The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
During the games, the Soviet Union won 13 gold medals, the most any country won at a single Winter Olympics. Norway tied this record during the Salt Lake City games, and Canada broke it with 14 when they hosted the Vancouver games.
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Biathlon Men's 20 km Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay Figure skating Pairs Figure skating Ice dancing Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team Ice hockey Men's competition Speed skating Men's 500m Speed skating Women's 1000m Speed skating Women's 1500m Speed skating Women's 3000m Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km Figure skating Men's singles Figure skating Ice dancing Speed skating Men's 500m Speed skating Men's 1500m Biathlon Men's 20 km Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km Cross-country skiing Men's 4 × 10 km relay Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km Speed skating Men's 1000m Speed skating Women's 500m Speed skating Women's 1500m
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankVladimir AndreyevDownhill1:53.6144Vladimir AndreyevGiant SlalomDNF–––DNF–Vladimir AndreyevSlalom1:07.01311:10.55262:17.5625
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankAlla AskarovaDownhill1:53.1928Alla AskarovaGiant Slalom1:36.8632Alla AskarovaSlalomDNF–––DNF–
Biathlon
Men EventAthleteTimePenaltiesAdjusted time 1Rank20 kmAleksandr Tikhonov1'10:18.3371'17:18.335Aleksandr Elizarov1'13:05.5731'16:05.57Nikolay Kruglov1'12:12.2621'14:12.26
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay AthletesRaceMisses 2TimeRankAleksandr ElizarovIvan BiakovNikolay KruglovAleksandr Tikhonov01'57:55.64
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank15 kmYury Skobov46:16.2716Ivan Garanin44:41.984Yevgeny Belyayev44:01.10Nikolay Bazhukov43:58.4730 kmVasily Rochev1'32:39.4210Nikolay Bazhukov1'31:33.145Ivan Garanin1'31:09.29Sergey Savelyev1'30:29.3850 kmYevgeny Belyayev2'54:00.5538Sergey Savelyev2'46:01.3621Vasily Rochev2'44:31.2312Ivan Garanin2'40:38.944
Men's 4 × 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankYevgeny BelyayevNikolay BazhukovSergey SavelyevIvan Garanin2'10:51.46
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank5 kmGalina KulakovaDSQ (doping)–Zinaida Amosova16:33.786Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova16:12.82Raisa Smetanina15:49.7310 kmZinaida Amosova31:11.236Nina Baldycheva-Fyodorova30:52.584Galina Kulakova30:38.61Raisa Smetanina30:13.41
Women's 4 × 5 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankNina Baldycheva-FyodorovaZinaida AmosovaRaisa SmetaninaGalina Kulakova1'07:49.75
Figure skating
Men AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank Yuri Ovchinnikov1287180.04758 Sergei Volkov159184.08535 Vladimir Kovalev364187.6428
Women AthleteCFSPFSPointsPlacesRank Elena Vodorezova18135175.5810412
Pairs AthletesSPFSPointsPlacesRank Marina LeonidovaVladimir Bogolyubov99127.06769 Irina VorobievaAlexander Vlasov35134.52354 Irina RodninaAlexander Zaitsev11140.549
Ice Dancing AthletesCDFDPointsPlacesRank Natalia LinichukGennadi Karponossov44199.10354 Irina MoiseevaAndrei Minenkov22204.8820 Liudmila PakhomovaAlexander Gorshkov11209.929
Ice hockey
First round Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.
Medal round RankPldWLTGFGAPts1 55004011102532017106352302124445230191845523015214651409372
USSR 6-2 USA USSR 16-1 Poland USSR 7-3 West Germany USSR 7-2 Finland USSR 4-3 Czechoslovakia
Gold:Vladislav Tretiak Aleksandr Sidelnikov Aleksandr Gusev Vladimir Lutchenko Sergei Babinov Yury Lyapkin Gennadiy Tsygankov Sergey Kapustin Aleksandr Maltsev Boris Aleksandrov Boris Mikhailov Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Petrov Valeri Kharlamov Vladimir Shadrin Valeri Vasiliev Viktor Shalimov Viktor Zhluktov
Luge
Men AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankAigars Krikis54.2431653.4151153.2731553.764173:34.69513Vladimir Shitov53.4851153.025952.9271053.133113:32.57010Dainis Bremze52.984952.567852.364952.66193:30.5768
(Men's) Doubles AthletesRun 1Run 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankDainis BremzeAigars Krikis43.667843.74081:27.4078Rolands UpatnieksValdis Ķuzis43.732943.82591:27.5579
Women AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankVera Zozuļa44.1791442.973842.651642.85832:52.6619
Nordic combined
Events: normal hill ski jumping 15 km cross-country skiing
AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotalDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankTimePointsRankPointsRankAleksey BaranovIndividual69.070.0185.72351:58.45184.4721370.1723Nikolay Nogovitsyn72.074.0196.11649:05.97210.343406.446Valeriy Kopayev71.575.0202.9949:53.26203.248406.147
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRankSergey SaychikNormal hill74.0105.276.0108.4213.625Yury Kalinin74.5105.579.0113.2218.722Aleksey Borovitin77.5111.378.0113.6224.915Aleksandr Karapuzov78.0112.679.0114.2226.812Yury KalininLarge hill85.094.080.087.5181.524Aleksey Borovitin85.095.582.592.0187.519Sergey Saychik90.0101.587.598.5200.011Aleksandr Karapuzov91.0104.981.588.6193.515
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mAndrey Malikov40.098Valery Muratov39.25Yevgeny Kulikov39.17 OR1000 mAndrey Malikov1:27.5729Aleksandr Safronov1:20.844Valery Muratov1:20.571500 mSergey Marchuk2:04.6513Sergey Ryabev2:02.154Yury Kondakov1:59.975000 mSergey Marchuk7:51.3714Vladimir Ivanov7:37.737Viktor Varlamov7:30.97410,000 mVladimir Ivanov16:16.2015Sergey Marchuk15:43.8111Viktor Varlamov15:06.064
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mLyubov Sadchikova43.806Vera Krasnova43.235Tatyana Averina-Barabash43.171000 mTatyana Shelekhova1:32.0815Lyudmila Titova1:30.067Tatyana Averina-Barabash1:28.43 OR1500 mNina Statkevich2:22.5915Tatyana Averina-Barabash2:17.96Galina Stepanskaya2:16.58 OR3000 mTatyana Shelekhova4:54.0314Nina Statkevich4:53.9413Tatyana Averina-Barabash4:45.19 OR
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.
Notes
References Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com