Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

Unified Team at the
1992 Winter Paralympics
IPC codeEUN
in Tignes-Albertville
Competitors21
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
10
Silver
8
Bronze
3
Total
21
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Soviet Union (1988)
 Estonia (1992–pres.)
 Latvia (1994–pres.)
 Lithuania (1994–pres.)
 Belarus (1994–pres.)
 Kazakhstan (1994–pres.)
 Russia (1994–2014)
 Armenia (1998–pres.)
 Ukraine (1998–pres.)
 Kyrgyzstan (2014–pres.)
 Uzbekistan (2014–pres.)
 Georgia (2018–pres.)
 Tajikistan (2018–pres.)
 Neutral Paralympic Athletes (2018)

Unified Team competed at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes/Albertville, France. 21 competitors from Unified Team, 16 men and 5 women, won 21 medals including 10 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze and finished 3rd in the medal table, behind the United States and a reunified Germany.[1]

The team was led by Nikolai Ilioutchenko.[2]

At these Paralympic Games, only alpine and Nordic skiing (biathlon and cross-country skiing) competitions were held, as venues could not be made available for ice sports.[2]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 GoldBoris Bogdanov[3]BiathlonMen's 7.5 kilometres B1
 GoldValeri KupchinskiCross-country skiingMen's 10 kilometres - short distance B1
 GoldValeri KupchinskiCross-country skiingMen's 30 kilometres - short distance B1
 GoldNikolai IlioutchenkoCross-country skiingMen's 10 kilometres - short distance B3
 GoldNikolai IlioutchenkoCross-country skiingMen's 30 kilometres - short distance B3
 GoldNikolai Ilioutchenko
Valeri Kupchinski
Sergei Lozhkin
Cross-country skiingMen's 3 × 5 kilometres relay B1-3
 GoldOlga NazarenkoCross-country skiingWomen's 5 kilometres - short distance B1
 GoldAlevtina ElessinaCross-country skiingWomen's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
 GoldLioubov PaninykhCross-country skiingWomen's 10 km - long distance B1
 GoldNadejda TchirkovaCross-country skiingWomen's 10 km - long distance B2-3
 SilverBoris BogdanovCross-country skiingMen's 10 km - short distance B1
 SilverBoris BogdanovCross-country skiingMen's 30 km - long distance B1
 SilverVladimir KolesnikovCross-country skiingMen's 10 km - short distance B2
 SilverVladimir KolesnikovCross-country skiingMen's 30 km - long distance B2
 SilverSergei LozhkinCross-country skiingMen's 30 km - short distance B3
 SilverNadejda TchirkovaCross-country skiingWomen's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
 SilverOlga NazarenkoCross-country skiingWomen's 10 km - long distance B1
 SilverAlevtina ElessinaCross-country skiingWomen's 10 km - long distance B2-3
 BronzeLev SeleznevCross-country skiingMen's 10 km - short distance B2
 BronzeLev SeleznevCross-country skiingMen's 30 km - long distance B2
 BronzeAndrei VenediktovCross-country skiingMen's 30 km - long distance B3

Athletes

Athletes competing for the Unified team at the 1992 Summer and 1992 Winter Paralympic Games.[4]

Men
  • Alpine skiing
    • Alexey Bargojakov
    • Ivan Chaprygin
    • Oleg Krasavin
    • Alexei Moshkine
    • Oleg Vasiljev
  • Biathlon
    • Artiom Afanasiev
    • Boris Bogdanov
    • Nikolai Ilioutchenko
    • Vladimir Kolesnikov
    • Sergei Lozhkin
    • Lev Seleznev
    • Andrei Venediktov
  • Cross-country skiing
    • Artiom Afanasiev
    • Boris Bogdanov
    • Nikolai Ilioutchenko
    • Vasily Koczekin
    • Vladimir Kolesnikov
    • Valeri Kupchinski
    • Sergei Lozhkin
    • Vasily Petrochuk
    • Igor Pustovit
    • Lev Seleznev
    • Andrei Venediktov
Women

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Results Archive - Tignes Albertville 1992". paralympic.org. IPC. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  2. 1 2 "About Tignes-Albertville 1992". paralympic.org. IPC. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  3. ↑ "Factbox: Paralympic biathlon". tass.com. TASS. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  4. ↑ Athlete Search Results, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)