Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was a joint team consisting of six of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Armenia that made a decision to 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).

Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics
The Olympic flag
IOC code	EUN
in Albertville
Competitors	129 (86 men, 43 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Valeriy Medvedtsev (biathlon)
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 9 Silver 6 Bronze 8 Total 23
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1992

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

Members

•  Armenia
•  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	Sport	Event
Gold	Yevgeniy Redkin ( Russia)	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Anfisa Reztsova ( Russia)	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint
Gold	Lyubov Yegorova ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
Gold	Lyubov Yegorova ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km (classical)
Gold	Yelena Välbe Raisa Smetanina Larisa Lazutina Lyubov Yegorova (all from  Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Gold	Viktor Petrenko ( Ukraine)	Figure skating	Men's singles
Gold	Natalia Mishkutenok Artur Dmitriev (both from  Russia)	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko (both from  Russia)	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Gold	Unified team men's national ice hockey team Sergei Bautin Igor Boldin Nikolai Borschevskiy Vyacheslav Butsayev Vyacheslav Bykov Evgeny Davydov Darius Kasparaitis ( Lithuania) Nikolai Khabibulin Yuri Khmylev Andrei Khomutov Andrei Kovalenko Alexei Kovalev Igor Kravchuk Vladimir Malakhov Dmitri Mironov Sergei Petrenko Vitali Prokhorov Mikhail Shtalenkov Andrei Trefilov Dmitri Yushkevich Alexei Zhamnov Alexei Zhitnik ( Ukraine) Sergei Zubov	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Silver	Svetlana Petcherskaia ( Russia)	Biathlon	Women's 15 km
Silver	Valeriy Medvedtsev ( Russia) Alexandr Popov ( Belarus) Valeri Kiriyenko ( Russia) Sergei Tchepikov ( Russia)	Biathlon	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Silver	Lyubov Yegorova ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km (classical)
Silver	Lyubov Yegorova ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km (freestyle)
Silver	Elena Bechke Denis Petrov (both from  Russia)	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova ( Russia)	Freestyle skiing	Women's moguls
Bronze	Yelena Belova ( Russia)	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint
Bronze	Yelena Belova Anfisa Reztsova Yelena Melnikova (all from  Russia)	Biathlon	Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
Bronze	Yelena Välbe ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km (classical)
Bronze	Yelena Välbe ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
Bronze	Yelena Välbe ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km (classical)
Bronze	Yelena Välbe ( Russia)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km (freestyle)
Bronze	Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin (both from  Russia)	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Bronze	Yuliya Allagulova Natalya Isakova Viktoriya Troytskaya Yuliya Vlasova (all from  Russia)	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 m relay

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Konstantin Chistyakov	Downhill			1:53.93	24
Aleksey Maslov				1:53.68	22
Vitaly Andreyev				1:53.52	21
Vitaly Andreyev	Super-G			DNF	–
Aleksey Maslov				1:19.71	49
Konstantin Chistyakov				1:16.14	22

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	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

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Svetlana Novikova	Downhill			1:59.18	27
Tetiana Lebedeva				1:55.15	19
Svetlana Gladysheva				1:53.85	8
Tetiana Lebedeva	Super-G			1:26.92	28
Svetlana Gladysheva				1:26.51	25
Varvara Zelenskaya				1:26.39	24

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	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

Main article: Biathlon at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Valeri Kiriyenko	55:12.6	4	59:12.6	11
	Sergei Tchepikov	55:47.6	3	58:47.6	10
	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

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Valeriy Medvedtsev Aleksandr Popov Valery Kiriyenko Sergei Tchepikov	0	1'25:06.3

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Yelena Golovina	1	26:50.3	20
	Svetlana Petcherskaia	0	26:09.7	13
	Yelena Belova	2	24:50.8
	Anfisa Reztsova	3	24:29.2

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Anfisa Reztsova	47:52.6	9	56:52.6	26
	Yelena Golovina	54:17.9	2	56:17.9	22
	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

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Yelena Belova Anfisa Reztsova Yelena Melnikova	2	1'16:54.6

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
EUN-1	Oleg Sukhoruchenko Oleksandr Bortiuk Vladimir Lyubovitsky Andrey Gorokhov	Four-man	59.05	19	1:00.05	22	58.94	12	59.39	19	3:57.43	19
EUN-2	Vladimir Yefimov Oleg Petrov Sergey Kruglov Aleksandr Pashkov	Four-man	59.80	23	1:00.19	23	1:00.34	23	1:00.26	23	4:00.59	22

