Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics

The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics (Template:Langx) in Albertville was a joint team consisting of five of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan that made a decision to collaborate and created a united team. The Unified Team's only other appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It competed under the IOC country code EUN (from the French Equipe Unifiée).

The team finished second in the medal rankings, narrowly losing to a re-unified Germany.

Members

• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
• Russia
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan

Medalists

The Unified Team finished second to Germany both in the gold and overall medal tally with 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals for a total of 23 medals.

Medal	Name	Nationality	Sport	Event
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Belarus	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km (classical)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia (all)	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Ukraine	Figure skating	Men's singles
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia	Figure skating	Pairs
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold		Russia	Figure skating	Ice dancing
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold	Unified team men's national ice hockey team	Russia (all except Kasparaitis and Zhitnik)	Ice hockey	Men's competition
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Russia	Biathlon	Women's 15 km
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver	Alexandr Popov	Russia (Medvedtsev, Kiriyenko and Tchepikov) Belarus (Popov)	Biathlon	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km (classical)
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km (freestyle)
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Russia (both)	Figure skating	Pairs
File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver		Russia	Freestyle skiing	Women's moguls
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze	Yelena Belova	Russia	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze	Yelena Belova	Russia (all)	Biathlon	Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km (classical)
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km (classical)
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km (freestyle)
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia (both)	Figure skating	Ice dancing
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze		Russia (all)	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 m relay

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	3	4	7
Biathlon	5	6	11
Bobsleigh	9	–	9
Cross-country skiing	6	6	12
Figure skating	9	8	17
Freestyle skiing	4	4	8
Ice hockey	22	–	22
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Short track speed skating	1	5	6
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Speed skating	12	7	19
Total	86	43	129

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Konstantin Chistyakov	Downhill			1:53.93	24
Template:Flagicon Aleksey Maslov				1:53.68	22
Template:Flagicon Vitaly Andreyev				1:53.52	21
Template:Flagicon Vitaly Andreyev	Super-G			DNF	–
Template:Flagicon Aleksey Maslov				1:19.71	49
Template:Flagicon Konstantin Chistyakov				1:16.14	22

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Template:Flagicon Aleksey Maslov	1:48.53	DNF	–	DNF	–
Template:Flagicon Konstantin Chistyakov	1:47.95	DNF	–	DNF	–
Template:Flagicon Vitaly Andreyev	1:46.01	55.80	58.44	85.07	20

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Svetlana Novikova	Downhill			1:59.18	27
Template:Flagicon Tetiana Lebedeva				1:55.15	19
Template:Flagicon Svetlana Gladysheva				1:53.85	8
Template:Flagicon Tetiana Lebedeva	Super-G			1:26.92	28
Template:Flagicon Svetlana Gladysheva				1:26.51	25
Template:Flagicon Varvara Zelenskaya				1:26.39	24

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Template:Flagicon Varvara Zelenskaya	DNF	–	–	DNF	–
Template:Flagicon Svetlana Novikova	1:30.03	38.89	38.94	122.48	19
Template:Flagicon Tetiana Lebedeva	1:27.79	40.05	39.82	111.34	18
Template:Flagicon Svetlana Gladysheva	1:26.88	38.15	37.01	61.25	12

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Template:Flagicon Valeriy Medvedtsev	2	27:39.5	25
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Popov	1	27:31.3	18
	Template:Flagicon Valeri Kiriyenko	3	26:31.8	5
	Template:Flagicon Sergei Tchepikov	0	26:27.5	4

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Template:Flagicon Valeri Kiriyenko	55:12.6	4	59:12.6	11
	Template:Flagicon Sergei Tchepikov	55:47.6	3	58:47.6	10
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Popov	56:02.9	2	58:02.9	4
	Template:Flagicon Eugeni Redkine	57:34.4	0	57:34.4	Template:Gold01

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Valeriy Medvedtsev Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Popov Template:Flagicon Valery Kiriyenko Template:Flagicon Sergei Tchepikov	0	1'25:06.3	Template:Silver02

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Template:Flagicon Yelena Golovina	1	26:50.3	20
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Petcherskaia	0	26:09.7	13
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Belova	2	24:50.8	Template:Bronze03
	Template:Flagicon Anfisa Reztsova	3	24:29.2	Template:Gold01

