Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.

Medals

Gold

• Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov, and Vitaly Savin — Athletics, Men's 4x100 m Relay

• Vyacheslav Ivanenko — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk

• Gennady Avdeyenko — Athletics, Men's High Jump

• Sergey Bubka — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault

• Sergey Litvinov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

• Olga Bryzgina — Athletics, Women's 400 metres

• Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres

• Olga Bondarenko — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres

• Olga Bryzgina, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, and Mariya Pinigina — Athletics, Women's 4x400 m Relay

• Natalya Lisovskaya — Athletics, Women's Shot Put

• Aleksandr Belostennyi, Valdemaras Chomičius, Valery Goborov, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Igors Miglinieks, Viktor Pankrashkin, Arvydas Sabonis, Tiit Sokk, Sergey Tarakanov, Valery Tikhonenko, and Aleksandr Volkov — Basketball, Men's Team Competition

• Vyacheslav Yanovsky — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight

• Ivans Klementjevs — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000 m Canadian Singles

• Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs

• Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs

• Aleksandr Kirichenko — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial

• Gintautas Umaras — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Individual Pursuit

• Arturas Kasputis, Dmitry Nelyubin, Gintautas Umaras, and Vyacheslav Ekimov — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit

• Erika Salumäe — Cycling, Women's Cycling Sprint

• Vladimir Aptsiauri, Anvar Ibragimov, Boris Koretsky, Ilgar Mamedov, and Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Team

• Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual

• Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

• Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

• Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

• Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse

• Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's Rings

• Sergey Kharkov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

• Vladimir Artyomov, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Vladimir Gogoladze, Sergey Kharkov, Valery Lyukin, and Vladimir Novikov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises

• Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual

• Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault

• Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Natalya Lascenova, Yelena Shevchenko, Yelena Shushunova, and Olga Strazheva — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises

• Marina Lobach — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

• Valentina Ogienko, Elena Volkova, Marina Kumysh, Irina Smirnova, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Perkhomchuk, Tatyana Krainova, Olga Shkurnova, Marina Nikulina, Elena Ovchinnikova, Olga Krivosheeva and Svetlana Korytova — Volleyball, Women's team competition

• Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight

Silver

• Radion Gataullin — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault

• Igor Lapshin — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump

• Romas Ubartas — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw

• Yuri Sedykh — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

• Laimutė Baikauskaitė — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres

• Tatyana Ledovskaya — Athletics, Women's 400 m Hurdles

• Nuramgomed Shanavazov — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight

• Viktor Denisov and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs

• Viktor Denisov, Sergey Kirsanov, Aleksandr Motuzenko, and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours

• Nikolay Kovsh — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)

• Andrey Alshan, Mikhail Burtsev, Sergey Koryazhkin, Sergey Mindirgasov, and Georgy Pogosov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team

• Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual

• Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

• Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises

• Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam

• Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises

• Yuri Panchenko, Andrei Kuznetsov, Viacheslav Zaitsev, Igor Runov, Vladimir Shkurikhin, Yevgeni Krasilnikov, Raimundas Vilde, Valeri Losev, Yuri Sapega, Aleksandr Sorokolet, Yaroslav Antonov and Yuri Cherednik — Volleyball, Men's team competition

Bronze

• Vladimir Echeev — Archery, Men's Individual Competition

• Rudolf Povarnitsyn — Athletics, Men's High Jump

• Grigory Yegorov — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault

• Aleksandr Kovalenko — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump

• Jüri Tamm — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

• Olga Nazarova — Athletics, Women's 400 metres

• Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres

• Yelena Zhupiyeva — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres

• Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, and Marina Zhirova — Athletics, Women's 4x100 m Relay

• Tamara Bykova — Athletics, Women's High Jump

• Galina Chistyakova — Athletics, Women's Long Jump

• Olesya Barel, Olga Buryakina, Irina Gerlits, Yelena Khudashova, Aleksandra Leonova, Irina Minkh, Galina Savitskaya, Irina Sumnikova, Vitalija Tuomaite, Olga Yakovleva, Olga Yevkova, and Natalya Zasulskaya — Basketball, Women's Team Competition

• Timofey Skryabin — Boxing, Men's Flyweight

• Aleksandr Miroshnichenko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight

• Nikolay Bukhalov — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000 m Canadian Singles

