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) Individual Neutral Athletes (2026)

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

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vladimir Makeev	Downhill					1:49.87	22
Valeri Tsyganov	Downhill					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	Slalom	54.97	10	51.68	9	1:46.65	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

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

Cross-country skiing

Men

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

Women

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

Figure skating

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

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

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	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
Athletes	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
Athlete	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

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
Athlete	Event	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

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
Event	Athlete	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