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	German Karachevsky	32:12.6	62
	Andrey Kirillov	30:27.4	30
	Vladimir Smirnov	29:13.1	13
	Mikhail Botvinov	28:55.8	11
15 km pursuit^1 F	German Karachevsky	44:09.5	43
	Andrey Kirillov	41:14.9	17
	Mikhail Botvinov	41:07.1	15
	Vladimir Smirnov	39:59.8	8
30 km C	Aleksey Prokurorov	1'27:20.5	21
	Aleksandr Golubyov	1'25:56.1	14
	Mikhail Botvinov	1'25:36.9	12
	Vladimir Smirnov	1'25:27.6	9
50 km F	Vladimir Smirnov	2'15:48.5	35
	Mikhail Botvinov	2'14:20.8	28
	Aleksandr Golubyov	2'11:20.1	17
	Aleksey Prokurorov	2'07:06.1	4

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Andrey Kirillov Vladimir Smirnov Mikhail Botvinov Aleksey Prokurorov	1'43:03.6	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Larisa Lazutina	14:41.7	7
	Olga Danilova	14:37.2	6
	Yelena Välbe	14:22.7
	Lyubov Yegorova	14:14.7
10 km pursuit^2 F	Olga Danilova	28:10.2	11
	Larisa Lazutina	27:34.8	8
	Yelena Välbe	26:37.7
	Lyubov Yegorova	25:53.7
15 km C	Nataliya Martynova	45:16.1	12
	Raisa Smetanina	44:01.5	4
	Yelena Välbe	43:42.3
	Lyubov Yegorova	42:20.8
30 km F	Olga Danilova	1'30:30.7	20
	Larisa Lazutina	1'26:31.8	5
	Yelena Välbe	1'24:13.9
	Lyubov Yegorova	1'22:52.0

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Yelena Välbe Raisa Smetanina Larisa Lazutina Lyubov Yegorova	59:34.8

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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 Vadim Naumov	5	5	7.5	5
Elena Bechke Denis Petrov	2	2	3.0
Natalia Mishkutenok Artur Dmitriev	1	1	1.5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Pasha Grishuk Evgeni Platov	4	4	4	4	8.0	4
Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin	2	2	3	3	5.6
Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	1	1	1	1	2.0

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Women

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

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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

Main article: Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	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

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Albert Demchenko Aleksey Zelensky	46.552	7	46.747	9	1:33.299	8
Igor Lobanov Gennady Belyakov	46.849	10	47.098	13	1:33.947	10

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	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

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Vasily Savin	Individual	179.4	40	+5:27.4	49:24.8	22
Valery Stolyarov		192.0	32	+4:03.4	51:50.2	32
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.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Andrey Dundukov Sergey Shvagirev Valery Stolyarov	545.3	9	+8:19.0	1'37:57.2	11

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Dmitry Yershov	1000 m	1:37.71	2 Q	1:34.02	3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Nataliya Isakova	500 m	48.49	3	Did not advance
Marina Pylayeva		47.48	2 Q	47.95	1 Q	1:07.56	4 QB	48.42	5
Yuliya Vlasova		48.29	2 Q	48.63	2 Q	1:08.90	4 QB	48.70	7
Yuliya Allagulova Nataliya Isakova Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Yuliya Vlasova	3000 m relay					4:38.37	2 Q	4:42.69

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Yury Dudarev	Normal hill	76.5	84.9	73.5	77.6	162.5	54
Dionis Vodnyev		79.5	88.7	84.0	102.4	191.1	25
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	Large hill	92.0	64.8	86.5	56.1	120.9	47
Andrey Verveykin		99.0	79.1	95.5	72.7	151.8	29
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

Athletes	Result
	Points ^1	Rank
Mikhail Yesin Dionis Vodnyev Andrey Verveykin Yury Dudarev	503.4	11

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

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Men

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

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	43.19	31
	Yelena Tyushnyakova	42.65	29
	Oksana Ravilova	41.73	16
	Nataliya Polozkova	41.61	15
1000 m	Yelena Lapuga	1:25.21	28
	Nataliya Polozkova	1:24.30	20
	Oksana Ravilova	1:24.14	15
	Yelena Tyushnyakova	1:22.97	7
1500 m	Yelena Lapuga	2:11.72	25
	Lyudmila Prokasheva	2:08.71	10
	Svetlana Bazhanova	2:07.81	6
	Nataliya Polozkova	2:07.12	4
3000 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva	4:30.76	10
	Svetlana Bazhanova	4:28.19	7
	Svetlana Boyko	4:28.00	5
5000 m	Svetlana Bazhanova	7:45.55	7
	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. http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/russia-and-its-empires/tyler-benson/

• Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com