Russia at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Russia at the 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	RUS
NOC	Russian Olympic Committee
Website	www.roc.ru (in Russian)
in Nagano
Competitors	122 (79 men, 43 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Alexey Prokurorov
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 9 Silver 6 Bronze 3 Total 18
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Russia competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Galina Koukleva	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint
Gold	Yuliya Chepalova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km freestyle
Gold	Olga Danilova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km classical
Gold	Larisa Lazutina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km classical
Gold	Larisa Lazutina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit
Gold	Olga Danilova, Nina Gavrilyuk Larisa Lazutina, Yelena Välbe	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Gold	Ilia Kulik	Figure skating	Men's
Gold	Oksana Kazakova, Artur Dmitriev	Figure skating	Pairs
Gold	Oksana Grishuk, Evgeny Platov	Figure skating	Ice dance
Silver	Albina Akhatova, Galina Koukleva Olga Melnik, Olga Romasko	Biathlon	Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	Olga Danilova	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km freestyle pursuit
Silver	Larisa Lazutina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 15 km classical
Silver	Elena Berezhnaya, Anton Sikharulidze	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Anjelika Krylova, Oleg Ovsyannikov	Figure skating	Ice dance
Silver	Pavel Bure, Valeri Bure Sergei Gonchar, Alexei Gusarov Valeri Kamensky, Darius Kasparaitis Igor Kravchuk, Sergei Krivokrasov Boris Mironov, Dmitri Mironov Aleksey Morozov, Sergei Nemchinov Oleg Shevtsov, Mikhail Shtalenkov German Titov, Andrei Trefilov Alexei Yashin, Dmitri Yushkevich Valeri Zelepukin, Alexei Zhamnov Alexei Zhitnik	Ice hockey	Men's team
Bronze	Vladimir Drachev, Viktor Maigourov Pavel Muslimov, Sergei Tarasov	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Bronze	Larisa Lazutina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 30 km freestyle
Bronze	Valeri Stolyarov	Nordic combined	Men's individual 15 km

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Vasily Bezsmelnitsyn	Downhill				1:54.27	24
	Super-G				1:39.39	29
	Giant slalom				did not finish
Andrey Filichkin	Downhill				1:52.65	18
	Super-G				1:37.29	21
	Giant slalom				did not finish

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Olesya Aliyeva	Super-G				1:22.00	37
Svetlana Gladisheva	Downhill				1:29.50	5
	Super-G				1:18.82	13
Anna Larionova	Downhill				1:34.36	32
	Super-G				1:20.61	33
Yekaterina Nesterenko	Downhill				1:32.54	29
Varvara Zelenskaya	Downhill				1:30.38	13
	Super-G				1:18.72	12

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Vladimir Drachev	10 km sprint	28:46.4	1	12
	20 km individual	1:01:13.9	6	35
Aleksei Kobelev	10 km sprint	31:02.8	4	56
Viktor Maigourov	10 km sprint	28:36.0	0	4
Pavel Muslimov	20 km individual	59:26.5	3	17
Sergei Tarasov	10 km sprint	29:23.2	3	22
	20 km individual	59:24.3	4	15
Pavel Vavilov	20 km individual	1:03:59.4	7	53
Pavel Muslimov Vladimir Drachev Sergei Tarasov Viktor Maigourov	4 x 7.5 km relay	1:22:19.3	0+7

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Albina Akhatova	7.5 km sprint	24:06.4	2	13
	15 km individual	56:21.7	1	7
Galina Koukleva	7.5 km sprint	23:08.0	1
	15 km individual	1:00:29.2	6	31
Olga Melnik	15 km individual	57:10.8	2	13
Olga Romasko	7.5 km sprint	25:03.6	3	27
	15 km individual	1:00:58.8	3	33
Anna Volkova	7.5 km sprint	25:42.7	4	44
Olga Melnik Galina Koukleva Albina Akhatova Olga Romasko	4 x 7.5 km relay	1:40:25.2	0+9

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Pavel Shcheglovsky Konstantin Dyomin	Two-man	55.41	55.09	54.84	54.97	3:40.31	16
Yevgeni Popov Oleg Petrov	Two-man	55.53	55.37	55.25	55.31	3:41.46	21
Pavel Shcheglovsky Alexei Seliverstov Vladislav Posedkin Konstantin Dyomin	Four-man	53.72	53.95	54.71		2:42.38	19

