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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

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At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo

Competitors

53 (47 men, 6 women)^[1] in 6 sports

Flag bearer

Oleg Goncharenko

Medals
Rank: 1

Gold
7

Silver
3

Bronze
6

Total
16

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

1 Medalists
2 Results
3 References

Medalists [edit]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
1 ! Gold	Anikin, NikolayNikolay Anikin, Pavel Kolchin Pavel Kolchin, Fyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's relay 4 x 10 km
1 ! Gold	Kozyreva, LyubovLyubov Kozyreva	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
1 ! Gold	Babich, YevgenyYevgeny 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
1 ! Gold	Grishin, YevgenyYevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
1 ! Gold	Grishin, YevgenyYevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
1 ! Gold	Mikhaylov, YuriYuri Mikhaylov	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
1 ! Gold	Shilkov, BorisBoris Shilkov	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
2 ! Silver	Yeroshina, RadyaRadya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's 10 km
2 ! Silver	Kolchina, AlevtinaAlevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country	Women's relay 3 x 5 km
2 ! Silver	Grach, RafayelRafayel Grach	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
3 ! Bronze	Sidorova, YevgeniyaYevgeniya Sidorova	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
3 ! Bronze	Kolchin, PavelPavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 15 km
3 ! Bronze	Kolchin, PavelPavel Kolchin	Cross-country	Men's 30 km
3 ! Bronze	Terentyev, FyodorFyodor Terentyev	Cross-country	Men's 50 km
3 ! Bronze	Goncharenko, OlegOleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
3 ! Bronze	Goncharenko, OlegOleg Goncharenko	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m

Results [edit]

Alpine skiing [edit]

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Gennady Chertishchev	Giant Slalom			3:48.9	55
Gennady Chertishchev	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
Yury Sharkov	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
Athlete	Event	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	3 !
	Downhill			1:59.8	37

Cross-country skiing [edit]

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

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	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	3 !
	30 km	1:45:45	3 !
	50 km	2:58:00	6
Vladimir Kuzin	15 km	51:36	10
Vladimir Kuzin	30 km	1:46:09	5
Anatoly Shelyukhin	30 km	1:45:46	4
Anatoly Shelyukhin	50 km	2:56:40	5
Fyodor Terentyev	30 km	1:46:43	6
Fyodor Terentyev	50 km	2:53:32	3 !
Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Relay 4 x 10 km	2:15:30	1 !

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Total	Rank
Anna Kaaleste	10 km	40:29	9
Alevtina Kolchina	10 km	38:46	4
Lyubov Kozyreva	10 km	38:11	1 !
Radya Yeroshina	10 km	38:16	2 !
Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Relay 3 x 5 km	1:09:28	2 !

Ice hockey [edit]

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	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	2	2	0	15	4	4
Sweden	2	1	1	7	10	2
Switzerland	2	0	2	8	16	0

27 January 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

5 – 1
(1-1, 2-0, 2-0)

Sweden



	Babich (2) Bobrov Kuzin (2)		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)		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)		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)

2 February 1956
22:00

Soviet Union

7 – 4
(2-1, 3-0, 2-3)

Czechoslovakia



	Sologubov Shuvalov (3) Bobrov Pantyukhov Guryshev		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

4 February 1956
21:30

Soviet Union

2 – 0
(0-0, 1-0, 1-0)

Canada



	Krylov Kuzin

Gold

Nordic combined [edit]

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-Country			Total
Athlete	Event	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 [edit]

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	First Round		Final
Athlete	Event	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 [edit]

Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Oleg Goncharenko	5000 m	7:57.5	3 !
Oleg Goncharenko	10000 m	16:42.3	3 !
Rafayel Grach	500 m	40.8	2 !
Yevgeny Grishin	500 m	40.2 WR	1 !
Yevgeny Grishin	1500 m	2:08.6 WR	1 !
Robert Merkulov	1500 m	2:10.3	5
Yuri Mikhaylov	500 m	Did Not Finish
Yuri Mikhaylov	1500 m	2:08.6 WR	1 !
Dmitry Sakunenko	5000 m	8:10.5	16
Yuri Sergeev	500 m	41.1	4
Boris Shilkov	1500 m	2:11.9	8
Boris Shilkov	5000 m	7:48.7 OR	1 !
Vladimir Shilykovsky	10000 m	17:17.6	16
Boris Tsybin	10000 m	17:03.4	9
Boris Yakimov	5000 m	8:12.6	19
Boris Yakimov	10000 m	16:59.7	7

References [edit]

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

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Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Medalists [edit]

Results [edit]

Alpine skiing [edit]

Cross-country skiing [edit]

Ice hockey [edit]

Nordic combined [edit]

Ski jumping [edit]

Speed skating [edit]

References [edit]

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