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Unified Team at the
1992 Winter Olympics
The team competed under the Olympic flag
IOC codeEUN
in Albertville, France
Competitors129 (86 men, 43 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer Valeriy Medvedtsev (biathlon)
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
9
Silver
6
Bronze
8
Total
23
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Estonia (1928–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1928, 1992–)
 Soviet Union (1956–1988)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2014)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1998–)
 Tajikistan (2002–)
 Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018)
 ROC (2022)

The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics (Russian: Объединенная команда на Зимних Олимпийских играх 1992) in Albertville was a joint team consisting of five of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan that made a decision to collaborate and created a united team.[1] The Unified Team's only other appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. It competed under the IOC country code EUN (from the French Equipe Unifiée).

The team finished second in the medal rankings, narrowly losing to a re-unified Germany.

Members

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Medals by winter sport

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SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
 Cross-country skiing3249
 Figure skating3115
 Biathlon2226
 Ice hockey1001
 Freestyle skiing0101
 Short track speed skating0011
Totals (6 entries)96823

Medalists

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The Unified Team finished second to Germany both in the gold and overall medal tally with 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals for a total of 23 medals.

Medal Name Nationality Sport Event
 Gold Yevgeniy Redkin  Belarus[2][3] Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Gold Anfisa Reztsova  Russia Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint
 Gold Lyubov Yegorova  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
 Gold Lyubov Yegorova  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical)
 Gold Yelena Välbe
Raisa Smetanina
Larisa Lazutina
Lyubov Yegorova
 Russia (all) Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay
 Gold Viktor Petrenko  Ukraine Figure skating Men's singles
 Gold Natalia Mishkutenok
Artur Dmitriev
 Russia Figure skating Pairs
 Gold Marina Klimova
Sergei Ponomarenko
 Russia Figure skating Ice dancing
 Gold Unified team men's national ice hockey team
 Russia (all except
Kasparaitis and Zhitnik)
Ice hockey Men's competition
 Silver Svetlana Petcherskaia  Russia Biathlon Women's 15 km
 Silver Valeriy Medvedtsev
Alexandr Popov
Valeri Kiriyenko
Sergei Tchepikov
 Russia (Medvedtsev,
Kiriyenko and Tchepikov)
 Belarus (Popov)
Biathlon Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
 Silver Lyubov Yegorova  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical)
 Silver Lyubov Yegorova  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle)
 Silver Elena Bechke
Denis Petrov
 Russia (both) Figure skating Pairs
 Silver Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova  Russia Freestyle skiing Women's moguls
 Bronze Yelena Belova  Russia Biathlon Women's 7.5 km sprint
 Bronze Yelena Belova
Anfisa Reztsova
Yelena Melnikova
 Russia (all) Biathlon Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
 Bronze Yelena Välbe  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical)
 Bronze Yelena Välbe  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)
 Bronze Yelena Välbe  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 15 km (classical)
 Bronze Yelena Välbe  Russia Cross-country skiing Women's 30 km (freestyle)
 Bronze Maya Usova
Alexander Zhulin
 Russia (both) Figure skating Ice dancing
 Bronze Yuliya Allagulova
Natalya Isakova
Viktoriya Troytskaya
Yuliya Vlasova
 Russia (all) Short track speed skating Women's 3000 m relay

Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[4]

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 3 4 7
Biathlon 5 6 11
Bobsleigh 9 9
Cross-country skiing 6 6 12
Figure skating 9 8 17
Freestyle skiing 4 4 8
Ice hockey 22 22
Luge 7 3 10
Nordic combined 4 4
Short track speed skating 1 5 6
Ski jumping 4 4
Speed skating 12 7 19
Total 86 43 129

Alpine skiing

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Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Russia Konstantin Chistyakov Downhill 1:53.93 24
Russia Aleksey Maslov 1:53.68 22
Russia Vitaly Andreyev 1:53.52 21
Russia Vitaly Andreyev Super-G DNF
Russia Aleksey Maslov 1:19.71 49
Russia Konstantin Chistyakov 1:16.14 22

Men's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Russia Aleksey Maslov 1:48.53 DNF DNF
Russia Konstantin Chistyakov 1:47.95 DNF DNF
Russia Vitaly Andreyev 1:46.01 55.80 58.44 85.07 20
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Russia Svetlana Novikova Downhill 1:59.18 27
Ukraine Tetiana Lebedeva 1:55.15 19
Russia Svetlana Gladysheva 1:53.85 8
Ukraine Tetiana Lebedeva Super-G 1:26.92 28
Russia Svetlana Gladysheva 1:26.51 25
Russia Varvara Zelenskaya 1:26.39 24

Women's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Russia Varvara Zelenskaya DNF DNF
Russia Svetlana Novikova 1:30.03 38.89 38.94 122.48 19
Ukraine Tetiana Lebedeva 1:27.79 40.05 39.82 111.34 18
Russia Svetlana Gladysheva 1:26.88 38.15 37.01 61.25 12

Biathlon

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Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Russia Valeriy Medvedtsev 2 27:39.5 25
Belarus Aleksandr Popov 1 27:31.3 18
Russia Valeri Kiriyenko 3 26:31.8 5
Russia Sergei Tchepikov 0 26:27.5 4
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Russia Valeri Kiriyenko 55:12.6 4 59:12.6 11
Russia Sergei Tchepikov 55:47.6 3 58:47.6 10
Belarus Aleksandr Popov 56:02.9 2 58:02.9 4
Belarus Eugeni Redkine 57:34.4 0 57:34.4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Russia Valeriy Medvedtsev
Belarus Aleksandr Popov
Russia Valery Kiriyenko
Russia Sergei Tchepikov
0 1'25:06.3 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
7.5 km Sprint Russia Yelena Golovina 1 26:50.3 20
Russia Svetlana Petcherskaia 0 26:09.7 13
Russia Yelena Belova 2 24:50.8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Anfisa Reztsova 3 24:29.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
15 km Russia Anfisa Reztsova 47:52.6 9 56:52.6 26
Russia Yelena Golovina 54:17.9 2 56:17.9 22
Belarus Svetlana Paramygina 52:15.2 4 56:15.2 21
Russia Svetlana Petcherskaia 50:58.5 1 51:58.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women's 3 × 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Russia Yelena Belova
Russia Anfisa Reztsova
Russia Yelena Melnikova
2 1'16:54.6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Bobsleigh

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Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
EUN-1 Russia Vladimir Yefimov
Russia Aleksey Golovin
Two-man 1:01.17 17 1:01.85 21 1:02.03 19 1:02.25 23 4:07.30 20
EUN-2 Russia Oleg Sukhoruchenko
Russia Andrey Gorokhov
Two-man 1:01.77 27 1:02.06 23 1:02.19 23 1:02.31 24 4:08.33 26
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
EUN-1 Russia Oleg Sukhoruchenko
Ukraine Oleksandr Bortiuk
Russia Vladimir Lyubovitsky
Russia Andrey Gorokhov
Four-man 59.05 19 1:00.05 22 58.94 12 59.39 19 3:57.43 19
EUN-2 Russia Vladimir Yefimov
Russia Oleg Petrov
Russia Sergey Kruglov
Russia Aleksandr Pashkov
Four-man 59.80 23 1:00.19 23 1:00.34 23 1:00.26 23 4:00.59 22

Cross-country skiing

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
10 km
C
Russia German Karachevsky 32:12.6 62
Russia Andrey Kirillov 30:27.4 30
Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 29:13.1 13
Russia Mikhail Botvinov 28:55.8 11
15 km
pursuit1
F
Russia German Karachevsky 44:09.5 43
Russia Andrey Kirillov 41:14.9 17
Russia Mikhail Botvinov 41:07.1 15
Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 39:59.8 8
30 km
C
Russia Aleksey Prokurorov 1'27:20.5 21
Russia Aleksandr Golubyov 1'25:56.1 14
Russia Mikhail Botvinov 1'25:36.9 12
Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 1'25:27.6 9
50 km
F
Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov 2'15:48.5 35
Russia Mikhail Botvinov 2'14:20.8 28
Russia Aleksandr Golubyov 2'11:20.1 17
Russia Aleksey Prokurorov 2'07:06.1 4
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Russia Andrey Kirillov
Kazakhstan Vladimir Smirnov
Russia Mikhail Botvinov
Russia Aleksey Prokurorov
1'43:03.6 5
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C
Russia Larisa Lazutina 14:41.7 7
Russia Olga Danilova 14:37.2 6
Russia Yelena Välbe 14:22.7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Lyubov Yegorova 14:14.7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
10 km
pursuit2
F
Russia Olga Danilova 28:10.2 11
Russia Larisa Lazutina 27:34.8 8
Russia Yelena Välbe 26:37.7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Lyubov Yegorova 25:53.7 1st place, gold medalist(s)
15 km
C
Russia Nataliya Martynova 45:16.1 12
Russia Raisa Smetanina 44:01.5 4
Russia Yelena Välbe 43:42.3 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Lyubov Yegorova 42:20.8 1st place, gold medalist(s)
30 km
F
Russia Olga Danilova 1'30:30.7 20
Russia Larisa Lazutina 1'26:31.8 5
Russia Yelena Välbe 1'24:13.9 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Lyubov Yegorova 1'22:52.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Russia Yelena Välbe
Russia Raisa Smetanina
Russia Larisa Lazutina
Russia Lyubov Yegorova
59:34.8 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Figure skating

