Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Soviet Union
games=1988 Summer
competitors=
flagbearer=Alexander Karelin
sports=
gold=55
silver=31
bronze=46
total=132
rank=1

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.

Medalists

Gold

* Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov, and Vitaly Savin — Athletics, Men's 4x100 m Relay
* Vyacheslav Ivanenko — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
* Gennady Avdeyenko — Athletics, Men's High Jump
* Sergey Bubka — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
* Sergey Litvinov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
* Olga Bryzgina — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
* Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres
* Olga Bondarenko — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres
* Olga Bryzgina, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, and Mariya Pinigina — Athletics, Women's 4x400 m Relay
* Natalya Lisovskaya — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
* Aleksandr Belostennyi, Valdemaras Chomičius, Valery Goborov, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Igors Miglinieks, Viktor Pankrashkin, Arvydas Sabonis, Tiit Sokk, Sergey Tarakanov, Valery Tikhonenko, and Aleksandr Volkov — Basketball, Men's Team Competition
* Vyacheslav Yanovsky — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
* Ivans Klementjevs — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000 m Canadian Singles
* Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs
* Nikolaï Juravschi and Viktor Reneysky — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs
* Aleksandr Kirichenko — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial
* Gintautas Umaras — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Individual Pursuit
* Arturas Kasputis, Dmitry Nelyubin, Gintautas Umaras, and Vyacheslav Ekimov — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit
* Erika Salumäe — Cycling, Women's Cycling Sprint
* Vladimir Aptsiauri, Anvar Ibragimov, Boris Koretsky, Ilgar Mamedov, and Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
* Dmitri Kharin, Gela Ketashvili, Igor Sklyarov, Aleksei Cherednik, Arvydas Janonis, Vadim Tishchenko, Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Igor Ponomarev, Aleksandr Borodyuk, Igor Dobrovolsky, Vladimir Lyutyi, Yevgeni Yarovenko, Sergei Fokin, Vladimir Tatarchuk, Aleksei Mikhailichenko, Aleksei Prudnikov, Viktor Losev, Sergei Gorlukovich, Yuri Savichev, Arminas Narbekovas — Football, Men's Team
* Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
* Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
* Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
* Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
* Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
* Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
* Sergey Kharkov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
* Vladimir Artyomov, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Vladimir Gogoladze, Sergey Kharkov, Valery Lyukin, and Vladimir Novikov — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises
* Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
* Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
* Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Natalya Lascenova, Yelena Shevchenko, Yelena Shushunova, and Olga Strazheva — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
* Marina Lobach — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
* Andrei Lavrov, Alexandre Tuchkin, Aleksandr Rymanov, Aleksandr Karshakevich, Yuri Nesterov, Georgi Sviridenko, Andrei Chumentsev, Mikhail Vasiliev, Yuri Shevtsov, Vyacheslav Atavin, Valdemar Novitski, Igor Chumak, Konstantin Sharovarov, Valeri Gopin — Handball, Men's Team
* Irina Shilova — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Rifle
* Nino Salukvadze — Shooting, Women's 25m Pistol
* Afanasi Kuzmine — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
* Dmitri Monakov — Shooting, Mixed Trap
* Vladimir Salnikov — Swimming, Men's 1500m Freestyle
* Igor Polyanski — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
* Valentina Ogienko, Elena Volkova, Marina Kumysh, Irina Smirnova, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Perkhomchuk, Tatyana Krainova, Olga Shkurnova, Marina Nikulina, Elena Ovchinnikova, Olga Krivosheeva and Svetlana Korytova — Volleyball, Women's team competition
* Alexandre Kurlovich — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight
* Oksen Mirzoyan — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
* Yuri Zakharevich — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
* Israil Arsamakov — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
* Anatoli Khrapaty — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-heavyweight
* Pavel Kuznetsov — Weightlifting, Men's First-heavyweight
* David Gobedjichvili — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight
* Sergei Beloglazov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
* Arsen Fadzaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight
* Makharbek Khadartsev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-heavyweight
* Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
* Kamandar Madzhidov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
* Levon Djulfalakian — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight
* Mikhail Mamiashvili — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

