lyubov Mukhachova Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova Galina Kulakova	48:16.15

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Yuri Ovchinnikov	15	6	2477.5	104.5	12
Vladimir Kovalev	7	11	2521.6	80	8
Sergei Chetverukhin	3	1	2672.4	20

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