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Men
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Ukraine Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk 10 8 13.0 8
Russia Alexei Urmanov 5 5 7.5 5
Ukraine Viktor Petrenko 1 1 1.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Russia Tatiana Rachkova 13 14 20.5 16
Russia Julia Vorobieva 14 13 20.0 14
Pairs
Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Russia Yevgenya Shishkova
Russia Vadim Naumov
5 5 7.5 5
Russia Elena Bechke
Russia Denis Petrov
2 2 3.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Russia Natalia Mishkutenok
Russia Artur Dmitriev
1 1 1.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Ice Dancing
Athletes CD1 CD2 OD FD TFP Rank
Russia Pasha Grishuk
Russia Evgeni Platov
4 4 4 4 8.0 4
Russia Maya Usova
Russia Alexander Zhulin
2 2 3 3 5.6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Russia Marina Klimova
Russia Sergei Ponomarenko
1 1 1 1 2.0 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Freestyle skiing

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Men
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Russia Mikhail Lyzhin Moguls 40.89 16.04 36 Did not advance
Kazakhstan Aleksey Bannikov 35.79 17.12 33 Did not advance
Russia Andrey Ivanov 36.52 21.24 21 Did not advance
Russia Sergey Shupletsov 33.30 22.65 13 Q 34.49 21.60 12
Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Uzbekistan Larisa Udodova Moguls 47.58 11.17 23 Did not advance
Russia Olga Lychkina 42.42 18.04 12 Did not advance
Russia Yelena Korolyova 43.52 20.01 10 Did not advance
Russia Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova 39.10 22.22 5 Q 39.47 23.50 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Ice hockey

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First round

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Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.

     Team advanced to the Final Round
     Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round
Team GP W L T GF GA DIF PTS
 Canada 5 4 1 0 28 9 19 8
Unified Team 5 4 1 0 32 10 22 8
 Czechoslovakia 5 4 1 0 25 15 10 8
 France 5 2 3 0 14 22 -8 4
  Switzerland 5 1 4 0 13 25 -12 2
 Norway 5 0 5 0 7 38 -31 0
Unified Team 8:1   Switzerland
Unified Team 8:1  Norway
 Czechoslovakia 4:3 Unified Team
 France 0:8 Unified Team
Unified Team 5:4  Canada

Final round

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Quarter-finals

Unified Team 6:1  Finland

Semi-finals

Unified Team 5:2  United States

Final

Unified Team 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3:1  Canada
Gold:
 Unified Team

Sergei Bautin
Igor Boldin
Nikolai Borschevsky
Vyacheslav Butsayev
Vyacheslav Bykov
Evgeni Davydov
Alexei Zhitnik
Darius Kasparaitis
Nikolai Khabibulin
Yuri Kmylev
Andrei Khomutov
Andrei Kovalenko
Alexei Kovalev
Igor Kravchuk
Vladimir Malakhov
Dmitri Mironov
Sergei Petrenko
Vitali Prokhorov
Mikhail Shtalenkov
Andrei Trefilov
Dmitri Yushkevich
Alexei Zhamnov
Sergei Zubov

Luge

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Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Russia Eduard Burmistrov 46.138 16 46.032 16 46.612 16 46.728 18 3:05.510 16
Russia Oleg Yermolin 46.046 15 46.176 18 46.569 14 46.504 15 3:05.295 15
Russia Sergey Danilin 45.708 11 45.622 9 46.281 10 46.162 10 3:03.773 9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Russia Albert Demchenko
Russia Aleksey Zelensky
46.552 7 46.747 9 1:33.299 8
Russia Igor Lobanov
Russia Gennady Belyakov
46.849 10 47.098 13 1:33.947 10
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Russia Nadezhda Danilina 47.324 14 47.215 10 47.264 11 47.025 9 3:08.828 12
Russia Irina Gubkina 47.175 10 47.273 12 47.264 11 47.034 10 3:08.746 10
Ukraine Nataliya Yakushenko 47.097 9 47.215 10 47.178 8 46.893 6 3:08.383 8