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
15 km	Template:Flagicon Anfisa Reztsova	47:52.6	9	56:52.6	26
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Golovina	54:17.9	2	56:17.9	22
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Paramygina	52:15.2	4	56:15.2	21
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Petcherskaia	50:58.5	1	51:58.5	Template:Silver02

Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Yelena Belova Template:Flagicon Anfisa Reztsova Template:Flagicon Yelena Melnikova	2	1'16:54.6	Template:Bronze03

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
EUN-1	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Yefimov Template:Flagicon Aleksey Golovin	Two-man	1:01.17	17	1:01.85	21	1:02.03	19	1:02.25	23	4:07.30	20
EUN-2	Template:Flagicon Oleg Sukhoruchenko Template:Flagicon Andrey Gorokhov	Two-man	1:01.77	27	1:02.06	23	1:02.19	23	1:02.31	24	4:08.33	26

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
EUN-1	Template:Flagicon Oleg Sukhoruchenko Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Bortiuk Template:Flagicon Vladimir Lyubovitsky Template:Flagicon Andrey Gorokhov	Four-man	59.05	19	1:00.05	22	58.94	12	59.39	19	3:57.43	19
EUN-2	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Yefimov Template:Flagicon Oleg Petrov Template:Flagicon Sergey Kruglov Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Pashkov	Four-man	59.80	23	1:00.19	23	1:00.34	23	1:00.26	23	4:00.59	22

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Template:Flagicon German Karachevsky	32:12.6	62
	Template:Flagicon Andrey Kirillov	30:27.4	30
	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Smirnov	29:13.1	13
	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Botvinov	28:55.8	11
15 km pursuit1 F	Template:Flagicon German Karachevsky	44:09.5	43
	Template:Flagicon Andrey Kirillov	41:14.9	17
	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Botvinov	41:07.1	15
	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Smirnov	39:59.8	8
30 km C	Template:Flagicon Aleksey Prokurorov	1'27:20.5	21
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Golubyov	1'25:56.1	14
	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Botvinov	1'25:36.9	12
	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Smirnov	1'25:27.6	9
50 km F	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Smirnov	2'15:48.5	35
	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Botvinov	2'14:20.8	28
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Golubyov	2'11:20.1	17
	Template:Flagicon Aleksey Prokurorov	2'07:06.1	4

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Andrey Kirillov Template:Flagicon Vladimir Smirnov Template:Flagicon Mikhail Botvinov Template:Flagicon Aleksey Prokurorov	1'43:03.6	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Template:Flagicon Larisa Lazutina	14:41.7	7
	Template:Flagicon Olga Danilova	14:37.2	6
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Välbe	14:22.7	Template:Bronze03
	Template:Flagicon Lyubov Yegorova	14:14.7	Template:Silver02
10 km pursuit2 F	Template:Flagicon Olga Danilova	28:10.2	11
	Template:Flagicon Larisa Lazutina	27:34.8	8
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Välbe	26:37.7	Template:Bronze03
	Template:Flagicon Lyubov Yegorova	25:53.7	Template:Gold01
15 km C	Template:Flagicon Nataliya Martynova	45:16.1	12
	Template:Flagicon Raisa Smetanina	44:01.5	4
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Välbe	43:42.3	Template:Bronze03
	Template:Flagicon Lyubov Yegorova	42:20.8	Template:Gold01
30 km F	Template:Flagicon Olga Danilova	1'30:30.7	20
	Template:Flagicon Larisa Lazutina	1'26:31.8	5
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Välbe	1'24:13.9	Template:Bronze03
	Template:Flagicon Lyubov Yegorova	1'22:52.0	Template:Silver02

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Yelena Välbe Template:Flagicon Raisa Smetanina Template:Flagicon Larisa Lazutina Template:Flagicon Lyubov Yegorova	59:34.8	Template:Gold01

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk	10	8	13.0	8
Template:Flagicon Alexei Urmanov	5	5	7.5	5
Template:Flagicon Viktor Petrenko	1	1	1.5	Template:Gold01

Women

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Template:Flagicon Tatiana Rachkova	13	14	20.5	16
Template:Flagicon Julia Vorobieva	14	13	20.0	14

