Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Seoul, South Korea 17 September 1988 (1988-09-17) – 2 October 1988 (1988-10-02)
Competitors	481 (319 men, 162 women) in 27 sports
Flag bearer	Aleksandr Karelin (wrestling)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 55 Silver 31 Bronze 46 Total 132
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)  Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)  Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)  Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)  Unified Team (1992)  Armenia (1994–)  Belarus (1994–)  Georgia (1994–)  Kazakhstan (1994–)  Kyrgyzstan (1994–)  Moldova (1994–)  Russia (1994–2016)  Ukraine (1994–)  Uzbekistan (1994–)  Azerbaijan (1996–)  Tajikistan (1996–)  Turkmenistan (1996–)  ROC (2020–2022)  Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 481 competitors, 319 men and 162 women, took part in 221 events in 27 sports.^[1] Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.

The Soviet Union dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. It is the largest Olympic medal tally in history achieved by a non-host nation. Currently, China's and the United States' 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012 respectively, and the United States' 126 total medals in 2024 are the closest results to the USSR's 1988 performance. The Soviet Union medal tally currently ranks fourth both in terms of gold and total medals, after the United States' 1984 performance, the Soviet Union's 1980 performance, the United States' 1904 performance, and Great Britain's 1908 performance.

The Soviet Union finished first in the medal standings with 55 gold and 132 total medals.

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	39	44	85
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	12	–	12
Canoeing	12	5	17
Cycling	14	4	18
Diving	4	4	8
Equestrian	6	2	8
Fencing	15	5	20
Field hockey	15	0	15
Football	18	–	18
Gymnastics	6	8	14
Handball	14	15	29
Judo	7	–	7
Modern pentathlon	3	–	3
Rowing	30	23	53
Sailing	13	2	15
Shooting	17	6	23
Swimming	19	8	27
Synchronized swimming	–	3	3
Table tennis	2	3	5
Tennis	4	3	6
Volleyball	12	12	24
Water polo	13	–	13
Weightlifting	9	–	9
Wrestling	20	–	20
Total	321	162	483

Women's Individual Competition:

• Lioudmila Arjannikova – final, 4th place
• T. Mountain – final, 8th place
• N. Boutouzova – quarterfinal, 18th place

Men's Individual Competition:

• Vladimir Echeev – final, bronze medal
• K. Chkolny – 1/8 final, 20th place
• Juri Leontiev – preliminary round, 29th place

Women's tournament:

• Arjannikova, Mountain and Boutouzova – final, 4th place

Men's tournament:

• Echeev, Chkolny and Leontiev – final, 5th place

Men's Marathon

• Ravil Kashapov

• Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)

Men's long jump

• Leonid Volochine

• Qualification — 7.89m
• Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)

• Robert Emmiyan

• Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)

• Vladimir Otchkan

• Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's discus throw

• Romas Ubartas

• Qualification – 65.58m
• Final – 67.48m (→ Silver medal)

• Yuriy Dumchev

• Qualification – 62.08m
• Final – 66.42m (→ 4th place)

• Vaclavas Kidykas

• Qualification – 60.88m (→ did not advance)

Men's shot put

• Sergey Smirnov

• Qualification — 20.48m
• Final — 20.36m (→ 8th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Sergey Litvinov

• Qualification — 81.24m
• Final — 84.80m (→ Gold medal)

• Yuriy Sedykh

• Qualification — 78.48m
• Final — 83.76m (→ Silver medal)

• Jüri Tamm

• Qualification — 69.68m
• Final — 81.16m (→ Bronze medal)

Men's javelin throw

• Viktor Yevsyukov

• Qualification — 79.26m
• Final — 82.32m (→ 5th place)

• Vladimir Ovchinnikov

• Qualification — 80.26m
• Final — 79.12m (→ 7th place)

Men's decathlon

• Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place)

1. 100 metres — 11.23s
2. Long Jump — 7.28m
3. Shot Put — 15.25m
4. High Jump — 1.97m
5. 400 metres — 48.60s
6. 110m Hurdles — 14.76s
7. Discus Throw — 48.02m
8. Pole Vault — 5.20m
9. Javelin Throw — 59.48m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s

Men's 20 km Walk

• Mikhail Shchennikov

• Final — 1:20:47 (→ 6th place)

• Aleksey Pershin

• Final — 1:22:32 (→ 14th place)

• Yevgeniy Misyulya

• Final — 1:24:39 (→ 27th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Vyacheslav Ivanenko

• Final — 3:38:29 (→ Gold medal)

• Aleksandr Potashov

• Final — 3:41:00 (→ 4th place)

• Vitaliy Popovych

• Final — 3:59:23 (→ 26th place)

Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

• Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina and Olga Bryzgina

• Heat — 3:27.14

• Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina and Olga Bryzgina

• Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold medal)

Women's Marathon

• Tatyana Polovinskaya

• Final — 2:27.05 (→ 4th place)

• Zoya Ivanova

• Final — 2:30.25 (→ 9th place)

• Raisa Smekhnova

• Final — 2:33.19 (→ 16th place)

Women's discus throw

• Ellina Zvereva

• Qualification – 63.26m
• Final – 68.94m (→ 5th place)

• Larisa Mikhalchenko

• Qualification – 64.32m
• Final – 64.08m (→ 10th place)

• Galina Murasova

• Qualification – 62.54m
• Final – NM (→ no ranking)

Women's javelin throw

• Irina Kostyuchenkova

• Qualification – 63.24m
• Final – 67.00m (→ 4th place)

• Natalya Yermolovich

• Qualification – 64.44m
• Final – 64.84m (→ 6th place)

Women's shot put

• Natalya Lisovskaya

• Qualification – 19.78m
• Final – 22.24m (→ Gold medal)

• Natalya Akhrimenko

• Qualification – 19.40m
• Final – 20.13m (→ 7th place)

• Valentina Fedjuschina

• Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Natalya Shubenkova

• Final Result — 6540 points (→ 4th place)

• Remigija Sablovskaitė

• Final Result — 6456 points (→ 5th place)

• Svetlana Buraga

• Final Result — 6232 points (→ 10th place)

Team roster

The following is the Soviet Union roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Soviet Union men's national basketball team – 1988 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. F/C 4 Alexander Volkov 24 – (1964-03-29)29 March 1964 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) PBC CSKA Moscow PG 5 Tiit Sokk 23 – (1964-11-15)15 November 1964 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) KK Kalev F 6 Sergei Tarakanov 30 – (1958-04-25)25 April 1958 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) PBC CSKA Moscow SG 7 Šarūnas Marčiulionis 24 – (1964-06-13)13 June 1964 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) BC Statyba G 8 Igors Miglinieks 24 – (1964-05-04)4 May 1964 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) PBC CSKA Moscow F 9 Valeri Tikhonenko 24 – (1964-08-19)19 August 1964 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) BC SKA Alma-Ata SG 10 Rimas Kurtinaitis 28 – (1960-05-15)15 May 1960 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) BC Žalgiris C 11 Arvydas Sabonis 23 – (1964-12-19)19 December 1964 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) BC Žalgiris C 12 Viktor Pankrashkin 30 – (1957-12-10)10 December 1957 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) PBC CSKA Moscow PG 13 Valdemaras Chomičius 29 – (1959-05-04)4 May 1959 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Žalgiris C 14 Alexander Belostenny 29 – (1959-02-24)24 February 1959 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) BC Budivelnyk C 15 Valery Goborov 22 – (1966-01-20)20 January 1966 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) PBC CSKA Moscow	Head coach Alexander Gomelsky Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 17 September 1988

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	5	4	1	468	384	+84	9[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Soviet Union	5	4	1	460	393	+67	9[a]
3	Australia	5	3	2	429	408	+21	8[b]
4	Puerto Rico	5	3	2	382	387	−5	8[b]
5	Central African Republic	5	1	4	346	436	−90	6	9th–12th classification round
6	South Korea (H)	5	0	5	384	461	−77	5

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Team roster

The following is the Soviet Union roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Soviet Union women's national basketball team – 1988 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. 4 Olga Yevkova 23 – (1965-07-15)15 July 1965 5 Irina Gerlits 22 – (1966-04-29)29 April 1966 6 Olesya Barel 28 – (1960-02-09)9 February 1960 G 7 Irina Sumnikova 23 – (1964-10-15)15 October 1964 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) 8 Olga Buryakina 30 – (1958-03-17)17 March 1958 9 Olga Yakovleva 24 – (1963-12-15)15 December 1963 10 Irina Minkh 24 – (1964-04-16)16 April 1964 11 Aleksandra Leonova 24 – (1964-09-04)4 September 1964 C 12 Yelena Khudashova 23 – (1965-07-10)10 July 1965 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 13 Vitalija Tuomaitė 23 – (1964-11-22)22 November 1964 C 14 Natalya Zasulskaya 19 – (1969-05-28)28 May 1969 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 15 Galina Savitskaya 27 – (1961-07-13)13 July 1961	Head coach Leonid Yachmenev Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 17 September 1988

