Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Lake Placid
Competitors	86 (63 men, 23 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Alexander Tikhonov (biathlon)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 10 Silver 6 Bronze 6 Total 22
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)  Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)  Lithuania (1928, 1992–)  Unified Team (1992)  Armenia (1994–)  Belarus (1994–)  Georgia (1994–)  Kazakhstan (1994–)  Kyrgyzstan (1994–)  Moldova (1994–)  Russia (1994–2014)  Ukraine (1994–)  Uzbekistan (1994–)  Azerbaijan (1998–)  Tajikistan (2002–)  Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)  ROC (2022)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Anatoly Alyabyev	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Gold	Nikolay Zimyatov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Nikolay Zimyatov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Gold	Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Gold	Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Gold	Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponossov	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Gold	Vera Zozuļa	Luge	Women's individual
Gold	Nataliya Petrusyova	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Silver	Vladimir Alikin	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Silver	Vasily Rochev	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Silver	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Silver	Marina Cherkasova Sergei Shakhrai	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Vladimir Myshkin Vladislav Tretiak Viacheslav Fetisov Vasily Pervukhin Valery Vasiliev Alexei Kasatonov Sergei Starikov Zinetula Bilyaletdinov Vladimir Krutov Alexander Maltsev Yuri Lebedev Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Valery Kharlamov Helmut Balderis Viktor Zhluktov Aleksandr Golikov Sergei Makarov Vladimir Golikov Aleksandr Skvortsov	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Silver	Yevgeny Kulikov	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Bronze	Anatoly Alyabyev	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Bronze	Aleksandr Zavyalov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Bronze	Ingrīda Amantova	Luge	Women's individual
Bronze	Vladimir Lobanov	Speed skating	Men's 1000m
Bronze	Nataliya Petrusyova	Speed skating	Women's 500m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vladimir Makeev	Downhill					1:49.87	22
Valeri Tsyganov						1:47.34	8
Vladimir Andreyev	Giant Slalom	1:22.19	21	1:22.75	11	2:44.94	15
Aleksandr Zhirov		1:21.53	10	1:22.54	9	2:44.07	9
Valeri Tsyganov		1:21.22	6	DNF	–	DNF	–
Aleksandr Zhirov	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Vladimir Andreyev		54.97	10	51.68	9	1:46.65	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Giant Slalom	1:17.44	14	1:29.65	12	2:47.09	12
Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Slalom	43.42	3	45.78	11	1:29.20	6

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Aleksandr Tikhonov	2	34:14.88	9
	Anatoly Alyabyev	1	33:09.16
	Vladimir Alikin	0	32:53.10

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Vladimir Alikin	1'06:05.30	6	1'12:05.30	8
	Vladimir Barnashov	1'07:49.49	4	1'11:49.49	7
	Anatoly Alyabyev	1'08:16.31	0	1'08:16.31

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev	0	1'34:03.27

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Vasily Rochev	43:16.86	13
	Aleksandr Zavyalov	43:00.81	7
	Yevgeny Belyayev	42:46.02	5
	Nikolay Zimyatov	42:33.96	4
30 km	Nikolay Bazhukov	1'31:06.28	14
	Yevgeny Belyayev	1'30:35.32	11
	Vasily Rochev	1'27:34.22
	Nikolay Zimyatov	1'27:02.80
50 km	Yevgeny Belyayev	2'31:21.19	6
	Sergey Savelyev	2'31:15.82	5
	Aleksandr Zavyalov	2'30:51.52
	Nikolay Zimyatov	2'27:24.60

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov	1'57:03.46

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Nina Rocheva	15:50.39	15
	Galina Kulakova	15:29.58	6
	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	15:29.03	5
	Raisa Smetanina	15:06.92
10 km	Iraida Suslova	31:48.39	14
	Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova	31:22.93	6
	Galina Kulakova	30:58.46	5
	Raisa Smetanina	30:54.48	4

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina	1'03:18.30

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Vladimir Kovalev	5	DNF	–	–	DNF	–
Konstantin Kokora	10	11	10	168.18	91	10
Igor Bobrin	7	6	8	177.40	55	6

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kira Ivanova	18	16	13	161.54	144	16

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marina Pestova Stanislav Leonovich	3	4	141.14	31	4
Marina Cherkasova Sergei Shakhrai	2	2	143.80	19
Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev	1	1	147.26	9

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	9	9	188.18	75	8
Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	3	3	201.86	27
Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponossov	1	2	205.48	13

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First round

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to consolation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980 20:40