Silver

* Radion Gataullin — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
* Igor Lapshin — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
* Romas Ubartas — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
* Yuri Sedykh — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
* Laimutė Baikauskaitė — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
* Tatyana Ledovskaya — Athletics, Women's 400 m Hurdles
* Nuramgomed Shanavazov — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
* Mikhail Slivinskiy — Canoeing, Men's C-1 500m
* Viktor Denisov and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
* Viktor Denisov, Sergey Kirsanov, Aleksandr Motuzenko, and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours
* Nikolay Kovsh — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)
* Andrey Alshan, Mikhail Burtsev, Sergey Koryazhkin, Sergey Mindirgasov, and Georgy Pogosov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
* Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
* Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
* Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
* Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
* Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
* Vladimir Shestakov — Judo, Men's Middleweight
* Veniamin But, Nikolai Komarov, Vasili Tikhanov, Aleksandr Dumchev, Pavel Gurkovsky, Viktor Diduk, Viktor Omelyanovich, Andrei Vasiliev, Aleksandr Lukyanov — Rowing, Men's Eight With Coxswain
* Irina Kalimbet, Svetlana Maziy, Inna Frolova, Antonina Dumcheva — Women's Quadruple Sculls Without Coxswain
* Tõnu Tõniste, Toomas Tõniste — Sailing, Men's 470 - Two Person Dinghy
* Nino Salukvadze — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
* Elena Dendeberova — Swimming, Women's 200m Individual Medley
* Gennadi Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev, Vladimir Tkashenko — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
* Yuri Panchenko, Andrei Kuznetsov, Viacheslav Zaitsev, Igor Runov, Vladimir Shkurikhin, Yevgeni Krasilnikov, Raimundas Vilde, Valeri Losev, Yuri Sapega, Aleksandr Sorokolet, Yaroslav Antonov and Yuri Cherednik — Volleyball, Men's team competition
* Israel Militosyan — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
* Nail Mukhamedyarov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-heavyweight
* Stepan Sarkisyan — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight
* Adlan Varaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight
* Yuri Khabelov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
* Daulet Turlykhanov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight

Bronze

*Vladimir Echeev — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
* Rudolf Povarnitsyn — Athletics, Men's High Jump
* Grigory Yegorov — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
* Aleksandr Kovalenko — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
* Jüri Tamm — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
* Olga Nazarova — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
* Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
* Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres
* Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, and Marina Zhirova — Athletics, Women's 4x100 m Relay
* Tamara Bykova — Athletics, Women's High Jump
* Galina Chistyakova — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
* Olesya Barel, Olga Buryakina, Irina Gerlits, Yelena Khudashova, Aleksandra Leonova, Irina Minkh, Galina Savitskaya, Irina Sumnikova, Vitalija Tuomaite, Olga Yakovleva, Olga Yevkova, and Natalya Zasulskaya — Basketball, Women's Team Competition
* Timofey Skryabin — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
* Aleksandr Miroshnichenko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight
* Marat Ganeyev — Cycling, Men's Points Race
* Laima Zilporite — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
* Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
* Andrey Shuvalov — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
* Pavel Kolobkov, Vladimir Resnitschenko, Andrey Shuvalov, Igor Tikhomirov, and Mikhail Tishko — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
* Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
* Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
* Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
* Alexandra Timoshenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
* Natalya Mitryuk, Larisa Karlova, Zinaida Turchina, Marina Bazanova, Natalia Morskova, Tatyana Gorb, Elena Nemashkalo, Tatyana Diandigava, Natalya Anisimova, Natalya Lapitskaya, Svetlana Mankova, Yevgeniya Tovstogan, Olga Semenova, Natalya Rusnachenko, Elina Guseva — Handball, Women's Team
* Grigori Verichev — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
* Amiran Totikashvili — Judo, Men's -60kg
* Georgi Tenadze — Judo, Men's Lightweight
* Bashir Varaev — Judo, Men's Half-middleweight
* Vakhtang Yagorashvili — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
* Aleksandr Marchenko, Vasili Yakusha — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
* Larisa Moskalenko, Irina Shunikovskaya — Sailing, Women's 470 - Two Person Dinghy
* Marina Dobrancheva — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
* Anna Malukhina — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
* Igor Basinski — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
* Valentina Cherkasova — Shooting, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
* Kirill Ivanov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
* Gennadi Avramenko — Shooting, Men's 50m Running Target
* Igor Polyansky — Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke
* Dmitri Volkov — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke
* Vadim Yaroshchuk — Swimming, Men's 200m Individual Medley
* Igor Polyansky, Dmitri Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk, Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
* Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle
* Evgeni Sharonov, Nurlan Mendygaliev, Evgeni Grishin, Aleksandr Kolotov, Sergei Naumov, Viktor Berendyuga, Sergei Kotenko, Dmitri Apanassenko, Georgi Mschvenieradze, Mikhail Ivanov, Sergei Markoch, Nikolai Smirnov, Mikhail Giorgadze — Water Polo, Men's Team
* Sergei Karamchakov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-flyweight
* Vladimir Tohuzov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight
* Vladimir Popov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-heavyweight

