Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was a joint
Unified Team at the

team consisting of six of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine,
Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Armenia that made a decision to 1992 Winter Olympics
collaborate and created a united team.[1] The Unified Team's only other
appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It competed under
the IOC country code EUN (from the French Equipe Unifiée).

The team finished second in the medal rankings, narrowly losing to a re-unified
Germany.

The Olympic flag

Contents IOC code EUN
Members in Albertville
Medals by winter sport Competitors 129 (86 men, 43 women) in 12
Medalists sports

Alpine skiing Flag bearer Valeriy Medvedtsev (biathlon)

Biathlon Medals Gold Silver Bronze Total

Bobsleigh
Ranked 2nd 9 6 8 23
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Cross-country skiing
1992
Figure skating
Other related appearances
Freestyle skiing
 Latvia (1924–1636, 1992–)

Ice hockey
First round  Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)

Final round  Lithuania (1928, 1992–)

 Soviet Union (1956–1988)

Luge  Armenia (1994–)

Nordic combined  Belarus (1994–)

Short track speed skating  Georgia (1994–)

 Kazakhstan (1994–)

Ski jumping
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)

Speed skating
 Moldova (1994–)

See also  Russia (1994–2014)

References  Ukraine (1994–)

 Uzbekistan (1994–)

 Azerbaijan (1998–)

Members  Tajikistan (2002–)

 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)

 Armenia
 ROC (2022)
 Belarus
Kazakhstan
 Russia
 Ukraine
 Uzbekistan

Medals by winter sport

 Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total

Cross-country skiing 3 2 4 9

Figure skating 3 1 1 5

Biathlon 2 2 2 6

Ice hockey 1 0 0 1

Freestyle skiing 0 1 0 1

Short track speed skating 0 0 1 1

Totals (6 sports) 9 6 8 23

Medalists
The Unified Team finished second to Germany both in the gold and overall medal tally with 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8
bronze medals for a total of 23 medals.
Medal Name Nationality Sport Event

Yevgeniy Redkin Biathlon Men's 20 km

 Gold  Belarus[2][3]
Women's 7.5 km
Anfisa Reztsova  Russia Biathlon
 Gold sprint
Cross- Women's 10 km
Lyubov Yegorova  Russia country pursuit
 Gold
skiing (freestyle)
Cross-
 Russia Women's 15 km
Lyubov Yegorova country
 Gold (classical)
skiing
Yelena Välbe

 Russia Cross-
Raisa Smetanina
Women's 4 ×
country
 Gold Larisa Lazutina
(all) 5 km relay
skiing
Lyubov Yegorova

 Ukraine Figure
Viktor Petrenko Men's singles
 Gold skating
Natalia Mishkutenok
Figure
 Russia Pairs
 Gold Artur Dmitriev skating
Marina Klimova
Figure
 Russia Ice dancing
 Gold Sergei Ponomarenko skating
Unified team men's national ice hockey team

Sergei Bautin Yuri Khmylev Vitali Prokhorov

Igor Boldin Andrei Khomutov Mikhail Shtalenkov
Nikolai Borschevskiy Andrei Kovalenko Andrei Trefilov  Russia
Vyacheslav Butsayev Alexei Kovalev Dmitri Yushkevich (all except
Men's
Ice hockey
 Gold Vyacheslav Bykov Igor Kravchuk Alexei Zhamnov Kasparaitis competition
Evgeny Davydov Vladimir Malakhov Alexei Zhitnik ( and Zhitnik)
Darius Kasparaitis ( Dmitri Mironov  Ukraine)
 Lithuania) Sergei Petrenko Sergei Zubov
Nikolai Khabibulin

Svetlana Petcherskaia  Russia Biathlon Women's 15 km

 Silver
 Russia
Valeriy Medvedtsev
(Medvedtsev,

Alexandr Popov
Kiriyenko Men's 4 ×
and Biathlon
 Silver Valeri Kiriyenko
7.5 km relay
Sergei Tchepikov Tchepikov)

 Belarus
(Popov)
Cross-
 Russia Women's 5 km
Lyubov Yegorova country
 Silver (classical)
skiing
Cross-
 Russia Women's 30 km
Lyubov Yegorova country
 Silver (freestyle)
skiing
Elena Bechke
 Russia Figure
Pairs
 Silver Denis Petrov (both) skating
Freestyle Women's
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova  Russia
 Silver skiing moguls
Women's 7.5 km
Yelena Belova  Russia Biathlon
 Bronze sprint
Yelena Belova
 Russia Women's 3 ×
Anfisa Reztsova
Biathlon
 Bronze (all) 7.5 km relay
Yelena Melnikova
Cross-
 Russia Women's 5 km
Yelena Välbe country
 Bronze (classical)
skiing
Yelena Välbe  Russia Cross- Women's 10 km
country pursuit
  Bronze skiing (freestyle)

Cross-
 Russia Women's 15 km
Yelena Välbe country
 Bronze (classical)
skiing
Cross-
 Russia Women's 30 km
Yelena Välbe country
 Bronze (freestyle)
skiing
Maya Usova
 Russia Figure
Ice dancing
 Bronze Alexander Zhulin (both) skating
Yuliya Allagulova

 Russia Short track

Natalya Isakova
Women's 3000
speed
 Bronze Viktoriya Troytskaya
(all) m relay
skating
Yuliya Vlasova

Alpine skiing
Men

Race 1 Race 2 Total

Athlete Event
Time Time Time Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov 1:53.93 24
Aleksey Maslov Downhill 1:53.68 22
Vitaly Andreyev 1:53.52 21
Vitaly Andreyev DNF –
Aleksey Maslov Super-G 1:19.71 49
Konstantin Chistyakov 1:16.14 22

Men's combined

Downhill Slalom Total

Athlete
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Aleksey Maslov 1:48.53 DNF – DNF –
Konstantin Chistyakov 1:47.95 DNF – DNF –
Vitaly Andreyev 1:46.01 55.80 58.44 85.07 20

Women

Race 1 Race 2 Total

Athlete Event
Time Time Time Rank
Svetlana Novikova 1:59.18 27
Tetiana Lebedeva Downhill 1:55.15 19
Svetlana Gladysheva 1:53.85 8
Tetiana Lebedeva 1:26.92 28
Svetlana Gladysheva Super-G 1:26.51 25
Varvara Zelenskaya 1:26.39 24

Women's combined
 Downhill Slalom Total
Athlete
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Varvara Zelenskaya DNF – – DNF –
Svetlana Novikova 1:30.03 38.89 38.94 122.48 19
Tetiana Lebedeva 1:27.79 40.05 39.82 111.34 18
Svetlana Gladysheva 1:26.88 38.15 37.01 61.25 12

Biathlon
Men

Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank

Valeriy Medvedtsev 2 27:39.5 25
Aleksandr Popov 1 27:31.3 18
10 km Sprint
Valeri Kiriyenko 3 26:31.8 5
Sergei Tchepikov 0 26:27.5 4

Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank

Valeri Kiriyenko 55:12.6 4 59:12.6 11
Sergei Tchepikov 55:47.6 3 58:47.6 10
20 km
Aleksandr Popov 56:02.9 2 58:02.9 4
Eugeni Redkine 57:34.4 0 57:34.4

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Race
Athletes
Misses 1 Time Rank
Valeriy Medvedtsev

Aleksandr Popov

0 1'25:06.3
Valery Kiriyenko

Sergei Tchepikov

Women

Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank

Yelena Golovina 1 26:50.3 20
Svetlana Petcherskaia 0 26:09.7 13
7.5 km Sprint
Yelena Belova 2 24:50.8
Anfisa Reztsova 3 24:29.2

Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank

Anfisa Reztsova 47:52.6 9 56:52.6 26
Yelena Golovina 54:17.9 2 56:17.9 22
15 km
Svetlana Paramygina 52:15.2 4 56:15.2 21
Svetlana Petcherskaia 50:58.5 1 51:58.5

Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay

 Race
Athletes
Misses 1 Time Rank
Yelena Belova

Anfisa Reztsova
2 1'16:54.6
Yelena Melnikova

Bobsleigh
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Sled Athletes Event
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Vladimir
EUN- Yefimov
Two-
1:01.17 17 1:01.85 21 1:02.03 19 1:02.25 23 4:07.30 20
1 Aleksey man
Golovin
Oleg
EUN- Sukhoruchenko
Two-
1:01.77 27 1:02.06 23 1:02.19 23 1:02.31 24 4:08.33 26
2 Andrey man
Gorokhov

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total

Sled Athletes Event
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Oleg
Sukhoruchenko

Oleksandr
EUN- Bortiuk
Four-
59.05 19 1:00.05 22 58.94 12 59.39 19 3:57.43 19
1 Vladimir man
Lyubovitsky

Andrey
Gorokhov
Vladimir
Yefimov

EUN- Oleg Petrov

Four-
59.80 23 1:00.19 23 1:00.34 23 1:00.26 23 4:00.59 22
2 Sergey Kruglov
man
Aleksandr
Pashkov

Cross-country skiing
Men
 Race
Event Athlete
Time Rank
German Karachevsky 32:12.6 62

10 km
Andrey Kirillov 30:27.4 30
C Vladimir Smirnov 29:13.1 13
Mikhail Botvinov 28:55.8 11
German Karachevsky 44:09.5 43
15 km
Andrey Kirillov 41:14.9 17
pursuit1

F Mikhail Botvinov 41:07.1 15

Vladimir Smirnov 39:59.8 8
Aleksey Prokurorov 1'27:20.5 21

30 km
Aleksandr Golubyov 1'25:56.1 14
C Mikhail Botvinov 1'25:36.9 12
Vladimir Smirnov 1'25:27.6 9
Vladimir Smirnov 2'15:48.5 35

50 km
Mikhail Botvinov 2'14:20.8 28
F Aleksandr Golubyov 2'11:20.1 17
Aleksey Prokurorov 2'07:06.1 4

1Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Race
Athletes
Time Rank
Andrey Kirillov

Vladimir Smirnov

1'43:03.6 5
Mikhail Botvinov

Aleksey Prokurorov

Women
 Race
Event Athlete
Time Rank
Larisa Lazutina 14:41.7 7

5 km
Olga Danilova 14:37.2 6
C Yelena Välbe 14:22.7
Lyubov Yegorova 14:14.7
Olga Danilova 28:10.2 11
10 km
Larisa Lazutina 27:34.8 8
pursuit2

F Yelena Välbe 26:37.7

Lyubov Yegorova 25:53.7
Nataliya Martynova 45:16.1 12

15 km
Raisa Smetanina 44:01.5 4
C Yelena Välbe 43:42.3
Lyubov Yegorova 42:20.8
Olga Danilova 1'30:30.7 20

30 km
Larisa Lazutina 1'26:31.8 5
F Yelena Välbe 1'24:13.9
Lyubov Yegorova 1'22:52.0

2Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Race
Athletes
Time Rank
Yelena Välbe

Raisa Smetanina

59:34.8
Larisa Lazutina

Lyubov Yegorova

Figure skating
Men

Athlete SP FS TFP Rank

Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk 10 8 13.0 8
Alexei Urmanov 5 5 7.5 5
Viktor Petrenko 1 1 1.5

