Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Squaw Valley
Competitors	62 (49 men, 13 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Nikolai Sologubov
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 7 Silver 5 Bronze 9 Total 21
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 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Maria Gusakova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Gold	Yevgeny Grishin	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Viktor Kosichkin	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Gold	Klara Nesterova-Guseva	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	Lyubov Baranova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Radya Yeroshina Maria Gusakova Lyubov Baranova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Silver	Viktor Kosichkin	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m
Silver	Natalya Donchenko	Speed skating	Women's 500 m
Silver	Valentina Stenina	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m
Bronze	Aleksandr Privalov	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Bronze	Nikolay Anikin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Bronze	Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Radya Yeroshina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Nikolai Puchkov Yevgeni Yorkin Nikolai Sologubov Yury Baulin Nikolay Karpov Genrikh Sidorenkov Alfred Kuchevsky Veniamin Alexandrov Aleksandr Almetov Konstantin Loktev Mikhail Bychkov Vladimir Grebennikov Yury Tsitsinov Viktor Yakushev Yevgeny Groshev Stanislav Petukhov Viktor Pryazhnikov	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Bronze	Nikolay Gusakov	Nordic combined	Men's individual (15 km)
Bronze	Rafael Grach	Speed skating	Men's 500 m
Bronze	Boris Stenin	Speed skating	Men's 1500 m
Bronze	Tamara Rylova	Speed skating	Women's 1000 m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Stalina Korzukhina	Downhill			1:46.5	19
	Giant slalom			1:45.7	21
	Slalom	58.5	59.9	1:58.4	7
Yevgeniya Kabina	Downhill			1:46.7	20
	Giant slalom			1:50.0	31
	Slalom	1:03.3	1:01.0	2:04.3	18
Lyubov Volkova	Downhill			1:49.2	23
	Giant slalom			1:48.9	30
	Slalom	1:00.8	1:16.5	2:17.3	30

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Aleksandr Privalov	20 km	1:34:54.2	3
Vladimir Melanin	20 km	1:35:42.4	4	4
Valentin Pshenitsyn	20 km	1:36:45.8	3	5
Dmitry Sokolov	20 km	1:38:16.7	5	6

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Total	Rank
Nikolay Anikin	15 km	52:55.0	10
	30 km	1:52:28.2
	50 km	3:10:13.9	13
Aleksandr Gubin	15 km	53:29.1	15
Aleksey Kuznetsov	30 km	1:54:23.9	8
Aleksey Kuznetsov	50 km	3-11:47.0	15
Ivan Lyubimov	50 km	3:25:06.4	18
Pavel Morshchinin	15 km	53:36.6	16
Anatoly Shelyukhin	30 km	1:58:21.3	15
Gennady Vaganov	15 km	52:18.0	4
	30 km	1:52:49.2	4
	50 km	3:05:27.6	7
Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin	Relay 4 x 10 km	2:21:21.6

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Total	Rank
Lyubov Baranova	10 km	40:04.2
Maria Gusakova	10 km	39:46.6
Alevtina Kolchina	10 km	40:12.6	4
Radya Yeroshina	10 km	40:06.0
Radya Yeroshina Maria Gusakova Lyubov Baranova	Relay 3 x 5 km	1:05:02.6

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Points	Places	Rank
Nina Zhuk Stanislav Zhuk	Pairs	72.3	38.6	6
Ludmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov	Pairs	68.6	60.5	9

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Head coach: Anatoli Tarasov

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
GK		Nikolai Puchkov
GK		Yevgeni Yorkin
D		Nikolai Sologubov
D		Yury Baulin
D		Nikolay Karpov
D		Genrikh Sidorenkov
D		Alfred Kuchevsky
F		Veniamin Alexandrov
F		Aleksandr Almetov
F		Konstantin Loktev
F		Mikhail Bychkov
F		Vladimir Grebennikov
F		Yury Tsitsinov
F		Viktor Yakushev
F		Yevgeny Groshev
F		Stanislav Petukhov
F		Viktor Pryazhnikov