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Aleksandr Kravchenko	30 km classical	1:41:22.3	31
Sergey Kriyanin	10 km classical	30:03.2	42
	15 km freestyle pursuit	1:10:33.4	25
Vladimir Legotin	10 km classical	31:10.3	62
	15 km freestyle pursuit	1:12:19.5	39
	30 km classical	1:38:23.7	9
Grigori Menkhenin	50 km freestyle	did not finish
Andrei Nutrikhin	50 km freestyle	2:12:21.9	15
Maksim Pichugin	30 km classical	1:42:41.7	39
	50 km freestyle	2:18:19.1	37
Alexey Prokurorov	10 km classical	29:27.3	31
	15 km freestyle pursuit	1:09:48.1	18
	50 km freestyle	2:06:41.5	4
Sergei Tchepikov	10 km classical	28:55.9	22
	15 km freestyle pursuit	1:08:24.3	9
	30 km classical	1:41:59.9	32
Vladimir Legotin Alexey Prokurorov Sergey Kriyanin Sergei Tchepikov	4 x 10 km relay	1:42:39.5	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Total	Rank
Yuliya Chepalova	5 km classical	18:20.0	13
	10 km freestyle pursuit	46:28.4	6
	30 km freestyle	1:22:01.5
Olga Danilova	5 km classical	17:51.3	5
	10 km freestyle pursuit	46:13.4
	15 km classical	46:55.4
	30 km freestyle	1:28:08.1	13
Nina Gavrilyuk	5 km classical	17:50.3	4
	10 km freestyle pursuit	46:49.3	7
Larisa Lazutina	5 km classical	17:37.9
	10 km freestyle pursuit	46:06.9
	15 km classical	47:01.0
	30 km freestyle	1:23:15.7
Svetlana Nageykina	15 km classical	49:22.5	16
Yelena Välbe	15 km classical	49:25.9	17
	30 km freestyle	1:24:52.8	5
Nina Gavrilyuk Olga Danilova Yelena Välbe Larisa Lazutina	4 x 5 km relay	55:13.5

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	CD1	CD2	SP/OD	FS/FD	Points	Rank
Ilia Kulik	Men's			1	1	1.5
Alexei Yagudin	Men's			4	5	7.0	5
Maria Butyrskaya	Ladies'			3	4	5.5	4
Irina Slutskaya	Ladies'			5	5	7.5	5
Elena Sokolova	Ladies'			10	7	12.0	7
Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Pairs			3	2	3.5
Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Pairs			5	7	9.5	7
Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev	Pairs			1	1	1.5
Oksana Grishuk Evgeny Platov	Ice dance	1	1	1	1	2.0
Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov	Ice dance	2	2	2	2	4.0
Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Ice dance	4	5	5	5	9.8	5

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Vitali Glushchenko	Moguls	did not finish		did not advance
Andrei Ivanov	Moguls	18.73	27	did not advance
Aleksandr Mikhaylov	Aerials	246.21	3 Q	229.98	6
Yevgeni Sennikov	Moguls	22.76	24	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lyudmila Dymchenko	Moguls	22.53	7 Q	21.02	15
Yelena Korolyova	Moguls	20.97	17	did not advance
Nataliya Orekhova	Aerials	118.61	22	did not advance
Nadezhda Radovitskaya	Moguls	13.41	25	did not advance
Yelena Vorona	Moguls	20.54	18	did not advance

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

• Head coach: Vladimir Yurzinov

Pos.	No.	Player	Team
GK	1	Oleg Shevtsov	Severstal Cherepovets
GK	34	Andrei Trefilov	Chicago Blackhawks
GK	35	Mikhail Shtalenkov	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
D	2	Boris Mironov	Edmonton Oilers
D	3	Dmitri Yushkevich	Toronto Maple Leafs
D	5	Alexei Gusarov	Colorado Avalanche
D	11	Darius Kasparaitis	Pittsburgh Penguins
D	15	Dmitri Mironov	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
D	29	Igor Kravchuk	Ottawa Senators
D	44	Alexei Zhitnik	Buffalo Sabres
D	55	Sergei Gonchar	Washington Capitals
F	8	Sergei Nemchinov	New York Islanders
F	9	Sergei Krivokrasov	Chicago Blackhawks
F	10	Pavel Bure	Vancouver Canucks
F	13	Valeri Kamensky	Colorado Avalanche
F	14	German Titov	Calgary Flames
F	19	Alexei Yashin	Ottawa Senators
F	20	Valeri Bure	Calgary Flames
F	24	Aleksey Morozov	Pittsburgh Penguins
F	25	Valeri Zelepukin	Edmonton Oilers
F	33	Alexei Zhamnov	Chicago Blackhawks
F	51	Andrei Kovalenko	Edmonton Oilers
F	91	Sergei Fedorov	Detroit Red Wings