Women

Athlete SP FS TFP Rank

Tatiana Rachkova 13 14 20.5 16
Julia Vorobieva 14 13 20.0 14

Pairs
 Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Yevgenya Shishkova

5 5 7.5 5
Vadim Naumov
Elena Bechke

2 2 3.0
Denis Petrov
Natalia Mishkutenok

1 1 1.5
Artur Dmitriev

Ice Dancing

Athletes CD1 CD2 OD FD TFP Rank

Pasha Grishuk

4 4 4 4 8.0 4
Evgeni Platov
Maya Usova

2 2 3 3 5.6
Alexander Zhulin
Marina Klimova

1 1 1 1 2.0
Sergei Ponomarenko

Freestyle skiing
Men

Qualification Final
Athlete Event
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Mikhail Lyzhin 40.89 16.04 36 Did not advance
Aleksey Bannikov 35.79 17.12 33 Did not advance
Moguls
Andrey Ivanov 36.52 21.24 21 Did not advance
Sergey Shupletsov 33.30 22.65 13 Q 34.49 21.60 12

Women

Qualification Final
Athlete Event
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Larisa Udodova 47.58 11.17 23 Did not advance
Olga Lychkina 42.42 18.04 12 Did not advance
Moguls
Yelena Korolyova 43.52 20.01 10 Did not advance
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova 39.10 22.22 5Q 39.47 23.50

Ice hockey

First round

Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to
the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.

     Team advanced to the Final Round

     Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round
 Team GP W L T GF GA DIF PTS
 Canada 5 4 1 0 28 9 19 8

Unified Team 5 4 1 0 32 10 22 8

 Czechoslovakia 5 4 1 0 25 15 10 8

 France 5 2 3 0 14 22 -8 4

  Switzerland 5 1 4 0 13 25 -12 2

 Norway 5 0 5 0 7 38 -31 0

Unified Team 8:1   Switzerland

Unified Team 8:1  Norway
 Czechoslovakia 4:3 Unified Team
 France 0:8 Unified Team
Unified Team 5:4  Canada

Final round

Quarter-finals

Unified Team 6:1  Finland

Semi-finals

Unified Team 5:2  United States

Final

Unified Team 3:1  Canada

Gold:
 Unified Team

Sergei Bautin
Igor Boldin
Nikolai Borschevsky
Vyacheslav Butsayev
Vyacheslav Bykov
Evgeni Davydov
Alexei Zhitnik
Darius Kasparaitis
Nikolai Khabibulin
Yuri Kmylev
Andrei Khomutov
Andrei Kovalenko
Alexei Kovalev
Igor Kravchuk
Vladimir Malakhov
Dmitri Mironov
Sergei Petrenko
Vitali Prokhorov
Mikhail Shtalenkov
Andrei Trefilov
Dmitri Yushkevich
Alexei Zhamnov
Sergei Zubov
Luge
Men

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total

Athlete
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Eduard Burmistrov 46.138 16 46.032 16 46.612 16 46.728 18 3:05.510 16
Oleg Yermolin 46.046 15 46.176 18 46.569 14 46.504 15 3:05.295 15
Sergey Danilin 45.708 11 45.622 9 46.281 10 46.162 10 3:03.773 9

(Men's) Doubles

Run 1 Run 2 Total

Athletes
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Albert Demchenko

46.552 7 46.747 9 1:33.299 8

Aleksey Zelensky
Igor Lobanov

46.849 10 47.098 13 1:33.947 10

Gennady Belyakov

Women

Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total

Athlete
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Nadezhda Danilina 47.324 14 47.215 10 47.264 11 47.025 9 3:08.828 12
Irina Gubkina 47.175 10 47.273 12 47.264 11 47.034 10 3:08.746 10
Nataliya Yakushenko 47.097 9 47.215 10 47.178 8 46.893 6 3:08.383 8

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.)

