1968 Winter Olympics / Participant (Soviet Union)

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The Soviet Union took part in the X. Winter Olympic Games in 1968 in Grenoble, France, with a delegation of 74 athletes in eight disciplines, including 54 men and 20 women. With five gold, five silver and three bronze medals, the Soviet Union was the second most successful nation at these games after Norway .

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the biathlete Viktor Mamatow .

Participants by sport

biathlon

• Vladimir Gundarzew

  20 km individual: bronze (1: 18: 27.4 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: Gold (2: 13: 02.4 h)

• Viktor Mamatov

  20 km individual: 7th place (1: 20: 20.8 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: Gold (2: 13: 02.4 h)

• Nikolai Pushanov

  20 km individual: 6th place (1:20: 14.5 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: Gold (2: 13: 02.4 h)

• Alexander Tikhonov

  20 km individual: silver (1: 14: 40.4 h)

  4 × 7.5 km relay: Gold (2: 13: 02.4 h)

ice Hockey

Men

Weniamin Alexandrov Viktor Blinov Vitaly Davydov Anatoly Firsow Anatoly Jonov Viktor Konovalenko Viktor Kuskin Boris Majorov Yevgeny Mishakov

Yuri Moisseyev Viktor Polupanov Alexander Ragulin Igor Romischewski Oleg Saizew Yevgeny Simin Wiktor Singer Vyacheslav Starshinov Vladimir Wikulov

• gold

figure skating

Men

• Sergei Cheetverukhin

  9th place (1737.0)

• Sergei Volkov

  18th place (1632.0)

Women

• Galina Grschibovskaya

  16th place (1628.5)

• Elena Shcheglova

  12th place (1670.4)

Couples

• Tamara Moskwina & Alexei Mishin

  5th place (300.3)

• Tatjana Schuk & Alexander Gorelik

  Silver (312.3)

• Lyudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov

  Gold (315.2)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Ants Antson

  1500 m: 12th place (2: 07.2 min)

• Yevgeny Grishin

  500 m: 4th place (40.6 s)

• Valery chaplain

  500 m: 21st place (41.6 s)

  1500 m: 12th place (2: 07.2 min)

• Aleksandr Kerchenko

  1500 m: 11th place (2: 07.1 min)

• Valery Lavrushkin

  5000 m: 10th place (7: 37.9 min)

  10,000 m: 9th place (15: 54.8 min)

• Anatoly Lepeshkin

  500 m: 11th place (41.0 s)

• Anatoly Mashkov

  5000 m: 14th place (7: 41.9 min)

  10,000 m: 16th place (16: 22.1 min)

• Eduard Matusewitsch

  1500 m: 8th place (2: 06.1 min)

• Valery Muratov

  500 m: 18th place (41.4 s)

• Stanislav Selyanin

  5000 m: 11th place (7: 38.5 min)

  10,000 m: 10th place (15: 56.4 min)

Women

• Irina Yegorova

  500 m: 9th place (46.9 s)

  1000 m: 5th place (1: 34.4 min)

• Lāsma Kauniste

  1000 m: 11th place (1: 35.3 min)

  1500 m: 5th place (2: 25.4 min)

  3000 m: 12th place (5: 16.0 min)

• Anna Sablina

  3000 m: 8th place (5: 12.5 min)

• Tatiana Sidorova

  500 m: 9th place (46.9 s)

• Lidija Skoblikova

  1500 m: 11th place (2: 27.6 min)

  3000 m: 6th place (5: 08.0 min)

• Lyudmila Titova

  500 m: gold (46.1 s)

  1000 m: silver (1: 32.9 min)

  1500 m: 7th place (2: 26.8 min)

Nordic combination

• Mikhail Artyukhov

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 19th place (391.90)

• Vyacheslav Drjagin

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 8th place (424.38)

• Tõnu Haljand

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 12th place (412.68)

• Robert Makara

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 7th place (426.92)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Viktor Belyakov

  Departure: 40th place (2: 09.32 min)

  Giant Slalom: 46th place (3: 49.27 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Andrey Belokrinkin

  Downhill: 49th place (2: 10.98 min)

  Giant Slalom: 52nd place (3: 52.83 min)

  Slalom: 31st place (2: 07.86 min)

• Vasily Melnikov

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant Slalom: 45th place (3: 48.97 min)

  Slalom: 26th place (1: 54.42 min)

Women

• Nina Merkulova

  Downhill: 27th place (1: 48.04 min)

  Giant Slalom: 40th place (2: 12.71 min)

  Slalom: disqualified

• Galina Sidorova

  Downhill: 35th place (1: 51.74 min)

  Giant Slalom: 39th place (2: 12.01 min)

  Slalom: 26th place (1: 42.89 min)

• Alfina Sukhanova

  Downhill: 29th place (1: 48.74 min)

  Giant Slalom: 34th place (2: 06.48 min)

  Slalom: 25th place (1: 41.58 min)

• Irina Turundayevskaya

  Giant slalom: disqualified

  Slalom: 19th place (1: 38.26 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Anatoly Akentyev

  15 km: 16th place (50: 19.9 min)

  30 km: 10th place (1: 37: 52.4 h)

  50 km: 20th place (2: 34: 54.5 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 10: 57.2 h)

• Fyodor Simashov

  15 km: 26th place (51: 05.3 min)

• Valery Tarakanov

  15 km: 9th place (49: 04.4 min)

  30 km: 17th place (1: 39: 25.0 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 10: 57.2 h)

• Vyacheslav Vedenin

  30 km: 14th place (1: 38: 36.1 h)

  50 km: Silver (2: 29: 02.5 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 10: 57.2 h)

• Vladimir Voronkov

  15 km: 22nd place (50: 40.7 min)

  30 km: 4th place (1: 37: 10.8 h)

  50 km: 16th place (2: 33: 07.3 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 4th place (2: 10: 57.2 h)

• Igor Vorontschikhin

  50 km: 31st place (2: 40: 48.2 h)

Women

• Rita Achkina

  5 km: 6th place (16: 55.1 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: bronze (58: ​​13.6 min)

• Alevtina Kolchina

  5 km: Bronze (16: 51.6 min)

  10 km: 7th place (38: 52.9 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: bronze (58: ​​13.6 min)

• Galina Kulakova

  5 km: Silver (16: 48.4 min)

  10 km: 6th place (38: 26.7 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: bronze (58: ​​13.6 min)

• Alevtina Oljunina

  5 km: 20th place (17: 43.2 min)

  10 km: 11th place (39: 10.3 min)

• Faadia Salimshanova

  10 km: 13th place (39: 17.9 min)

Ski jumping

• Vladimir Belousov

  Normal hill: 8th place (207.5)

  Large hill: Gold (231.3)

• Gari Napalkov

  Normal hill: 14th place (205.4)

  Large hill: 11th place (203.1)

• Anatoly Scheglanov

  Normal hill: 6th place (211.5)

  Large hill: 8th place (205.7)

• Vladimir Smirnov

  Large hill: 55th place (148.3)

  Normal hill: 41st place (169.9)

Web links

• Soviet Union at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )