The Olympic champion of Albertville in the CIS team, forward of the Moscow "Spartak" Igor Boldin recalls the events Olympic Games 1992.
In the CIS championship, which has not yet ceased to be one of the strongest in the world after the collapse of the USSR, in 1992 the Spartak trio Nikolai Borshevsky-Igor Boldin-Vitaly Prokhorov shone. It is no wonder that Viktor Tikhonov chose them when he formed the team for the Olympic Games in Albertville.
Was the invitation to the Olympic team unexpected for you?
- Not really. In November 1991, I was taken to a tournament called the German Cup, in which we played three matches with the national teams of Czechoslovakia, Germany and Sweden. Our Spartak team stood out even then, and Viktor Tikhonov made it clear that we can count on the fact that we will play for the national team at the Olympics. After the New Year, our trio played for the national team in two friendly matches, and we began to fully prepare for the Olympics.
- How did the process of preparing for the Olympics differ from the usual one?
- No, everything is normal. We spent two weeks at the training camp in Novogorsk, and two weeks later we flew to Switzerland in order to have time to adapt to the start of the Games. After all, we had to live and play in the mountains. At the same time, we took part in the tournament that took place there, playing with the national teams of Finland and Switzerland. By the way, we lost that tournament to the Swiss...
- However, then you bounced back on the Swiss national team in full?
Yes, we beat them up a lot. It so happened that in this debut match the beginning of the rout (the game ended with a score of 8:1. - "Gazeta.Ru") was put by me, scoring the first goal of the CIS team at the Olympics. As a result, our trio scored two more goals for them, that is, everyone scored: me, Kolya Borshchevsky, and Vitaly Prokhorov.
- How was the tournament in general for the hockey team?
- The beginning of the Games relaxed us somewhat, because we met not with the strongest rivals - the Swiss and Norwegians. Next game with our age-old rivals, the CSFR team was unsuccessful for us. In short, we lost it. Tikhonov scolded us for this defeat for a very long time, so we went to the next matches extremely mobilized. They defeated the hosts of the French tournament, then had a difficult match with the Canadians, winning it. The match with the Finns also turned out to be quite simple, as, indeed, with the Americans in the semi-finals.
It so happened that you scored the first and last goal of our team at the Olympics. The last goal in the final match against Canada was the winner. Please tell us about this match, how did you score the puck?
- The game with the Canadians was hard. The first two periods ended with a zero score, any mistake would have cost the victory in the tournament, and we understood that. The tension was incredible. And then Slava Butsaev scored a goal that the Canadian goalkeeper would dream about, in my opinion, it was Sean Burke, in nightmares. Slava threw from the goal line, and the puck, having hit either the shield or the goalkeeper's skate, crawled into the near corner. It was a very important puck that allowed us to breathe easier. I scored my own goal, finishing off the puck after Borshchevsky's shot.
- Igor, tell us, please, what do you remember about the Olympics in your life plan?
- Actually, there is nothing to remember. We lived in the mountains for some ski lodge, outside the Olympic village, however, all hockey players lived there. We did not go down to the city, because there was no time. We played every other day, and on the day when there were no matches, we always had a training session. There was only one ice palace in Albertville, in my opinion, this place was called Méribel, it was alone far from the venues of other competitions. Therefore, we could not go to cheer for our athletes. After all, we didn’t even get to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, again because of the distance from the venue.
- And what do you remember about the Olympics in general?
- By the fact that we won it!
As it turned out, these were the last Olympic gold medals for our team. In 1993, Russia won the World Cup, and on this the victorious march of the Soviet ice squad interrupted, reminding of himself only in Nagano in 1998.
| Group A | W | ABOUT | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. USA | 3:3 | 4:1 | 2:0 | 6:3 | 3:0 | 18-7 | 9 | |
| 2. Sweden | 3:3 | 2:2 | 3:1 | 7:3 | 7:2 | 22-11 | 8 | |
| 3. Finland | 1:4 | 2:2 | 5:1 | 5:3 | 9:1 | 22-11 | 7 | |
| 4. Germany | 0:2 | 1:3 | 1:5 | 5:2 | 4:0 | 11-12 | 4 | |
| 5. Italy | 3:6 | 3:7 | 3:5 | 2:5 | 7:1 | 18-24 | 2 | |
| 6. Poland | 0:3 | 2:7 | 1:9 | 0:4 | 1:7 | 4-30 | 0 |
| Group B | W | ABOUT | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Canada | 4:5 | 5:1 | 3:2 | 6:1 | 10:0 | 28-9 | 8 | |
| 2. CIS | 5:4 | 3:4 | 8:0 | 8:1 | 8:1 | 32-10 | 8 | |
| 3. CSFR | 1:5 | 4:3 | 6:4 | 4:2 | 10:1 | 25-15 | 8 | |
| 4. France | 2:3 | 0:8 | 4:6 | 4:3 | 4:2 | 14-22 | 4 | |
| 5. Switzerland | 1:6 | 1:8 | 2:4 | 3:4 | 6:3 | 13-25 | 2 | |
| 6. Norway | 0:10 | 1:8 | 1:10 | 2:4 | 3:6 | 7-38 | 0 |
1/4 finals
Canada - Germany - 3:3 (shootouts 3:2)
CSFR - Sweden - 1:3
USA - France - 4:1
CIS - Finland - 6:1
For 5-8 places
Sweden - Finland - 3:2
Germany - France - 5:4
Sweden - Germany - 4:3
Finland - France - 4:1
1/2 finals
Canada - CSFR - 4:2
CIS - USA - 5:2
The final
CIS - Canada - 3:1
For 3-4 places
CSFR - USA - 6:1
For 9-12 places
Italy - Norway - 3:5
Switzerland - Poland - 7:2
Norway - Switzerland - 5:2
Poland - Italy - 4:1
Most productive
D. Junot (Canada): 15 (6+9)
A. Khomutov (CIS): 14 (7+7)
R.Lang (CSFR): 13 (5+8)
V.Bykov (CIS): 12 (4+8)
T.Selanne (Finland): 11 (7+4)
E. Lindros (Canada): 11 (4+7)
M.Nieminen (Finland): 10 (4+6)
Y. Khmylev (CIS): 10 (3+7)
CIS
| Defenders | AND | G | P | ABOUT | CHF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Darius Kasparaitis | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2. Dmitry Mironov | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 3. Igor Kravchuk | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 4. Sergey Bautin | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 5. Dmitry Yushkevich | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 6. Alexey Zhitnik | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7. Vladimir Malakhov | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 8. Sergei Zubov | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| forwards | AND | G | P | ABOUT | CHF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Andrey Khomutov | 8 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 2 |
| 2. Vyacheslav Bykov | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| 3. Yuri Khmylev | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 |
| 4. Andrey Kovalenko | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 5. Vyacheslav Butsaev | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6. Evgeny Davydov | 8 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 7. Alexey Kovalev | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| 8. Alexey Zhamnov | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 9. Sergey Petrenko | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 10. Nikolay Borshevsky | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 11. Igor Boldin | 8 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| 12. Vitaly Prokhorov | 8 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Coaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Igor Dmitriev
Canada
| Goalkeepers | AND | W | SHV |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Sean Burke | 7 | 17 | 14 |
| 2. Trevor Kidd | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders | AND | G | P | ABOUT | CHF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Brad Schlegel | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 2. Jason Woolley | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| 3. Town Hall Dan | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4. Brian Tutt | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5. Adrian Plevsich | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 6. Kevin Dahl | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 7. Gordon Hein | 8 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 8. Kurt Giles | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| forwards | AND | G | P | ABOUT | CHF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Randy Smith | 8 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
| 2. Joe Junot | 8 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 4 |
| 3. Chris Lindberg | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| 4. Kent Manderville | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 5. Dave Tippet | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 6. Dave Hannan | 8 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
| 7. Todd Brost | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 8. Eric Lindros | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 |
| 9. Wally Schreiber | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 10. David Archibald | 8 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 11. Fabien Joseph | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 12. Patrick Levo | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
Trainer: Dave King
| forwards | AND | G | P | ABOUT | CHF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Tomasz Jelinek | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 2. Otakar Janecki | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| 3. Ladislav Lyubina | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 4. Peter Rosol | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| 5. Robert Lang | 8 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 |
| 6. Kamil Hashtak | 8 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 7. Patrick Augusta | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 8. Peter Veselovsky | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9. Jiri Liba | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 10. Radek Topal | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 11. Peter Grbeck | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 12. Richard Zemlichka | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Coaches: Ivan Glinka, Stanislav Nevesely
1956, Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy)
The seventh Winter Olympic Games were held in the Italian town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, at an altitude of about 1200 meters above sea level.
The USSR team performed for the first time at the White Olympics.
Representatives of the Soviet Union (53 people) participated in competitions in skiing, speed skating and hockey.
The team of the CSK MO was taken as the basis for the USSR Olympic team.
“The USSR national team started the competition just brilliantly, winning both of their matches with a total score of 15: 4. The Swedes were defeated with a score of 5: 1, and our hockey players made a real mess for the Swiss. The final result of 10: 3 in favor of the USSR national team today looks like unbelievable, but then was a real reflection of things."
Our team made its debut at the 1956 Italian Olympics and for the first time in history became the Olympic ice hockey champion. The invincible Canadians lost out of desperation to the US team (1:4), eventually becoming only bronze medalists. It was a real failure for the Maple Leaves.
The best player of the Soviet team in 1956 - Vsevolod Bobrov. The unique hockey player played both hockey and football superbly. Bobrov is the only athlete in the history of the Olympic Games, the captain of the USSR national teams that competed at the Olympic Games: in 1952 - football, in 1956 - hockey.
The prize awarded to the most productive team of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship was named after Vsevolod Bobrov. One of the divisions of the Continental hockey league. Built in Stupino Ice Palace sport is named after Vsevolod Mikhailovich.
WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1956
Gold - USSR
Silver - USA
Bronze - Canada
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS-1956
Nikolai Puchkov (1930 - 2005), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925 - 2003), Ivan Tregubov (1930 - 1992), Nikolai Sologubov (1924 - 1988), Genrikh Sidorenkov (1931 - 1990), Dmitry Ukolov (1929 - 1992), Alfred Kuchevsky (1931 - 2000), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922 - 1979), Alexey Guryshev (1925 - 1983), Viktor Shuvalov (born 12/15/1923), Valentin Kuzin (1926 - 1994), Alexander Uvarov (1922 - 1994), Yuri Krylov ( 1930 - 1979), Evgeny Babich (1921 - 1972), Yuri Pantyukhov (1931 - 1981), Nikolai Khlystov (1932 - 1999), Viktor Nikiforov (born 12/04/1931). Head coach: Arkady Chernyshev (1914 - 1992)
1964 Innsbruck (Austria)
The Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck turned out to be a record, both in terms of the number of participants (1111 people) and the breadth of the program (34 types of competitions, 7 sports).
Our team won second place in Innsbruck Olympic gold.
10 goals were spent by defenders, 15 by Yakushev's troika, 14 by Starshinov's troika, 11 by Almetov's troika. Canadians - the founders of hockey, for the first time remained below the line of Olympic medalists, taking fourth place.
The best players of the tournament:
Goalkeeper: S. Martin (Canada);
Defender: F. Tikal (Czechoslovakia);
Forward: B. Mayorov (USSR);
By the decision of the coaches of the USSR national team best striker award transferred to the best player of the Soviet team, Eduard Ivanov.
Fair Play Prize Awarded to the Finland team with the fewest penalty minutes.
The games of the Olympic tournament were served by Soviet referees:
A. Starovoitov (5 matches) and V. Kuznetsov (3 matches).
Symbolic team of the tournament:
S. Martin (Canada); A. Ragulin (USSR) - R. Seiling (Canada); R. Bourbonnet (Canada) - J. Cherny (Czechoslovakia) - V. Yakushev (USSR).
WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1964
1. USSR
Viktor Konovalenko, Boris Zaitsev, Alexander Ragulin, Eduard Ivanov, Viktor Kuzkin, Vitaly Davydov, Oleg Zaitsev, Konstantin Loktev, Viktor Yakushev, Vyacheslav Starshinov, Boris Mayorov, Veniamin Alexandrov, Leonid Volkov, Anatoly Firsov, Alexander Almetov, Evgeny Mayorov, Stanislav Petukhov .
2. Sweden
3. Czechoslovakia
1968, Grenoble (France)
WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1968
Gold - USSR
Silver - Czechoslovakia
Bronze - Canada
Olympic Champions 1968
Viktor Singer (born 10/29/1941), Viktor Konovalenko (03/11/1938 - 02/20/1996), Viktor Blinov (09/01/1945 - 07/09/1968), Vitaly Davydov (born 04/03/1939), Viktor Kuzkin (07/06/1940 - 06/24/2008), Alexander Ragulin (05/05/1941 - 11/17/2004), Oleg Zaitsev (08/04/1939 - 03/01/1993), Igor Romishevsky (born 03/25/1940), Anatoly Firsov (02/01/1941 - 06/24/2000) , Viktor Polupanov (born 01/01/1946), Vyacheslav Starshinov (born 05/06/1940), Vladimir Vikulov (born 07/20/1946), Boris Mayorov (born 02/11/1938), Evgeny Mishakov (02.22.1941 - 05.30. 2007), Yuri Moiseev (07/15/1940 - 09/23/2005), Anatoly Ionov (born 05/23/1939), Veniamin Aleksandrov (04/18/1937 - 11/06/1991), Evgeny Zimin (born 08/06/1947).
USSR national team goalkeeper Viktor Konovalenko became one of the first two-time Olympic hockey champions in the world.
The best forward of the games-68 Firsov became the most successful scorer of the world championships three times in a row - from 1967 to 1969. At the Olympics, he scored 12 goals in seven games, while making two hat-tricks.
“Firsov had an amazing click force. And the goalkeepers felt bad when they saw the backswing of the CSKA forward. Once, after Firsov’s throw, the puck hit the helmet of the Wings of the Soviets goalkeeper Alexander Sidelnikov, pierced him and cut his forehead. After that, the goalkeeper, in an unconscious state, was taken to "Ambulance"".
The best players of the Olympic tournament:
goalkeeper: K. Broderick (Canada),
defender: J. Horesovski (Czechoslovakia),
forward: A. Firsov (USSR).
Most productive:
A. Firsov (USSR) - 16 (12 + 4).
V. Polupanov (USSR) - 12 (6 + 6).
V. Starshinov (USSR) - 12 (6 + 6).
V. Vikulov (USSR) - 12 (2 + 10).
J. Golonka (Czechoslovakia) - 10 (4+6).
Coaches: Arkady Chernyshov, Anatoly Tarasov.