Ski Jumping Cross-country Total

Athlete Event
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Vasily Savin 179.4 40 +5:27.4 49:24.8 22
Valery Stolyarov 192.0 32 +4:03.4 51:50.2 32
Individual
Sergey Shvagirev 205.0 16 +2:36.7 53:03.6 36
Andrey Dundukov 210.4 11 +2:00.7 47:44.2 11

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
 Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Athletes
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Andrey Dundukov

Sergey Shvagirev
545.3 9 +8:19.0 1'37:57.2 11
Valery Stolyarov

Short track speed skating

Men

Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals

Athlete Event
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Dmitry Yershov 1000 m 1:37.71 2Q 1:34.02 3 Did not advance

Women

Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals

Athlete Event
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Nataliya Isakova 48.49 3 Did not advance
Marina Pylayeva 500 m 47.48 2Q 47.95 1Q 1:07.56 4 QB 48.42 5
Yuliya Vlasova 48.29 2Q 48.63 2Q 1:08.90 4 QB 48.70 7
Yuliya Allagulova

Nataliya Isakova

3000 m relay 4:38.37 2Q 4:42.69

Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina

Yuliya Vlasova

Ski jumping
Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Athlete Event
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Yury Dudarev 76.5 84.9 73.5 77.6 162.5 54
Dionis Vodnyev 79.5 88.7 84.0 102.4 191.1 25
Normal hill
Andrey Verveykin 80.0 91.5 80.5 95.3 186.8 32
Mikhail Yesin 85.5 105.8 81.5 98.9 204.7 11
Yury Dudarev 92.0 64.8 86.5 56.1 120.9 47
Andrey Verveykin 99.0 79.1 95.5 72.7 151.8 29
Large hill
Dionis Vodnyev 101.5 83.6 95.5 72.7 156.3 24
Mikhail Yesin 108.0 96.2 99.5 80.3 176.5 10

Men's team large hill

Result
Athletes
Points 1 Rank
Mikhail Yesin

Dionis Vodnyev

503.4 11
Andrey Verveykin

Yury Dudarev

1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating
Men
 Race
Event Athlete
Time Rank
Sergey Klevchenya 38.26 21
Vadim Shakshakbayev 37.86 14
500 m
Igor Zhelezovsky 37.57 8
Aleksandr Golubev 37.51 7
Andrey Bakhvalov 1:17.21 25
Aleksandr Klimov 1:16.05 13
1000 m
Nikolay Gulyayev 1:15.46 8
Igor Zhelezovsky 1:15.05 6
Aleksandr Klimov 2:00.94 31
Konstantin Kalistratov 1:59.02 22
1500 m
Yuriy Shulha 1:57.80 16
Igor Zhelezovsky 1:57.24 10
Bronislav Snetkov 7:28.93 29
5000 m Vadim Sayutin 7:13.20 11
Yevgeny Sanarov 7:11.38 8
Vadim Sayutin 14:49.31 19
10000 m Bronislav Snetkov 14:46.87 17
Yevgeny Sanarov 14:38.99 10

Women

Race
Event Athlete
Time Rank
Lyudmila Prokasheva 43.19 31
Yelena Tyushnyakova 42.65 29
500 m
Oksana Ravilova 41.73 16
Nataliya Polozkova 41.61 15
Yelena Lapuga 1:25.21 28
Nataliya Polozkova 1:24.30 20
1000 m
Oksana Ravilova 1:24.14 15
Yelena Tyushnyakova 1:22.97 7
Yelena Lapuga 2:11.72 25
Lyudmila Prokasheva 2:08.71 10
1500 m
Svetlana Bazhanova 2:07.81 6
Nataliya Polozkova 2:07.12 4
Lyudmila Prokasheva 4:30.76 10
3000 m Svetlana Bazhanova 4:28.19 7
Svetlana Boyko 4:28.00 5
Svetlana Bazhanova 7:45.55 7
5000 m Svetlana Boyko 7:44.19 6
Lyudmila Prokasheva 7:41.65 5

See also
 CIS national football team, a football team created in a similar fashion for UEFA Euro 1992

References
1. "The Role of Sports in the Soviet Union | Guided History" (http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/russia-and-its-empire
s/tyler-benson/).
2. "Yevgeny Redkin" (https://www.noc.by/en/olympic-games/team/chempiony-olimpijskih/redkin-evgenij/).
3. "Yevgeny REDKIN" (https://www.olympic.org/yevgeny-redkin).

Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042616/

https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1992/)

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