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Russia at the Olympics

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IOC code
  
RUS

196
  
166

Website
  
www.roc.ru (Russian)

166
  
189

Russia at the Olympics

NOC
  
Russian Olympic Committee

Medals
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 196 166 189 551

Russia 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 once again competed at the Olympics, as the Soviet Union at 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.

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

In six appearances Russian athletes have won a total of 432 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 124 at the Winter Olympic Games. Over the most recent twelve Games (since 1994), Russia's 556 total medals, including 197 gold medals, are second only to the United States.

All Summer and Winter Olympic medals of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire were inherited by Russia, but not combined together with the medal count of the Russian Federation.

Hosted Games

Russia has hosted the Games on one occasion.

Medal tables

*Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Notes

  • On 11 August 2012, Evgeniya Kanaeva made history by becoming the first individual back to back olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics at the individual all around event.
  • On 21 August 2016, the Russian group of rhythmic gymnastics won their fifth title in a row at the group all around competition.
  • On 19 August 2016, both the Russian duet and team of synchronized swimming won their fifth title in a row at the duet and group events.
  • 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.

    • Flag bearers

  • 1994 Lillehammer - Sergei Tchepikov
  • 1996 Atlanta - Aleksandr Karelin
  • 1998 Nagano - Alexey Prokurorov
  • 2000 Sydney - Andrey Lavrov
  • 2002 Salt Lake City - Alexey Prokurorov
  • 2004 Athens - Alexander Popov
  • 2006 Turin - Dmitry Dorofeyev
  • 2008 Beijing - Andrei Kirilenko
  • 2010 Vancouver - Aleksey Morozov
  • 2012 London - Maria Sharapova
  • 2014 Sochi - Alexander Zubkov
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro - Sergey Tetyukhin

    • Doping

    Russia has had the most (35) Olympic medals stripped for doping violations – nearly triple the number of the second country.

    Following allegations by a Russian former lab director about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, WADA commissioned an independent investigation led by Richard McLaren. McLaren's investigation found corroborating evidence, concluding in a report published in July 2016 that the Ministry of Sport and the Federal Security Service (FSB) had operated a "state-directed failsafe system" using a "disappearing positive [test] methodology" (DPM) from "at least late 2011 to August 2015".In response to these findings, WADA announced that RUSADA should be regarded as non-compliant with respect to the World Anti-Doping Code and recommended that Russia be banned from competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Commission (IOC) rejected that recommendation, stating that the IOC and each sport's international federation would make decisions on each athlete's individual basis. On 4 August 2016, one day prior to the opening ceremony, 270 athletes were cleared for competition, while 167 were removed because of doping.

    References

    Russia at the Olympics Wikipedia
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