Nordic combined

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Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Russia Vasily Savin Individual 179.4 40 +5:27.4 49:24.8 22
Russia Valery Stolyarov 192.0 32 +4:03.4 51:50.2 32
Russia Sergey Shvagirev 205.0 16 +2:36.7 53:03.6 36
Russia Andrey Dundukov 210.4 11 +2:00.7 47:44.2 11

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
  • 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Russia Andrey Dundukov
Russia Sergey Shvagirev
Russia Valery Stolyarov
545.3 9 +8:19.0 1'37:57.2 11

Short track speed skating

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Men
Athlete Event Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Russia Dmitry Yershov 1000 m 1:37.71 2 Q 1:34.02 3 Did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Russia Nataliya Isakova 500 m 48.49 3 Did not advance
Russia Marina Pylayeva 47.48 2 Q 47.95 1 Q 1:07.56 4 QB 48.42 5
Russia Yuliya Vlasova 48.29 2 Q 48.63 2 Q 1:08.90 4 QB 48.70 7
Russia Yuliya Allagulova
Russia Nataliya Isakova
Russia Viktoriya Troitskaya-Taranina
Russia Yuliya Vlasova
3000 m relay 4:38.37 2 Q 4:42.69 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Ski jumping

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Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Russia Yury Dudarev Normal hill 76.5 84.9 73.5 77.6 162.5 54
Kazakhstan Dionis Vodnyev 79.5 88.7 84.0 102.4 191.1 25
Kazakhstan Andrey Verveykin 80.0 91.5 80.5 95.3 186.8 32
Russia Mikhail Yesin 85.5 105.8 81.5 98.9 204.7 11
Russia Yury Dudarev Large hill 92.0 64.8 86.5 56.1 120.9 47
Kazakhstan Andrey Verveykin 99.0 79.1 95.5 72.7 151.8 29
Kazakhstan Dionis Vodnyev 101.5 83.6 95.5 72.7 156.3 24
Russia Mikhail Yesin 108.0 96.2 99.5 80.3 176.5 10
Men's team large hill
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
Russia Mikhail Yesin
Kazakhstan Dionis Vodnyev
Kazakhstan Andrey Verveykin
Russia Yury Dudarev
503.4 11
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Russia Sergey Klevchenya 38.26 21
Kazakhstan Vadim Shakshakbayev 37.86 14
Belarus Igor Zhelezovsky 37.57 8
Russia Aleksandr Golubev 37.51 7
1000 m Russia Andrey Bakhvalov 1:17.21 25
Russia Aleksandr Klimov 1:16.05 13
Russia Nikolay Gulyayev 1:15.46 8
Belarus Igor Zhelezovsky 1:15.05 6
1500 m Russia Aleksandr Klimov 2:00.94 31
Russia Konstantin Kalistratov 1:59.02 22
Ukraine Yuriy Shulha 1:57.80 16
Belarus Igor Zhelezovsky 1:57.24 10
5000 m Russia Bronislav Snetkov 7:28.93 29
Kazakhstan Vadim Sayutin 7:13.20 11
Kazakhstan Yevgeny Sanarov 7:11.38 8
10000 m Kazakhstan Vadim Sayutin 14:49.31 19
Russia Bronislav Snetkov 14:46.87 17
Kazakhstan Yevgeny Sanarov 14:38.99 10
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Kazakhstan Lyudmila Prokasheva 43.19 31
Russia Yelena Tyushnyakova 42.65 29
Russia Oksana Ravilova 41.73 16
Russia Nataliya Polozkova 41.61 15
1000 m Russia Yelena Lapuga 1:25.21 28
Russia Nataliya Polozkova 1:24.30 20
Russia Oksana Ravilova 1:24.14 15
Russia Yelena Tyushnyakova 1:22.97 7
1500 m Russia Yelena Lapuga 2:11.72 25
Kazakhstan Lyudmila Prokasheva 2:08.71 10
Russia Svetlana Bazhanova 2:07.81 6
Russia Nataliya Polozkova 2:07.12 4
3000 m Kazakhstan Lyudmila Prokasheva 4:30.76 10
Russia Svetlana Bazhanova 4:28.19 7
Russia Svetlana Boyko 4:28.00 5
5000 m Russia Svetlana Bazhanova 7:45.55 7
Russia Svetlana Boyko 7:44.19 6
Kazakhstan Lyudmila Prokasheva 7:41.65 5

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Role of Sports in the Soviet Union | Guided History".
  2. ^ "Yevgeny Redkin".
  3. ^ "Yevgeny REDKIN".
  4. ^ Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics