Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 481 competitors, 319 men and 162 women, took part in 221 events in 27 sports.[1] Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.
Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | URS |
NOC | Soviet Olympic Committee |
in Seoul | |
Competitors | 481 (319 men, 162 women) in 27 sports |
Flag bearer | Aleksandr Karelin (wrestling) |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Russian Empire (1900–1912) Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–) Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–) Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–) Unified Team (1992) Armenia (1994–) Belarus (1994–) Georgia (1994–) Kazakhstan (1994–) Kyrgyzstan (1994–) Moldova (1994–) Russia (1994–) Ukraine (1994–) Uzbekistan (1994–) Azerbaijan (1996–) Tajikistan (1996–) Turkmenistan (1996–) |
The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. No nation came even close to repeating this result after 1988. Currently, China's 48 gold medals in 2008 and USA's 121 total medals in 2016 are the closest results to USSR's 1988 performance.
Medalists
Gold
- Viktor Bryzhin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov and Vitaliy Savin — Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
- Vyacheslav Ivanenko — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
- Hennadiy Avdyeyenko — Athletics, Men's High Jump
- Sergey Bubka — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
- Sergey Litvinov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Olga Bryzgina — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
- Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres
- Olga Bondarenko — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres
- Olga Bryzgina, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova and Mariya Pinigina — Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m Relay
- Natalya Lisovskaya — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
- Aleksandr Belostennyi, Valdemaras Chomičius, Valery Goborov, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Igors Miglinieks, Viktor Pankrashkin, Arvydas Sabonis, Tiit Sokk, Sergey Tarakanov, Valery Tikhonenko and Alexander Volkov — Basketball, Men's tournament
- Vyacheslav Yanovsky — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
- Ivans Klementjevs — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000 m Canadian Singles
- Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs
- Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs
- Aleksandr Kirichenko — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial
- Gintautas Umaras — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Individual Pursuit
- Arturas Kasputis, Dmitry Nelyubin, Gintautas Umaras and Vyacheslav Ekimov — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit
- Erika Salumäe — Cycling, Women's Cycling Sprint
- Vladimir Aptsiauri, Anvar Ibragimov, Boris Koretsky, Ilgar Mamedov and Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
- Dmitri Kharin, Gela Ketashvili, Igor Sklyarov, Aleksei Cherednik, Arvydas Janonis, Vadim Tishchenko, Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Igor Ponomarev, Aleksandr Borodyuk, Igor Dobrovolsky, Vladimir Lyutyi, Yevgeni Yarovenko, Sergei Fokin, Vladimir Tatarchuk, Aleksei Mikhailichenko, Aleksei Prudnikov, Viktor Losev, Sergei Gorlukovich, Yuri Savichev, Arminas Narbekovas — Football, Men's Team
- Vladimir Artemov — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
- Vladimir Artemov — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
- Valeri Liukin — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
- Vladimir Artemov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Dmitri Bilozertchev — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
- Dmitri Bilozertchev — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Sergei Kharkov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
- Vladimir Artemov, Dmitri Bilozertchev, Vladimir Gogoladze, Sergei Kharkov, Valeri Liukin and Vladimir Nouvikov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises
- Elena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
- Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
- Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Natalia Laschenova, Elena Shevchenko, Elena Shushunova and Olga Strageva — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
- Marina Lobach — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
- Andrei Lavrov, Alexandre Tuchkin, Aleksandr Rymanov, Aleksandr Karshakevich, Yuri Nesterov, Georgi Sviridenko, Andrei Chumentsev, Mikhail Vasiliev, Yuri Shevtsov, Vyacheslav Atavin, Valdemar Novitski, Igor Chumak, Konstantin Sharovarov, Valeri Gopin — Handball, Men's Team
- Irina Shilova — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Rifle
- Nino Salukvadze — Shooting, Women's 25m Pistol
- Afanasi Kuzmine — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
- Dmitri Monakov — Shooting, Mixed Trap
- Vladimir Salnikov — Swimming, Men's 1500m Freestyle
- Igor Polyanski — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
- Valentina Ogienko, Yelena Volkova, Marina Kumysh, Irina Smirnova, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Parkhomchuk, Tatyana Krainova, Olga Shkurnova, Marina Nikulina, Elena Ovchinnikova, Olga Krivosheeva and Svetlana Korytova — Volleyball, Women's team competition
- Aleksandr Kurlovich — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight
