1960 Winter Olympics / Participant (Soviet Union)

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The Soviet Union took part in the VIII Winter Olympics in 1960 in the US Squaw Valley Ski Resort with a delegation of 62 athletes in eight disciplines, including 48 men and 14 women. With seven gold, five silver and nine bronze medals, the Soviet Union was the most successful nation at the Games.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the ice hockey player Nikolai Sologubow .

Participants by sport

biathlon

• Vladimir Melanin

  20 km individual: 4th place (1: 35: 42.4 h)

• Alexander Privalov

  20 km individual: bronze (1: 34: 54.2 h)

• Valentin Pschenitsyn

  20 km individual: 5th place (1: 36: 45.8 h)

• Dmitri Sokolov

  20 km individual: 6th place (1: 38: 16.7 h)

ice Hockey

Men

Wenjamin Alexandrov Alexander Almetov Yuri Baulin Mikhail Bychkov Vladimir Grebennikov Yevgeny Groshev Viktor Yakushev Yevgeny Yorkin Nikolai Karpov

Alfred Kutschewski Konstantin Loktew Stanislav Petukhov Viktor Prjashnikov Nikolai Putschkov Genrich Sidorenkow Nikolai Sologubov Yuri Tsizinov

• bronze

figure skating

Couples

• Nina Schuk & Stanislaw Schuk

  6th place (72.3)

• Lyudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov

  9th place (68.6)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Rafael Gratsch

  500 m: bronze (40.4 s)

• Yevgeny Grishin

  500 m: gold (40.2 s, Olympic record)

  1500 m: gold (2: 10.4 min)

• Yuri Malyshev

  500 m: 10th place (41.2 s)

• Gennady Voronin

  500 m: 5th place (40.7 s)

  1500 m: 12th place (2: 14.7 min)

• Lev Saizew

  1500 m: 31st place (2: 22.1 min)

• Boris Stenin

  1500 m: bronze (2: 11.5 min)

• Oleg Goncharenko

  5000 m: 6th place (8: 06.6 min)

• Viktor Kosichkin

  5000 m: gold (7: 51.3 min)

  10,000 m: silver (15: 49.2 min)

• Valery Kotov

  5000 m: 5th place (8: 05.4 min)

• Nikolajs Štelbaums

  10,000 m: disqualified

• Vladimir Schilykowski

  10,000 m: 20th place (17: 13.9 min)

Women

• Natalia Donchenko

  500 m: silver (46.0 s)

• Klara Gussewa

  500 m: 6th place (46.8 s)

  1000 m: gold (1: 34.1 min)

  1500 m: 4th place (2: 28.7 min)

• Tamara Rylowa

  500 m: 4th place (46.2 s)

  1000 m: bronze (1: 34.8 min)

  3000 m: 9th place (5: 30.0 min)

• Lidija Skoblikova

  1000 m: 4th place (1: 35.3 min)

  1500 m: gold (2: 25.2 min)

  3000 m: gold (5: 14.3 min)

• Valentina Stenina

  1500 m: 5th place (2: 29.2 min)

  3000 m: silver (5: 16.9 min)

Nordic combination

• Leonid Fyodorov

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 16th place (427,548)

• Nikolai Gusakov

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): Bronze (452,000)

• Dmitri Kochkin

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 5th place (447.694)

• Mikhail Pryakin

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 12th place (432.952)

Alpine skiing

Women

• Yevgenia Sidorova

  Downhill: 20th place (1: 46.7 min)

  Giant Slalom: 31st place (1: 50.0 min)

  Slalom: 18th place (2: 04.3 min)

• Stalina Korsuchina

  Downhill: 19th place (1: 46.5 min)

  Giant Slalom: 21st place (1: 45.7 min)

  Slalom: 7th place (1: 58.4 min)

• Lyubov Volkova

  Downhill: 23rd place (1: 49.2 min)

  Giant Slalom: 30th place (1: 48.9 min)

  Slalom: 30th place (2: 17.3 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Nikolai Anikin

  15 km: 10th place (52: 55.0 min)

  30 km: Bronze (1: 52: 28.2 h)

  50 km: 13th place (3: 10: 13.9 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2: 21: 21.6 h)

• Alexander Gubin

  15 km: 15th place (53: 29.1 min)

• Alexei Kuznetsov

  30 km: 8th place (1: 54: 23.9 h)

  50 km: 15th place (3: 11: 47.0 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2: 21: 21.6 h)

• Ivan Lyubimov

  50 km: 18th place (3: 25: 06.4 h)

• Pavel Morschinin

  15 km: 16th place (53: 36.6 min)

• Anatoly Schelyukhin

  30 km: 15th place (1: 58: 21.3 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2: 21: 21.6 h)

• Gennady Vaganov

  15 km: 4th place (52: 18.0 h)

  30 km: 4th place (1: 52: 49.2 h)

  50 km: 7th place (3: 05: 27.6 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: bronze (2: 21: 21.6 h)

Women

• Maria Gussakova

  10 km: Gold (39: 46.6 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Silver (1: 05: 02.6 h)

• Radja Yeroshina

  10 km: Bronze (52: 55.0 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Silver (1: 05: 02.6 h)

• Alevtina Kolchina

  10 km: 4th place (40: 12.6 min)

• Lyubov Kozyreva

  10 km: Silver (40: 04.2 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: Silver (1: 05: 02.6 h)

Ski jumping

• Leonid Fyodorov

  Normal hill: 27th place (193.1)

• Nikolai Kamensky

  Normal hill: 4th place (216.9)

• Nikolai Shamov

  Normal hill: 10th place (210.6)

• Koba Zakadze

  Normal hill: 9th place (211.1)

Web links

• Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )