Russia at the
1994 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Russian Federation
IOC codeRUS
NOCRussian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.roc.ru (in Russian)
in Lillehammer
Competitors113 (75 men, 38 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer Sergei Tchepikov
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
11
Silver
8
Bronze
4
Total
23
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Soviet Union (1956–1988)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

Russia competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. It was the first time the nation had competed at the Winter Olympic Games since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russian athletes had competed as part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Aleksandr Golubev Speed skating Men's 500 metres 14 February
 Gold Lyubov Yegorova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometre classical 15 February
 Gold Ekaterina Gordeeva
Sergei Grinkov		 Figure skating Pairs 15 February
 Gold Lyubov Yegorova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 kilometre freestyle pursuit 17 February
 Gold Svetlana Bazhanova Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 17 February
 Gold Alexei Urmanov Figure skating Men's singles 19 February
 Gold Sergei Tarasov Biathlon Men's individual 20 February
 Gold Nina Gavrilyuk
Larisa Lazutina
Yelena Välbe
Lyubov Yegorova		 Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay 21 February
 Gold Oksana Grishuk
Evgeny Platov		 Figure skating Ice dance 21 February
 Gold Sergei Tchepikov Biathlon Men's sprint 23 February
 Gold Luiza Noskova
Anfisa Reztsova
Natalya Snytina
Nadezhda Talanova		 Biathlon Women's relay 25 February
 Silver Lyubov Yegorova Cross-country skiing Women's 15 kilometre freestyle 13 February
 Silver Sergey Klevchenya Speed skating Men's 500 metres 14 February
 Silver Svetlana Gladisheva Alpine skiing Women's super-G 15 February
 Silver Vladimir Drachev
Valeri Kiriyenko
Sergei Tarasov
Sergei Tchepikov		 Biathlon Men's relay 15 February
 Silver Natalia Mishkutenok
Artur Dmitriev		 Figure skating Pairs 15 February
 Silver Sergey Shupletsov Freestyle skiing Men's moguls 16 February
 Silver Svetlana Fedotkina Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 21 February
 Silver Maya Usova
Alexander Zhulin		 Figure skating Ice dance 21 February
 Bronze Nina Gavrilyuk Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km freestyle 13 February
 Bronze Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova Freestyle skiing Women's moguls 16 February
 Bronze Sergey Klevchenya Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 18 February
 Bronze Sergei Tarasov Biathlon Men's sprint 23 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 2 4 6
Biathlon 5 5 10
Bobsleigh 6 – 6
Cross-country skiing 7 6 13
Figure skating 9 6 15
Freestyle skiing 1 5 6
Ice hockey 23 – 23
Luge 6 2 8
Nordic combined 4 – 4
Short track speed skating 2 4 6
Ski jumping 4 – 4
Speed skating 6 6 12
Total 75 38 113

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Rank
Vasili Bezsmelnitsyn Downhill Disqualified
Super-G 1:36.50 34
Giant slalom DNF did not finish
Combined 1:41.19 DNF did not finish
Andrei Filichkin Downhill 1:48.81 37
Super-G 1:35.26 30
Giant slalom DNF did not finish
Combined 1:39.77 DNF did not finish
Women
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total Rank
Nataliya Buga Super-G 1:26.09 34
Downhill 1:40.93 35
Combined 1:32.01 DNS did not finish
Giant slalom DNF did not finish
Svetlana Gladisheva Super-G 1:22.44 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Downhill 1:38.10 17
Combined 1:29.45 DNF did not finish
Mira Golub Super-G 1:27.23 38
Downhill 1:43.21 38
Combined 1:33.80 DNS did not finish
Varvara Zelenskaya Super-G 1:23.80 21
Downhill 1:37.48 8
Combined 1:29.66 DNS did not finish

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Vladimir Drachev 10 km sprint 28:28.9 1 4
Valeri Kiriyenko 20 km individual 1:01:46.3 3 35
10 km sprint 30:06.2 3 16
Valeriy Medvedtsev 20 km individual 1:00:44.0 3 24
Sergei Tchepikov 20 km individual 59:31.4 5 8
10 km sprint 28:07.0 0 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Sergei Tarasov 20 km individual 57:25.3 3 1st place, gold medalist(s)
10 km sprint 28:27.4 1 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Valeri Kiriyenko
Vladimir Drachev
Sergei Tarasov
Sergei Tchepikov 		4 x 7.5 km relay 1:31:23.6 2 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Athlete Event Final
Time Misses Rank
Lyubov Belyakova 7.5 km sprint 28:37.0 2 42
Luiza Noskova 15 km individual 54:18.2 4 10
7.5 km sprint 28:27.8 5 39
Anfisa Reztsova 15 km individual 56:10.2 8 26
7.5 km sprint 28:09.8 7 32
Natalya Snytina 15 km individual 55:58.7 4 23
Nadezhda Talanova 15 km individual 55:14.0 5 16
7.5 km sprint 27:18.1 2 19
Nadezhda Talanova
Natalya Snytina
Luiza Noskova
Anfisa Reztsova 		4 x 7.5 km relay 1:47:19.5 0 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Rank
Oleg Sukhoruchenko
Andrei Gorokhov 		Two-man 53.88 54.11 54.09 54.01 3:36.09 26
Vladimir Yefimov
Oleg Petrov 		Two-man 54.19 54.21 54.30 54.40 3:37.10 29
Oleg Sukhoruchenko
Aidar Teregulov
Sergei Kruglov
Oleg Petrov 		Four-man 53.15 53.20 53.44 53.39 3:33.18 24

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Final
Total Rank
Igor Badamchin 30 km freestyle 2:12:20.1 14
50 km classical 2:11:52.8 13
Mikhail Botvinov 30 km freestyle 1:14:43.3 4
10 km classical 24:58.9 4
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:01:57.8 5
50 km classical 2:10:18.9 9
Andrey Kirilov 10 km classical 25:41.2 13
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:03:59.7 16
Gennadiy Lazutin 30 km freestyle 1:16:45.9 15
Vladimir Legotin 10 km classical 25:52.6 18
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:04:00.1 17
Alexey Prokurorov 30 km freestyle 1:19:15.3 28
10 km classical 25:55.3 20
15 km freestyle pursuit 1:03:07.8 12
50 km classical 2:11:52.8 13
Aleksandr Vorobyov 50 km classical 2:13:44.5 17
Andrey Kirilov
Alexey Prokurorov
Gennadiy Lazutin
Mikhail Botvinov 		4 x 10 km relay 1:44:29.2 5
Women
Athlete Event Final
Total Rank
Nina Gavrilyuk 15 km freestyle 41:10.4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
5 km classical 15:01.6 11
10 km freestyle pursuit 42:36.9 5
Larisa Lazutina 15 km freestyle 41:57.6 5
5 km classical 14:44.2 6
10 km freestyle pursuit 42:36.6 4
Nataliya Martynova 30 km classical 1:31:59.4 23
Svetlana Nageykina 5 km classical 15:08.5 16
10 km freestyle pursuit 44:31.7 19
30 km classical 1:27:57.2 9
Yelena Välbe 15 km freestyle 42:26.6 6
30 km classical 1:26:57.4 6
Lyubov Yegorova 15 km free 41:03.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
5 km classical 14:08.8 1st place, gold medalist(s)
10 km freestyle pursuit 41:38.1 1st place, gold medalist(s)
30 km classical 1:26:54.8 5
Yelena Välbe
Larisa Lazutina
Nina Gavrilyuk
Lyubov Yegorova 		4 x 5 km relay 57:12.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event CD1 CD2 SP/OD FS/FD Points Rank
Igor Pashkevich Men's 14 15 22.0 15
Oleg Tataurov Men's 5 13 15.5 11
Alexei Urmanov Men's 1 1 1.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Ekaterina Gordeeva
Sergei Grinkov 		Pairs 1 1 1.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Natalia Mishkutenok
Artur Dmitriev 		Pairs 2 2 3.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Evgenia Shishkova
Vadim Naumov 		Pairs 4 4 6.0 4
Oksana Grishuk
Evgeny Platov 		Ice dance 2 1 3 1 3.4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Anjelika Krylova
Vladimir Fedorov 		Ice dance 6 6 6 6 12.0 6
Maya Usova
Alexander Zhulin 		Ice dance 1 2 2 2 3.8 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Qualifying Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Sergey Shupletsov Moguls 26.64 3 Q 26.90 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Athlete Event Qualifying Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Marina Cherkasova Moguls 22.60 13 Q 22.32 14
Lyudmila Dymchenko Moguls 22.47 14 Q 23.12 12
Yelena Korolyova Moguls 22.23 16 Q 22.22 15
Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova Moguls 24.70 3 Q 25.81 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Nataliya Orekhova Aerials 150.40 6 Q 134.92 12

