Russia at the Olympics


, also known as the Russian Federation, has competed at the modern Olympic Games on many occasions, but as different nations in its history. As the Russian Empire, the nation first competed at the 1900 Games, and returned again in 1908 and 1912. After the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, it would be thirty years until Russian athletes once again competed at the Olympics, as the Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in 1992, and finally returned once again as Russia at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
The Russian Olympic Committee was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the Russian Federation hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In six appearances Russian athletes have won a total of 426 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 120 at the Winter Olympic Games. Over the most recent twelve Games, Russia's 546 total medals, including 196 gold medals, are second only to the United States.
All Summer and Winter Olympic medals of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire were inherited by Russia, but usually not combined together with the medal count of the Russian Federation, although Russian sources do combine them, citing the fact that Russia is the legal successor of the USSR.
Russian Olympic Committee was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia.

Hosted Games

Russia has hosted the Games on one occasion. Moscow was the host of the 1980 Summer Games, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union.

Unsuccessful Bids

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

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Medals by winter sport

Stripped Olympic medals

Due to doping violations, Russia has been stripped of 51 Olympic medals – the most of any country, four times the number of the runner-up, and more than a third of the global total. It was the leading country in terms of the number of medals removed due to doping at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics and the joint most at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
OlympicsAthleteMedalEventRef
2002 Winter OlympicsOlga DanilovaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
2002 Winter OlympicsOlga DanilovaSilverCross-country skiing, women's 10 km classical
2002 Winter OlympicsLarisa LazutinaGoldCross-country skiing, women's 30 km classical
2002 Winter OlympicsLarisa LazutinaSilverCross-country skiing, women's 15 km freestyle
2002 Winter OlympicsLarisa LazutinaSilverCross-country skiing, women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
2004 Summer OlympicsIrina KorzhanenkoGoldAthletics, women's shot put
2004 Summer OlympicsSvetlana KrivelyovaBronzeAthletics, women's shot put
2004 Summer OlympicsOleg PerepetchenovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 77 kg
2006 Winter OlympicsOlga PylevaSilverBiathlon, women's individual
2008 Summer OlympicsRelay team GoldAthletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
2008 Summer OlympicsRelay team
SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
2008 Summer OlympicsMaria AbakumovaSilverAthletics, women's javelin throw
2008 Summer OlympicsRelay team BronzeAthletics, men's 4 × 400 m relay
2008 Summer OlympicsYekaterina VolkovaBronzeAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase
2008 Summer OlympicsAnna ChicherovaBronzeAthletics, women's high jump
2008 Summer OlympicsKhadzhimurat AkkayevBronzeWeightlifting, men's 94 kg
2008 Summer OlympicsDmitry LapikovBronzeWeightlifting, men's 105 kg
2008 Summer OlympicsMarina ShainovaSilverWeightlifting, women's 58 kg
2008 Summer OlympicsNadezhda EvstyukhinaBronzeWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
2008 Summer OlympicsKhasan BaroyevSilverWrestling, men's Greco-Roman 120 kg
2008 Summer OlympicsTatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's triple jump
2008 Summer OlympicsTatyana LebedevaSilverAthletics, women's long jump
2008 Summer OlympicsTatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, Women's heptathlon
2012 Summer OlympicsTatyana LysenkoGoldAthletics, women's hammer throw
2012 Summer OlympicsYuliya ZaripovaGoldAthletics, women's 3000 m steeplechase
2012 Summer OlympicsSergey KirdyapkinGoldAthletics, men's 50 km walk
2012 Summer OlympicsTatyana ChernovaBronzeAthletics, women's heptathlon
2012 Summer OlympicsDarya PishchalnikovaSilverAthletics, women's discus throw
2012 Summer OlympicsYevgeniya KolodkoSilverAthletics, women's shot put
2012 Summer OlympicsOlga KaniskinaSilverAthletics, women's 20 km walk
2012 Summer OlympicsApti AukhadovSilverWeightlifting, men's 85 kg
2012 Summer OlympicsAleksandr IvanovSilverWeightlifting, men's 94 kg
2012 Summer OlympicsNatalia ZabolotnayaSilverWeightlifting, women's 75 kg
2012 Summer OlympicsSvetlana TsarukayevaSilverWeightlifting, women's 63 kg
2012 Summer OlympicsRelay SilverAthletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
2012 Summer OlympicsMariya SavinovaGoldAthletics, women's 800 m
2014 Winter OlympicsAlexandr Zubkov, Alexey VoyevodaGoldBobsleigh, Two-man
2014 Winter OlympicsAlexandr Zubkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey VoyevodaGoldBobsleigh, Four-man
2014 Winter OlympicsOlga VilukhinaSilverBiathlon, Women's sprint
2014 Winter OlympicsRelay team SilverBiathlon, Women's relay
2016 Summer OlympicsMikhail AloyanSilverBoxing, men's flyweight

2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics partial ban

Russia was partially banned from participation at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.

Flag bearers

and the United States have won more Olympic medals than any other nation. Russia topped the overall medal count at 7 Summer Olympics and 9 Winter Olympics, while the United States placed first at 17 Summer Olympics and 1 Winter Olympics. The countries developed a strong rivalry during the Cold War, and while the tensions eased in the 1990s, the relations deteriorated in 2014 and 2016. However, recent years have seen Russia's medal haul decline due to the bans for its state-sponsored doping scandal whereas China and Great Britain have become the main challengers to the United States, seeing a decline in the U.S-Russia Olympic rivalry.
Since the 1952 Summer Olympics, Russia has won 1902 Summer and Winter Olympics medals, the most in that period, while the United States has won 1873 medals, the second most in that period.
Detailed comparison is presented below.

Summer Olympics

Medal totals of the Soviet Union/Unified Team/Russia and the United States since 1952, when the Soviet Union started to compete.
Overall, the United States has won 1,022 gold and 2,523 total medals, and Russia has won 588 gold and 1,548 total medals.

Winter Olympics

Medal totals of the Soviet Union/Unified Team/Russia/Olympic Athletes from Russia and the United States since 1956, when the Soviet Union started to compete.
Overall, the United States has won 105 gold and 305 total medals, and Russia has won 136 gold and 354 total medals.