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Results by event

Archery

After boycotting the 1984 archery competition, the Soviet team found itself unable to repeat its three medals of eight years earlier despite there being twice as many events. Vladimir Echeev won the nation's only archery medal, a bronze, though the Soviets did pick up 4 more top eight finishes.

Women's Individual Competition:
*Lioudmila Arjannikova - final, 4th place
*T. Mountian - final, 8th place
*N. Boutouzova - quarterfinal, 18th place

Men's Individual Competition:
*Vladimir Echeev - final, bronze medal
*K. Chkolny - 1/8 final, 20th place
*Juri Leontiev - preliminary round, 29th place

Women's Team Competition:
*Arjannikova, Mountian, and Boutouzova - final, 4th place

Men's Team Competition:
*Echeev, Chkolny, and Leontiev - final, 5th place

Athletics

Men's Competition

Men's Marathon
* Ravil Kachapov :* Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)

Men's Long Jump
* Leonid Volochine:* Qualification — 7.89m :* Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)

* Robert Emmiyan:* Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)

* Vladimir Otchkan:* Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw
* Romas Ubartas:* Qualification – 65.58m:* Final – 67.48m (→ Silver Medal)

* Yuriy Dumchev:* Qualification – 62.08m:* Final – 66.42m (→ 4th place)

* Vaclavas Kidykas:* Qualification – 60.88m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put
* Sergey Smirnov:* Qualification — 20.48m:* Final — 20.36m (→ 8th place)

Men's Hammer Throw
* Sergey Litvinov:* Qualification — 81.24m:* Final — 84.80m (→ Gold Medal)

* Yuriy Sedykh:* Qualification — 78.48m:* Final — 83.76m (→ Silver Medal)

* Jüri Tamm:* Qualification — 69.68m:* Final — 81.16m (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Javelin Throw
* Viktor Yevsyukov :* Qualification — 79.26m:* Final — 82.32m (→ 5th place)

* Vladimir Ovchinnikov :* Qualification — 80.26m:* Final — 79.12m (→ 7th place)

Men's Decathlon
* Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place) :# 100 metres — 11.23s:# Long Jump — 7.28m:# Shot Put — 15.25m:# High Jump — 1.97m:# 400 metres — 48.60s:# 110m Hurdles — 14.76s:# Discus Throw — 48.02m:# Pole Vault — 5.20m:# Javelin Throw — 59.48m:# 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s

Men's 50km Walk
* Vyacheslav Ivanenko:* Final — 3:38:29 (→ Gold Medal)