Preliminary round

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	PTS
Soviet Union	2	2	0	16	4	4
Germany	2	1	1	4	9	2
Finland	2	0	2	5	12	0

19 February 1960

Soviet Union

8–0
(3–0, 3–0, 2–0)

Germany

Yevgeni Yorkin

Goalies

Michael Hobelsberger

Referees:
Marsh Ryman
Everett Riley

Baulin (Alexandrov) – 1:32	1–0
Pryazhnikov (Petukhov) – 4:01	2–0
Alexandrov – 18:44	3–0
Petukhov (Sologubov) – 22:44	4–0
Groshev (Yakushev) – 31:53	5–0
Almetov (Alexandrov) – 38:16	6–0
Sologubov (Tsitsinov) – 45:19	7–0
Loktev (Alexandrov, Kuchevsky) – 49:06	8–0

16 min

Penalties

20 min

Shots

20 February 1960

Soviet Union

8–4
(2–1, 4–0, 2–3)

Finland

Nikolai Puchkov
Yevgeni Yorkin

Goalies

Esko Niemi

Referees:
Bill MacKenzie
Hugh McLean

Grebennikov (Petukhov, Tsitsinov) – 4:43	1–0
Groshev (Yakushev, Karpov) (PP) – 9:35	2–0
	2–1	18:09 – Lampainen (PP2)
Karpov – 22:36	3–1
Yakushev (Petukhov) – 29:36	4–1
Tsitsinov (Grebennikov, Karpov) – 36:21	5–1
Groshev (Petukhov) – 37:30	6–1
	6–2	43:20 – Pulli
Loktev (Alexandrov) – 44:31	7–2
	7–3	47:15 – Nieminen (Pulli)
Grebennikov (Tsitsinov) (PP) – 56:28	8–3
	8–4	59:42 – Nieminen

26 min

Penalties

8 min

Shots

Final round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
United States	5	5	0	0	29	11	10
Canada	5	4	1	0	31	12	8
Soviet Union	5	2	2	1	24	19	5
Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	0	21	23	4
Sweden	5	1	3	1	19	19	3
Germany	5	0	5	0	5	45	0

22 February 1960
13:00

Soviet Union

8–5
(3–2, 2–1, 3–2)

Czechoslovakia

Nikolai Puchkov

Goalies

Vladimír Nadrchal
Vladimír Dvořáček

Tsitsinov (Bychkov, Sologubov) (PP) – 7:33	1–0
	1–1	14:17 – Bubník
Loktev (Almetov, Alexandrov) – 15:56	2–1
Alexandrov – 18:26	3–1
	3–2	19:44 – Černý
Tsitsinov (Grebennikov) – 25:38	4–2
Loktev (Almetov, Sologubov) – 30:31	5–2
	5–3	35:01 – Pantůček (Potsch, Bubník) (PP)
Alexandrov (Almetov, Loktev) – 41:08	6–3
Petukhov (Yakushev) – 44:28	7–3
	7–4	45:03 – Pantůček (Bubník, Bronislav Danda)
	7–5	50:13 – Pantůček (Bronislav Danda)
Loktev (Grebennikov, Groshev) – 53:09	8–5

14 min

Penalties

8 min

Shots

24 February 1960
15:30

Soviet Union

2–2
(0–0, 0–0, 2–2)

Sweden

Nikolai Puchkov

Goalies

Kjell Svensson

	0–1	42:30 – Nilsson (Lundvall)
Loktev (Groshev, Sologubov) (PP) – 48:07	1–1
Alexandrov (Sologubov) – 51:49	2–1
	2–2	58:32 – Nilsson (Lundvall, Pettersson)

4 min

Penalties

4 min

Shots

25 February 1960
13:00

Soviet Union

7–1
(0–1, 4–0, 3–0)

Germany

Yevgeni Yorkin

Goalies

Michael Hobelsberger

Referees:
Barry Riley
Bill Riley

	0–1	3:17 – Huber
Grebennikov (Tsitsinov) – 27:47	1–1
Tsitsinov (Baulin) – 31:33	2–1
Alexandrov (Kuchevsky, Yakushev) – 33:40	3–1
Petukhov (Kuchevsky) – 34:42	4–1
Tsitsinov (Bychkov) (PP) – 50:41	5–1
Petukhov (Sidorenkov) – 53:24	6–1
Sidorenkov (PP2) – 59:16	7–1

