The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics competed for the only time at the Summer Paralympic Games in 1988. The country also competed for the only time at the Winter Paralympic Games that same year.
Soviet athletes won 21 gold medals, 20 silver and 15 bronze at the Summer Games, as well as two bronze medals at the Winter Games. The USSR's most successful Paralympian was Vadim Kalmykov, with four gold medals in track and field.
The only athlete to win a Paralympic medal for the USSR at the Winter Games was Valentina Grigoryeva, who won two bronze medals in cross-country skiing.
Medalists Summer Games Medal Name Sport Event Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's 100m B1 Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's 100m B2 Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's 400m B1 Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's high jump B2 Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's high jump B3 Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's long jump B2 Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's long jump B3 Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's triple jump B2 Vitautas Guirnus Athletics Men's javelin throw B1 Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's javelin throw B2 Vitautas Guirnus Athletics Men's pentathlon B1 Vadim Kalmykov Athletics Men's pentathlon B2 Oleg Chepel Athletics Men's pentathlon B3 Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's 100m B2 Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 400m B1 Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 400m B2 Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 800m B1 Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 800m B2 Tamara Pankova Athletics Women's 1500m B1 Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's long jump B2 Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's pentathlon B2 Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's 100m B1 Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 800m B2 Farzat Timerboulatov Athletics Men's 800m B3 Farzat Timerboulatov Athletics Men's 1500m B3 Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's triple jump B1 Sergei Sevastianov Athletics Men's pentathlon B1 Alexandre Mokhir Athletics Men's pentathlon B2 Danute Chmidek Athletics Women's 800m B3 Raissa Jouravliova Athletics Women's discus throw B2 Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 50m freestyle B1 Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 100m freestyle B1 Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 100m backstroke B1 Alexandre Gapon Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke B2 Vladimir Sigidov Swimming Men's 200m breaststroke B1 Alexandre Gapon Swimming Men's 200m breaststroke B2 Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 200m individual medley B1 Men's relay team Swimming Men's freestyle relay B1-B3 Men's relay team Swimming Men's medley relay B1-B3 Nadezda Maksimova Swimming Women's 50m freestyle B3 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke B2 Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 400m B2 Anatoly Pomykalov Athletics Men's 5000m B2 Victor Riabochtan Athletics Men's long jump B1 Andrei Kolyvanov Athletics Men's javelin throw B3 Rima Batalova Athletics Women's 100m B2 Danute Chmidek Athletics Women's 400m B3 Mikhail Kapitonov Swimming Men's 50m freestyle B2 Oleg Cher Swimming Men's 400m freestyle B1 Vladimir Sigidov Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke B1 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 50m freestyle B2 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 100m freestyle B2 Nadezda Maksimova Swimming Women's 100m freestyle B3 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 100m breaststroke B2 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 200m breaststroke B2 Tatiana Chipovalova Swimming Women's 400m individual medley B2
Winter Games Medal Name Sport Event Valentina Grigoryeva Cross-country skiing Women's B1 5 km Valentina Grigoryeva Cross-country skiing Women's B1 10 km
See also Soviet Union at the Olympics
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