The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics () in Albertville was a joint team consisting of five of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan that made a decision to collaborate and created a united team. 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.
Members
Medals by winter sport
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.
MedalNameNationalitySportEvent Biathlon Men's 20 km Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle) Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical) (all) Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay Figure skating Men's singles Figure skating Pairs Figure skating Ice dancing Unified team men's national ice hockey team (all exceptKasparaitis and Zhitnik) Ice hockey Men's competition Biathlon Women's 15 km Alexandr Popov (Medvedtsev,Kiriyenko and Tchepikov) (Popov) Biathlon Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical) Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle) (both) Figure skating Pairs Freestyle skiing Women's moguls Yelena Belova Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint Yelena Belova (all) Biathlon Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical) Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle) Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical) Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle) (both) Figure skating Ice dancing (all) Short track speed skating Women's 3000 m relay
Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics SportMenWomenTotalAlpine skiing 3 4 7Biathlon 5 6 11Bobsleigh 9 – 9Cross-country skiing 6 6 12Figure skating 9 8 17Freestyle skiing 4 4 8Ice hockey 22 – 22Luge 7 3 10Nordic combined 4 – 4Short track speed skating 1 5 6Ski jumping 4 – 4Speed skating 12 7 19 Total 86 43 129
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeTimeTimeRank Konstantin ChistyakovDownhill1:53.9324 Aleksey Maslov1:53.6822 Vitaly Andreyev1:53.5221 Vitaly AndreyevSuper-GDNF– Aleksey Maslov1:19.7149 Konstantin Chistyakov1:16.1422
Men's combined AthleteDownhillSlalomTotalTimeTime 1Time 2PointsRank Aleksey Maslov1:48.53DNF–DNF– Konstantin Chistyakov1:47.95DNF–DNF– Vitaly Andreyev1:46.0155.8058.4485.0720
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeTimeTimeRank Svetlana NovikovaDownhill1:59.1827 Tetiana Lebedeva1:55.1519 Svetlana Gladysheva1:53.858 Tetiana LebedevaSuper-G1:26.9228 Svetlana Gladysheva1:26.5125 Varvara Zelenskaya1:26.3924
Women's combined AthleteDownhillSlalomTotalTimeTime 1Time 2PointsRank Varvara ZelenskayaDNF––DNF– Svetlana Novikova1:30.0338.8938.94122.4819 Tetiana Lebedeva1:27.7940.0539.82111.3418 Svetlana Gladysheva1:26.8838.1537.0161.2512
Biathlon
Men EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank10 km Sprint Valeriy Medvedtsev227:39.525 Aleksandr Popov127:31.318 Valeri Kiriyenko326:31.85 Sergei Tchepikov026:27.54
EventAthleteTimeMissesAdjusted time 2Rank20 km Valeri Kiriyenko55:12.6459:12.611 Sergei Tchepikov55:47.6358:47.610 Aleksandr Popov56:02.9258:02.94 Eugeni Redkine57:34.4057:34.4
Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay AthletesRaceMisses 1TimeRank Valeriy Medvedtsev Aleksandr Popov Valery Kiriyenko Sergei Tchepikov01'25:06.3
Women EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank7.5 km Sprint Yelena Golovina126:50.320 Svetlana Petcherskaia026:09.713 Yelena Belova224:50.8 Anfisa Reztsova324:29.2
EventAthleteTimeMissesAdjusted time 2Rank15 km Anfisa Reztsova47:52.6956:52.626 Yelena Golovina54:17.9256:17.922 Svetlana Paramygina52:15.2456:15.221 Svetlana Petcherskaia50:58.5151:58.5
Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay AthletesRaceMisses 1TimeRank Yelena Belova Anfisa Reztsova Yelena Melnikova21'16:54.6
Bobsleigh
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankEUN-1 Vladimir Yefimov Aleksey GolovinTwo-man1:01.17171:01.85211:02.03191:02.25234:07.3020EUN-2 Oleg Sukhoruchenko Andrey GorokhovTwo-man1:01.77271:02.06231:02.19231:02.31244:08.3326
