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page 1Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
Sergei Bubka
Ukrainian pole vaulter
Valeriy Borzov
Ukrainian sprinter
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athletics competitor, hammer thrower
Viktor Saneyev
Georgian triple jumper (1945–2022)
Pyotr Bolotnikov
Soviet long-distance runner (1930-2013)
Tamara Press
Soviet track-and-field athlete (1937-2021)
Inese Jaunzeme
Latvian javelin thrower (1932-2011)
Galina Chistyakova
Soviet long jumper and triple jumper
Jānis Lūsis
Latvian javelin thrower (1939-2020)
Olha Bryzhina
Ukrainian soviet & Ukrainian sprinter
Volodymyr Holubnychyy
Ukrainian Race Walker (1936–2021)
Galina Zybina
Russian shot-putter, javelin thrower, and coach (1931–2024)
Natalya Lisovskaya
Russian athletics competitor
Nina Ponomaryova
Soviet discus thrower (1929-2016)
Tamara Bykova
Soviet high jumper
Valeriy Brumel
Soviet high jumper
Tatyana Kazankina
athletics competitor
Nadezhda Olizarenko
Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner
Elvīra Ozoliņa
Soviet javelin thrower
Faina Melnyk
Soviet discus thrower
Irina Press
Soviet athlete (1939-2004)
Vladimir Kuts
Soviet Ukrainian athletics competitor (1927–1975)
Romas Ubartas
Lithuanian discus thrower
Sergey Litvinov
athletics competitor
Lyudmila Bragina
athletics competitor
Jüri Tarmak
Estonian athletics competitor (1946–2022)
Romuald Klim
Soviet and Belarusian hammer thrower (1933–2011)
Vera Krepkina
athletics competitor
Nadezhda Chizhova
Soviet athlete
Anatolii Bondarchuk
Ukrainian hammer thrower (1940-2025)
Lyudmila Shevtsova
athletics competitor
Mykola Avilov
Ukrainian Soviet decathlete, gold medalist in 1972 Olympics
Robert Shavlakadze
Soviet high jumper (1933–2020)
Robert Emmiyan
Soviet long jumper from Armenia
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
Soviet sprint athlete
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
athletics competitor
Tatyana Ledovskaya
Soviet and Belarusian athletics competitor
Jüri Tamm
Estonian athletics competitor, sportsperson and politician (1957–2021)
Ludmila Engquist
Russian-Swedish hurdler and bobsledder
Jaak Uudmäe
Estonian athletics competitor, coach and sportsperson (born 1954)
Olga Bondarenko
Soviet long-distance runner
Mariya Pinigina
athletics competitor
Aleksandra Chudina
Soviet track and field athlete and volleyball player (1923-1990)
Viktor Tsybulenko
Ukrainian javelin thrower (1930–2013)
Dainis Kūla
Latvian javelin thrower (born 1959)
Maria Itkina
Soviet sprinter (1932–2020)
Vladimir Kiselyov
athletics competitor (1957–2021)
Remigijus Valiulis
athletics competitor (1958–2023)
Tamara Tyshkevich
Belarusian shot putter (1931-1997)
Hennadiy Avdyeyenko
Ukrainian high jumper
Olga Nazarova
Soviet athletics competitor
Saida Gunba
Sovietic athletics competitor (1959-2018)
Vera Komisova
Russian hurdler
Nadiya Tkachenko
Ukrainian Soviet athlete
Vasily Rudenkov
athletics competitor (1931–1982)
Yelena Romanova
athletics competitor (1963-2007)
Veniamin Soldatenko
Soviet race walking athlete (1939–2023)
Radion Gataullin
Soviet and Russian pole vaulter
Aleksandr Aksinin
athletics competitor (1954-2020)
Aleksandr Baryshnikov
athletics competitor (1948–2024)