Unified Team at the Olympics


The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union
at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The IOC country code was EUN, after the French name, Équipe unifiée. The Unified Team was sometimes informally called the CIS Team, although Georgia did not join the CIS until 1993.
During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC due to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union having only taken place little more than two months ago, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists. By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform as Olympic qualifying rounds had been completed before the final demise of the Soviet Union. Where an EUN individual won a medal, the national flag of the medallist's nation was raised rather than the Olympic flag, and a gold medallist's national anthem was played rather than the Olympic Hymn. In team sports, the EUN team continued to use the Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn, as team members represented different nations.
The team finished second in the medal table at the 1992 Winter Games, and first at the 1992 Summer Games, edging its old rival the US in the latter.

Participating countries

While only six of the EUN countries took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics, all twelve participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics. At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts as independent countries.
Country IOC code
*ARM
AZE
*BLR
GEO
Kazakhstan*KAZ
KyrgyzstanKGZ
MDA
*RUS
TajikistanTJK
TurkmenistanTKM
*UKR
*UZB

* Unified Team participant in Winter games.

Timeline of participation

Medal tables

Medals by games

Medals by summer sport

Medals by winter sport

Flag bearers