Symbolic team of the 1968 Olympics:
- goalkeeper: K. Boderik (Canada),
- defenders: L. Svedberg (Sweden), J. Suchy (Czechoslovakia),
- forwards: A. Firsov (USSR), F. Hakk (Canada), F. Shevchik (Czechoslovakia)
1972 Sapporo (Japan)
At the Games in Sapporo, the USSR national hockey team extended its triumph by winning the Olympics for the third time in a row. Our team defeated the Finns (9:3), USA (7:2), Poland (9:3) and Czechoslovakia (5:2). And only once the wards of Anatoly Tarasov tied. It was in the second match, in which the Swedes opposed the Soviet players (3:3). Champions and medalists of the 1972 Olympics
Gold - USSR
Silver - USA
Bronze - Czechoslovakian 
In Sapporo, the trio Vikulov-Firsov-Kharlamov played productively. Of the 33 goals scored by the team at the Olympics, 16 (!) - almost half - were scored by them. In each of the five matches, Valery Kharlamov distinguished himself, becoming the most productive at the Olympics - 16 points (9 + 7). gold medal in honor of the victory in the tournament was the first success of Valery at the Olympic Games.
Most scoring:
V.Kharlamov (USSR) 16 (9+7)
V. Nedomansky (Czechoslovakia) 9 (6+3)
K.Sarner (USA) 9 (4+5)
V.Vikulov (USSR) 8 (5+3)
K.Ahern (USA) 7 (4+3)
A.Maltsev (USSR) 7 (4+3) 1972 Olympic champions
Vladislav Tretiak (born 04/25/1952), Alexander Pashkov (born 08/28/1944), Vitaly Davydov (born 04/03/1939), Viktor Kuzkin (07/06/1940 - 06/24/2008), Alexander Ragulin (05/05/1941 - 17/11) .2004), Gennady Tsygankov (08/16/1947 - 02/16/2006), Vladimir Lutchenko (born 01/02/1949), Valery Vasilyev (born 08/03/1949), Igor Romishevsky (born 03/25/1940), Evgeny Mishakov (22.02 .1941 - 05/30/2007), Alexander Maltsev (born 04/20/1949), Alexander Yakushev (born 01/02/1947), Vladimir Vikulov (born 07/20/1946), Anatoly Firsov (02/01/1041 - 07/24/2000), Valery Kharlamov (01/14/1948 - 08/27/1981), Yuri Blinov (born 01/13/1949), Boris Mikhailov (born 10/06/1944), Vladimir Petrov (born 06/30/1947), Vladimir Shadrin (born 06/06/1948 ), Evgeny Zimin (born 08/06/1947). Coaches: Arkady Chernyshev, Anatoly Tarasov.
Renowned mentors in last time prepared the team for the Olympics.
1976 Innsbruck (Austria)
At the opening of the 1976 Olympic Games, the goalkeeper of our hockey team, Vladislav Tretyak, was entrusted to carry the USSR flag. This victory for our hockey players was the fourth in a row in the framework of the Olympic Games and the fifth in history. Winners of the 1976 Olympics
Gold - USSR.
Silver - Czechoslovakia.
Bronze - Germany. Compared to the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, there have been many changes in the Soviet team. Pashkov, Ragulin, Kuzkin, Davydov, Romishevsky, Vikulov, Firsov, Blinov, Mishakov and Zimin were absent. They were replaced by Sidelnikov, Babinov, Lyapkin, Gusev, Shalimov, Zhluktov, Kapustin, Aleksandrov. Olympic champions - 1976
Vladislav Tretyak (born 04/25/1952), Alexander Sidelnikov (08/12/1950 - 06/23/2003), Sergei Babinov (born 07/11/1955), Yuri Lyapkin (born 01/21/1945), Valery Vasilyev (born 08/03/1949 ), Alexander Gusev (born January 21, 1947), Gennady Tsygankov (08-16-1947 - February 16, 2006), Vladimir Lutchenko (born January 2, 1949), Vladimir Shadrin (born June 6, 1948), Alexander Maltsev (born April 20, 1948) .1949), Viktor Shalimov (born 04/20/1951), Alexander Yakushev (born 01/02/1947), Viktor Zhluktov (born 01/26/1954), Vladimir Petrov (born 06/30/1947), Valery Kharlamov (08/14/1948 - 08/27/1981), Sergey Kapustin (02/13/1953 - 06/04/1995), Boris Mikhailov (born 10/06/1944), Boris Alexandrov (11/13/1955 - 07/31/2002). Most productive
V.Shadrin (USSR) 14 (10+4)
A.Maltsev (USSR) 14 (7+7)
V.Shalimov (USSR) 14 (7+7)
A. Yakushev (USSR) 13 (4+9)
E. Kuenhakl (Germany) 11 (6+5)
V. Zhlutkov (USSR) 11 (2+9)
1984 Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)
The Soviet hockey players won the 1984 Olympics brilliantly - seven wins in seven matches, 48 goals scored and only five missed! And the main rivals that made it to the final four - the national teams of Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Canada - were defeated with a total score of 16:1.
Losers in the last tournament (1980) when world championship ours did not take place, Soviet hockey players were looking for meetings with offenders - the Americans. But by the will of fate, the latter avoided an unpleasant match for themselves. At the preliminary stage, we ended up with the Americans in different subgroups. And then they planted a symbolic pig on us by simply not reaching the final tournament.
Winners of the 1984 Olympics
Gold - USSR.
Silver - Czechoslovakia.
Bronze - Sweden.
Olympic Champions 1984
Vladislav Tretiak (born 04/25/1952), Vladimir Myshkin (born 06/19/1955), Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (born 03/13/1955), Andrey Khomutov (born 04/21/1961), Nikolai Drozdetsky (06/14/1957 - 11/24/1995 ), Vyacheslav Fetisov (born 04/20/1958), Alexander Gerasimov (born 05/19/1959), Alexei Kasatonov (born 10/14/1959), Vladimir Kovin (born 06/20/1954), Alexander Kozhevnikov (born 09/21/1958 ), Sergey Shepelev (born 10/13/1955), Vasily Pervukhin (born 01/01/1956), Sergey Makarov (born 06/19/1958), Igor Larionov (born 03/12/1960), Vladimir Krutov (born 06/01/1960), Alexander Skvortsov (born 08/28/1954), Sergey Starikov (born 10/04/1958), Igor Stelnov (02/12/1963 - 03/24/2009), Viktor Tyumenev (born 06/01/1957), Mikhail Vasilyev (born 06/03/1962 ).
Coaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Vladimir Yurzinov
1988 Calgary (Canada)
Another triumph of the USSR national team. Winners of the 1988 Olympics:Gold - USSR.
Silver - Finland.
Bronze - Sweden. The current famous coaches shone in the USSR national team. Future mentor of Dynamo Moscow Andrey Khomutov, President hockey CSKA Vyacheslav Fetisov, Main coach Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov. A fantastic game at the Olympics was demonstrated by Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Valery Kamensky. Olympic champions - 1988:
Sergei Mylnikov (born 10/06/1958), Ilya Byakin (born 02/02/1963), Igor Stelnov (02/12/1963 - 03/24/2009), Vyacheslav Fetisov (born 04/20/1958), Alexei Gusarov (born 07/08/1964 ), Alexey Kasatonov (born 10/14/1959), Sergey Starikov (born 12/04/1958), Vyacheslav Bykov (born 07/24/1960), Sergey Yashin (born 03/06/1962), Valery Kamensky (born 04/18/1966 ), Sergey Svetlov (born 01/17/1961), Alexander Chernykh (born 09/12/1965), Andrei Khomutov (born 04/21/1961), Igor Larionov (born 12/03/1960), Andrey Lomakin (04/03/1964 - 09.12 .2006), Sergey Makarov (born June 19, 1958), Alexander Mogilny (born February 18, 1969), Anatoly Semenov (born March 5, 1962), Alexander Kozhevnikov (born September 21, 1958), Igor Kravchuk (born September 13 .1966), Vladimir Krutov (born 06/01/1960). Head coach - Viktor Tikhonov, coach - Vladimir Yurzinov.
1992 Albertville (France)
1804 athletes representing the National Olympic committees(NOC) 65 countries of the world. This was a record number of participants in the history of the Winter Olympics. The USSR had collapsed a few months earlier.
Questions immediately arose about the status of the team, its financing, staffing, preparation and participation in the Olympics. Finally, it was decided that the Olympic team of the former USSR would compete as a united team of the Commonwealth of Independent States - CIS under the Olympic flag. In honor of the winners and prize-winners from the CIS team, the Olympic flag was also to be raised. The CIS team did not have a guarantee money contribution to pay it to the French NOC for participation in the Olympic Games, as well as to send it to Albertville. In the end, these problems, which had never arisen before, were resolved and the team of the former USSR ended up at the 1992 Olympics. Many of the best hockey players the former Soviet Union no longer found these events in their country, because they had already begun to conclude lucrative contracts with Western clubs, long before the official collapse of the USSR. During the games in Calgary four years ago, many predicted that the stars of the USSR youth team: Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure would become the next great three of the Soviet Union in 1990. But by the start of the games in Albertville, all three were already playing in the National Hockey League.
During the 1989 off-season, officials from the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation let many hockey players go west. Over the next two seasons, 34 internationals left the Soviet Union. By the 1991-92 season, 23 more national team players had left the country, including Valery Kamensky, Vladimir Konstantinov and Vyacheslav Kozlov.
The CIS ice hockey team was filled with young little-known players, as all the leading players went overseas to play for various professional NHL clubs. As a result of the preliminary competition, in which 12 teams took part, teams from the USA, Sweden, Canada and the CIS managed to get into the semifinals. Athletes of the CIS hockey team unexpectedly easily outplayed the US team in the semifinals of the leader of the first preliminary group with a score of 5:2, and in the finals of the Canadians with a score of 3:1. This victory was the last for the USSR / CIS / Russia teams in the framework of the Olympic Games. Olympic Games 1992 were the last for the Czechoslovak team, already at the next Olympics this union broke up into two independent states - the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1992 OLYMPIAD WINNERS
Gold - CIS
Silver - Canada
Bronze - Czechoslovakia
CIS team:
Mikhail Shtalenkov, Andrey Trefilov, Nikolay Khabibulin, Darius Kasparaitis, Dmitry Mironov, Igor Kravchuk, Sergey Bautin, Dmitry Yushkevich, Alexey Zhitnik, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergey Zubov, Andrey Khomutov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Yuri Khmylev, Andrey Kovalenko, Vyacheslav Butsaev, Evgeny Davydov , Alexei Kovalev, Alexei Zhamnov, Sergei Petrenko, Nikolai Borshchevsky, Igor Boldin, Vitaly Prokhorov.
Coaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Igor Dmitriev.
In 1992 the United hockey team under the leadership of the great Viktor Tikhonov, she won Olympic gold in Albertville. In the final with a score of 3:1, the Canadians were beaten. That championship was the last for domestic hockey players on the this moment. Maybe it's time to repeat history (and the conditions seem to be similar)? In the meantime, let's recall who won that memorable Olympics and what they are doing now.
“Refusing means giving up!” Why the Russian national hockey team wants to go to the Olympics
Even under a neutral flag.
Goalkeepers
Works in the system of Podolsk "Vityaz" as a goalkeeping coach. The famous Dynamo player, national champion in 1990, 1991 and 1992. In addition to gold in 1992, he won silver in 1998.
Andrey Trefilov
Until 2006, he continued his playing career in Germany, where he lives to this day. Trefilov decided to tie his later life with agency business. He is hockey agent. Like Shtalenkov, he won silver in 1998 in Nagano.
Nikolai Khabibulin
He played in the NHL for a long time, the last club of Khabibulin was Chicago. Won the Stanley Cup in 2004 with the Tampa Bay. Now he lives in the USA, is engaged in family affairs. My Olympic medal for 1992 received only during the Olympics in Salt Lake City 10 years later.
Defenders
Lives in Miami, takes care of his family, works in real estate. resumed professional career in the Lithuanian national team, dreams of going with the team to the World Cup. Leads a weekly column about the NHL at the "Championship". Included in the League of Legends of World Hockey.
Dmitry Mironov
He played for CSKA and Wings of the Soviets, after which he moved to North America where he played for a long time in the NHL. last club Mironov in the National League became "Washington". He currently lives in Toronto and is in business.
Igor Kravchuk
double Olympic champion. Long time lived in Montreal, but at the beginning this season received an offer to work for coaching staff Mike Keenan in Kunlun. Keenan has already been dismissed, and Kravchuk continues to work.
Sergei Bautin
A native of the Gomel region of the Byelorussian SSR. He started playing hockey in Murmansk. He spent a long time in America, speaking in the NHL. He played in the championships of Sweden, Germany and even in Japan. He now lives in the United States, is the head coach of the Colorado U16 team from the small youth league of the Western States.
Dmitry Yushkevich
Yushkevich decided to take up coaching career. Now he is part of Igor Nikitin's headquarters at CSKA, holding the position of assistant head coach. Known for his difficult nature. It was for this reason that he left Lokomotiv, where he had previously helped Alexei Kudashov.
Lives in New York, brings up children. Ukrainian defender, who began his professional career in the Kiev "Falcon". Albertville Olympic champion and silver medalist at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Member of the Triple Gold Club. He plays in the League of Legends of World Hockey and is engaged in business. Lives in Miami. Since 1992, he moved to the NHL, where he completed his professional career.
One of the best Russian defenders all time became a coach. He ended his career at SKA, where he then worked in the coaching staff. He also worked at CSKA, and currently holds the post of head coach of HC Sochi, replacing Vyacheslav Butsaev.
forwards
Khomutov is a three-time Olympic champion, which already deserves great respect. In 2014, he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. At the end of his career, he began working as a coach, led a number of Swiss teams. Has Swiss citizenship. Now he lives in Switzerland, works as the head coach of the Sarin-Friborg team of the second division.
Like Khomutov, he has Swiss citizenship. He won two Gagarin Cups as head coach of Salavat Yulaev and SKA. For a long time he worked side by side with Igor Zakharkin. Lives in Switzerland, devoted himself to family affairs. Coach-consultant of the Fribourg-Gotteron club.
Yuri Khmylev
Olympic champion Yuri Khmylev was one of the first to leave the Wings for the NHL. For several years he played for Buffalo and St. Louis. Daughter Olga Khmyleva works as a journalist International Federation hockey, and Khmylev himself is a scout for the Sabres.
Andrey Kovalenko
Russian Tank Andrey Kovalenko plays in the World Hockey League of Legends in his spare time, but Kovalenko's main occupation is defending the rights of hockey players and coaches in the KHL trade union he leads. A very responsible position that requires constant communication with players and clubs.
Ovechkin did not understand Kovalchuk. hockey world- on the decision of the IOC
Almost everyone in hockey is in favor of going to the Olympics under neutral flag. Except NHL players.
He put HC Sochi on its feet. It was Butsaev who led the Leopards for three seasons, which in 2014 joined the ranks of the KHL participants. After missing the playoffs in the 2016/17 season, he was dismissed, giving way to Sergei Zubov. Now he is actively looking for a job.
