Soviet Union at the Paralympics

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Soviet Union at the
Paralympics
IPC codeURS
Medals
Gold
21
Silver
20
Bronze
17
Total
58
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
 Unified Team (1992)
 Estonia (1992–)
 Latvia (1992–)
 Lithuania (1992–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2014)
 Armenia (1996–)
 Azerbaijan (1996–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1996–)
 Moldova (1996–)
 Ukraine (1996–)
 Turkmenistan (2000–)
 Tajikistan (2004–)
 Uzbekistan (2004–)
 Georgia (2008–)
 Neutral Paralympic Athletes (2018)
 RPC (2020)

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics competed for the only time at the Summer Paralympic Games in 1988. The country also competed for the only time at the Winter Paralympic Games that same year.[1]

Soviet athletes won 21 gold medals, 20 silver and 15 bronze at the Summer Games, as well as two bronze medals at the Winter Games.[2] The USSR's most successful Paralympian was Vadim Kalmykov, with four gold medals in track and field.[3]

The only athlete to win a Paralympic medal for the USSR at the Winter Games was Valentina Grigoryeva, who won two bronze medals in cross-country skiing.[4]

Medalists

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Summer Games

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Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's 100m B1
 Gold Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's 100m B2
 Gold Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's 400m B1
 Gold Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's high jump B2
 Gold Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's high jump B3
 Gold Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's long jump B2
 Gold Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's long jump B3
 Gold Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's triple jump B2
 Gold Vitautas Guirnus Athletics Men's javelin throw B1
 Gold Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's javelin throw B2
 Gold Vitautas Guirnus Athletics Men's pentathlon B1
 Gold Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's pentathlon B2
 Gold Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's pentathlon B3
 Gold Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's 100m B2
 Gold Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 400m B1
 Gold Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 400m B2
 Gold Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 800m B1
 Gold Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 800m B2
 Gold Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 1500m B1
 Gold Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's long jump B2
 Gold Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's pentathlon B2
 Silver Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's 100m B1
 Silver Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 800m B2
 Silver Farzat Timerboulatov Athletics Men's 800m B3
 Silver Farzat Timerboulatov Athletics Men's 1500m B3
 Silver Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's triple jump B1
 Silver Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's pentathlon B1
 Silver Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's pentathlon B2
 Silver Danute Chmidek Athletics Women's 800m B3
 Silver Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's discus throw B2
 Silver Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 50m freestyle B1
 Silver Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 100m freestyle B1
 Silver Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 100m backstroke B1
 Silver Alexandre Gapon Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke B2
 Silver Vladimir Sigidov Swimming Men's 200m breaststroke B1
 Silver Alexandre Gapon Swimming Men's 200m breaststroke B2
 Silver Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 200m individual medley B1
 Silver Men's relay team Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay B1-B3
 Silver Men's relay team Swimming Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay B1-B3
 Silver Nadezda Maksimova Swimming Women's 50m freestyle B3
 Silver Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke B2
 Bronze Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 400m B2
 Bronze Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 5000m B2
 Bronze Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's long jump B1
 Bronze Andrei Kolyvanov Athletics Men's javelin throw B3
 Bronze Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 100m B2
 Bronze Danute Chmidek Athletics Women's 400m B3
 Bronze Mikhail Kapitonov Swimming Men's 50m freestyle B2
 Bronze Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 400m freestyle B1
 Bronze Vladimir Sigidov Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke B1
 Bronze Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 50m freestyle B2
 Bronze Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 100m freestyle B2
 Bronze Nadezda Maksimova Swimming Women's 100m freestyle B3
 Bronze Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 100m breaststroke B2
 Bronze Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 200m breaststroke B2
 Bronze Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 400m individual medley B2

Winter Games

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Medal Name Sport Event
 Bronze Valentina Grigoryeva Cross-country skiing Women's B1 5 km
 Bronze Valentina Grigoryeva Cross-country skiing Women's B1 10 km

See also

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References

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