* Alexandre Potachev:* Final — 3:41:00 (→ 4th place)

* Vitaly Popovitch:* Final — 3:59:23 (→ 26th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 4x400m Relay
* Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, and Olga Bryzgina :*Heat — 3:27.14
* Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, and Olga Bryzgina :*Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Marathon
* Tatyana Polovinskaya :* Final — 2:27.05 (→ 4th place)
* Zoya Ivanova :* Final — 2:30.25 (→ 9th place)
* Raisa Smekhnova :* Final — 2:33.19 (→ 16th place)

Women's Discus Throw
* Ellina Zvereva:* Qualification – 63.26m:* Final – 68.94m (→ 5th place)

* Larisa Mikhalchenko:* Qualification – 64.32m:* Final – 64.08m (→ 10th place)

* Galina Murasova:* Qualification – 62.54m:* Final – NM (→ no ranking)

Women's Javelin Throw
* Irina Kostiuchenkova:* Qualification – 63.24m:* Final – 67.00m (→ 4th place)

* Natalya Ermolovich:* Qualification – 64.44m:* Final – 64.84m (→ 6th place)

Women's Shot Put
* Natalya Lisovskaya:* Qualification – 19.78m:* Final – 22.24m (→ Gold Medal)

* Natalya Akhremenko:* Qualification – 19.40m:* Final – 20.13m (→ 7th place)

* Valentina Fedjuschina:* Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon
* Natalya Choubenkova:* Final Result — 6540 points (→ 4th place)

* Remiguiia Sablovskaite:* Final Result — 6456 points (→ 5th place)

* Svetlana Buraga:* Final Result — 6232 points (→ 10th place)

=Basketball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Lost to Yugoslavia (79-92):* Defeated Australia (91-69):* Defeated Puerto Rico (93-81):* Defeated South Korea (110-73):* Defeated Central African Republic (87-78)
*Quarterfinals:* Defeated Brazil (110-105)
*Semifinals:* Defeated United States (82-76)
*Final:* Defeated Yugoslavia (76-63) → Gold Medal
*Team Roster:*Aleksandr Belostennyi:*Valdemaras Chomičius:*Valery Goborov:*Rimas Kurtinaitis:*Šarūnas Marčiulionis:*Igors Miglinieks:*Viktor Pankrashkin:*Arvydas Sabonis:*Tiit Sokk:*Sergey Tarakanov:*Valery Tikhonenko:*Aleksandr Volkov
*Head Coach: Alexander Gomelsky

=Boxing=

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)
* Alexander Makhmutov:* First Round — Bye:* Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0:* Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1:* Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5

Men's Flyweight (– 51kg)
*Timofey Skryabin

Men's Bantamweight (– 54kg)
*Aleksandr Atemyev

Men's Featherweight (– 67kg)
*Mekhak Ghazaryan

Men's Lightweight (– 60kg)
*Kostya Tszyu

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5kg)
*Vyacheslav Yanovsky

Men's Welterweight (– 67kg)
*Vladimir Yereshchenko

Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71kg)
*Yevgeny Zaytsev

Men's Middleweight (– 75kg)
*Ruslan Taramov

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81kg)
*Nurmagomed Shanavazov

Men's Heavyweight (– 91kg)
*Ramzan Sebiyev

Men's Super-Heavyweight (+ 91kg)
*Alex Miroshnichenko

=Cycling=

Women's Individual Road Race
* Bronze Medal)
* Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
* Alla Yakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)

=Diving=

Men's 10m Platform
*Georgy Chogovadze:*Preliminary Round — 540.90 :*Final — 585.96 (→ 4th place)

*Vladimir Timoshinin:*Preliminary Round — 570.75 :*Final — 534.66 (→ 8th place)