Japan

0 – 16 (0–8, 0–5, 0–3)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Kompalla
	0 – 1 03:42 - Starikov (Petrov, Mikhailov) 0 – 2 07:55 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov) 0 – 3 09:47 - A. Golikov (Makarov, Starikov) 0 – 4 12:19 - Fetisov (Petrov, Kharlamov) 0 – 5 14:59 - A. Golikov (Makarov) 0 – 6 17:30 - Balderis (Starikov, Zhluktov) 0 – 7 19:00 - V. Golikov (Makarov) 0 – 8 19:27 - V. Golikov (Fetisov, A. Golikov) 0 – 9 20:06 - Petrov (Kasatonov) 0 – 10 21:20 - Kasatonov (Mikhailov, Balderis) 0 – 11 24:20 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Vasiliev) 0 – 12 26:33 - Mikhailov (Starikov, Kharlamov) 0 – 13 38:06 - Fetisov (Mikhailov, Kharlamov) 0 – 14 46:26 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov) 0 – 15 51:21 - Petrov (Pervukhin, Kharlamov) 0 – 16 54:49 - A. Golikov (Makarov, V. Golikov)
	0 min	Penalties	2 min
	17	Shots	67

14 February 1980 16:30

Netherlands

4 – 17 (1–8, 1–7, 2–2)

Soviet Union

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	0 – 1 04:24 - Fetisov (Krutov, Maltsev) 0 – 2 04:43 - Krutov (Lebedev, Kasatonov) 0 – 3 09:59 - Vasiliev (Lebedev, Starikov) (SH) 0 – 4 10:12 - Petrov (Pervukhin) (SH) 0 – 5 11:43 - Kharlamov (Mikhailov, Pervukhin) (SH) Hille (van Wieren, de Heer) (PP) - 11:51 1 – 5 1 – 6 14:41 - Lebedev (Maltsev) 1 – 7 16:41 - Maltsev (Zhluktov) 1 – 8 22:02 - Lebedev (Fetisov, Maltsev) 1 – 9 21:14 - Zhluktov (Bilyaletdinov) 1 – 10 22:02 - Lebedev (Zhluktov, Skvortsov) 1 – 11 24:32 - A. Golikov (V. Golikov) 1 – 12 30:21 - A. Golikov 1 – 13 31:07 - Krutov (Maltsev, Pervukhin) 1 – 14 36:09 - Krutov (Lebedev, Kasatonov) deGraauw (Klooster, de Cloe) - 33:49 2 – 14 2 – 15 39:14 - Maltsev (Krutov) de Cloe - 41:52 3 – 15 3 – 16 47:12 - Makarov (V. Golikov, Starikov) deGraauw (Klooster) - 56:14 4 – 16 4 – 17 56:12 - Makarov (V. Golikov, A. Golikov)
	14 min	Penalties	13 min
	26	Shots	49

16 February 1980 16:30

Soviet Union

8 – 1 (5–1, 1–0, 2–0)

Poland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Neagles
	Skvortsov (Zhluktov) - 01:53 1 – 0 Balderis (Zhluktov, Skvortsov) - 10:27 2 – 0 Balderis (Zhluktov) - 10:36 3 – 0 Mikhailov (Fetisov, Kharlamov) - 13:37 4 – 0 4 – 1 17:15 - Małysiak (Jobczyk) (PP) Balderis (Pervukhin, Bilyaletdinov) - 23:12 5 – 1 Kharlamov - 25:19 6 – 1 Bilyaletdinov (Kharlamov) (PP) - 43:41 7 – 1 Maltsev (Fetisov) - 48:58 8 – 1
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	60	Shots	19

18 February 1980 17:00

Finland

2 – 4 (1–0, 0–1, 1–3)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	Porvari (Suoraniemi) - 17:44 1 – 0 1 – 1 36:01 - Fetisov (Makarov, A. Golikov) Porvari (SH) - 42:38 2 – 1 2 – 2 54:59 - Krutov (Lebedev) 2 – 3 56:07 - Maltsev (Krutov, Lebedev) 2 – 4 56:18 - Mikhailov (Kasatonov)
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	13	Shots	48

20 February 1980 17:00

Soviet Union

6 – 4 (1–1, 1–2, 4–1)

Canada

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Neagles
	0 – 1 01:35 - Nill (Davidson, G. Anderson) Balderis (Skvortsov, Zhluktov) - 13:42 1 – 1 1 – 2 20:19 - Gregg 1 – 3 22:38 - Pirie (Zupancich, d'Alvise) Kasatonov (Krutov) - 39:47 2 – 3 Mikhailov (A. Golikov) - 41:53 3 – 3 A. Golikov (Makarov) - 42:05 4 – 3 4 – 4 43:05 - d'Alvise Mikhailov (Starikov) - 48:41 5 – 4 A. Golikov - 56:51 6 – 4
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	35	Shots	26

Final round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980 17:00

United States

4 – 3 (2–2, 0–1, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	0 – 1 09:12 - Krutov (Kasatonov) Schneider (Pavelich) - 14:03 1 – 1 1 – 2 17:34 - Makarov (A. Golikov) Johnson (Christian, Silk) - 19:59 2 – 2 2 – 3 22:18 - Maltsev (Krutov) (PP) Johnson (Silk) (PP) - 48:39 3 – 3 Eruzione (Pavelich, Harrington) - 50:00 4 – 3
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	39