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankEUN-1 Oleg Sukhoruchenko Oleksandr Bortiuk Vladimir Lyubovitsky Andrey GorokhovFour-man59.05191:00.052258.941259.39193:57.4319EUN-2 Vladimir Yefimov Oleg Petrov Sergey Kruglov Aleksandr PashkovFour-man59.80231:00.19231:00.34231:00.26234:00.5922
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank10 km C German Karachevsky32:12.662 Andrey Kirillov30:27.430 Vladimir Smirnov29:13.113 Mikhail Botvinov28:55.81115 km pursuit1 F German Karachevsky44:09.543 Andrey Kirillov41:14.917 Mikhail Botvinov41:07.115 Vladimir Smirnov39:59.8830 km C Aleksey Prokurorov1'27:20.521 Aleksandr Golubyov1'25:56.114 Mikhail Botvinov1'25:36.912 Vladimir Smirnov1'25:27.6950 km F Vladimir Smirnov2'15:48.535 Mikhail Botvinov2'14:20.828 Aleksandr Golubyov2'11:20.117 Aleksey Prokurorov2'07:06.14
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results. C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRank Andrey Kirillov Vladimir Smirnov Mikhail Botvinov Aleksey Prokurorov1'43:03.65
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank5 km C Larisa Lazutina14:41.77 Olga Danilova14:37.26 Yelena Välbe14:22.7 Lyubov Yegorova14:14.710 km pursuit2 F Olga Danilova28:10.211 Larisa Lazutina27:34.88 Yelena Välbe26:37.7 Lyubov Yegorova25:53.715 km C Nataliya Martynova45:16.112 Raisa Smetanina44:01.54 Yelena Välbe43:42.3 Lyubov Yegorova42:20.830 km F Olga Danilova1'30:30.720 Larisa Lazutina1'26:31.85 Yelena Välbe1'24:13.9 Lyubov Yegorova1'22:52.0
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results. C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRank Yelena Välbe Raisa Smetanina Larisa Lazutina Lyubov Yegorova59:34.8
Figure skating
Men AthleteSPFSTFPRank Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk10813.08 Alexei Urmanov557.55 Viktor Petrenko111.5
Women AthleteSPFSTFPRank Tatiana Rachkova131420.516 Julia Vorobieva141320.014
Pairs AthletesSPFSTFPRank Yevgenya Shishkova Vadim Naumov557.55 Elena Bechke Denis Petrov223.0 Natalia Mishkutenok Artur Dmitriev111.5
Ice Dancing AthletesCD1CD2ODFDTFPRank Pasha Grishuk Evgeni Platov44448.04 Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin22335.6 Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko11112.0
Freestyle skiing
Men
AthleteEventQualificationFinalTimePointsRankTimePointsRank Mikhail LyzhinMoguls40.8916.0436Did not advance Aleksey Bannikov35.7917.1233Did not advance Andrey Ivanov36.5221.2421Did not advance Sergey Shupletsov33.3022.6513 Q34.4921.6012
Women
AthleteEventQualificationFinalTimePointsRankTimePointsRank Larisa UdodovaMoguls47.5811.1723Did not advance Olga Lychkina42.4218.0412Did not advance Yelena Korolyova43.5220.0110Did not advance Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova39.1022.225 Q39.4723.50
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
TeamGPWLTGFGADIFPTS5410289198541032102285410251510852301422-8451401325-1225050738-310
8:1 8:1 4:3 0:8 5:4
Final round Quarter-finals 6:1
Semi-finals 5:2
Final 3:1
Gold: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 TrefilovDmitri Yushkevich Alexei Zhamnov Sergei Zubov
Luge
Men AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank Eduard Burmistrov46.1381646.0321646.6121646.728183:05.51016 Oleg Yermolin46.0461546.1761846.5691446.504153:05.29515 Sergey Danilin45.7081145.622946.2811046.162103:03.7739
(Men's) Doubles AthletesRun 1Run 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank Albert Demchenko Aleksey Zelensky46.552746.74791:33.2998 Igor Lobanov Gennady Belyakov46.8491047.098131:33.94710
Women AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank Nadezhda Danilina47.3241447.2151047.2641147.02593:08.82812 Irina Gubkina47.1751047.2731247.2641147.034103:08.74610 Nataliya Yakushenko47.097947.2151047.178846.89363:08.3838
Nordic combined
Men's individual
Events: normal hill ski jumping 15 km cross-country skiing
AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotalPointsRankStart atTimeRank Vasily SavinIndividual179.440+5:27.449:24.822 Valery Stolyarov192.032+4:03.451:50.232 Sergey Shvagirev205.016+2:36.753:03.636 Andrey Dundukov210.411+2:00.747:44.211
Men's Team
Three participants per team.
