Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year
Since a certain time until 1991 in the end of each year the held an inquest among its members to name top ten athletes of the year of the USSR. Here is a list of them.
List[]
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1971[]
- Vasily Alexeyev (Athlete of the Year)
- Yevgeniy Arzhanov
- Valeriy Borzov
- Alexander Medved
- Faina Melnik
- Boris Onishchenko
- Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov
- Irina Rodnina and Aleksei Ulanov
- Nina Statkevich
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
1972[]
Alphabetical order.
- Mykola Avilov
- Vasily Alexeyev
- Valeriy Borzov
- Lyudmila Bragina
- Olga Korbut
- Galina Kulakova
- Alexander Medved
- Viktor Saneyev
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Vyacheslav Vedenin
1973[]
- Irina Rodnina (Athlete of the Year)
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Faina Melnik
- Galina Shugurova
- Nadezhda Chizhova
- Valeri Kharlamov
- Pavel Pervushin (weightlifting)
- Levan Tediashvili
- Pavel Lednev
- Anatoly Karpov
1975[]
- Tatyana Averina
- Sergei Belov
- Oleg Blokhin
- Irina Kalinina
- Anatoly Karpov
- Yevgeny Kulikov
- Pavel Lednev
- Zebinisso Rustamova
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Alexander Yakushev
1979[]
Ordered by number of points:
- Boris Mikhailov (Athlete of the Year)
- Vladimir Salnikov
- Yurik Vardanyan
- Anatoly Karpov
- Alexander Dityatin
- Natalya Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov
- Sergei Sukhoruchenkov
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva
- Galina Kulakova
- Nellie Kim
1983[]
- Tamara Bykova (Athlete of the Year)
- Dmitry Bilozerchev
- Vladimir Salnikov
- Garry Kasparov
- Natalia Yurchenko
- Yurik Vardanyan
- Vladislav Tretyak
- Anatoly Starostin
- Fyodor Cherenkov
- Sergei Litvinov
1984[]
Announced on December 28, 1984.
- Sergey Bubka (Athlete of the Year)
- Yurik Vardanyan
- Yuri Sedykh
- Oleg Bozhev
- Anatoly Beloglazov (wrestling)
- Sergei Zabolotnov
- Nikolay Zimyatov
- Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev
- Sergei Kopylov
- Olga Mostepanova
1986[]
Announced on December 27, 1986.
- Sergey Bubka (Athlete of the Year)
- Igor Belanov
- Igor Zhelezovski
- Yury Zakharevich
- Garry Kasparov
- Igor Polyansky
- Arvydas Sabonis
- Yuri Sedykh
- Marina Stepanova
- Andrei Chesnokov
1988[]
Ordered by number of points:[1]
- Vladimir Salnikov (Athlete of the Year)
- Sergey Bubka
- Arvydas Sabonis
- Vladimir Artemov
- Yuri Zakharevich
- Yelena Shushunova
- Alexei Mikhailichenko
- Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh
- Tamara Tikhonova
- Gintautas Umaras
1989[]
Ordered by number of points:[2]
- Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
- Elena Välbe
- Fyodor Cherenkov
- Igor Korobchinsky
- Svetlana Boguinskaya
- Radion Gataullin
- Alexandra Timoshenko
- Igor Zhelezovski
- Israel Akopkokhyan (boxing)
- Alexander Karelin
1990[]
Ordered by number of points:[3]
- Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
- Elena Välbe
- Andrei Cherkasov
- Sergei Yuran
- Anatoly Khrapaty
- Jüri Jaanson
- Radion Gataullin
- Alexander Karelin
- Svetlana Boginskaya
- Andrey Kurnyavka (boxing)
References[]
- ^ "The country is proud of them - the world knows them". Sovetsky Sport (in Russian). 1988-12-27.
- ^ "Top 10 in 1989". Sovetsky Sport (in Russian). 1989-12-29.
- ^ "Top ten in 1990". Sovetsky Sport (in Russian). 1990-12-29.
- Panorama of the 1971 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1972.
- Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1973.
- Panorama of the 1973 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1974.
- Panorama of the 1975 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1976.
- Panorama of the 1979 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1980.
- Panorama of the 1983 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1984.
- Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1985.
- Panorama of the 1986 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1987.
Further reading[]
- Evelyn Mertin, Presenting Heroes. Athletes as Role Models for the New Soviet Person. In: The International Journal of the History of Sport 26(3)(Regional Issue: Europe, Regional Academic Editor: Thierry Terret), 2009, pp. 469–483.
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