From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soviet Union at the Paralympics
Soviet Union at the Paralympics
Soviet Union at the Paralympic Games 1988. The country also competed for the first and only
time at the Winter Paralympic Games that same year.[1]
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.[2]
The USSR’s most successful Paralympian was Vadim
Kalmykov, with four gold medals in track and field.[3]
The only athlete to win a Paralympic medal for the
Flag of the Soviet Union
USSR at the Winter Games was Valentina Grigoryeva,
IPC code URS who won two bronze medals in cross-country skiing.[4]
Paralympic history
Summer Games
See also
• Soviet Union at the Olympics
1960–1984 • 1988
Winter Games
References
1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
[1] Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
Other related appearances [2] Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
[3] Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
Unified Team (1992)
[4] Soviet Union at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics competed for the
first and only time at the Summer Paralympic Games in
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