Preliminary round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Russia	3	3	0	0	15	6	6
Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	12	4	4
Finland	3	1	2	0	11	15	2
Kazakhstan	3	0	3	0	6	25	0

13 February 1998

Russia

9–2 (2–1, 5–0, 2–1)

Kazakhstan

Aqua Wing Arena Attendance: 3752

	Mikhail Shtalenkov (out 50:46) Andrei Trefilov (in 50:46)	Goalies	Vitaliy Yeremeyev (out 32:14) Aleksandr Shimin (in 32:14)
	Fedorov (Kovalenko) – 1:30 1–0 1–1 2:15 – Sagymbayev (Pchelyakov) Yashin (Fedorov) – 8:15 2–1 Yashin (Kasparaitis)- 20:55 3–1 P. Bure (D. Mironov) – 27:34 4–1 P. Bure – 32:01 5–1 Kovalenko – 32:14 6–1 Titov (Kamensky, Morozov) – 38:39 7–1 Kovalenko (B. Mironov) – 45:09 8–1 Zelepukin (Morozov) – 55:46 9–1 9–2 57:40 – E. Koreshkov (Shafranov, A. Koreshkov)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	31	Shots	18

14 February 1998

Russia

4–3 (1–2, 2–1, 1–0)

Finland

Big Hat Attendance: 9894

	Andrei Trefilov	Goalies	Jarmo Myllys	Referee: Bill McCreary
	0–1 6:11 – Koivu (Lehtinen, Selänne) (PP) 0–2 7:04 – Lehtinen (Koivu, Selänne) PP P. Bure (Fedorov, Kamensky) – 13:36 PP 1–2 1–3 8:24 – Lehtinen (Selänne) Nemchinov (Gonchar, Kravchuk) – 29:31 2–3 Yashin (Fedorov, Zhitnik)- 35:03 PP 3–3 Morozov (Zelepukin) – 56:43 4–3
	24 min	Penalties	24 min
	28	Shots	33

16 February 1998

Russia

2–1 (0–0, 0–1, 2–0)

Czech Republic

Big Hat Attendance: 9847

	Mikhail Shtalenkov	Goalies	Dominik Hašek	Referee: Kerry Fraser
	0–1 31:53 – Reichel (Patera) (PP) V. Bure (Kravchuk, Gonchar) – 43:27 1–1 Zhamnov (Gusarov, D. Mironov) – 43:37 2–1
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	24	Shots	31

Play-off

Quarterfinal

18 February 1998

Russia

4–1 (1–0, 1–0, 2–1)

Belarus

Aqua Wing Arena Attendance: 4628

	Mikhail Shtalenkov	Goalies	Andrei Mezin	Referee: Mark Faucette
	Kamensky (Yashin) – 19:00 1–0 Kovalenko (Fedorov, Yashin) – 21:31 2–0 P. Bure – 42:38 3–0 Morozov (Zelepukin, Kasparaitis) – 43:19 4–0 4–1 44:18 – Yerkovich (Khmyl, Roshchin)
	16 min	Penalties	10 min
	35	Shots	26

Semifinal

20 February 1998

Finland

4–7 (0–2, 3–2, 1–3)

Russia

Big Hat Attendance: 9640

	Jarmo Myllys	Goalies	Mikhail Shtalenkov	Referee: Kerry Fraser
	0–1 9:51 – P. Bure (Zhamnov) (PP) 0–2 17:28 – P. Bure (D. Mironov 0–3 20:59 – P. Bure Helminen (Lind) – 23:28 1–3 Rintanen (Kurri, Timonen) – 24:59 2–3 Selänne (Kurri, Koivu) – 34:07 3–3 3–4 37:26 – Zhamnov (Zhitnik) PP Koivu (Selänne) – 45:15 4–4 4–5 46:33 – Kovalenko (Fedorov) 4–6 55:58 – P. Bure 4–7 59:55 – P. Bure (EN)
	6 min	Penalties	12 min
	32	Shots	21

