Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors	53 (47 men, 6 women)[1] in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Oleg Goncharenko
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 7 Silver 3 Bronze 6 Total 16
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	Nikolay Anikin, Pavel Kolchin Vladimir Kuzin, Fyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's relay 4 x 10 km
Gold	Lyubov Kozyreva	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
Gold	Yevgeny Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov Alexei Guryshev, Nikolay Khlystov Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevsky Valentin Kuzin, Grigory Mkrtychan Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Pantyukhov Nikolai Puchkov, Viktor Shuvalov Genrikh Sidorenkov, Nikolai Sologubov Ivan Tregubov, Dmitry Ukolov Aleksandr Uvarov	Ice hockey	Men's team
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Yuri Mikhaylov	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Boris Shilkov	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Silver	Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
Silver	Alevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's relay 3 x 5 km
Silver	Rafayel Grach	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Bronze	Yevgeniya Sidorova	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 15 km
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Fyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Oleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Bronze	Oleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Gennady Chertishchev	Giant slalom			3:48.9	55
	Downhill			DSQ	DNF
Aleksandr Filatov	Giant slalom			3:27.8	33
	Slalom	1:33.5	2:36.0	4:09.5	30
	Downhill			3:16.6	16
Vyacheslav Melnikov	Slalom	TNK	DSQ	did not finish
Yury Sharkov	Giant slalom			3:41.8	46
	Slalom	DSQ		did not finish
Sergey Shustov	Downhill			DSQ	DNF
Viktor Talyanov	Giant slalom			3:45.2	52
	Slalom	1:49.2	2:06.9	3:56.1	24
	Downhill			3:26.5	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Aleksandra Artyomenko	Giant slalom			4:04.5	44
	Slalom	DSQ		did not finish
	Downhill			1:51.1	14
Yevgeniya Sidorova	Giant slalom			2:31.3	40
	Slalom	56.9	59.8	1:56.7
	Downhill			1:59.8	37

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Nikolay Anikin	15 km	50:58	7
Viktor Baranov	50 km	3:03:55	7
Minnevali Galiyev	15 km	52:49	18
Pavel Kolchin	15 km	50:17
	30 km	1:45:45
	50 km	2:58:00	6
Vladimir Kuzin	15 km	51:36	10
	30 km	1:46:09	5
Anatoly Shelyukhin	30 km	1:45:46	4
	50 km	2:56:40	5
Fyodor Terentyev	30 km	1:46:43	6
	50 km	2:53:32
Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Relay 4 x 10 km	2:15:30

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Anna Kaaleste	10 km	40:29	9
Alevtina Kolchina	10 km	38:46	4
Lyubov Kozyreva	10 km	38:11
Radya Yeroshina	10 km	38:16
Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Relay 3 x 5 km	1:09:28

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

• Head coach: Arkady Chernyshev

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
GK		Nikolai Puchkov
GK		Grigory Mkrtychan
D		Nikolai Sologubov
D		Dmitry Ukolov
D		Ivan Tregubov
D		Genrikh Sidorenkov
D		Alfred Kuchevsky
F		Yevgeny Babich
F		Viktor Shuvalov
F		Vsevolod Bobrov
F		Yuri Krylov
F		Aleksandr Uvarov
F		Valentin Kuzin
F		Yuri Pantyukhov
F		Alexei Guryshev
F		Nikolay Khlystov
F		Viktor Nikiforov

Preliminary round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	2	2	0	0	15	4	4
Sweden	2	1	1	0	7	10	2
Switzerland	2	0	2	0	8	16	0

27 January 1956 21:30

Soviet Union

5–1 (1–1, 2–0, 2–0)

Sweden

	Babich (2) Bobrov Kuzin (2) Goals Björn

29 January 1956 21:30

Soviet Union

10–3 (4–1, 2–0, 4–2)

Switzerland

	Ukolov Tregubov Bobrov (4) Krylov Guryshev (2) Peter (own goal) Goals Naef (2) Bagnoud

Final round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	25	5	10
United States	5	4	1	0	26	12	8
Canada	5	3	2	0	23	11	6
Sweden	5	1	3	1	10	17	3
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	20	30	2
Germany	5	0	4	1	6	35	1

30 January 1956 19:00

Soviet Union

4–1 (1–1, 1–0, 2–0)

Sweden

	Shuvalov Bobrov Guryshev (2) Goals Bröms

31 January 1956 19:00

Soviet Union

8–0 (0–0, 7–0, 1–0)

Germany

	Tregubov Shuvalov Bobrov Krylov Uvarov (2) Guryshev (2) Goals

2 February 1956 22:00

Soviet Union

7–4 (2–1, 3–0, 2–3)

Czechoslovakia

	Sologubov Shuvalov (3) Bobrov Pantyukhov Guryshev Goals Gut Bubník Návrat Pantucek

3 February 1956 21:30

Soviet Union

4–0 (0–0, 1–0, 3–0)

United States

	Bobrov Kuzin Pantyukhov Khlystov Goals

4 February 1956 21:30

Soviet Union

2–0 (0–0, 1–0, 1–0)

Canada

	Krylov Kuzin Goals

 Gold

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country			Total
		Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Leonid Fyodorov	Individual 15 km	201.0	12	59:17	228.500	12	429.500	10
Nikolay Gusakov	Individual 15 km	200.0	14	58:17	232.300	8	432.300	7
Uno Kajak	Individual 15 km	186.5	27	1:00:48	222.600	18	409.100	26
Yury Moshkin	Individual 15 km	217.5	1	1:04:18	209.100	31	426.600	13

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	First round		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Yury Moshkin	Normal hill	91.5	35	92.5	184.0	34
Nikolay Shamov	Normal hill	103.0	14	98.0	201.0	16
Koba Zakadze	Normal hill	107.0	8	78.0	185.0	30

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Oleg Goncharenko	5000 m	7:57.5
	10000 m	16:42.3
Rafayel Grach	500 m	40.8
Yevgeny Grishin	500 m	40.2 WR
	1500 m	2:08.6 WR
Robert Merkulov	1500 m	2:10.3	5
Yuri Mikhaylov	500 m	did not finish
	1500 m	2:08.6 WR
Dmitry Sakunenko	5000 m	8:10.5	16
Yuri Sergeev	500 m	41.1	4
Boris Shilkov	1500 m	2:11.9	8
	5000 m	7:48.7 OR
Vladimir Shilykovsky	10000 m	17:17.6	16
Boris Tsybin	10000 m	17:03.4	9
Boris Yakimov	5000 m	8:12.6	19
	10000 m	16:59.7	7

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	26	5	4	35
2	Ukrainian SSR	0	0	2	2
Totals (2 entries)		26	5	6	37

References

1. "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

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