• Marat Ganeyev — Cycling, Men's Points Race

• Laima Zilporite — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race

• Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual

• Andrey Shuvalov — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual

• Pavel Kolobkov, Vladimir Resnitschenko, Andrey Shuvalov, Igor Tikhomirov, and Mikhail Tishko — Fencing, Men's Épée Team

• Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual

• Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual

• Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars

• Alexandra Timoshenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around

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Results by event

Archery

After boycotting the 1984 archery competition, the Soviet team found itself unable to repeat its three medals of eight years earlier despite there being twice as many events. Vladimir Echeev won the nation's only archery medal, a bronze, though the Soviets did pick up 4 more top eight finishes.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Lioudmila Arjannikova - final, 4th place
• T. Mountian - final, 8th place
• N. Boutouzova - quarterfinal, 18th place

Men's Individual Competition:

• Vladimir Echeev - final, bronze medal
• K. Chkolny - 1/8 final, 20th place
• Juri Leontiev - preliminary round, 29th place

Women's Team Competition:

• Arjannikova, Mountian, and Boutouzova - final, 4th place

Men's Team Competition:

• Echeev, Chkolny, and Leontiev - final, 5th place

Athletics

Men's Marathon

• Ravil Kachapov

• Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)

Men's Long Jump

• Leonid Volochine

1. Qualification — 7.89m
2. Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)

• Robert Emmiiane

1. Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)

• Vladimir Otchkan

1. Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

• Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place)

1. 100 metres — 11.23s
2. Long Jump — 7.28m
3. Shot Put — 15.25m
4. High Jump — 1.97m
5. 400 metres — 48.60s
6. 110m Hurdles — 14.76s
7. Discus Throw — 48.02m
8. Pole Vault — 5.20m
9. Javelin Throw — 59.48m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s

Men's 50km Walk

• Vyacheslav Ivanenko

• Final — 3'38:29 (→ Gold Medal

• Alexandre Potachev

• Final — 3'41:00 (→ 4th place)

• Vitaly Popovitch

• Final — 3'59:23 (→ 26th place)

Women's 4x400m Relay

• Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, and Olga Bryzgina

1. Heat — 3:27.14

• Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, and Olga Bryzgina

1. Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Marathon

• Tatiana Polovinskaia

• Final — 2"27.05 (→ 4th place)

• Zoya Ivanova

• Final — 2"30.25 (→ 9th place)

• Raisa Smekhnova

• Final — 2"33.19 (→ 16th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

• Alexander Makhmutov

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0
• Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5

Cycling

Women's Individual Road Race

• Laima Zilporite — 2:00:52 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
• Alla Yakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Soviet Union - India 1-0
• Soviet Union - South Korea 3-1
• Soviet Union - Canada 0-0
• Soviet Union - Great Britain 1-3
• Soviet Union - West Germany 0-6

Classification Matches

• 5th-8th place: Soviet Union - Pakistan 0-1
• 7th-8th place: Soviet Union - Argentina 4-1 (→ 7th place)

Team Roster

• (01.) Vladimir Pleshakov (gk)
• (02.) Viktor Deputatov
• (03.) Igor Yulchiev
• (04.) Sos Airapetian
• (05.) Nikolai Sankovetch
• (06.) Vladimir Antakov (captain)
• (07.) Vyacheslav Chechenev
• (08.) Igor Atanov
• (09.) Sergei Chakhvorostov
• (10.) Sergei Pleshakov
• (11.) Mikhail Nechipurenko
• (12.) Alexander Domachev (gk)
• (13.) Igor Davydov
• (14.) Aleksandr Miasnikov
• (15.) Yevgeni Nechaev
• (16.) Mikhail Bukatin

Head Coach: Leonid Pavlovsky

Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 22.57
  2. Final – 22.71 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 22.81
  2. Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 50.13
  2. Final – 49.75 (→ 4th place)

• Yuri Bachkatov
  1. Heat – 50.08
  2. Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Alexei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – 1:50.84
  2. B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)

• Yuri Bachkatov
  1. Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Alexandre Bazanov
  1. Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Vladimir Salnikov
  1. Heat – 15:07.83
  2. Final – 15:00.40 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 55.04
  2. Final – 55.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 56.13
  2. Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 2:01.70
  2. Final – 1:59.37 (→ Gold Medal)

• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 2:01.27
  2. Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Dmitry Volkov
  1. Heat – 1:02.49
  2. Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Alexei Matveev
  1. Heat – 1:03.25
  2. B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Valeri Lozik
  1. Heat – 2:16.31
  2. Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)