- Oksen Mirzoyan — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
- Yuri Zakharevich — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
- Israil Arsamakov — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
- Anatoli Khrapaty — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-heavyweight
- Pavel Kuznetsov — Weightlifting, Men's First-heavyweight
- David Gobedjichvili — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight
- Sergei Beloglazov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
- Arsen Fadzaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight
- Makharbek Khadartsev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-heavyweight
- Aleksandr Karelin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
- Kamandar Madzhidov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
- Levon Julfalakyan — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight
- Mikhail Mamiashvili — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
Silver
- Radion Gataullin — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
- Igor Lapshin — Athletics, Men's triple jump
- Romas Ubartas — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
- Yuri Sedykh — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Laimutė Baikauskaitė — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
- Tatyana Ledovskaya — Athletics, Women's 400 m Hurdles
- Nuramgomed Shanavazov — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
- Michał Śliwiński — Canoeing, Men's C-1 500m
- Viktor Denisov and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
- Viktor Denisov, Sergey Kirsanov, Aleksandr Motuzenko and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours
- Nikolay Kovsh — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)
- Andrey Alshan, Mikhail Burtsev, Sergey Koryazhkin, Sergey Mindirgasov and Georgy Pogosov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
- Valeri Liukin — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
- Valeri Liukin — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Vladimir Artemov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
- Elena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
- Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
- Vladimir Shestakov — Judo, Men's Middleweight
- Veniamin But, Nikolai Komarov, Vasili Tikhanov, Aleksandr Dumchev, Pavlo Hurkovskiy, Viktor Diduk, Viktor Omelyanovich, Andrei Vasiliev, Aleksandr Lukyanov — Rowing, Men's Eight With Coxswain
- Irina Kalimbet, Svitlana Maziy, Inna Frolova, Antonina Dumcheva — Women's Quadruple Sculls Without Coxswain
- Tõnu Tõniste, Toomas Tõniste — Sailing, Men's 470 – Two Person Dinghy
- Nino Salukvadze — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
- Elena Dendeberova — Swimming, Women's 200m Individual Medley
- Gennadi Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev, Vladimir Tkashenko — Swimming, Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
- Yuri Panchenko, Andrei Kuznetsov, Viacheslav Zaitsev, Igor Runov, Vladimir Shkurikhin, Yevgeni Krasilnikov, Raimundas Vilde, Valeri Losev, Yuri Sapega, Oleksandr Sorokalet, Yaroslav Antonov and Yuri Cherednik — Volleyball, Men's team competition
- Israel Militosyan — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
- Nail Mukhamedyarov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-heavyweight
- Stepan Sarkisyan — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight
- Adlan Varaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight
- Leri Khabelov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
- Daulet Turlykhanov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
Bronze
- Vladimir Echeev — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
- Rudolf Povarnitsyn — Athletics, Men's High Jump
- Grigory Yegorov — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
- Aleksandr Kovalenko — Athletics, Men's triple jump
- Jüri Tamm — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Olga Nazarova — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
- Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
- Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova and Marina Zhirova — Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m Relay
- Tamara Bykova — Athletics, Women's High Jump
- Galina Chistyakova — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
- Olesya Barel, Olga Buryakina, Irina Gerlits, Yelena Khudashova, Aleksandra Leonova, Irina Minkh, Galina Savitskaya, Irina Sumnikova, Vitalija Tuomaite, Olga Yakovleva, Olga Yevkova and Natalya Zasulskaya — Basketball, Women's tournament
- Timofey Skryabin — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
- Aleksandr Miroshnichenko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight
- Marat Ganeyev — Cycling, Men's Points Race
- Laima Zilporite — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
- Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
- Andrey Shuvalov — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Pavel Kolobkov, Vladimir Resnitschenko, Andrey Shuvalov, Igor Tikhomirov and Mikhail Tishko — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
- Dmitri Bilozertchev — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
- Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
- Elena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
- Alexandra Timoshenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