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Pos. No. Player Team
GK 1 Andrei Zuev Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
GK 35 Sergei Abramov Russia Ak Bars Kazan
GK 20 Valery Ivannikov Russia SKA St. Petersburg
D 2 Oleg Davydov Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
D 4 Sergei Sorokin Russia Dynamo Moscow
D 5 Alexander Smirnov Finland TPS
D 3 Sergei Tertyshny Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
D 6 Vladimir Tarasov Russia Lada Togliatti
D 22 Sergei Shendelev Germany EC Hedos München
D 10 Igor Ivanov Russia Krylia Sovetov Moscow
D 26 Oleg Shargorodsky Russia Dynamo Moscow
F 24 Andrei Nikolishin Russia Dynamo Moscow
F 12 Sergei Berezin Russia Khimik Voskresensk
F 19 Aleksandr Vinogradov Russia SKA St. Petersburg
F 14 Valeri Karpov Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
F 21 Dmitri Denisov Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa
F 29 Ravil Gusmanov Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
F 23 Pavel Torgayev Finland TPS
F 9 Alexei Kudashov Canada St. John's Maple Leafs
F 28 Andrei Tarasenko Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
F 16 Igor Varitsky Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk
F 11 Georgi Yevtyukhin Russia Spartak Moscow
F 25 Vyacheslav Bezukladnikov Russia Lada Togliatti
Preliminary round
Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
 Finland 5 5 0 0 25 5 10
 Germany 5 3 2 0 11 14 6
 Czech Republic 5 3 2 0 16 11 6
 Russia 5 3 2 0 20 14 6
 Austria 5 1 4 0 13 28 2
 Norway 5 0 5 0 5 19 0
12 February 1994
17:30		 Norway1–5
(1–2, 0–1, 0–2)		 RussiaGjøvik Olympiske Fjellhall
Attendance: 5 000
0–1Gusmanov
0–2Berezin
Rath1–2
1–3Tarasenko
1–4Karpov
1–5Sorokin
14 February 1994
20:00		 Finland5–0
(1–0, 4–0, 0–0)		 RussiaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 8 751
Lehtinen1–0
Koivu2–0
Alatalo3–0
Ojanen4–0
Kiprusoff5–0
16 February 1994
15:30		 Russia9–1
(1–0, 7–1, 1–0)		 AustriaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 6 500
Berezin1–0
Varitsky2–0
Vinogradov3–0
Smirnov4–0
Davydov5–0
Denisov6–0
Vinogradov7–0
Denisov8–0
8–1Burton
Gusmanov9–1
18 February 1994
15:00		 Germany4–2
(2–0, 1–1, 1–1)		 RussiaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 8 600
Truntschka1–0
Truntschka2–0
Stefan3–0
3–1Torgayev
3–2Kudashov
Kummer4–2
20 February 1994
15:00		 Russia4–3
(2–2, 2–0, 0–1)		 Czech RepublicHåkons Hall
Attendance: 9 200
Andrei ZuyevGoaliesPetr Bříza
Karpov1–0
Denisov2–0
2–1Hrbek
2–2Alinc
Nikolishin3–2
Karpov4–2
4–3Vykoukal
Play-off
Quarterfinal
23 February 1994
21:00		 Slovakia2–3
(2–1, 0–1, 0–0, 0–1)		 RussiaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 6 000
Eduard HartmanGoaliesAndrei Zuyev
Šťastný1–0
1–1Torgayev
Šatan2–1
2–2Nikolishin
2–3Vinogradov
Semifinal
25 February 1994
22:00		 Sweden4–3
(2–1, 1–0, 1–2)		 RussiaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 8 528
Tommy SaloGoaliesAndrei Zuyev
Svensson1–0
Juhlin2–0
2–1Tarasenko
Bergqvist3–1
Juhlin4–1
4–2Berezin
4–3Gusmanov
Bronze medal match
26 February 1994
21:00		 Finland4–0
(2–0, 2–0, 0–0)		 RussiaHåkons Hall
Attendance: 10 000
Palo1–0
Alatalo2–0
Peltonen3–0
Strömberg4–0

