Soviet Union at the Paralympics
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics competed for the only time at the Summer Paralympic Games in 1988. The country also competed for the only time at the Winter Paralympic Games that same year.[1]
Soviet athletes won 21 gold medals, 20 silver and 15 bronze at the Summer Games, as well as two bronze medals at the Winter Games.[2] The USSR's most successful Paralympian was Vadim Kalmykov, with four gold medals in track and field.[3]
The only athlete to win a Paralympic medal for the USSR at the Winter Games was Valentina Grigoryeva, who won two bronze medals in cross-country skiing.[4]
Medalists[]
Summer Games[]
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | Athletics | Men's 100m B1 | |
Gold | Athletics | Men's 100m B2 | |
Gold | Athletics | Men's 400m B1 | |
Gold | Vadim Kalmykov | Athletics | Men's high jump B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Men's high jump B3 | |
Gold | Vadim Kalmykov | Athletics | Men's long jump B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Men's long jump B3 | |
Gold | Vadim Kalmykov | Athletics | Men's triple jump B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Men's javelin throw B1 | |
Gold | Athletics | Men's javelin throw B2 | |
Gold | Athletics | Men's pentathlon B1 | |
Gold | Vadim Kalmykov | Athletics | Men's pentathlon B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Men's pentathlon B3 | |
Gold | Athletics | Women's 100m B2 | |
Gold | Athletics | Women's 400m B1 | |
Gold | Rima Batalova | Athletics | Women's 400m B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Women's 800m B1 | |
Gold | Rima Batalova | Athletics | Women's 800m B2 |
Gold | Athletics | Women's 1500m B1 | |
Gold | Athletics | Women's long jump B2 | |
Gold | Athletics | Women's pentathlon B2 | |
Silver | Sergei Sevastianov | Athletics | Men's 100m B1 |
Silver | Athletics | Men's 800m B2 | |
Silver | Athletics | Men's 800m B3 | |
Silver | Athletics | Men's 1500m B3 | |
Silver | Sergei Sevastianov | Athletics | Men's triple jump B1 |
Silver | Sergei Sevastianov | Athletics | Men's pentathlon B1 |
Silver | Athletics | Men's pentathlon B2 | |
Silver | Athletics | Women's 800m B3 | |
Silver | Athletics | Women's discus throw B2 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle B1 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 100m freestyle B1 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 100m backstroke B1 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke B2 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 200m breaststroke B1 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 200m breaststroke B2 | |
Silver | Swimming | Men's 200m individual medley B1 | |
Silver | Men's relay team | Swimming | Men's 4x100m freestyle relay B1-B3 |
Silver | Men's relay team | Swimming | Men's 4x100m medley relay B1-B3 |
Silver | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle B3 | |
Silver | Swimming | Women's 50m breaststroke B2 | |
Bronze | Athletics | Men's 400m B2 | |
Bronze | Athletics | Men's 5000m B2 | |
Bronze | Athletics | Men's long jump B1 | |
Bronze | Athletics | Men's javelin throw B3 | |
Bronze | Rima Batalova | Athletics | Women's 100m B2 |
Bronze | Athletics | Women's 400m B3 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle B2 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Men's 400m freestyle B1 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke B1 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle B2 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle B2 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle B3 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 100m breaststroke B2 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 200m breaststroke B2 | |
Bronze | Swimming | Women's 400m individual medley B2 |
Winter Games[]
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Bronze | Valentina Grigoryeva | Cross-country skiing | Women's B1 5km |
Bronze | Valentina Grigoryeva | Cross-country skiing | Women's B1 10km |
See also[]
- Soviet Union at the Olympics
References[]
- ^ Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
- ^ Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
- ^ Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
- ^ Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
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