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Russia at the Olympics

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NOCRUS
NOCnameRussian Olympic Committee
gamesOlympics
website
rank11
gold193
silver164
bronze185

Russia, referred to by its formal name; the Russian Federation, by the International Olympic Committee, has competed at the modern Olympic Games on many occasions, but as different nations in its history. As the Russian Empire, the nation first competed at the 1900 Games, and returned again in 1908 and 1912. After the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, it would be thirty years until Russian athletes next competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in 1992, and finally returned once again as Russia at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The Russian Olympic Committee was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the Russian Federation hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In twelve appearances from 1994 to 2016, Russian athletes won a total of 422 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 120 at the Winter Olympic Games. Russia's 542 total medals, including 193 gold medals, are second behind only the United States in that timespan.

In 2017, Russia was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR). They were also allowed to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics, representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee allowed Russian athletes to participate at the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2026 Winter Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).

Hosted Games

Russia has hosted the Games on two occasions. Moscow was the host of the 1980 Summer Games, when Russia (Russian SFSR) was part of the Soviet Union. Sochi was the host of the 2014 Winter Games, as part of the Russian Federation.

GamesHost cityDatesNationsParticipantsEvents
[1980 Summer Olympics](1980-summer-olympics)Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union19 July–3 August805,179203
[2014 Winter Olympics](2014-winter-olympics)Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation7–23 February882,87398

Participation

Timeline of participation

DateTeam
1900–1912RU1
1920EST
1924–1936LAT, LTU
1952–1988URS
1992EST, LAT, LTU
1994RUS
1996–2016AZE, TJK, TKM
2018OAR
2020–2022ROC_2020
2024–2026AIN

Combined medals

The Russian Federation, the Russian Empire, the Olympic Athletes from Russia, and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) are sometimes combined outside of IOC sources. The Soviet Union is often combined with the post-union team that competed in 1992. Some sources combine the Soviet Union and Russia, despite the fact that many republics which subsequently gained or re-gained independence (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) contributed to the medal tally of the USSR, and there are sources that combine all medals of RU1, URS, EUN, OAR, ROC and RUS. On 31 January 1992, the United Nations recognized, without objection, Russia as legal successor of the rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union, but this has no significance in medal tallies.

Neutral Russian athletes that competed as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2026 Winter Olympics are also included in the table.

Medal counts:

Russia combined with precursors

status after the 2024 Olympics

Summer GamesWinter GamesCombined totalTotal21608515501162418140120126386397486356272010
RUS6147125150422646393512012193164185542
RU1314380000031438
URS939531929610109785759194184733763551204
EUN14538291121968232544437135
OAR00000126917126917
ROC_2020120282371151215322254038103
AIN101010000010101

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by Summer Sports

Medals by Winter Sports

Notes

  • On 9 February 2014, Russia captured the inaugural gold medal in the team figure skating event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Yulia Lipnitskaya, at 15, becomes the youngest Russian Winter Olympic medalist.
  • On 10 February 2014, Viktor Ahn won the first short track speedskating medal for Russia competing as Russia. He won the bronze medal in the 1500m short track speedskating event at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics.
  • On 15 February 2014, Ahn won the second Russian gold medal in the 1000m short track speedskating event, leading the first Russian 1–2 finish in short track, with Vladimir Grigorev winning silver. At 31 years and 191 days, Grigorev also became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal.
  • On 20 February 2014, Adelina Sotnikova won the first ever Russian ladies figure skating gold medal.

Stripped Olympic medals

Due to doping violations, Russia has been stripped of 46 Olympic medals – the most of any country, four times the number of the runner-up, and 30% of the global total. It was the leading country in terms of the number of medals removed due to doping at the 2002 Winter Olympics (5 medals), the 2006 Winter Olympics (1 medal), the 2008 Summer Olympics (14 medals), the 2012 Summer Olympics (17 medals), 2014 Winter Olympics (4 medals — 10 others were stripped and returned) and the joint most at the 2004 Summer Olympics (3 medals), the 2016 Summer Olympics (1 medal), and the 2022 Winter Olympics (1 medal).