- Natalya Mitryuk, Larisa Karlova, Zinaida Turchina, Marina Bazanova, Natalia Morskova, Tatyana Gorb, Elena Nemashkalo, Tatyana Diandigava, Natalya Anisimova, Natalya Lapitskaya, Svetlana Mankova, Yevgeniya Tovstogan, Olga Semenova, Natalya Rusnachenko, Elina Guseva — Handball, Women's Team
- Grigori Verichev — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
- Amiran Totikashvili — Judo, Men's −60 kg
- Georgi Tenadze — Judo, Men's Lightweight
- Bashir Varaev — Judo, Men's Half-middleweight
- Vakhtang Iagorashvili — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
- Aleksandr Marchenko, Vasily Yakusha — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
- Larisa Moskalenko, Irina Shunikovskaya — Sailing, Women's 470 – Two Person Dinghy
- Marina Dobrancheva — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
- Anna Malukhina — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Rifle
- Igor Basinski — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
- Valentina Cherkasova — Shooting, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
- Kirill Ivanov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
- Gennadi Avramenko — Shooting, Men's 50m Running Target
- Igor Polyansky — Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke
- Dmitri Volkov — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke
- Vadim Yaroshchuk — Swimming, Men's 200m Individual Medley
- Igor Polyansky, Dmitri Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk, Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle
- Evgeni Sharonov, Nurlan Mendygaliev, Yevgeny Grishin, Aleksandr Kolotov, Sergei Naoumov, Viktor Berendyuga, Sergei Kotenko, Dmitri Apanassenko, Georgi Mschvenieradze, Mikhail Ivanov, Sergei Markoch, Nikolai Smirnov, Mikhail Giorgadze — Water Polo, Men's Team
- Sergei Karamchakov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-flyweight
- Vladimir Tohuzov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight
- Vladimir Popov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-heavyweight
Archery
Women's Individual Competition:
- Lioudmila Arjannikova – final, 4th place
- T. Mountain – final, 8th place
- N. Boutouzova – quarterfinal, 18th place
Men's Individual Competition:
- Vladimir Echeev – final, bronze medal
- K. Chkolny – 1/8 final, 20th place
- Juri Leontiev – preliminary round, 29th place
Women's tournament:
- Arjannikova, Mountain and Boutouzova – final, 4th place
Men's tournament:
- Echeev, Chkolny and Leontiev – final, 5th place
Athletics
Men's competition
Men's Marathon
- Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)
Men's Long Jump
- Qualification — 7.89m
- Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)
- Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)
- Vladimir Otchkan
- Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)
Men's Discus Throw
- Qualification – 65.58m
- Final – 67.48m (→ Silver medal)
- Qualification – 62.08m
- Final – 66.42m (→ 4th place)
- Qualification – 60.88m (→ did not advance)
Men's Shot Put
- Qualification — 20.48m
- Final — 20.36m (→ 8th place)
Men's Hammer Throw
- Qualification — 81.24m
- Final — 84.80m (→ Gold medal)
- Qualification — 78.48m
- Final — 83.76m (→ Silver medal)
- Qualification — 69.68m
- Final — 81.16m (→ Bronze medal)
Men's Javelin Throw
- Qualification — 79.26m
- Final — 82.32m (→ 5th place)
- Qualification — 80.26m
- Final — 79.12m (→ 7th place)
Men's Decathlon
- Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place)
- 100 metres — 11.23s
- Long Jump — 7.28m
- Shot Put — 15.25m
- High Jump — 1.97m
- 400 metres — 48.60s
- 110m Hurdles — 14.76s
- Discus Throw — 48.02m
- Pole Vault — 5.20m
- Javelin Throw — 59.48m
- 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s
Men's 20 km Walk
- Final — 1:20:47 (→ 6th place)
- Final — 1:22:32 (→ 14th place)
- Final — 1:24:39 (→ 27th place)
Men's 50 km Walk
- Final — 3:38:29 (→ Gold medal)
- Final — 3:41:00 (→ 4th place)
- Final — 3:59:23 (→ 26th place)
Women's competition
Women's 4 × 400 m Relay
- Heat — 3:27.14
- Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold medal)
Women's Marathon
- Final — 2:27.05 (→ 4th place)
- Final — 2:30.25 (→ 9th place)
- Final — 2:33.19 (→ 16th place)
Women's Discus Throw
- Qualification – 63.26m
- Final – 68.94m (→ 5th place)
- Qualification – 64.32m
- Final – 64.08m (→ 10th place)
- Qualification – 62.54m
- Final – NM (→ no ranking)
Women's Javelin Throw
- Qualification – 63.24m
- Final – 67.00m (→ 4th place)
- Qualification – 64.44m
- Final – 64.84m (→ 6th place)
Women's Shot Put
- Qualification – 19.78m
- Final – 22.24m (→ Gold medal)
- Qualification – 19.40m
- Final – 20.13m (→ 7th place)
- Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)
Women's Heptathlon
- Final Result — 6540 points (→ 4th place)
- Final Result — 6456 points (→ 5th place)
- Final Result — 6232 points (→ 10th place)
Basketball
Men's tournament
- Team roster
The following is the Soviet Union roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics.[2]
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- Group play
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 468 | 384 | +84 | 9 | Quarter-finals |
2 | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 1 | 460 | 393 | +67 | 9 | |
3 | Australia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 429 | 408 | +21 | 8 | |
4 | Puerto Rico | 5 | 3 | 2 | 382 | 387 | −5 | 8 | |
5 | Central African Republic | 5 | 1 | 4 | 346 | 436 | −90 | 6 | |
6 | South Korea | 5 | 0 | 5 | 384 | 461 | −77 | 5 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.
