Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing

As a host nation, Russia has qualified a total quota of nine athletes in alpine skiing.

Biathlon

Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships Russia qualified 6 men and 6 women. Irina Starykh originally qualified, but she withdrew from the team after testing positive for doping and was replaced by Olga Podchufarova.

Bobsleigh

* – Denotes the driver of each sled

* – Denotes the driver of each sled

Cross-country skiing

Russia qualified a maximum of 20 quotas (12 men and 8 women). For the first time since 1956, Russia (previously Soviet Union) failed to win a medal in women's cross-country skiing.

Men's tournament

Team: Andrey Drozdov, Aleksey Stukalskiy, Evgeniy Arkhipov, Petr Dron, Aleksandr Kozyrev

Final round robin standings

Russia has a bye in draws 4, 7 and 11.

Women's tournament

Team: Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Alexandra Saitova, Ekaterina Galkina, Nkeirouka Ezekh

Final round robin standings

Russia has a bye in draws 5, 8 and 12.

Figure skating

As hosts, Russia was guaranteed a skater in each event.

Russia captured the inaugural gold medal in the team event. Yulia Lipnitskaya, at 15, became the youngest Russian Winter Olympic medalist, while Adelina Sotnikova won the first ever Russian ladies figure skating gold medal.

Freestyle skiing

Russia qualified a maximum of 26 athletes (14 women and 12 men). Among them, Maria Komissarova had qualified to compete, but was seriously injured at the start of the Games during training, in a fall that left her paralysed below the waist.

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Ice hockey

As hosts, Russia automatically qualified a women's team. The men's team qualified as being one of the 9 highest ranked teams in the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 World Championships.

Men's tournament

The following is the Russian roster in the men's ice hockey tournament of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Women's tournament

The following is the Russian roster in the women's ice hockey tournament of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Luge

Earning automatic places as a host nation, Russia has qualified a maximum of 10 spots (7 men, 3 women, and a relay team).

Short track speed skating

As hosts, Russia have been given the maximum 5 men and 5 women to compete. On 10 February 2014, Viktor Ahn won the bronze medal in the 1500 m short track speedskating event. He won the first short track speedskating medal that Russia has earned while competing as Russia. On 15 February 2014, Ahn won the first Russian gold medal in short track at the 1000 m 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, with that silver. On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000 m relay, upping the oldest shorttrack male athlete record for both medals and gold medals.

Qualification legend: ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Skeleton

Russia qualified a maximum of 6 athletes (3 men and 3 women).

Ski jumping

Russia has qualified a total of six athletes (five men and one woman)

Snowboarding

Russia qualified a total of 15 athletes (11 men and 4 women). Vic Wild won two gold medals, which became the first ever gold medals for Russia in snowboarding. Alena Zavarzina won a bronze medal in giant parallel slalom.

Qualification Legend: QF – Qualify directly to final; QS – Qualify to semifinal

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Speed skating

Based on the results from the fall World Cups during the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup season, Russia earned the following start quotas:^a

^a Russia earned the max quotas (ten women and ten men) for speed skating, but only eight women competed. Viktoriya Filyushkina was a reserve for ladies' 3000 meter and Lada Zadonskaya was a reserve for ladies' 5000 meter. Both women qualified and were included in the Russian speed skating squad but didn't get to compete.

Doping scandal after Olympics

In December 2014, German public broadcaster ARD aired a documentary which made wide-ranging allegations that Russia organized a state-run doping program which supplied their athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. In November 2015, Russia's track and field team was provisionally suspended by the IAAF.

In May 2016, The New York Times published allegations by the former director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, that a conspiracy of corrupt anti-doping officials, FSB intelligence agents, and compliant Russian athletes used banned substances to gain an unfair advantage during the Games. Rodchenkov stated that the FSB tampered with over 100 urine samples as part of a cover-up, and that a third of the Russian medals won at Sochi were the result of doping.

In December 2016, The New York Times reported that Russia (after years of denials) finally admitted that senior Russian officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history — a far-reaching doping operation that implicated scores of Russian athletes and tainted not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but also the entire Olympic movement. It was confirmed that a lab director tampered with urine samples at the Olympics and provided cocktails of performance-enhancing drugs, corrupting some of the world’s most prestigious competitions. Members of the Federal Security Service (a successor to the K.G.B.) broke into sample bottles holding urine. In addition, a deputy sports minister for years ordered cover-ups of top athletes’ use of banned substances. Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of Russia’s national antidoping agency characterized Russia's cheating program as an "institutional conspiracy.” She later confirmed that her words were "taken out of context" and "distorted".

In December, 2016, following the release of the McLaren report on Russian doping at the Sochi Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced the initiation of an investigation of 28 Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympic Games. La Gazzetta dello Sport reported the names of 17 athletes, of whom 15 are among the 28 under investigation. The Russian team potentially could be stripped of up to 12 Olympic medals.

Three ladies artistic skaters were named as being under investigation. They are Adelina Sotnikova, the singles gold medalist, as well as pairs skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Ksenia Stolbova. Volosozhar and Stolbova won gold and silver medals, respectively, in pairs skating. Both also won gold medals in the team event, which also puts the other eight team medalists at risk of losing their golds.

Six skiers were suspended from competition on the basis of the McLaren report: Evgeniy Belov, Alexander Legkov, Alexey Petukhov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Yulia Ivanova, and Yevgeniya Shapovalova. Legkov won a gold medal, and Vylegzhanin won three silver medals.

The International Biathlon Union suspended two biathletes who were in the Sochi games: Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. Vilukhina won silver in sprint, and both women were on a relay team that won the silver medal.

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation suspended four skeleton sliders. They are among the six athletes on the skeleton team: Nikita Tregubov, Alexander Tretyakov, Sergey Chudinov, Elena Nikitina, Maria Orlova and Olga Potylitsina. Tretyakov won a gold medal, and Nikitina won a silver.