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Template:Flagicon Yevgenya Shishkova Template:Flagicon Vadim Naumov	5	5	7.5	5
Template:Flagicon Elena Bechke Template:Flagicon Denis Petrov	2	2	3.0	Template:Silver02
Template:Flagicon Natalia Mishkutenok Template:Flagicon Artur Dmitriev	1	1	1.5	Template:Gold01

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Template:Flagicon Pasha Grishuk Template:Flagicon Evgeni Platov	4	4	4	4	8.0	4
Template:Flagicon Maya Usova Template:Flagicon Alexander Zhulin	2	2	3	3	5.6	Template:Bronze03
Template:Flagicon Marina Klimova Template:Flagicon Sergei Ponomarenko	1	1	1	1	2.0	Template:Gold01

Freestyle skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Template:Flagicon Mikhail Lyzhin	Moguls	40.89	16.04	36	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Aleksey Bannikov		35.79	17.12	33	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Andrey Ivanov		36.52	21.24	21	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Sergey Shupletsov		33.30	22.65	13 Q	34.49	21.60	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Template:Flagicon Larisa Udodova	Moguls	47.58	11.17	23	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Olga Lychkina		42.42	18.04	12	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Yelena Korolyova		43.52	20.01	10	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova		39.10	22.22	5 Q	39.47	23.50	Template:Silver02

Ice hockey

First round

Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Canada	5	4	1	0	28	9	19	8
File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	5	4	1	0	32	10	22	8
Czechoslovakia	5	4	1	0	25	15	10	8
France	5	2	3	0	14	22	-8	4
Switzerland	5	1	4	0	13	25	-12	2
Norway	5	0	5	0	7	38	-31	0

File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	8:1	Switzerland
File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	8:1	Norway
Czechoslovakia	4:3	File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
France	0:8	File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	5:4	Canada

Final round

Quarter-finals

File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team

6:1

Finland

Semi-finals

File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team

5:2

United States

Final

File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team Template:Gold01

3:1

Canada

Gold:

Template:FlagIOC Sergei Bautin Igor Boldin Nikolai Borschevsky Vyacheslav Butsayev Vyacheslav Bykov Evgeni Davydov Alexei Zhitnik Darius Kasparaitis Nikolai Khabibulin Yuri Kmylev Andrei Khomutov Andrei Kovalenko Alexei Kovalev Igor Kravchuk Vladimir Malakhov Dmitri Mironov Sergei Petrenko Vitali Prokhorov Mikhail Shtalenkov Andrei Trefilov Dmitri Yushkevich Alexei Zhamnov Sergei Zubov

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Eduard Burmistrov	46.138	16	46.032	16	46.612	16	46.728	18	3:05.510	16
Template:Flagicon Oleg Yermolin	46.046	15	46.176	18	46.569	14	46.504	15	3:05.295	15
Template:Flagicon Sergey Danilin	45.708	11	45.622	9	46.281	10	46.162	10	3:03.773	9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Albert Demchenko Template:Flagicon Aleksey Zelensky	46.552	7	46.747	9	1:33.299	8
Template:Flagicon Igor Lobanov Template:Flagicon Gennady Belyakov	46.849	10	47.098	13	1:33.947	10

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Nadezhda Danilina	47.324	14	47.215	10	47.264	11	47.025	9	3:08.828	12
Template:Flagicon Irina Gubkina	47.175	10	47.273	12	47.264	11	47.034	10	3:08.746	10
Template:Flagicon Nataliya Yakushenko	47.097	9	47.215	10	47.178	8	46.893	6	3:08.383	8

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Vasily Savin	Individual	179.4	40	+5:27.4	49:24.8	22
Template:Flagicon Valery Stolyarov		192.0	32	+4:03.4	51:50.2	32
Template:Flagicon Sergey Shvagirev		205.0	16	+2:36.7	53:03.6	36
Template:Flagicon Andrey Dundukov		210.4	11	+2:00.7	47:44.2	11

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Template:Flagicon Andrey Dundukov Template:Flagicon Sergey Shvagirev Template:Flagicon Valery Stolyarov	545.3	9	+8:19.0	1'37:57.2	11

Short track speed skating

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Template:Flagicon Dmitry Yershov	1000 m	1:37.71	2 Q	1:34.02	3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Template:Flagicon Nataliya Isakova	500 m	48.49	3	Did not advance
Template:Flagicon Marina Pylayeva		47.48	2 Q	47.95	1 Q	1:07.56	4 QB	48.42	5
Template:Flagicon Yuliya Vlasova		48.29	2 Q	48.63	2 Q	1:08.90	4 QB	48.70	7
Template:Flagicon Yuliya Allagulova Template:Flagicon Nataliya Isakova Template:Flagicon Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina Template:Flagicon Yuliya Vlasova	3000 m relay					4:38.37	2 Q	4:42.69	Template:Bronze03

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Template:Flagicon Yury Dudarev	Normal hill	76.5	84.9	73.5	77.6	162.5	54
Template:Flagicon Dionis Vodnyev		79.5	88.7	84.0	102.4	191.1	25
Template:Flagicon Andrey Verveykin		80.0	91.5	80.5	95.3	186.8	32
Template:Flagicon Mikhail Yesin		85.5	105.8	81.5	98.9	204.7	11
Template:Flagicon Yury Dudarev	Large hill	92.0	64.8	86.5	56.1	120.9	47
Template:Flagicon Andrey Verveykin		99.0	79.1	95.5	72.7	151.8	29
Template:Flagicon Dionis Vodnyev		101.5	83.6	95.5	72.7	156.3	24
Template:Flagicon Mikhail Yesin		108.0	96.2	99.5	80.3	176.5	10

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points 1	Rank
Template:Flagicon Mikhail Yesin Template:Flagicon Dionis Vodnyev Template:Flagicon Andrey Verveykin Template:Flagicon Yury Dudarev	503.4	11

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Template:Flagicon Sergey Klevchenya	38.26	21
	Template:Flagicon Vadim Shakshakbayev	37.86	14
	Template:Flagicon Igor Zhelezovsky	37.57	8
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Golubev	37.51	7
1000 m	Template:Flagicon Andrey Bakhvalov	1:17.21	25
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Klimov	1:16.05	13
	Template:Flagicon Nikolay Gulyayev	1:15.46	8
	Template:Flagicon Igor Zhelezovsky	1:15.05	6
1500 m	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Klimov	2:00.94	31
	Template:Flagicon Konstantin Kalistratov	1:59.02	22
	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Shulha	1:57.80	16
	Template:Flagicon Igor Zhelezovsky	1:57.24	10
5000 m	Template:Flagicon Bronislav Snetkov	7:28.93	29
	Template:Flagicon Vadim Sayutin	7:13.20	11
	Template:Flagicon Yevgeny Sanarov	7:11.38	8
10000 m	Template:Flagicon Vadim Sayutin	14:49.31	19
	Template:Flagicon Bronislav Snetkov	14:46.87	17
	Template:Flagicon Yevgeny Sanarov	14:38.99	10

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Template:Flagicon Lyudmila Prokasheva	43.19	31
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Tyushnyakova	42.65	29
	Template:Flagicon Oksana Ravilova	41.73	16
	Template:Flagicon Nataliya Polozkova	41.61	15
1000 m	Template:Flagicon Yelena Lapuga	1:25.21	28
	Template:Flagicon Nataliya Polozkova	1:24.30	20
	Template:Flagicon Oksana Ravilova	1:24.14	15
	Template:Flagicon Yelena Tyushnyakova	1:22.97	7
1500 m	Template:Flagicon Yelena Lapuga	2:11.72	25
	Template:Flagicon Lyudmila Prokasheva	2:08.71	10
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Bazhanova	2:07.81	6
	Template:Flagicon Nataliya Polozkova	2:07.12	4
3000 m	Template:Flagicon Lyudmila Prokasheva	4:30.76	10
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Bazhanova	4:28.19	7
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Boyko	4:28.00	5
5000 m	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Bazhanova	7:45.55	7
	Template:Flagicon Svetlana Boyko	7:44.19	6
	Template:Flagicon Lyudmila Prokasheva	7:41.65	5

See also

• CIS national football team, a football team created in a similar fashion for UEFA Euro 1992

References

• Olympic Winter Games 1992, full results by sports-reference.com