Russia at the Olympic Games

Russia took part in the 9 summer and 6 winter Olympic games.

Russia at the Olympic Games
IOC Code	RUS
NOC	Russian Olympic Committee Official site
Participation in the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 • 2012 • 2016 • 2020
Participation in the Winter Olympics
1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010 • 2014 • 2018
see also
Finland (1908-1912, played a separate team) USSR (1952-1988) United Team (1992) Olympic athletes from Russia (2018)

Coin of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation dedicated to the first participation of Russia in the Olympic Games.

At the first Olympic Games of 1896, the representative of Russia, General Butovsky, was part of the IOC, but Russian athletes still did not participate in the games. For the first time, Russia took part in the Olympic Games in 1900 at the Paris Summer Olympics . Of the Russian athletes, the first Olympic gold medal was won in 1908 by figure skater Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin at the IV Olympics in London ^[1] . Under the flag of the Russian Empire, athletes won 8 Olympic medals at three summer Olympiads (1900, 1908 and 1912).

The USSR has participated in the Summer Games since the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki , and in the Winter Games since the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

After the collapse of the USSR at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1992 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Russian athletes, like other CIS countries , participated in a joint team under the common flag, and since the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , in a separate team under their own flag .

Under the flag of the Russian Federation, athletes won 440 Olympic medals at the summer and 120 medals at the Winter Olympics. Thus, a total of 568 medals were won at fifteen Olympics, of which 196 were gold.

Only the Olympic Games took place in the USSR - the XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980, after an unsuccessful application for the 1976 Summer Games . A number of 1980 Olympics competitions were held in Leningrad , Mytishchi , as well as outside the RSFSR in Kiev , Minsk , and Tallinn .

In post-Soviet Russia, the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 were held. Moscow unsuccessfully applied for the 2012 Summer Olympics , and St. Petersburg also claimed to host the 2004 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

On December 5, 2017, the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended from participation in the Games due to a doping scandal . At the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, Russians were allowed to participate as “Olympic athletes from Russia” under the neutral Olympic flag. On February 28, 2018, OCD was reinstated.

In 2019, homosexual athletes have never played for Russia (the United States leads in this indicator with 49 athletes).