OlympicsAthleteMedalEventRef
[2002 Winter Olympics](2002-winter-olympics)Olga DanilovaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuiturl=http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340028archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021226171337/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/news?id=1340028url-status=deadarchive-date=December 26, 2002date=February 24, 2002title=Muehlegg, Lazutina test positive, stripped of goldsagency=Associated Presswork=ESPN.com}}
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 10 km classical
Larisa LazutinaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 30 km classicalurl=https://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/other_skiing/newsid_1839000/1839176.stmpublisher=BBC Newstitle=Drugs test denies Lazutina golddate=February 24, 2002}}
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 15 km freestyleurl=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/3015952.stmpublisher=BBC Newstitle=Lazutina loses Olympic medalsdate=June 29, 2003}}
SilverCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
[2004 Summer Olympics](2004-summer-olympics)Irina KorzhanenkoGoldAthletics, women's shot put
Svetlana KrivelyovaBronzeAthletics, women's shot puturl=http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/olympics/2012/12/201212520814292705.htmlpublisher=Al Jazeeratitle=Four Athens competitors stripped of medalsdate=December 5, 2012}}
Oleg PerepetchenovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 77 kg
[2006 Winter Olympics](2006-winter-olympics)Olga PylevaSilverBiathlon, women's individual
[2008 Summer Olympics](2008-summer-olympics)Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya)GoldAthletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
Relay team
(Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova)SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relayurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-three-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008title=IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008date=2016-08-19publisher=International Olympic Committeeaccess-date=2016-08-19}}
Maria AbakumovaSilverAthletics, women's javelin throwurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012-1title=IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012date=2016-09-13publisher=International Olympic Committeeaccess-date=2016-09-13}}
Relay team (Denis Alexeev)BronzeAthletics, men's 4 × 400 m relay
Yekaterina VolkovaBronzeAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase
Anna ChicherovaBronzeAthletics, women's high jump
Khadzhimurat AkkayevBronzeWeightlifting, men's 94 kgurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-16-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008title=IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008date=2016-11-17publisher=International Olympic Committeeaccess-date=2016-11-18}}
Dmitry LapikovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 105 kg
Marina ShainovaSilverWeightlifting, women's 58 kg
Nadezhda EvstyukhinaBronzeWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
Khasan BaroyevSilverWrestling, men's Greco-Roman 120 kg
Tatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's triple jumpurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-two-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-beijing-2008title=IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008date=31 May 2017website=International Olympic Committee}}
Tatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's long jump
Tatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, Women's heptathlon
[2012 Summer Olympics](2012-summer-olympics)Tatyana LysenkoGoldAthletics, women's hammer throw
Yuliya ZaripovaGoldAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase
Sergey KirdyapkinGoldAthletics, men's 50 km walk
Tatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, women's heptathlon
Darya PishchalnikovaSilverAthletics, women's discus throw
Yevgeniya KolodkoSilverAthletics, women's shot put
Olga KaniskinaSilverAthletics, women's 20 km walk
Apti AukhadovSilverWeightlifting, men's 85 kgurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-two-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-london-2012title=IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012date=2016-10-18publisher=International Olympic Committeeaccess-date=2016-10-18}}
Aleksandr IvanovSilverWeightlifting, men's 94 kg
Natalia ZabolotnayaSilverWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
Svetlana TsarukayevaSilverWeightlifting, women's 63 kg
Relay (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh)SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
Mariya SavinovaGoldAthletics, women's 800 m
Natalya AntyukhGoldAthletics, women's 400 m hurdles
Ruslan AlbegovBronzeWeightlifting, Men's +105 kg
[2014 Winter Olympics](2014-winter-olympics)Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey VoyevodaGoldBobsleigh, Two-manurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-russian-athletes-as-part-of-oswald-commission-findings-2017-11-24title=IOC sanctions four Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findingsdate=24 November 2017website=International Olympic Committee}}
Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey VoyevodaGoldBobsleigh, Four-manurl=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-five-russian-athletes-and-publishes-first-full-decision-as-part-of-the-oswald-commission-findingstitle=IOC sanctions five Russian athletes and publishes first full decision as part of the Oswald Commission findingsdate=2017-11-27work=International Olympic Committeeaccess-date=2017-11-27language=en}}
Relay team (Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, Olga Zaitseva)SilverBiathlon, Women's relay
[2016 Summer Olympics](2016-summer-olympics)Mikhail AloyanSilverBoxing, men's flyweight
[2022 Winter Olympics](2022-winter-olympics)Team event (Mark Kondratiuk, Kamila Valieva, Anastasia Mishina, Aleksandr Galliamov, Victoria Sinitsina, Nikita Katsalapov)Gold → BronzeFigure Skating, Team event

2016–present partial ban

Main article: Doping in Russia, Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics#Participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes

Russia was partially banned from participation at the 2016 Summer Olympics due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were then allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), and in both the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Russian Olympic Committee athletes (ROC).

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in January 2023 plans to have Russian athletes introduced as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The IOC also published a statement stating that it supported the return of Russian athletes, as long as they did not "actively" advocate for the war and as long as their flag, anthem, colors, and organizations were excluded (thus preventing them from competing under the Russian Olympic Committee as in 2020 and 2022). With the Russo-Ukrainian war extending into 2026, Russian athletes were also introduced as Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Flag bearers

Main article: List of flag bearers for Russia at the Olympics

  • – Sergei Tchepikov
  • – Aleksandr Karelin
  • – Alexey Prokurorov
  • – Andrey Lavrov
  • – Alexey Prokurorov
  • – Alexander Popov
  • – Dmitry Dorofeyev
  • – Andrei Kirilenko
  • – Aleksey Morozov
  • – Maria Sharapova
  • – Alexander Zubkov
  • – Sergey Tetyukhin

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