Events: normal hill ski jumping 10 km cross-country skiing
AthletesSki jumpingCross-countryTotalPointsRankStart atTimeRank Andrey Dundukov Sergey Shvagirev Valery Stolyarov545.39+8:19.01'37:57.211
Short track speed skating
Men
AthleteEventRound oneQuarter finalsSemi finalsFinalsTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeFinal rank Dmitry Yershov1000 m1:37.712 Q1:34.023Did not advance
Women
AthleteEventRound oneQuarter finalsSemi finalsFinalsTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeFinal rank Nataliya Isakova500 m48.493Did not advance Marina Pylayeva47.482 Q47.951 Q1:07.564 QB48.425 Yuliya Vlasova48.292 Q48.632 Q1:08.904 QB48.707 Yuliya Allagulova Nataliya Isakova Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Yuliya Vlasova3000 m relay4:38.372 Q4:42.69
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank Yury DudarevNormal hill76.584.973.577.6162.554 Dionis Vodnyev79.588.784.0102.4191.125 Andrey Verveykin80.091.580.595.3186.832 Mikhail Yesin85.5105.881.598.9204.711 Yury DudarevLarge hill92.064.886.556.1120.947 Andrey Verveykin99.079.195.572.7151.829 Dionis Vodnyev101.583.695.572.7156.324 Mikhail Yesin108.096.299.580.3176.510
Men's team large hill AthletesResultPoints 1Rank Mikhail Yesin Dionis Vodnyev Andrey Verveykin Yury Dudarev503.411
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 m Sergey Klevchenya38.2621 Vadim Shakshakbayev37.8614 Igor Zhelezovsky37.578 Aleksandr Golubev37.5171000 m Andrey Bakhvalov1:17.2125 Aleksandr Klimov1:16.0513 Nikolay Gulyayev1:15.468 Igor Zhelezovsky1:15.0561500 m Aleksandr Klimov2:00.9431 Konstantin Kalistratov1:59.0222 Yuriy Shulha1:57.8016 Igor Zhelezovsky1:57.24105000 m Bronislav Snetkov7:28.9329 Vadim Sayutin7:13.2011 Yevgeny Sanarov7:11.38810000 m Vadim Sayutin14:49.3119 Bronislav Snetkov14:46.8717 Yevgeny Sanarov14:38.9910
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 m Lyudmila Prokasheva43.1931 Yelena Tyushnyakova42.6529 Oksana Ravilova41.7316 Nataliya Polozkova41.61151000 m Yelena Lapuga1:25.2128 Nataliya Polozkova1:24.3020 Oksana Ravilova1:24.1415 Yelena Tyushnyakova1:22.9771500 m Yelena Lapuga2:11.7225 Lyudmila Prokasheva2:08.7110 Svetlana Bazhanova2:07.816 Nataliya Polozkova2:07.1243000 m Lyudmila Prokasheva4:30.7610 Svetlana Bazhanova4:28.197 Svetlana Boyko4:28.0055000 m Svetlana Bazhanova7:45.557 Svetlana Boyko7:44.196 Lyudmila Prokasheva7:41.655
See also CIS national football team, a football team created in a similar fashion for UEFA Euro 1992
References
Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com