Since a certain time until 1991 in the end of each year the Federation of Sports Journalists of the USSR held an inquest among its members to name top ten athletes of the year of the USSR. Here is a list of them.
Contents
2016
1972
Alphabetical order.
1973
1975
1979
Ordered by number of points:
- Boris Mikhailov (Athlete of the Year)
- Vladimir Salnikov
- Yurik Vardanyan
- Anatoly Karpov
- Alexander Dityatin
- Natalya Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov
- Sergei Sukhoruchenkov
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva
- Galina Kulakova
- Nellie Kim
1983
1984
Announced on December 28, 1984.
1986
Announced on December 27, 1986.
1988
Ordered by number of points:
- Vladimir Salnikov (Athlete of the Year)
- Sergey Bubka
- Arvydas Sabonis
- Vladimir Artemov
- Yuri Zakharevich
- Yelena Shushunova
- Alexei Mikhailichenko
- Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh
- Tamara Tikhonova
- Gintautas Umaras
1989
Ordered by number of points:
- Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
- Elena Välbe
- Fyodor Cherenkov
- Igor Korobchinsky
- Svetlana Boguinskaya
- Radion Gataullin
- Alexandra Timoshenko
- Igor Zhelezovski
- Israel Akopkokhyan (boxing)
- Alexander Karelin
1990
Ordered by number of points:
- Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
- Elena Välbe
- Andrei Cherkasov
- Sergei Yuran
- Anatoly Khrapaty
- Jüri Jaanson
- Radion Gataullin
- Alexander Karelin
- Svetlana Boguinskaya
- Andrei Kurnyavka (boxing)
References
Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA