List of Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year

List of Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year

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.

List

1972

Alphabetical order.
*Nikolai Avilov
*Vasily Alexeyev
*Valery Borzov
*Lyudmila Bragina
*Olga Korbut
*Galina Kulakova
*Alexander Medved
*Viktor Saneyev
*Ludmilla Tourischeva
*Vyacheslav Vedenin

1973

*Irina Rodnina (Athlete of the Year)
*Ludmilla Tourischeva
*Faina Melnik
*Galina Shugurova
*Nadezhda Chizhova
*Valery Kharlamov
*Pavel Pervushin (weightlifting)
*Levan Tediashvili (amateur wrestling)
*Pavel Lednev (modern pentathlon)
*Anatoly Karpov

1975

*Tatyana Averina
*Sergei Belov
*Oleg Blokhin
*Irina Kalinina (diving)
*Anatoly Karpov
*Yevgeny Kulikov
*Pavel Lednev (modern pentathlon)
*Zebinisso Rustamova (archery)
*Ludmilla Tourischeva
*Alexander Yakushev

1984

Announced on December 28, 1984.
*Sergey Bubka (Athlete of the Year)
*Yurik Vardanyan
*Yuri Sedykh
*Oleg Bozhev
*Anatoly Beloglazov (wrestling)
*Sergei Zabolotnov (swimming)
*Nikolay Zimyatov
*Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev
*Sergei Kopylov (cycling)
*Olga Mostepanova

1986

Announced on December 27, 1986.
*Sergey Bubka (Athlete of the Year)
*Igor Belanov
*Igor Zhelezovski
*Yury Zakharevich
*Garry Kasparov
*Igor Polyansky
*Arvydas Sabonis
*Yuri Sedykh
*Marina Stepanova (athletics)
*Andrei Chesnokov

1988

Ordered by number of points: [cite news|title=The country is proud of them - the world knows them|work=Sovetsky Sport|language=Russian |date= 1988-12-27]
#Vladimir Salnikov (Athlete of the Year)
#Sergey Bubka
#Arvydas Sabonis
#Vladimir Artemov (artistic gymnastics)
#Yuri Zakharevich
#Yelena Shushunova
#Alexei Mikhailichenko
#Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh
#Tamara Tikhonova
#Gintautas Umaras (cycling)

1989

Ordered by number of points: [cite news|title=Top 10 in 1989|work=Sovetsky Sport|language=Russian |date= 1989-12-29]
#Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
#Elena Välbe
#Fyodor Cherenkov
#Igor Korobchinsky (athletics)
#Svetlana Boguinskaya
#Rodion Gataulin
#Alexandra Timoshenko
#Igor Zhelezovski
#Israel Akopkokhyan (boxing)
#Alexander Karelin

1990

Ordered by number of points: [cite news|title=Top ten in 1990|work=Sovetsky Sport|language=Russian |date= 1990-12-29]
#Garry Kasparov (Athlete of the Year)
#Elena Välbe
#Andrei Cherkasov
#Sergei Yuran
#Anatoly Khrapaty
#Jüri Jaanson
#Rodion Gataulin
#Alexander Karelin
#Svetlana Boguinskaya
#Andrei Kurnyavka (boxing)

References

*cite book|title=Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year|year=1973|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian
*cite book|title=Panorama of the 1973 Sports Year|year=1974|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian
*cite book|title=Panorama of the 1975 Sports Year|year=1976|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian
*cite book|title=Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year|year=1985|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian
*cite book|title=Panorama of the 1986 Sports Year|year=1987|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|location=Moscow|language=Russian


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