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Final
Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Rank
Eduard Burmistrov Men's singles 51.102 51.351 50.877 51.063 3:24.393 14
Sergey Danilin Men's singles 50.767 50.973 50.665 50.856 3:23.261 11
Albert Demtschenko Men's singles 50.601 50.863 50.633 50.530 3:22.627 9
Irina Gubkina Women's singles 49.167 49.231 49.376 49.424 3:17.198 7
Olga Novikova Women's singles 49.860 50.044 49.842 50.231 3:19.977 18
Anatoli Bobkov
Gennadi Belyakov 		Doubles 49.296 49.384 1:38.680 15
Albert Demtschenko
Aleksei Zelensky 		Doubles 48.655 48.822 1:37.477 7

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Ski jumping Cross-country
Points Rank Deficit Time Rank
Dmitri Dubrovsky Individual 15 km 139.0 53 12:00 52:27.6
+13:19.7 		47
Stanislav Dubrovsky Individual 15 km 162.0 49 9:26 51:37.0
+12:29.1 		45
Valery Kobelev Individual 15 km 180.0 38 7:26 53:12.5
+14:04.6 		48
Valeri Stolyarov Individual 15 km 174.5 40 8:03 49:54.2
+10:46.3 		43
Valery Kobelev
Stanislav Dubrovsky
Valeri Stolyarov 		3 x 10 km relay 503.0 12 19:12 1:49:55.0
+27:03.2 		12

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Sergei Kobozev 500 m 44.54 3 did not advance 17
1000 m 1:33.07 3 did not advance 20
Igor Ozerov 500 m 45.48 3 did not advance 20
1000 m 1:44.38 4 did not advance 30
Women
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Marina Pylayeva 500 m 47.47 2 Q Disqualification did not advance 16
1000 m 1:44.38 1 Q 1:42.15 4 did not advance 12
Yelena Tikhanina 500 m 47.79 3 did not advance 17
1000 m 1:53.92 3 did not advance 24
Viktoriya Troytskaya 500 m 48.59 3 did not advance 20
1000 m 1:59.84 4 did not advance 29
Yekaterina Mikhaylova
Marina Pylayeva
Yelena Tikhanina
Viktoriya Troytskaya 		3000 m relay 4:33.47 3 4:34.60 Final B
5

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event First round Final
Points Rank Points Total Rank
Dmitri Chelovenko Large hill 45.4 48 41.0 86.4 49
Normal hill 66.0 57 70.5 136.5 54
Stanislav Pokhilko Large hill 54.5 44 54.9 109.4 44
Normal hill 93.5 44 80.5 174.0 41
Aleksei Solodyankin Large hill 26.1 55 32.1 58.2 57
Normal hill 81.0 54 87.0 168.0 45
Mikhail Yesin Large hill 65.4 41 46.9 112.3 42
Normal hill 87.0 50 Disqualified
Aleksei Solodyankin
Dmitri Chelovenko
Stanislav Pokhilko
Mikhail Yesin 		Team 198.0 12 218.3 416.3 12

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Time Rank
Andrey Anufriyenko 5000 m 6:53.23 11
1500 m 1:53.16 5
10000 m 14:18.42 12
Andrei Bakhvalov 500 m 37.24 16
1000 m 1:15.36 26
Aleksandr Golubev 500 m 36.33 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1000 m 1:14.78 17
Sergey Klevchenya 500 m 36.39 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1000 m 1:12.85 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Oleg Pavlov 5000 m 7:07.09 31
1500 m 1:54.90 16
Mikhail Vostroknutov 500 m 37.15 15
1000 m did not finish
Women
Athlete Event Time Rank
Svetlana Bazhanova 3000 m 4:17.43 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1500 m 2:03.99 6
5000 m 7:22.68 5
Svetlana Boyarkina 500 m 40.17 7
1000 m 1:22.44 24
Svetlana Fedotkina 500 m 41.05 20
1500 m 2:02.69 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1000 m 1:20.89 11
Nataliya Polozkova 500 m 41.06 22
1500 m 2:04.00 7
1000 m 1:20.84 10
Oksana Ravilova 500 m 40.72 17
1500 m 2:08.65 25
1000 m 1:20.82 9
Tatyana Trapeznikova 3000 m 4:27.82 12
5000 m 7:40.55 13

References

  1. ^ Russian Federation at the 1994 Winter Olympics

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