The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of eleven former constituent republics of the Soviet UnionTigns-Alvertville 1992 , Canadian Paralympic Committee (excluding Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, and Lithuania) at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Albertville1992 winter paralympics participants and the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona.Barcelona Paralympics participation The IOC country code was EUN, after the French name, Équipe Unifiée.
The Paralympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Paralympic Hymn was played for gold medallists. Unlike the Unified Team at the Olympics, the Summer Paralympic team paraded in the opening ceremony with no special procedure (no placard displayed the names of the individual countries, the announcers did not announce the names of the individual countries, and the athletes did not carry flags of the individual countries).
Details For details of the Unified Team's participation, see: Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Participating countries + The Unified Team's participating countries in the Summer games and the IOC codes used by them in subsequent Paralympics Country (formerSoviet republic) IOC code(1994–) ARM AZE Belarus BLR KAZ KGZ MDA Russia RUS Tajikistan TJK Turkmenistan TKM UKR UZB
Performance The Unified Team finished third to the United States and Germany in the overall medal tally at Albertville with 10 golds, 8 silvers, and 3 bronzes; 21 medals in total The team finished eighth at Barcelona with 16 golds, 14 silvers, and 15 bronzes; 45 medals in total (Note, however, that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) does not officially recognise national medal totals.)
Athletes Athletes competing for the Unified team at the 1992 Summer and 1992 Winter Paralympic Games.Athlete Search Results, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
Summer Games Men
Archery Stepan Bugaychuk Dmitri Nikolsky Konstantine Shumkov Athletics Oleg Chepel Victor Khilmonchik Sergei Khodakov Aleksei Lashmanov Andrei Makarov Sergey Okulov Vladimir Potapenko Sergei Sevastianov Sergey Shilov Sergey Silchenco Yurij Zubrilov Cycling Alexandre Pytko Nikolai Timofeev Goalball Vladimir Berejetski Nikolai Lednev Alexandre Litvinov Alexei Pavlyguine Nikolai Perejoguine Alexandre Toupiline Judo Akhmed Gazimagomedov Vladimir Kazakov Veniamin Mitchourine Mikhail Yakovlev Powerlifting Vladimir Larionov Roman Omurbekov Swimming Albert Bakaev Vladimir Chesnov Aleksei Kapoura Vitaly Khutornoy Vitalii Krylov Juri Likorovsky Nikolay Ponamarev Nikolay Rogozhin Vladimir Vshivtsev Table Tennis Vladimir Polkanov Valery Vishnjakov Sergey Zuev Volleyball Gadji Abakarov Igor Bondar A. Gontcharenko Victor Krasnov Alexander Kukatov Murad Makhanov Radjab Mamaev Vladimir Maysak Petr Ostrinsky Iouri Soubbota Peter Zubov
Women
Archery Tatiana Grishko Athletics Rimma Batalova Olga Churkina Irina Leontiouk Ljubov Malakhova Olga Nazarenko Tamara Pankova Tamara Sivakova Raisa Zhuravleva Swimming Olga Melnikova Natalia Parshina
Winter Games Men
Alpine skiing Alexey Bargojakov Ivan Chaprygin Oleg Krasavin Alexei Moshkine Oleg Vasiljev Biathlon Artiom Afanasiev Boris Bogdanov Nikolai Ilioutchenko Vladimir Kolesnikov Sergei Lozhkin Lev Seleznev Andrei Venediktov Cross-country skiing Artiom Afanasiev Boris Bogdanov Nikolai Ilioutchenko Vasily Koczekin Vladimir Kolesnikov Valeriy Kupchinski Sergei Lozhkin Vasily Petrochuk Igor Pustovit Lev Seleznev Andrei Venediktov
Women
Alpine skiing Zinaida Emlina Cross-country skiing Nadezhda Chirkova Alevitina Elesina Olga Nazarenko Lubov Paninykii
See also Unified Team at the Olympics Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Korean Unification Flag CIS national football team
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