The Unified Team was the name used for the

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of eleven former constituent republics of the

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Tigns-Alvertville 1992
,

Canadian Paralympic Committee The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC; French: ''Comité paralympique canadien'') is the private, non-profit organization representing Canadian Paralympic athletes in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Parapan American Games. ...

(excluding

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, and

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

) at the

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Albertville Albertville (; Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile'') is a subprefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In 2018, the commune had ...

and the

1992 Summer Paralympics )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , athletes = 3,020 (BCN)1,600 (MAD) , opened_by = Queen Sofía , opening = 3 September (BCN)15 September (MAD) , closing = 14 September (BCN)22 September (MAD) , eve ...

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. The

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was EUN, after the French name, Équipe Unifiée. The Paralympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the

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and at medals ceremonies, and the Paralympic Hymn was played for gold medallists. Unlike the

Unified Team at the Olympics The Unified Team (russian: Объединённая команда) was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union (except the Baltic states) at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barc ...

, the Summer Paralympic team paraded in the opening ceremony with no special procedure (no placard displayed the names of the individual countries, the announcers did not announce the names of the individual countries, and the athletes did not carry flags of the individual countries).

Details

For details of the Unified Team's participation, see: *

Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Unified Team competed at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes/Albertville, France. 21 competitors from Unified Team won 21 medals including 10 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze and finished 2nd in the medal table. See also * Unified Team at the Paral ...

* Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Paralympics

Participating countries

Performance

*The Unified Team finished third to the United States and Germany in the overall medal tally at Albertville with 10

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s; 21 medals in total *The team finished eighth at Barcelona with 16 golds, 14 silvers, and 15 bronzes; 45 medals in total (Note, however, that the

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(IPC) does not officially recognise national medal totals.)

Athletes

Athletes competing for the Unified team at the 1992 Summer and 1992 Winter Paralympic Games.Athlete Search Results

(IPC)

Summer Games

;Men *

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** Stepan Bugaychuk ** Dmitri Nikolsky ** Konstantine Shumkov *

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** Oleg Chepel ** Victor Khilmonchik ** Sergei Khodakov ** Aleksei Lashmanov ** Andrei Makarov ** Sergey Okulov ** Vladimir Potapenko ** Sergei Sevastianov **

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** Sergey Silchenco ** Yurij Zubrilov *

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** Alexandre Pytko ** Nikolai Timofeev *

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** Vladimir Berejetski ** Nikolai Lednev ** Alexandre Litvinov ** Alexei Pavlyguine ** Nikolai Perejoguine ** Alexandre Toupiline *

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** Akhmed Gazimagomedov **

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** Veniamin Mitchourine ** Mikhail Yakovlev *

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** Vladimir Larionov ** Roman Omurbekov *

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** Albert Bakaev ** Vladimir Chesnov ** Aleksei Kapoura ** Vitaly Khutornoy ** Vitalii Krylov ** Juri Likorovsky ** Nikolay Ponamarev ** Nikolay Rogozhin ** Vladimir Vshivtsev *

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** Vladimir Polkanov ** Valery Vishnjakov **

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

** Gadji Abakarov ** Igor Bondar ** A. Gontcharenko ** Victor Krasnov ** Alexander Kukatov ** Murad Makhanov ** Radjab Mamaev ** Vladimir Maysak ** Petr Ostrinsky ** Iouri Soubbota ** Peter Zubov ;Women *

** Tatiana Grishko *

** Rimma Batalova ** Olga Churkina ** Irina Leontiouk ** Ljubov Malakhova ** Olga Nazarenko ** Tamara Pankova ** Tamara Sivakova ** Raisa Zhuravleva *

** Olga Melnikova ** Natalia Parshina

Winter Games

;Men *

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** Alexey Bargojakov ** Ivan Chaprygin ** Oleg Krasavin ** Alexei Moshkine ** Oleg Vasiljev *

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** Nikolai Ilioutchenko ** Vladimir Kolesnikov ** Sergei Lozhkin ** Seleznev ** Andrei Venediktov *

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** Nikolai Ilioutchenko ** Vasily Koczekin ** Vladimir Kolesnikov ** Valeriy Kupchinski ** Sergei Lozhkin ** Vasily Petrochuk ** Igor Pustovit ** Seleznev ** Andrei Venediktov ;Women *

** Zinaida Emlina *

** Chirkova ** Elesina ** Nazarenko ** Lubov Paninykii

References

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