- Quarterfinals
26 September 1988 19:30 |
Soviet Union | 110–105 | Brazil |
Scoring by half: 53–58, 57–47 | ||
Pts: Kurtinaitis 24 Rebs: Sabonis 9 Asts: Sabonis, Tarakanov, Volkov 2 |
Pts: Schmidt 46 Rebs: Israel 11 Asts: Maury 5 |
- Semifinals
28 September 1988 12:00 |
United States | 76–82 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 37–47, 39–35 | ||
Pts: Robinson 19 Rebs: Robinson 12 Asts: Coles 2 |
Pts: Kurtinaitis 28 Rebs: Sabonis 13 Asts: Volkov 5 |
- Gold medal match
30 September 1998 |
Yugoslavia | 63–76 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 28–31, 35–45 | ||
Pts: Petrović 24 Rebs: Divac 7 Asts: Petrović 4 |
Pts: Marčiulionis 21 Rebs: Sabonis 15 Asts: Marčiulionis 6 |
Women's tournament
- Team roster
The following is the Soviet Union roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics.[3]
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1 | Australia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 178 | 196 | −18 | 5 | Semifinals |
2 | Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 1 | 208 | 188 | +20 | 5 | |
3 | Bulgaria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 217 | 241 | −24 | 4 | |
4 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 244 | 222 | +22 | 4 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.
19 September 1988 11:45 |
Bulgaria | 62–91 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 26–50, 36–41 | ||
Pts: Dermendzhieva, Staneva 17 Rebs: Staneva 6 Asts: Slavcheva 3 |
Pts: Zasulskaya 23 Rebs: Yakovleva, Zasulskaya 10 Asts: Minkh 4 |
22 September 1988 11:45 |
South Korea | 66–69 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 35–33, 31–36 | ||
Pts: Choi 20 Rebs: Sung 14 |
Pts: Savitskaya 18 Rebs: Savitskaya 6 Asts: Sumnikova 2 |
25 September 1998 21:30 |
Australia | 60–48 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 30–30, 30–18 | ||
Pts: Maher 20 Rebs: Maher 8 Asts: Maher 6 |
Pts: Yakovleva 13 Rebs: 4 players 4 Asts: Minkh 2 |
- Semifinals
27 September 1998 11:45 |
United States | 102–88 | Soviet Union |
Scoring by half: 50–39, 52–49 | ||
Pts: Cooper 27 Rebs: McClain 15 Asts: Edwards 6 |
Pts: Zasulskaya 16 Rebs: Tuomaitė 6 Asts: Yakovleva 2 |
- Bronze medal match
Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0
- Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1
- Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)
Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
Men's Super-Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)
Canoeing
Cycling
Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.
- Laima Zilporytė — 2:00:52 (→ Bronze medal)
- Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
- Alla Jakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)
Diving
Men's 10m Platform
- Preliminary Round — 540.90
- Final — 585.96 (→ 4th place)
- Preliminary Round — 570.75
- Final — 534.66 (→ 8th place)
Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.