Final

21 February 1998

Czech Republic

1–0 (0–0, 0–0, 1–1)

Russia

Big Hat Attendance: 10 010

	Dominik Hašek	Goalies	Mikhail Shtalenkov	Referee: Bill McCreary
	Svoboda (Patera, Procházka) – 48:08 1–0
	8 min	Penalties	4 min
	21	Shots	20

 Silver

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Albert Demtschenko	Men's singles	50.224	50.011	DQ		did not finish
Alexandr Zubkov	Men's singles	50.488	50.944	50.650	50.619	3:22.701	20
Irina Gubkina	Women's singles	52.295	52.199	52.107	51.514	3:28.115	18
Margarita Klimenko	Women's singles	52.391	52.123	51.789	51.448	3:27.751	17
Danil Chaban Viktor Kneib	Doubles	51.370	51.023			1:42.393	9
Albert Demtschenko Semen Kolobayev	Doubles	51.515	51.041			1:42.556	10

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Alexey Fadeyev	Individual 15 km	195.5	33	4:33	48:19.7 +6:58.6	37
Dmitry Sinitsyn	Individual 15 km	213.5	14	2:45	43:48.0 +2:26.9	10
Valeri Stolyarov	Individual 15 km	235.0	2	0:36	41:49.3 +28.2
Denis Tishagin	Individual 15 km	198.5	31	4:15	did not finish
Alexey Fadeyev Vladimir Lysenin Dmitry Sinitsyn Valeri Stolyarov	Team	826.0	8	2:13	58:34.2 +4:22.7	9

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marina Pylayeva	500 m	46.359	2 Q	46.220	3	did not advance			12
	1000 m	1:39.340	4	did not advance					26
Yelena Tikhanina	500 m	46.980	2 Q	46.206	3	did not advance			11
	1000 m	1:39.242	4	did not advance					25

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	First round		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Total	Rank
Arthur Khamidulin	Normal hill	90.5	26	96.0	186.5	25
	Large hill	109.6	15	107.6	217.2	23
Valery Kobelev	Normal hill	68.0	54	did not advance		54
	Large hill	92.9	35	did not advance		35
Nikolai Petrushin	Normal hill	79.5	42	did not advance		42
	Large hill	66.1	54	did not advance		54
Aleksandr Volkov	Normal hill	90.5	26	93.5	184.0	27
	Large hill	98.3	27	81.2	179.5	27
Nikolai Petrushin Arthur Khamidulin Aleksandr Volkov Valery Kobelev	Team	264.9	9	374.8	639.7	9

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Andrey Anufriyenko	1000 m					1:12.61	23
	1500 m					1:50.99	10
Aleksandr Golubev	500 m	36.67	21	36.54	21	73.21	20
Aleksandr Kibalko	500 m	37.32	38	36.86	28	74.18	33
	1000 m					1:12.94	28
	1500 m					1:52.27	22
Sergey Klevchenya	500 m	36.56	15	36.30	10	72.86	14
	1000 m					1:13.51	33
Yuri Kokhanets	5000 m					6:47.21	22
Andrei Krivosheyev	5000 m					6:46.57	20
Sergey Savelyev	500 m	Disqualified
Vadim Sayutin	1500 m					1:51.31	11
	5000 m					6:39.92	15
	10000 m					13:54.57	13
Dmitri Shepel	1000 m					1:13.31	32
	1500 m					1:51.64	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Varvara Barysheva	1500 m					2:03.34	20
Svetlana Bazhanova	1500 m					2:01.54	9
	3000 m					4:16.45	10
Tatyana Danshina	500 m	40.53	29	40.59	29	81.12	28
	1000 m					1:19.95	19
Nataliya Polozkova	1000 m					1:19.78	17
	1500 m					2:01.56	10
Oksana Ravilova	500 m	39.99	21	40.04	21	80.03	21
Anna Savelyeva	1000 m					1:21.83	27
Tatyana Trapeznikova	1500 m					2:03.25	19
	3000 m					4:17.76	13
Svetlana Vysokova	3000 m					4:17.70	12
	5000 m					7:22.18	12
Svetlana Zhurova	500 m	39.11	7	39.38	11	78.49	9
	1000 m					1:19.04	12

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database