• Vadim Alexeev
  1. Heat – 2:17.15
  2. B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 54.17
  2. Final – 54.60 (→ 8th place)

• Konstantine Petrov
  1. Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:01.05
  2. B-Final – 2:00.34 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:02.77
  2. Final – 2:02.40 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 2:03.79
  2. Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 4:25.30
  2. B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 3:19.89
• Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bachkatov, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

• Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev, and Aleksei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Serguei Zabolotnov, Valeri Lozik, Konstantine Petrov, and Nikolai Evseev
  1. Heat – 3:45.29
• Igor Polyansky, Dmitry Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk, and Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Final – 3:39.96 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Inna Abramova
  1. Heat – 26.27
  2. B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 56.66
  2. B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)

• Svetlana Issakova
  1. Heat – 57.17
  2. B-Final – 57.07 (→ 15th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 2:00.54
  2. Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 4:12.20
  2. Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Elena Volkova
  1. Heat – 1:09.86
  2. Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)

• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 1:10.83
  2. B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:28.94
  2. Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)

• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 2:30.93
  2. B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 1:01.65
  2. B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 2:15.26
  2. B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 2:15.30
  2. Final – 2:13.31 (→ Silver Medal)

• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:19.07
  2. B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 4:46.63
  2. Final – 4:40.44 (→ 4th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Inna Abramova, Svetlana Issakova, Yelena Dendeberova, and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 3:46.28
• Yelena Dendeberova, Svetlana Issakova, Natalia Trefilova, and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Final – 3:44.99 (→ 5th place)

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

• Alexander Volkov
  1. First round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (West Germany) 5-7 4-6 3-6

Women's Singles Competition

• Larisa Neiland
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Sara Gomer (Great Britain) 6-7 7-6 9-7
  3. Third Round – Defeated Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 6-3 7-6
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 2-6 6-4 3-6

• Leila Meskhi
  1. First Round – Defeated Regina Rajchrtova (Czechoslovakia) 7-5 7-5
  2. Second Round – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 5-7 1-6

• Natasha Zvereva
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Anne Minter (Australia) 6-4 3-6 6-1
  3. Third Round – Defeated Tine Scheuer-Larsen (Denmark) 6-1 6-2
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 4-6 3-6

Volleyball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Bulgaria (3-0)
• Defeated Sweden (3-0)
• Defeated South Korea (3-0)
• Defeated Italy (3-1)
• Lost to Brazil (2-3)

• Semi Finals

• Defeated Argetina (3-0)

• Bronze Medal Match

• Lost to United States (1-3) → Silver Medal

• Team Roster

• Yuri Panchenko
• Andrey Kuzentsov
• Vyatcheslav Zaytsev
• Igor Runov
• Vladimir Chkourikhine
• Yevgueny Krasilnikov
• Raimond Vilde
• Valery Lossev
• Yuri Sapega
• Yuri Sorokolet
• Yaroslav Antonov
• Yuri Tcherednik

• Head Coach: Guennady Parchine

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Lost to Japan (2-3)
• Defeated South Korea (3-2)
• Defeated East Germany (3-0)

• Semi Finals

• Defeated PR China (3-0)

• Final

• Defeated Peru (3-2) → Gold Medal

• Team Roster

• Valentina Ogienko
• Yelena Volkova
• Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko
• Tatyana Sidorenko
• Irina Parkhomchuk-Kirillova
• Olga Shkournova
• Marina Nikulina
• Elena Ovtchnikova
• Olga Krivocheeva
• Svetlana Korytova
• Marina Koumych
• Tatyana Krainova

• Head Coach: Nikolai Karpol

Water Polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Drew with Italy (9-9)
• Defeated Australia (11-4)
• Defeated France (14-8)
• Defeated South Korea (17-4)
• Lost to West Germany (8-9)

• Semi Finals

• Lost to United States (7-8)

• Bronze Medal Match

• Defeated West Germany (14-13) → Bronze Medal

• Team Roster

• Evgueni Charonov
• Nourlan Mendygaliev
• Evgeni Grichine
• Alexandre Kolotov
• Sergei Naoumov
• Victor Berendiouga
• Serguei Kotenko
• Dmitri Apanasenko
• Georgui Mchvenieradze
• Mikhail Ivanov
• Serguei Markotch
• Nikolai Smirnov
• Mikhail Giorgadze

Head Coach: Boris Popov

Wrestling

Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight