Russia at the Olympics
Template:Infobox country at games Russia, referred to by its formal name; the Russian Federation, by the International Olympic Committee, has competed at the modern Olympic Games on many occasions, but as different nations in its history. As the Russian Empire, the nation first competed at the 1900 Games, and returned again in 1908 and 1912. After the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, it would be thirty years until Russian athletes next competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in 1992, and finally returned once again as Russia at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
The Russian Olympic Committee was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the Russian Federation hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In twelve appearances from 1994 to 2016, Russian athletes won a total of 422 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 120 at the Winter Olympic Games. Russia's 542 total medals, including 193 gold medals, are second behind only the United States in that timespan.
In 2017, Russia was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR). They were also allowed to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics, representing the Russian Olympic Committee.[1]
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate at the 2024 Summer Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes.[2]
Hosted Games
Russia has hosted the Games on two occasions. Moscow was the host of the 1980 Summer Games, when Russia (Russian SFSR) was part of the Soviet Union. Sochi was the host of the 2014 Winter Games, as part of the Russian Federation.
| Games | Host city | Dates | Nations | Participants | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 Summer Olympics | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 19 July–3 August | 80 | 5,179 | 203 |
| 2014 Winter Olympics | Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation | 7–23 February | 88 | 2,873 | 98 |
Participation
Timeline of participation
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| 1924–1936 | Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam | |||||
| 1952–1988 | Template:FlagIOCteam | |||||
| 1992 | Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam | Template:FlagIOCteam | ||||
| 1994 | Template:FlagIOCteam | Template:FlagIOCteam | Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam | |||
| 1996–2016 | Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam, Template:FlagIOCteam | |||||
| 2018 | Template:FlagIOCteam | |||||
| 2020–2022 | File:Russian Olympic Committee flag.png Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) | |||||
| 2024–2026 | Template:FlagIOCteam | |||||
Combined medals
The Russian Federation, the Russian Empire, the Olympic Athletes from Russia and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) are sometimes combined outside of IOC sources. The Soviet Union is often combined with the post-union team that competed in 1992.[3][4][5] Some sources combine the Soviet Union and Russia, despite the fact that many republics which subsequently gained or re-gained independence (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) contributed to the medal tally of the USSR, and there are sources that combine all medals of RU1, URS, EUN, OAR, ROC and RUS.[6][7] On 31 January 1992, the United Nations recognized, without objection, Russia as legal successor of the rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union,[8] but this has no significance in medal tallies.
Neutral Russian athletes that competed as AIN at the 2024 Summer Olympics are also included in the table.
Medal counts:
Russia combined with precursors
status after the 2024 Olympics
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| Template:FlagIOCteam | 6 | 147 | 125 | 150 | 422 | 6 | 46 | 39 | 35 | 120 | 12 | 193 | 164 | 185 | 542 |
| Template:FlagIOCteam | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| Template:FlagIOCteam | 9 | 395 | 319 | 296 | 1010 | 9 | 78 | 57 | 59 | 194 | 18 | 473 | 376 | 355 | 1204 |
| Template:FlagIOCteam | 1 | 45 | 38 | 29 | 112 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 54 | 44 | 37 | 135 |
| Template:FlagIOCteam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| File:Olympic flag.svg Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) | 1 | 20 | 28 | 23 | 71 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 32 | 2 | 25 | 40 | 38 | 103 |
| Template:FlagIOCteam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 21 | 608 | 515 | 501 | 1624 | 18 | 140 | 120 | 126 | 386 | 39 | 748 | 635 | 627 | 2010 |
Medal tables
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Notes
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- On 10 February 2014, Viktor Ahn won the first short track speedskating medal for Russia competing as Russia. He won the bronze medal in the 1500m short track speedskating event at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics.[10]
- On 15 February 2014, Ahn won the second Russian gold medal in the 1000m short track speedskating event, leading the first Russian 1–2 finish in short track, with Vladimir Grigorev winning silver. At 31 years and 191 days, Grigorev also became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal.[11]
- On 20 February 2014, Adelina Sotnikova won the first ever Russian ladies figure skating gold medal.