6 min

Penalties

10 min

Shots

27 February 1960
13:30

United States

3–2
(1–2, 1–0, 1–0)

Soviet Union

Jack McCartan

Goalies

Nikolai Puchkov

Referees:
Kurt Hauser
Richard Wagner

Bill Cleary (Bob Cleary) – 4:04	1–0
	1–1	5:03 – Alexandrov (Sologubov)
	1–2	9:37 – Bychkov (Grebennikov)
B. Christian (R. Christian) – 31:01	2–2
B. Christian (Williams, R. Christian) – 54:59	3–2

4 min

Penalties

6 min

Shots

28 February 1960

Canada

8–5
(3–0, 1–3, 4–2)

Soviet Union

Harold Hurley
Don Head

Goalies

Nikolai Puchkov

Referees:
Kurt Hauser
Richard Wagner

Etcher (Attersley) – 7:32	1–0
Sinden (Attersley, Etcher) – 18:12	2–0
Samolenko (Attersley, Sinden) – 18:27	3–0
Rope (Rousseau) – 22:37	4–0
	4–1	25:28 – Almetov (Alexandrov) (PP)
	4–2	25:51 – Alexandrov (Sologubov, Loktev) (PP)
	4–3	29:56 – Grebennikov (Bychkov, Sologubov)
Etcher (Attersley) – 45:33	5–3
Connelly – 46:48	6–3
Martin Connelly, Laufman – 47:53	7–3
	7–4	50:16 – Groshev (Sidorenkov) (PP)
	7–5	55:02 – Pryazhnikov (Groshev, Baulin)
Attersley (Etcher) – 59:52	8–5

12 min

Penalties

6 min

Shots

Bronze

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Leonid Fyodorov	Individual 15 km	202.0	17	1:02:13.1	225.548	15	427.548	16
Nikolay Gusakov	Individual 15 km	212.0	10	58:29.4	240.000	1	452.000
Dmitry Kochkin	Individual 15 km	219.5	2	1:01:32.1	228.194	11	447.694	5
Mikhail Pryakin	Individual 15 km	200.5	21	1:00:25.7	232.452	9	432.952	12

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	First round		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Leonid Fyodorov	Normal hill	97.2	26	95.9	193.1	27
Nikolay Kamenskiy	Normal hill	110.2	3	106.7	216.9	4
Nikolay Shamov	Normal hill	103.2	15	107.4	210.6	10
Koba Zakadze	Normal hill	107.0	7	104.1	211.1	9

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Yury Malyshev	41.2	10
	Gennady Voronin	40.7	5
	Rafael Grach	40.4
	Yevgeny Grishin	40.2 OR
1500 m	Lev Zaytsev	2:22.1	31
	Gennady Voronin	2:14.7	12
	Boris Stenin	2:11.5
	Yevgeny Grishin	2:10.4
5000 m	Oleg Goncharenko	8:06.6	6
	Valery Kotov	8:05.4	5
	Viktor Kosichkin	7:51.3
10000 m	Nikolajs Štelbaums	DSQ	–
	Vladimir Shilykovsky	17:13.9	20
	Viktor Kosichkin	15:49.2

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Klara Nesterova-Guseva	46.8	6
	Tamara Rylova	46.2	4
	Natalya Donchenko	46.0
1000 m	Lidiya Skoblikova	1:35.3	4
	Tamara Rylova	1:34.8
	Klara Nesterova-Guseva	1:34.1
1500 m	Valentina Stenina	2:29.2	5
	Klara Nesterova-Guseva	2:28.7	4
	Lidiya Skoblikova	2:25.2
3000 m	Tamara Rylova	5:30.0	9
	Valentina Stenina	5:16.9
	Lidiya Skoblikova	5:14.3

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.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	7	6	27	40
2	Byelorussian SSR	0	1	0	1
3	Ukrainian SSR	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		7	7	28	42

References

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

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