24 February 1980 14:30

Sweden

2 – 9 (0–4, 0–5, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	0 – 1 00:36 - Petrov (Kharlamov) 0 – 2 05:52 - Makarov (A. Golikov) 0 – 3 10:31 - Maltsev (Bilyaletdinov, Pervukhin) 0 – 4 17:38 - Mikhailov (Kharlamov, Pervukhin) 0 – 5 20:33 - Vasiliev 0 – 6 27:18 - Krutov (Pervukhin) 0 – 7 28:14 - Skvortsov (Balderis, Pervukhin) 0 – 8 34:51 - Zhluktov (Balderis, Skvortsov) 0 – 9 35:02 - Fetisov Åhlberg (Weinstock, Holmgren) - 49:17 1 – 9 Holmgren (Näslund) - 54:21 2 – 9
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	26	Shots	28

Carried over group match:

• Finland 2–4 USSR

Roster

• #1 Vladimir Myshkin G
• #20 Vladislav Tretiak G
• #2 Viacheslav Fetisov D
• #5 Vasily Pervukhin D
• #6 Valery Vasiliev D (A)
• #7 Alexei Kasatonov D
• #12 Sergei Starikov D
• #14 Zinetula Bilyaletdinov D
• #9 Vladimir Krutov F
• #10 Alexander Maltsev F
• #11 Yuri Lebedev F
• #13 Boris Mikhailov F (C)
• #16 Vladimir Petrov F
• #17 Valery Kharlamov F
• #19 Helmut Balderis F
• #22 Viktor Zhluktov F
• #23 Aleksandr Golikov F
• #24 Sergei Makarov F
• #25 Vladimir Golikov F
• #26 Aleksandr Skvortsov F

Coaches

• Head Coach - Victor Tikhonov

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dainis Bremze	43.559	3	1:21.445	25	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–

(Men's) doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dainis Bremze Aigars Krikis	40.164	11	40.498	10	1:20.662	10
Valery Yakushin Sergey Danilin	39.951	7	45.193	18	1:25.144	17

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Astra Rībena	39.617	8	39.780	7	39.816	8	39.798	8	2:39.011	8
Ingrīda Amantova	39.346	3	39.488	3	39.610	5	39.373	4	2:37.817
Vera Zozuļa	38.978	1	39.167	1	39.271	1	39.121	1	2:36.537

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Fjodor Koltšin	Individual	70.0	70.0	171.0	26	48:08.8	216.355	3	387.355	15
Sergey Omelchenko		72.5	75.0	176.3	21	49:33.6	203.635	10	379.935	19
Aleksandr Mayorov		75.5	78.0	194.4	13	48:19.6	214.735	6	409.135	7

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Andrey Shakirov	Normal hill	61.0	72.8	63.5	74.3	147.1	46
Yury Ivanov		71.0	93.8	78.0	106.5	200.3	33
Vladimir Vlasov		80.0	109.2	71.5	95.6	204.8	31
Aleksey Borovitin		80.5	115.0	76.0	105.3	220.3	21
Aleksey Borovitin	Large hill	91.5	91.8	96.0	101.6	193.4	36
Andrey Shakirov		96.5	99.3	90.0	87.7	187.0	39
Yury Ivanov		97.0	103.5	92.0	93.5	197.0	34
Vladimir Vlasov		97.0	103.5	96.5	101.8	205.3	28

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Sergey Khlebnikov	39.25	15
	Anatoly Medennikov	38.88	7
	Yevgeny Kulikov	38.37
1000 m	Anatoly Medennikov	1:18.92	15
	Sergey Khlebnikov	1:17.96	9
	Vladimir Lobanov	1:16.91
1500 m	Yevgeny Solunsky	1:59.47	9
	Vladimir Lobanov	1:59.30	8
	Yury Kondakov	1:57.36	5
5000 m	Sergey Berezin	7:19.93	15
	Dmitry Ogloblin	7:16.92	13
	Viktor Lyoskin	7:16.24	11
10,000 m	Dmitry Ogloblin	15:20.14	16
	Sergey Berezin	15:04.68	10
	Viktor Lyoskin	14:51.72	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova	43.50	10
	Tatyana Tarasova	43.26	8
	Nataliya Petrusyova	42.42
1000 m	Irina Kuleshova-Kovrova	1:29.94	20
	Valentina Lalenkova	1:28.57	11
	Nataliya Petrusyova	1:24.50 OR
1500 m	Vera Bryndzy	2:16.32	18
	Tatyana Averina-Barabash	2:16.32	18
	Nataliya Petrusyova	2:14.15	8
3000 m	Valentina Lalenkova	4:51.72	17
	Olga Pleshkova	4:43.11	9
	Nataliya Petrusyova	4:42.59	8

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	17	28	6	51
2	Latvian SSR	1	1	1	3
Totals (2 entries)		18	29	7	54

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com