Football
Gymnastics
Handball
Hockey
Men's tournament
- Preliminary Round (Group B)
- Soviet Union – India 1–0
- Soviet Union – South Korea 3–1
- Soviet Union – Canada 0–0
- Soviet Union – Great Britain 1–3
- Soviet Union – West Germany 0–6
- Classification Matches
- 5th–8th place: Soviet Union – Pakistan 0–1
- 7th–8th place: Soviet Union – Argentina 4–1 (→ 7th place)
- Team Roster
- (01.) Vladimir Pleshakov (gk)
- (02.) Viktor Deputatov
- (03.) Igor Yulchiev
- (04.) Sos Hayrapetyan
- (05.) Nikolai Sankovetch
- (06.) Vladimir Antakov (captain)
- (07.) Vyacheslav Chechenev
- (08.) Igor Atanov
- (09.) Sergei Chakhvorostov
- (10.) Sergei Pleshakov
- (11.) Mikhail Nechipurenko
- (12.) Alexander Domachev (gk)
- (13.) Igor Davydov
- (14.) Aleksandr Miasnikov
- (15.) Yevgeni Nechaev
- (16.) Mikhail Bukatin
- Head Coach: Leonid Pavlovsky
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1988. Vaho Iagorashvili won a bronze in the individual event.
- Individual
- Team
- Vaho Iagorashvili
- German Yuferov
- Anatoly Avdeyev
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rowing
The Soviet Union had 30 male and 23 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1988.[4]
- Men's competition
- Men's single sculls
- Veniamin But
- Mykola Komarov
- Vasily Tikhonov
- Aleksandr Dumchev
- Pavlo Hurkovskiy
- Viktor Diduk
- Viktor Omelyanovich
- Andrey Vasilyev
- Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)
- Women's competition
- Women's single sculls
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 50 m Freestyle
- Gennadiy Prigoda
- Heat – 22.57
- Final – 22.71 (→ Bronze medal)
- Vladimir Tkachenko
- Heat – 22.81
- Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)
Men's 100 m Freestyle
- Gennadiy Prigoda
- Heat – 50.13
- Final – 49.75 (→ 4th place)
- Yuri Bashkatov
- Heat – 50.08
- Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)
Men's 200 m Freestyle
- Alexei Kouznetsov
- Heat – 1:50.84
- B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)
- Yuri Bashkatov
- Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
Men's 400 m Freestyle
- Alexandre Bazanov
- Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)
Men's 1500 m Freestyle
- Vladimir Salnikov
- Heat – 15:07.83
- Final – 15:00.40 (→ Gold medal)
Men's 100 m Backstroke
- Igor Polyansky
- Heat – 55.04
- Final – 55.20 (→ Bronze medal)
- Serguei Zabolotnov
- Heat – 56.13
- Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)
Men's 200 m Backstroke
- Igor Polyansky
- Heat – 2:01.70
- Final – 1:59.37 (→ Gold medal)
- Serguei Zabolotnov
- Heat – 2:01.27
- Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)
Men's 100 m Breaststroke
- Dmitry Volkov
- Heat – 1:02.49
- Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze medal)
- Alexei Matveev
- Heat – 1:03.25
- B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)
Men's 200 m Breaststroke
- Valeri Lozik
- Heat – 2:16.31
- Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)
- Vadim Alexeev
- Heat – 2:17.15
- B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)
Men's 100 m Butterfly
- Vadim Yaroshchuk
- Heat – 54.17
- Final – 54.60 (→ 8th place)
- Konstantine Petrov
- Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)
Men's 200 m Butterfly
- Vadim Yaroshchuk
- Heat – 2:01.05
- B-Final – 2:00.34 (→ 11th place)
Men's 200 m Individual Medley
- Vadim Yaroshchuk
- Heat – 2:02.77
- Final – 2:02.40 (→ Bronze medal)
- Mikhail Zoubkov
- Heat – 2:03.79
- Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)
Men's 400 m Individual Medley
- Mikhail Zoubkov
- Heat – 4:25.30
- B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
- Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
- Heat – 3:19.89
- Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
- Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver medal)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
- Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev and Aleksei Kouznetsov
- Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)
Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Serguei Zabolotnov, Valeri Lozik, Konstantine Petrov and Nikolai Evseev
- Heat – 3:45.29
- Igor Polyansky, Dmitry Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk and Gennadiy Prigoda
- Final – 3:39.96 (→ Bronze medal)
Women's 50 m Freestyle
- Inna Abramova
- Heat – 26.27
- B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)
Women's 100 m Freestyle
- Natalia Trefilova
- Heat – 56.66
- B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)
- Svetlana Issakova
- Heat – 57.17
- B-Final – 57.07 (→ 15th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle
- Natalia Trefilova
- Heat – 2:00.54
- Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)
Women's 400 m Freestyle
- Natalia Trefilova
- Heat – 4:12.20
- Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)
Women's 800 m Freestyle
- Natalia Trefilova
- Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke
- Yelena Volkova
- Heat – 1:09.86
- Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)
- Svetlana Kouzmina
- Heat – 1:10.83
- B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke
- Yulia Bogatcheva
- Heat – 2:28.94
- Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)
- Svetlana Kouzmina
- Heat – 2:30.93
- B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)
Women's 100 m Butterfly
- Svetlana Koptchikova
- Heat – 1:01.65
- B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)
Women's 200 m Butterfly
- Svetlana Koptchikova
- Heat – 2:15.26
- B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)
Women's 200 m Individual Medley
- Yelena Dendeberova
- Heat – 2:15.30
- Final – 2:13.31 (→ Silver medal)
- Yulia Bogatcheva
- Heat – 2:19.07
- B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)
Women's 400 m Individual Medley
- Yelena Dendeberova
- Heat – 4:46.63
- Final – 4:40.44 (→ 4th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
- Inna Abramova, Svetlana Issakova, Yelena Dendeberova and Svetlana Koptchikova
- Heat – 3:46.28
- Yelena Dendeberova, Svetlana Issakova, Natalia Trefilova and Svetlana Koptchikova
- Final – 3:44.99 (→ 5th place)
Synchronized swimming
Three synchronized swimmers represented the Soviet Union in 1988.