Stripped Olympic medals
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| Olympics | Athlete | Medal | Event | Ref |
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| 2002 Winter Olympics | Olga Danilova | Gold | Cross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit | [12] |
| Silver | Cross-country skiing, women's 10 km classical | [12] | ||
| Larisa Lazutina | Gold | Cross-country skiing, women's 30 km classical | [12][13] | |
| Silver | Cross-country skiing, women's 15 km freestyle | [14] | ||
| Silver | Cross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit | [14] | ||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Irina Korzhanenko | Gold | Athletics, women's shot put | [15] |
| Svetlana Krivelyova | Bronze | Athletics, women's shot put | [16] | |
| Oleg Perepetchenov | Bronze | Weightlifting, men's 77 kg | [17] | |
| 2006 Winter Olympics | Olga Pyleva | Silver | Biathlon, women's individual | [18] |
| 2008 Summer Olympics | Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya) | Gold | Athletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay | [19] |
| Relay team (Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova) |
Silver | Athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay | [21] | |
| Maria Abakumova | Silver | Athletics, women's javelin throw | [22] | |
| Relay team (Denis Alexeev) | Bronze | Athletics, men's 4 × 400 m relay | [22] | |
| Yekaterina Volkova | Bronze | Athletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase | [24] | |
| Anna Chicherova | Bronze | Athletics, women's high jump | [26] | |
| Khadzhimurat Akkayev | Bronze | Weightlifting, men's 94 kg | [27] | |
| Dmitry Lapikov | Bronze | Weightlifting, men's 105 kg | [27] | |
| Marina Shainova | Silver | Weightlifting, women's 58 kg | [21] | |
| Nadezhda Evstyukhina | Bronze | Weightlifting, women's 75 kg | [21] | |
| Khasan Baroyev | Silver | Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman 120 kg | [27] | |
| Tatyana Lebedeva | Silver | Athletics, women's triple jump | [28] | |
| Tatyana Lebedeva | Silver | Athletics, women's long jump | [28] | |
| Tatyana Chernova | Bronze | Athletics, Women's heptathlon | [29] | |
| 2012 Summer Olympics | Tatyana Lysenko | Gold | Athletics, women's hammer throw | [30] |
| Yuliya Zaripova | Gold | Athletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase | [31][32] | |
| Sergey Kirdyapkin | Gold | Athletics, men's 50 km walk | [33] | |
| Tatyana Chernova | Bronze | Athletics, women's heptathlon | [34] | |
| Darya Pishchalnikova | Silver | Athletics, women's discus throw | [35] | |
| Yevgeniya Kolodko | Silver | Athletics, women's shot put | [36] | |
| Olga Kaniskina | Silver | Athletics, women's 20 km walk | [37] | |
| Apti Aukhadov | Silver | Weightlifting, men's 85 kg | [38] | |
| Aleksandr Ivanov | Silver | Weightlifting, men's 94 kg | [32] | |
| Natalia Zabolotnaya | Silver | Weightlifting, women's 75 kg | [32] | |
| Svetlana Tsarukayeva | Silver | Weightlifting, women's 63 kg | ||
| Relay (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh) | Silver | Athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay | [39][40] | |
| Mariya Savinova | Gold | Athletics, women's 800 m | ||
| Natalya Antyukh | Gold | Athletics, women's 400 m hurdles | [41] | |
| Ruslan Albegov | Bronze | Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg | [42] | |
| 2014 Winter Olympics | Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda | Gold | Bobsleigh, Two-man | [43][44] |
| Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Voyevoda | Gold | Bobsleigh, Four-man | [43][45][46] | |
| Relay team (Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, Olga Zaitseva) | Silver | Biathlon, Women's relay | ||
| 2016 Summer Olympics | Mikhail Aloyan | Silver | Boxing, men's flyweight | [47] |
| 2022 Winter Olympics | Team event (Mark Kondratiuk, Kamila Valieva, Anastasia Mishina, Aleksandr Galliamov, Victoria Sinitsina, Nikita Katsalapov) | Gold → Bronze | Figure Skating, Team event | [48] |
2016–present partial ban
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Russia was partially banned from participation at the 2016 Summer Olympics due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were then allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), and in both the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Russian Olympic Committee athletes (ROC).[49][50]
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in January 2023 plans to have Russian athletes introduced as neutrals at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[2][51] The IOC also published a statement stating that it supported the return of Russian athletes, as long as they did not "actively" advocate for the war and as long as their flag, anthem, colors, and organizations were excluded (thus preventing them from competing under the Russian Olympic Committee as in 2020 and 2022).[52]
Flag bearers
- Template:GamesName – Sergei Tchepikov
- Template:GamesName – Aleksandr Karelin
- Template:GamesName – Alexey Prokurorov
- Template:GamesName – Andrey Lavrov
- Template:GamesName – Alexey Prokurorov
- Template:GamesName – Alexander Popov
- Template:GamesName – Dmitry Dorofeyev
- Template:GamesName – Andrei Kirilenko
- Template:GamesName – Aleksey Morozov
- Template:GamesName – Maria Sharapova
- Template:GamesName – Alexander Zubkov
- Template:GamesName – Sergey Tetyukhin
See also
- Category:Olympic competitors for Russia
- Russia at the Paralympics
- Russia at the Youth Olympics
- Russian Empire at the Olympics
- Soviet Union at the Olympics & Unified Team at the Olympics
- Doping in Russia
- Icarus (2017 film)
References
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