Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1960 Winter Olympics
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; ; 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); Individual Neutral Athletes (2026)

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

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

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

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

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

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

32

Shots

18

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

41

Shots

36

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

43

Shots

37

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

34

Shots

28

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

37

Shots

13

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

34

Shots

29

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

47

Shots

33

Bronze

Nordic combined

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

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

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.

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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Nations at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States
Africa	South Africa
America	Argentina Canada Chile United States
Asia	Japan South Korea Lebanon
Europe	Austria Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

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