Evgeny Davydov
Another Olympic champion in 1992 as part of the United Ice Hockey Team, who scored three goals and made three assists in eight matches during the tournament. Currently, he continues to play in veteran tournaments as part of the USSR Hockey Legends team.
He lives in Switzerland, last season he played for the Fisp team, despite his advanced age. Earlier, on March 23, 2016, he was appointed sports director this Swiss club. 1994 Stanley Cup winner with the Rangers. The third of the Russians who scored 1000 points in the NHL regular season.
Zhamnov is one of the most successful people currently playing on that team. He has already worked as the general manager of Vityaz and Atlant, and currently holds a similar post at Spartak. In addition, Zhamnov heads the scout service of the Russian national team.
Sergei Petrenko
The famous Dynamo player works with the younger generation. Petrenko - Anatoly Antipov's assistant in the youth hockey club Dynamo Moscow. At the 1992 Olympics, he played eight matches and scored two goals.
Faithful assistant of Igor Zakharkin. Both worked together at Salavat Yulaev, and then moved to Khanty-Mansiysk. Zakharkin was fired from Ugra during the current season, and Borshchevsky left the club with him. Currently looking for work.
Igor Boldin
The center forward of the League of Legends of World Hockey. He works as a coach in the children's school of his native team - Moscow "Spartak". He constantly comes to the games of Spartak in the KHL, plays for Spartak veterans.
Coached the junior team. Now Prokhorov tries himself as an expert on Russian television and speaks in the press, and is also looking for coaching work.
Victory under the Olympic flag
Last for today Olympic victory our team took place at the Olympics in Albertville. In the final, the CIS team beat the Canadians.
The French city of Albertville became the capital of the 1992 Olympics, and all matches hockey tournament passed in Maribel.
Our team performed under the name of the CIS team, or the "United Team", as they called it in the West. The team had neither a flag nor an anthem - instead of a red banner, they raised the Olympic flag and the Olympic anthem sounded. The abbreviation USSR disappeared, but the bright red uniform, the authoritative coach Viktor Tikhonov, as well as excellent craftsmanship remained.
"No, we clearly understood that behind us is a huge country, no matter how it is called. There was an understanding of who we were playing for. And there was a patriotic ideology that was drummed into us all our lives. A very effective thing, in fact, because we did not ask questions that could unbalance us, but went out on the ice and did the job. Nothing was written on the form - only the names on the back. And on the front side - emptiness. The flag was Olympic and the anthem too. When it sounded before the matches, I “turned off the sound” and played in my head “Unbreakable Union…”. And it turned on!"- said the striker Vitaly Prokhorov.
The CIS national team at these Games was staffed with young hockey players, since all the leading players went overseas. During the Calgary Games four years earlier, many predicted that the stars of the USSR youth team Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov And Pavel Bure become the next big three. But by the start of the games in Albertville, all three were already playing in the NHL. In the off-season of 1989, officials of the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation released many hockey players to the West. Over the next two seasons, 34 national team players left the Soviet Union. By the 1991/92 season, 23 more national team players left the country, including Valery Kamensky, Vladimir Konstantinov And Vyacheslav Kozlov.
"After the Canada Cup, Tikhonov spoke with many of those who had not yet left for the NHL so that they would stay until the 92 Olympics. Indeed, at the Canada Cup there were already enough Enkhael players who could not play in Albertville: Fedorov, Kasatonov, Tatarinov, Gusarov, Semak ... Many remained: Zhamnov, Zhitnik, Dima Mironov, Malakhov, Kovalenko, Butsaev, Shtalenkov, Borshchevsky, me. Human
nine ten. And then everyone went," Vitaly Prokhorov recalled.
At the preliminary stage, all participants were divided into two groups of six teams, and according to the "each with each" system, the top four were determined, who got into the knockout games.
In Albertville, the CIS team played with club troikas: Spartak with Prokhorov, Boldin And Borshchevsky; "army" Kovalenko – Butsaev – Davydov, "Dynamo" Kovalev – Zhamnov – Petrenko; finally, superlink Bykov – Chomutov with those who joined them Khmylyov.
"Under those conditions it was the only way gain an advantage over your rivals. Now this may not work, but after spending several years together, we really understood each other with our eyes closed. At the same time, during the preparation for the Olympics, Tikhonov used different models and did not immediately come to this one. We did not have any confidence that we would get to Albertville precisely as a link. But ten days before the start of the Games, test matches began, and we managed to prove ourselves in matches with Austria and Canada. But that they take all three of us and will put us together, we understood only five days later", - said Prokhorov.
The CIS national team got into a group with the teams of Canada, France, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Switzerland. Here, the first three lines, having lost one game each, were occupied by Canadians, ours and Czechoslovaks. Canada ceded to the CIS 4:5 , but beat Czechoslovakia 5:1 , taking first place in additional indicators. The second place was taken by the team Viktor Tikhonov, which was prevented from rising higher by the defeat of the Czechoslovaks (3:4). The Swiss and Norwegians were left out of the quarterfinals, letting the French go ahead, who, in addition to victories over their competitors, gave battle to Canada (2:3) and Czechoslovakia (4:6), and only our team managed to beat the French without any problems 8:0 .