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Soviet Union – India 1-0:* Soviet Union – South Korea 3-1:* Soviet Union – Canada 0-0:* Soviet Union – Great Britain 1-3:* Soviet Union – West Germany 0-6
*Classification Matches:* 5th-8th place: Soviet Union – Pakistan 0-1:* 7th-8th place: Soviet Union – Argentina 4-1 (→ 7th place)
*Team Roster:* (01.) Vladimir Pleshakov (gk):* (02.) Viktor Deputatov:* (03.) Igor Yulchiev:* (04.) Sos Airapetian:* (05.) Nikolai Sankovetch:* (06.) Vladimir Antakov (captain):* (07.) Vyacheslav Chechenev:* (08.) Igor Atanov:* (09.) Sergei Chakhvorostov:* (10.) Sergei Pleshakov:* (11.) Mikhail Nechipurenko:* (12.) Alexander Domachev (gk):* (13.) Igor Davydov:* (14.) Aleksandr Miasnikov:* (15.) Yevgeni Nechaev:* (16.) Mikhail Bukatin
*Head Coach: Leonid Pavlovsky

wimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle
* Gennadiy Prigoda
*# Heat – 22.57
*# Final – 22.71 (→ Bronze Medal)

* Vladimir Tkachenko
*# Heat – 22.81
*# Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle
* Gennadiy Prigoda
*# Heat – 50.13
*# Final – 49.75 (→ 4th place)

* Yuri Bachkatov
*# Heat – 50.08
*# Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle
* Alexei Kouznetsov
*# Heat – 1:50.84
*# B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)

* Yuri Bachkatov
*# Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle
* Alexandre Bazanov
*# Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle
* Vladimir Salnikov
*# Heat – 15:07.83
*# Final – 15:00.40 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke
* Igor Polyansky
*# Heat – 55.04
*# Final – 55.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

* Serguei Zabolotnov
*# Heat – 56.13
*# Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke
* Igor Polyansky
*# Heat – 2:01.70
*# Final – 1:59.37 (→ Gold Medal)

* Serguei Zabolotnov
*# Heat – 2:01.27
*# Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke
* Dmitry Volkov
*# Heat – 1:02.49
*# Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

* Alexei Matveev
*# Heat – 1:03.25
*# B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke
* Valeri Lozik
*# Heat – 2:16.31
*# Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)

* Vadim Alexeev
*# Heat – 2:17.15
*# B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly
* Vadim Yaroshchuk
*# Heat – 54.17
*# Final – 54.60 (→ 8th place)

* Konstantine Petrov
*# Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly
* Vadim Yaroshchuk
*# Heat – 2:01.05
*# B-Final – 2:00.34 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley
* Vadim Yaroshchuk
*# Heat – 2:02.77
*# Final – 2:02.40 (→ Bronze Medal)

* Mikhail Zoubkov
*# Heat – 2:03.79
*# Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley
* Mikhail Zoubkov
*# Heat – 4:25.30
*# B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
* Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
*# Heat – 3:19.89
* Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bachkatov, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
*# Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
* Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev, and Aleksei Kouznetsov
*# Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay
* Serguei Zabolotnov, Valeri Lozik, Konstantine Petrov, and Nikolai Evseev
*# Heat – 3:45.29
* Igor Polyansky, Dmitry Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk, and Gennadiy Prigoda
*# Final – 3:39.96 (→ Bronze Medal)
Women's 50 m Freestyle
* Inna Abramova
*# Heat – 26.27
*# B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle
* Natalia Trefilova
*# Heat – 56.66
*# B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)

* Svetlana Issakova
*# Heat – 57.17
*# B-Final – 57.07 (→ 15th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle
* Natalia Trefilova
*# Heat – 2:00.54
*# Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle
* Natalia Trefilova
*# Heat – 4:12.20
*# Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle
* Natalia Trefilova
*# Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke
* Elena Volkova
*# Heat – 1:09.86
*# Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)

* Svetlana Kouzmina
*# Heat – 1:10.83
*# B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke
* Yulia Bogatcheva
*# Heat – 2:28.94
*# Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)

* Svetlana Kouzmina
*# Heat – 2:30.93
*# B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly
* Svetlana Koptchikova
*# Heat – 1:01.65
*# B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly
* Svetlana Koptchikova
*# Heat – 2:15.26
*# B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley
* Yelena Dendeberova
*# Heat – 2:15.30
*# Final – 2:13.31 (→ Silver Medal)

* Yulia Bogatcheva
*# Heat – 2:19.07
*# B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley
* Yelena Dendeberova
*# Heat – 4:46.63
*# Final – 4:40.44 (→ 4th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
* Inna Abramova, Svetlana Issakova, Yelena Dendeberova, and Svetlana Koptchikova
*# Heat – 3:46.28
* Yelena Dendeberova, Svetlana Issakova, Natalia Trefilova, and Svetlana Koptchikova
*# Final – 3:44.99 (→ 5th place)

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition
* Alexander Volkov
*# First round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (West Germany) 5-7 4-6 3-6

Women's Singles Competition
* Larisa Neiland
*# First Round – Bye
*# Second Round – Defeated Sara Gomer (Great Britain) 6-7 7-6 9-7
*# Third Round – Defeated Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 6-3 7-6
*# Quarterfinals – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 2-6 6-4 3-6
* Leila Meskhi
*# First Round – Defeated Regina Rajchrtova (Czechoslovakia) 7-5 7-5
*# Second Round – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 5-7 1-6

* Natasha Zvereva
*# First Round – Bye
*# Second Round – Defeated Anne Minter (Australia) 6-4 3-6 6-1
*# Third Round – Defeated Tine Scheuer-Larsen (Denmark) 6-1 6-2
*# Quarterfinals – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 4-6 3-6

Volleyball

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Defeated Bulgaria (3-0):* Defeated Sweden (3-0):* Defeated South Korea (3-0):* Defeated Italy (3-1):* Lost to Brazil (2-3)
*Semi Finals:* Defeated Argetina (3-0)
*Final:* Lost to the United States (1-3) → Silver Medal
*Team Roster:*Yuri Panchenko:*Andrey Kuzentsov:*Vyatcheslav Zaytsev:*Igor Runov:*Vladimir Chkourikhine:*Yevgueny Krasilnikov:*Raimond Vilde:*Valery Lossev:*Yuri Sapega:*Yuri Sorokolet:*Yaroslav Antonov:*Yuri Tcherednik
*Head Coach: Guennady Parchine

Women's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A):* Lost to Japan (2-3):* Defeated South Korea (3-2):* Defeated East Germany (3-0)
* Semi Finals:* Defeated PR China (3-0)
* Final:* Defeated Peru (3-2) → Gold Medal
* Team Roster:*Valentina Ogienko :*Yelena Volkova :*Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko :*Tatyana Sidorenko :*Irina Parkhomchuk-Kirillova :*Olga Shkournova :*Marina Nikulina :*Elena Ovtchnikova :*Olga Krivocheeva :*Svetlana Korytova :*Marina Koumych :*Tatyana Krainova
*Head Coach: Nikolai Karpol

Water Polo

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A):* Drew with Italy (9-9):* Defeated Australia (11-4):* Defeated France (14-8):* Defeated South Korea (17-4):* Lost to West Germany (8-9)
* Semi Finals:* Lost to United States (7-8)
* Bronze Medal Match:* Defeated West Germany (14-13) → Bronze Medal
* Team Roster:* Evgueni Charonov:* Nourlan Mendygaliev:* Evgeni Grichine:* Alexandre Kolotov:* Sergei Naoumov:* Victor Berendiouga:* Serguei Kotenko:* Dmitri Apanasenko:* Georgui Mchvenieradze:* Mikhail Ivanov:* Serguei Markotch:* Nikolai Smirnov:* Mikhail Giorgadze
*Head Coach: Boris Popov

Wrestling

Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight

ee also

* Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Paralympics