Soviet Union at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1964 Winter Olympics
Soviet Union at the; 1964 Winter Olympics
	Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Innsbruck
Competitors	69 (52 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Yevgeny Grishin (speed skating)
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 11 Silver 8 Bronze 6 Total 25
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)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Vladimir Melanin	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Klavdiya Boyarskikh	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Gold	Klavdiya Boyarskikh	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Alevtina Kolchina Yevdokiya Mekshilo Klavdiya Boyarskikh	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Gold	Liudmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Viktor Konovalenko Boris Zaytsev Vitaly Davydov Eduard Ivanov Aleksandr Ragulin Viktor Kuzkin Konstantin Loktev Aleksandr Almetov Veniamin Aleksandrov Yevgeny Mayorov Vyacheslav Starshinov Boris Mayorov Leonid Volkov Viktor Yakushev Anatoly Firsov Oleg Zaytsev Stanislav Petukhov	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Gold	Ants Antson	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Lidiya Skoblikova	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Gold	Lidiya Skoblikova	Speed skating	Women's 1000 m
Gold	Lidiya Skoblikova	Speed skating	Women's 1500 m
Gold	Lidiya Skoblikova	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m
Silver	Aleksandr Privalov	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Silver	Yevdokiya Mekshilo	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Nikolay Kiselyov	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Silver	Vladimir Orlov	Speed skating	Men's 500 m (tie)
Silver	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 500 m (tie)
Silver	Irina Yegorova	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Silver	Irina Yegorova	Speed skating	Women's 1000 m
Silver	Valentina Stenina	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m
Bronze	Igor Voronchikhin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Voronchikhin Pavel Kolchin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Alevtina Kolchina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Bronze	Mariya Gusakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Tatyana Sidorova	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Bronze	Berta Kolokoltseva	Speed skating	Women's 1500 m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Valery Shein	Downhill	2:38.13	54
Tally Monastyryov		2:35.27	47
Vasily Melnikov		2:30.83	36
Vasily Melnikov	Giant slalom	DNF	–
Tally Monastyryov		2:01.94	37
Valery Shein		2:01.18	34
Viktor Talyanov		2:00.38	31

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
Athlete	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Valery Shein	56.33	32	DNF	–	did not advance
Tally Monastyryov	55.71	28	56.09	10 QF	DNS	–	–	–	DNF	–
Vasily Melnikov	53.59	9 QF	–	–	1:16.18	26	1:06.43	25	2:22.61	25

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina	Downhill					2:09.28	40
Galina Sidorova						2:08.32	39
Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova						2:05.19	37
Galina Sidorova	Giant slalom					2:12.98	39
Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova						2:11.06	38
Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina						2:10.11	35
Yevgeniya Kabina-Sidorova	Slalom	52.00	25	1:07.48	28	1:59.48	27
Stalina Demidova-Korzukhina		51.88	24	53.09	17	1:44.97	18
Galina Sidorova		51.72	23	56.54	24	1:48.26	20

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Nikolay Puzanov	1'21:21.5	4	1'29:21.5	10
	Valentin Pshenitsyn	1'22:59.0	2	1'26:59.0	7
	Aleksandr Privalov	1'23:42.5	0	1'23:42.5
	Vladimir Melanin	1'20:26.8	0	1'20:26.8

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Valery Tarakanov	52:58.2	17
	Gennady Vaganov	52:46.8	14
	Igor Voronchikhin	51:53.9	7
	Pavel Kolchin	51:52.0	6
30 km	Gennady Vaganov	1'35:03.1	19
	Ivan Utrobin	1'34:10.4	17
	Bayazit Gizatullin	1'33:33.4	12
	Igor Voronchikhin	1'32:15.8
50 km	Ivan Lyubimov	2'52:28.1	17
	Aleksandr Gubin	2'51:39.7	14
	Bayazit Gizatullin	2'51:02.4	12
	Igor Voronchikhin	2'49:21.7	11

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Voronchikhin Pavel Kolchin	2'18:46.9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Rita Achkina	18:51.1	10
	Yevdokiya Mekshilo	18:16.7	4
	Alevtina Kolchina	18:08.4
	Klavdiya Boyarskikh	17:50.5
10 km	Alevtina Kolchina	41:26.2	7
	Mariya Gusakova	40:46.6
	Yevdokiya Mekshilo	40:26.6
	Klavdiya Boyarskikh	40:24.3

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Alevtina Kolchina Yevdokiya Mekshilo Klavdiya Boyarskikh	59:20.2

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Valery Meshkov	DNS	–	–	–	DNS

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Places	Rank
Tatiana Zhuk Aleksandr Gavrilov	96.6	45	5
Liudmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov	104.4	13

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st–8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th–16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Soviet Union	19–1	Hungary

Medal round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	54	10	14
2	Sweden	7	5	2	47	16	10
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	38	19	10
4	Canada	7	5	2	32	17	10
5	United States	7	2	5	29	33	4
6	Finland	7	2	5	10	31	4
7	Germany	7	2	5	13	49	4
8	Switzerland	7	0	7	9	57	0

USSR 5–1 USA
USSR 7–5 Czechoslovakia
USSR 15–0 Switzerland
USSR 10–0 Finland
USSR 10–0 Germany (UTG)
USSR 4–2 Sweden
USSR 3–2 Canada

	Roster Viktor Konovalenko Boris Zaytsev Vitaly Davydov Eduard Ivanov Aleksandr Ragulin Viktor Kuzkin Konstantin Loktev Aleksandr Almetov Veniamin Aleksandrov Yevgeny Mayorov Vyacheslav Starshinov Boris Mayorov Leonid Volkov Viktor Yakushev Anatoly Firsov Oleg Zaytsev Stanislav Petukhov

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
Nikolay Kiselyov	Individual	70.0	62.0	233.0	3	51:49.1	220.04	8	453.04
Vyacheslav Dryagin		64.5	67.0	216.2	10	52:58.3	206.55	12	422.75	7
Nikolay Gusakov		66.0	69.5	223.4	7	51:19.8	225.96	5	449.36	4

Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Nikolay Shamov	Normal hill	71.5	96.7	70.0	95.4	192.1	36
Nikolay Kamensky		72.0	100.4	73.5	100.7	201.1	21
Pyotr Kovalenko		75.0	101.1	77.5	104.0	205.1	12
Aleksandr Ivannikov		75.0	101.6	73.5	101.7	203.3	17
Nikolay Kamensky	Large hill	79.5	94.3	73.0	89.9	184.2	38
Pyotr Kovalenko		87.0	99.1	81.0	102.3	201.4	20
K'oba Ts'akadze		87.0	99.1	80.5	96.5	195.6	27
Aleksandr Ivannikov		90.0	106.8	83.5	106.5	213.3	6

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Boris Gulyayev	41.7	15
	Rafael Grach	41.4	10
	Vladimir Orlov	40.6
	Yevgeny Grishin	40.6
1500 m	Yevgeny Grishin	2:13.3	11
	Eduard Matusevich	2:12.2	6
	Lev Zaytsev	2:12.1	5
	Ants Antson	2:10.3
5000 m	Muzakhid Khabibulin	7:52.3	10
5000 m	Viktor Kosichkin	7:45.8	4
10000 m	Igor Ostashov	16:45.5	12
	Viktor Kosichkin	16:19.3	6
	Ants Antson	16:08.7	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Tatyana Sidorova	45.5
	Irina Yegorova	45.4
	Lidiya Skoblikova	45.0 OR
1000 m	Valentina Stenina	1:36.0	5
	Irina Yegorova	1:34.3
	Lidiya Skoblikova	1:33.2 OR
1500 m	Valentina Stenina	2:29.9	7
	Berta Kolokoltseva	2:27.1
	Lidiya Skoblikova	2:22.6 OR
3000 m	Klara Nesterova-Guseva	5:22.5	4
	Valentina Stenina	5:18.5
	Lidiya Skoblikova	5:14.9

References

^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

[1] "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

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