"The beginning of the Games somewhat relaxed us, because we met with not the strongest opponents - the Swiss and Norwegians. The next game against our age-old rivals, the CSFR team, was unsuccessful for us. Basically, we lost it. Tikhonov scolded us very much for this defeat.
for a long time, so we went to the next matches extremely mobilized. They defeated the hosts of the French tournament, then had a difficult match with the Canadians, winning it. The match with the Finns also turned out to be quite simple, as, indeed, with the Americans in the semi-finals," the striker recalled Igor Boldin.
In the quarterfinals, our hockey players beat the Suomi team - 6:1 and reached the semi-finals, where they were to meet with the US team. Beating the Americans 5:2 , the CIS national team passed the final, where Canada was waiting for our hockey players.
"I remember the wild mood to win before the final match with the Canadians. We took over from the great players of the previous generation who left for the NHL. These people were winners, and this is very important - you just do not understand what a loss is. No, they also sometimes lost, but the defeat in any major tournament was a disaster. Less than a year before Albertville, I competed in the 1991 Canada Cup, where we finished fifth. We ourselves had such an explosion of emotions that we did not want to return to the country! Fifth place is a disgrace. And those who played six months later in France remembered this feeling very well.", - recalled striker Vitaly Prokhorov.
The match for gold with the Canadians turned out to be extremely hard. They hadn't won an Olympic gold medal for 40 years, and the 1992 tournament was supposed to restore hope to the nation. After all, after all Soviet Union collapsed, and most of the best Soviet hockey players ended up in the NHL.
Canada has sent a very formidable team that includes veterans with NHL experience such as defenseman Kurt Giles, as well as attackers Dave Hannan And Dave Tipette. Goalkeeper Sean Burke, who played in Calgary in 1988, there were disagreements over the contract with New Jersey, which allowed him to take part in his second Olympics. Finally, the first number in the 1991 draft Eric Lindros
stated that he would not sign a contract with the Quebec Nordiques, but would take part in Winter Games in France.
After 40 minutes of play, the numbers 0:0 were on the scoreboard. In the third period, the wards of Viktor Tikhonov, through the efforts of Boldin and Vyacheslav Butsaeva managed to score two goals. Canadians were able to play only one.
"The game with the Canadians was tough. The first two periods ended with a zero score, any mistake would have cost the victory in the tournament, and we understood that. The tension was incredible. And then Slava Butsaev scored a goal that the Canadian goalkeeper would dream about, in my opinion, it was Sean Burke, in nightmares. Slava threw from the goal line, and the puck, hitting either the shield, or the goalkeeper's skate, crawled into the near corner. It was a very important puck that allowed us to breathe easier. I scored my own goal, finishing off the puck after Borshchevsky's shot", Boldin said.
With less than two minutes left in the final match, the Canadians were desperately trying to level the score. After taking possession of the puck in his own zone, Canada rushed to the attack, the puck was picked up by Eric Lindros and crossed the blue line, making a pass that interrupted Vyacheslav Bykov.
Having recouped with his regular partner Andrey Khomutov, Bykov went into the zone and delivered an irresistible shot at the gates of the Canadian team. The puck whistled over the goalkeeper's trap. And that was the final victory.
Many recall the story that Tikhonov allegedly took the medal that was intended for the third goalkeeper Nikolai Khabibulin, and he was offended and then refused to play for the national team for a long time. Vitaly Prokhorov commented on it: " The fact that Tikhonov voluntarily took the Khabibulin medal for himself -
not true. It was IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch who came out with the initiative that for the merits of a coach who has won three gold medals in the last three Olympics, he should be given a medal. And from what fund, if they were not provided for coaches? Khabibulin was taken as the third goalkeeper, just so that the boy could see what the Olympics are. There were clearly two goalkeepers who had a chance to go on the ice - Shtalenkov and Trefilov. I don't understand why there's anything to be offended about. I wouldn't have had the brains for that, I would have given the medal to Tikhonov myself if I were in his place! It may be true that this story is blown up by journalists. And then there was the initiative of the President of the IOC. And he himself handed it to Tikhonov during the awards ceremony, as well as to all of us. Who should not be given a medal? Everyone played except one. Khabibulin did not take part in any game, moreover, he never undressed for them.
So, Bykov's goal marked the victory of the United Team (3:1) and extended the Canadians' 40-year losing streak. However, after that, the Russians began a sad series. The next five Olympics, the Russian team did not achieve victories.
CIS team
Goalkeepers:
Michael Shtalenkov, Andrey Trefilov, Nikolai Khabibulin.
Defenders:
Darius Kasparaitis, Dmitry Mironov, Igor Kravchuk, Sergei Bautin, Dmitry Yushkevich, Alexey Zhitnik, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Zubov.
Forwards:
Andrey Chomutov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Yuri Khmylev, Andrey Kovalenko, Vyacheslav Butsaev, Eugene Davydov, Alexey Kovalev, Alexey Zhamnov, Sergei Petrenko, Nikolai Borschevsky, Igor Boldin, Vitaly Prokhorov.
