Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

Unified Team at the
1992 Winter Paralympics
The Paralympic flag
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
 Gold Boris Bogdanov[3] Biathlon Men's 7.5 kilometres B1
 Gold Valeri Kupchinski Cross-country skiing Men's 10 kilometres - short distance B1
 Gold Valeri Kupchinski Cross-country skiing Men's 30 kilometres - short distance B1
 Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko Cross-country skiing Men's 10 kilometres - short distance B3
 Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko Cross-country skiing Men's 30 kilometres - short distance B3
 Gold Nikolai Ilioutchenko
Valeri Kupchinski
Sergei Lozhkin		 Cross-country skiing Men's 3 × 5 kilometres relay B1-3
 Gold Olga Nazarenko Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B1
 Gold Alevtina Elessina Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
 Gold Lioubov Paninykh Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B1
 Gold Nadejda Tchirkova Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B2-3
 Silver Boris Bogdanov Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B1
 Silver Boris Bogdanov Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B1
 Silver Vladimir Kolesnikov Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B2
 Silver Vladimir Kolesnikov Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B2
 Silver Sergei Lozhkin Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - short distance B3
 Silver Nadejda Tchirkova Cross-country skiing Women's 5 kilometres - short distance B2-3
 Silver Olga Nazarenko Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B1
 Silver Alevtina Elessina Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km - long distance B2-3
 Bronze Lev Seleznev Cross-country skiing Men's 10 km - short distance B2
 Bronze Lev Seleznev Cross-country skiing Men's 30 km - long distance B2
 Bronze Andrei Venediktov Cross-country skiing Men'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. ^ a b "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)
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