Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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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.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
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- 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 | ||
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| Downhill | 1:59.8 | 37 | |||
Cross-country skiing
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- 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 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 30 km | 1:45:45 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 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 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin |
Relay 4 x 10 km | 2:15:30 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
- 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 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Radya Yeroshina | 10 km | 38:16 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina |
Relay 3 x 5 km | 1:09:28 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
Ice hockey
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- Men
- Head coach: Template:Flagicon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
| File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
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- Final round
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
| File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
| File:Canadian Red Ensign (1921–1957).svg Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
| File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
| File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
| File:German Olympic flag (1959-1968).svg Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
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Nordic combined
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| 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
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| 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
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- Men
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oleg Goncharenko | 5000 m | 7:57.5 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 10000 m | 16:42.3 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Rafayel Grach | 500 m | 40.8 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Yevgeny Grishin | 500 m | 40.2 WR | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Robert Merkulov | 1500 m | 2:10.3 | 5 |
| Yuri Mikhaylov | 500 m | did not finish | |
| 1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 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 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 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.
References
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