Table tennis
Tennis
Men's Singles Competition
- Alexander Volkov
- First round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (West Germany) 5–7 4–6 3–6
Women's Singles Competition
- Larisa Neiland
- First Round – Bye
- Second Round – Defeated Sara Gomer (Great Britain) 6–7 7–6 9–7
- Third Round – Defeated Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 6–3 7–6
- Quarterfinals – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 2–6 6–4 3–6
- Leila Meskhi
- First Round – Defeated Regina Rajchrtová (Czechoslovakia) 7–5 7–5
- Second Round – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 5–7 1–6
- Natasha Zvereva
- First Round – Bye
- Second Round – Defeated Anne Minter (Australia) 6–4 3–6 6–1
- Third Round – Defeated Tine Scheuer-Larsen (Denmark) 6–1 6–2
- Quarterfinals – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 4–6 3–6
Volleyball
Men's tournament
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Defeated Bulgaria (3–0)
- Defeated Sweden (3–0)
- Defeated South Korea (3–0)
- Defeated Italy (3–1)
- Lost to Brazil (2–3)
- Semi Finals
- Defeated Argentina (3–0)
- Final
- Lost to the United States (1–3) → Silver medal
- Team Roster
- Yuri Panchenko
- Andrei Kuzentsov
- Vyatcheslav Zaytsev
- Igor Runov
- Vladimir Chkourikhine
- Yevgueny Krasilnikov
- Raimond Vilde
- Valery Lossev
- Yuri Sapega
- Oleksandr Sorokalet
- Yaroslav Antonov
- Yuri Tcherednik
- Head Coach: Guennady Parchine
Women's tournament
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Lost to Japan (2–3)
- Defeated South Korea (3–2)
- Defeated East Germany (3–0)
- Semi Finals
- Defeated PR China (3–0)
- Final
- Defeated Peru (3–2) → Gold medal
- Team Roster
- Valentina Ogienko
- Yelena Volkova
- Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko
- Tatyana Sidorenko
- Irina Parkhomchuk-Kirillova
- Olga Shkournova
- Marina Nikulina
- Elena Ovtchnikova
- Olga Krivocheeva
- Svetlana Korytova
- Marina Koumych
- Tatyana Krainova
- Head Coach: Nikolai Karpol
Water polo
Men's tournament
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Drew with Italy (9–9)
- Defeated Australia (11–4)
- Defeated France (14–8)
- Defeated South Korea (17–4)
- Lost to West Germany (8–9)
- Semi Finals
- Lost to United States (7–8)
- Bronze medal match
- Defeated West Germany (14–13) → Bronze medal
- Team Roster
- Evgueni Charonov
- Nourlan Mendygaliev
- Evgeni Grichine
- Alexandre Kolotov
- Sergei Naoumov
- Victor Berendiouga
- Serguei Kotenko
- Dmitri Apanasenko
- Georgui Mchvenieradze
- Mikhail Ivanov
- Serguei Markotch
- Nikolai Smirnov
- Mikhail Giorgadze
- Head Coach: Boris Popov
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Men's freestyle
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- Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight
References
- "Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- "1988 Olympic Games : Tournament for Men". FIBA. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- "1988 Olympic Games : Tournament for Women". FIBA. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2018.