Team ROC - Profile

Highlights:

@ PYEONGCHANG 2018
Competed as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) with a team of 167 athletes (87 men, 80 women) in all 15 sports. The OAR team won 17 medals (two gold), five by women, 11 by men, and one in mixed/open events.

The top individual performer for OAR was cross-country skier Aleksandr Bolshunov, who won four medals, with three silver and one bronze. Denis Spitsov also won three cross-country medals, with two silver and a bronze medal.

PYEONGCHANG 2018 MEDALS
Cross-Country Skiing: 8 (0-3-5)
Figure Skating: 3 (1-2-0)
Freestyle Skiing: 2 (0-0-2)
Ice Hockey: 1 (1-0-0)
Short Track Speed Skating: 1 (0-0-1)
Skeleton: 1 (0-1-0)
Speed Skating: 1 (0-0-1)
Total: 17 (2-6-9)

PYEONGCHANG 2018 FLAGBEARERS
Opening Ceremony: Flag carried by a POCOG volunteer
Closing Ceremony: Flag carried by a POCOG volunteer

OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY
Athletes from the Russian Federation will compete for ROC at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing after the decision taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in December 2020 regarding the case of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).

The Russian Federation made its debut at the Olympic Winter Games at Lillehammer 1994. Russian athletes previously represented the Russian Empire (1900-12), the Soviet Union (1952-88), the Unified Team (1992), and Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018) at the Olympic Games.

Its most successful sport has been cross-country skiing winning 14 gold medals (33 total). Larisa Lazutina leads all Russian skiers with four gold medals, including three at Nagano 1998 where she won a medal in all five races she competed in. Lazutina's relay teammate at Lillehammer 1994, Lyubov Yegorova, won three gold medals representing Russian Federation, but won another three gold medals previously as a member of the Unified Team at Albertville 1992.

Figure skating has also been successful for Russian skaters, winning 14 gold medals. Five figure skaters have won two gold medals each with Yevgeny Plyushchenko also adding two silver medals, standing on the podium in all four of his Olympic appearances (2002-14).

Korean-born Viktor An has won the most gold medals among male athletes with three in short track speed skating. After winning three gold medals at Torino 2006 representing the Republic of Korea, he gained Russian citizenship and won four medals at Sochi 2014. An has accounted for four of six Russian short track medals.

Russian Federation has topped the medal tally on two occasions, at their debut at Lillehammer 1994 and 20 years later at Sochi 2014 as the host nation, winning 11 gold medals on both occasions.

OLYMPIC HOSTS
Moscow - 1980 Olympic Games
Sochi - 2014 Olympic Winter Games

Additional Information:

https://olympic.ru/

Anthem Title: Piano Concerto No. 1

Anthem Composer: Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

IOC Recognition Date: 1993

Delegation President: Stanislav Pozdnyakov

Delegation Secretary General: Anastasia Davydova

IOC Members: Shamil Tarpishchev (entry into IOC: 1994)Yelena Isinbaeva (entry into IOC: 2016)Vitaly Smirnov (IOC member from 1971 to 2015, Honorary Member since 2016)Alexander Popov (IOC member from 2000 to 2016, Honorary Memeber since 2016)

First OG/PG Appearance: 1994

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