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	2	1	178	196	−18	5[a]	Semifinals
2	Soviet Union	3	2	1	208	188	+20	5[a]
3	Bulgaria	3	1	2	217	241	−24	4[b]	Classification round
4	South Korea (H)	3	1	2	244	222	+22	4[b]

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Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Alexander Makhmutov

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0
• Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Timofey Skryabin

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Aleksandr Artemyev

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Mekhak Ghazaryan

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Kostya Tszyu

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Vyacheslav Yanovsky

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Vladimir Yereshchenko

Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Yevgeni Zaytsev

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Ruslan Taramov

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Nurmagomed Shanavazov

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Ramzan Sebiyev

Men's Super-Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

• Alex Miroshnichenko

Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Men's road race

• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
• Asiat Saitov
• Riho Suun

Men's team time trial

• Vasil Zhdanov
• Viktor Klimov
• Asiat Saitov
• Igor Sumnikov

Men's sprint

• Nikolai Kovsh

Men's 1 km time trial

• Aleksandr Kirichenko

Men's individual pursuit

• Gintautas Umaras

Men's team pursuit

• Viatcheslav Ekimov
• Artūras Kasputis
• Dmitry Nelyubin
• Gintautas Umaras
• Mindaugas Umaras

Men's points race

• Marat Ganeyev

Women's road race

• Laima Zilporytė — 2:00:52 (→ Bronze medal)
• Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
• Alla Jakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)

Women's sprint

• Erika Salumäe

Men's 10m Platform

• Georgy Chogovadze

• Preliminary Round — 540.90
• Final — 585.96 (→ 4th place)

• Vladimir Timoshinin

• Preliminary Round — 570.75
• Final — 534.66 (→ 8th place)

Men's show jump team

• Raimundas Udrakis

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Men's foil

• Aleksandr Romankov
• Ilgar Mamedov
• Boris Koretsky

Men's team foil

• Aleksandr Romankov, Ilgar Mamedov, Vladimer Aptsiauri, Anvar Ibragimov, Boris Koretsky

Men's épée

• Andrey Shuvalov
• Wladimir Reznitschenko
• Mykhailo Tyshko

Men's team épée

• Andrey Shuvalov, Pavel Kolobkov, Wladimir Reznitschenko, Mykhailo Tyshko, Igor Tikhomirov

Men's sabre

• Heorhiy Pohosov
• Andrey Alshan
• Sergey Mindirgasov

Men's team sabre

• Sergey Mindirgasov, Mikhail Burtsev, Heorhiy Pohosov, Andrey Alshan, Sergey Koryashkin

Women's foil

• Tatyana Sadovskaya
• Yelena Glikina
• Olga Voshchakina

Women's team foil

• Yelena Glikina, Yelena Grishina, Tatyana Sadovskaya, Marina Soboleva, Olga Voshchakina

• Preliminary round (group B)

• Soviet Union – India 1–0
• Soviet Union – South Korea 3–1
• Soviet Union – Canada 0–0
• Soviet Union – Great Britain 1–3
• Soviet Union – West Germany 0–6

• Classification Matches

• 5th–8th place: Soviet Union – Pakistan 0–1
• 7th–8th place: Soviet Union – Argentina 4–1 (→ 7th place)

• Team roster

• (01.) Vladimir Pleshakov (gk)
• (02.) Viktor Deputatov
• (03.) Igor Yulchiev
• (04.) Sos Hayrapetyan
• (05.) Nikolai Sankovetch
• (06.) Vladimir Antakov (captain)
• (07.) Vyacheslav Chechenev
• (08.) Igor Atanov
• (09.) Sergei Chakhvorostov
• (10.) Sergei Pleshakov
• (11.) Mikhail Nechipurenko
• (12.) Alexander Domachev (gk)
• (13.) Igor Davydov
• (14.) Aleksandr Miasnikov
• (15.) Yevgeni Nechaev
• (16.) Mikhail Bukatin

• Head coach: Leonid Pavlovsky

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1988. Vaho Iagorashvili won a bronze in the individual event.

Individual

• Vaho Iagorashvili
• German Yuferov
• Anatoly Avdeyev

Team

• Vaho Iagorashvili
• German Yuferov
• Anatoly Avdeyev

The Soviet Union had 30 male and 23 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1988.^[5]

Men's competition

Men's single sculls

• Jüri Jaanson

Men's double sculls

• Oleksandr Marchenko
• Vasil Yakusha

Men's coxless pair

• Igor Zuborenko
• Valery Vyrvich

Men's coxed pair

• Andrey Korikov
• Roman Kazantsev
• Andrey Lipsky (cox)

Men's quadruple sculls

• Pavel Krupko
• Oleksandr Zaskalko
• Sergey Kinyakin
• Yuriy Zelikovich

Men's coxless four

• Ivan Vysotskiy
• Sergey Smirnov
• Yuriy Pimenov
• Nikolay Pimenov

Men's coxed four

• Sigitas Kučinskas
• Jonas Narmontas
• Vladimir Romanishin
• Igor Zotov
• Sergey Titov (cox)

Men's eight

• Veniamin But
• Mykola Komarov
• Vasily Tikhonov
• Aleksandr Dumchev
• Pavlo Hurkovskiy
• Viktor Diduk
• Viktor Omelyanovich
• Andrey Vasilyev
• Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)

Women's competition

Women's single sculls

• Nataliya Kvasha

Women's double sculls

• Marina Zhukova
• Mariya Omelianovych

Women's coxless pair

• Sarmīte Stone
• Marina Smorodina

Women's quadruple sculls

• Irina Kalimbet
• Svitlana Maziy
• Inna Frolova
• Antonina Zelikovich

Women's coxed four

• Reda Ribinskaitė
• Elena Tereshina
• Irina Teterina
• Marina Suprun
• Valentina Khokhlova (cox)

Women's eight

• Margarita Teselko
• Marina Znak
• Nadezhda Sugako
• Sandra Brazauskaitė
• Olena Pukhaieva
• Sariya Zakyrova
• Nataliya Fedorenko
• Lidiya Averyanova
• Aušra Gudeliūnaitė (cox)

Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 22.57
  2. Final – 22.71 (→ Bronze medal)
• Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 22.81
  2. Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Heat – 50.13
  2. Final – 49.75 (→ 4th place)
• Yuri Bashkatov
  1. Heat – 50.08
  2. Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Alexei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – 1:50.84
  2. B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)
• Yuri Bashkatov
  1. Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Alexandre Bazanov
  1. Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

• Vladimir Salnikov
  1. Heat – 15:07.83
  2. Final – 15:00.40 (→ Gold medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 55.04
  2. Final – 55.20 (→ Bronze medal)
• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 56.13
  2. Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Igor Polyansky
  1. Heat – 2:01.70
  2. Final – 1:59.37 (→ Gold medal)
• Serguei Zabolotnov
  1. Heat – 2:01.27
  2. Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Dmitry Volkov
  1. Heat – 1:02.49
  2. Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze medal)
• Alexei Matveev
  1. Heat – 1:03.25
  2. B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

• Valeri Lozik
  1. Heat – 2:16.31
  2. Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)
• Vadim Alexeev
  1. Heat – 2:17.15
  2. B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 54.17
  2. Final – 54.60 (→ 8th place)
• Konstantine Petrov
  1. Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:01.05
  2. B-Final – 2:00.34 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Vadim Yaroshchuk
  1. Heat – 2:02.77
  2. Final – 2:02.40 (→ Bronze medal)
• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 2:03.79
  2. Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

• Mikhail Zoubkov
  1. Heat – 4:25.30
  2. B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Heat – 3:19.89
• Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev and Vladimir Tkachenko
  1. Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

• Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev and Aleksei Kouznetsov
  1. Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Serguei Zabolotnov, Valeri Lozik, Konstantine Petrov and Nikolai Evseev
  1. Heat – 3:45.29
• Igor Polyansky, Dmitry Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk and Gennadiy Prigoda
  1. Final – 3:39.96 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Inna Abramova
  1. Heat – 26.27
  2. B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 56.66
  2. B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)
• Svetlana Issakova
  1. Heat – 57.17
  2. B-Final – 57.07 (→ 15th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 2:00.54
  2. Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 4:12.20
  2. Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

• Natalia Trefilova
  1. Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Yelena Volkova
  1. Heat – 1:09.86
  2. Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)
• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 1:10.83
  2. B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:28.94
  2. Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)
• Svetlana Kouzmina
  1. Heat – 2:30.93
  2. B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Ana Elizbarashvili
  1. Heat – 1:16.04
  2. Final – 1:14.05 (→ Qualified)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 1:01.65
  2. B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

• Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 2:15.26
  2. B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 2:15.30
  2. Final – 2:13.31 (→ Silver medal)
• Yulia Bogatcheva
  1. Heat – 2:19.07
  2. B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Yelena Dendeberova
  1. Heat – 4:46.63
  2. Final – 4:40.44 (→ 4th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Inna Abramova, Svetlana Issakova, Yelena Dendeberova and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Heat – 3:46.28
• Yelena Dendeberova, Svetlana Issakova, Natalia Trefilova and Svetlana Koptchikova
  1. Final – 3:44.99 (→ 5th place)

Three synchronized swimmers represented the Soviet Union in 1988.

Women's solo

• Christina Thalassinidou
• Mariya Chernyayeva
• Tatyana Titova

Women's duet

• Mariya Chernyayeva
• Tatyana Titova

Men's Singles Competition

• Alexander Volkov
  1. First round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (West Germany) 5–7 4–6 3–6

Women's Singles Competition

• Larisa Neiland
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Sara Gomer (Great Britain) 6–7 7–6 9–7
  3. Third Round – Defeated Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 6–3 7–6
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 2–6 6–4 3–6
• Leila Meskhi
  1. First Round – Defeated Regina Rajchrtová (Czechoslovakia) 7–5 7–5
  2. Second Round – Lost to Steffi Graf (West Germany) 5–7 1–6
• Natasha Zvereva
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Anne Minter (Australia) 6–4 3–6 6–1
  3. Third Round – Defeated Tine Scheuer-Larsen (Denmark) 6–1 6–2
  4. Quarterfinals – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 4–6 3–6

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Defeated Bulgaria (3–0)
• Defeated Sweden (3–0)
• Defeated South Korea (3–0)
• Defeated Italy (3–1)
• Lost to Brazil (2–3)

• Semi Finals

• Defeated Argentina (3–0)

• Final

• Lost to the United States (1–3) → Silver medal

• Team roster

• Yuri Panchenko
• Andrei Kuzentsov
• Vyatcheslav Zaytsev
• Igor Runov
• Vladimir Chkourikhine
• Yevgueny Krasilnikov
• Raimond Vilde
• Valery Lossev
• Yuri Sapega
• Oleksandr Sorokalet
• Yaroslav Antonov
• Yuri Tcherednik

• Head coach: Guennady Parchine

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Lost to Japan (2–3)
• Defeated South Korea (3–2)
• Defeated East Germany (3–0)

• Semi Finals

• Defeated PR China (3–0)

• Final

• Defeated Peru (3–2) → Gold medal

• Team roster

• Valentina Ogienko
• Yelena Volkova
• Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko
• Tatyana Sidorenko
• Irina Parkhomchuk-Kirillova
• Olga Shkournova
• Marina Nikulina
• Elena Ovtchnikova
• Olga Krivocheeva
• Svetlana Korytova
• Marina Koumych
• Tatyana Krainova

• Head coach: Nikolai Karpol

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Drew with Italy (9–9)
• Defeated Australia (11–4)
• Defeated France (14–8)
• Defeated South Korea (17–4)
• Lost to West Germany (8–9)

• Semi Finals

• Lost to United States (7–8)

• Bronze medal match

• Defeated West Germany (14–13) → Bronze medal

• Team roster

• Evgueni Charonov
• Nourlan Mendygaliev
• Evgeni Grichine
• Alexandre Kolotov
• Sergei Naoumov
• Victor Berendiouga
• Serguei Kotenko
• Dmitri Apanasenko
• Georgui Mchvenieradze
• Mikhail Ivanov
• Serguei Markotch
• Nikolai Smirnov
• Mikhail Giorgadze

• Head coach: Boris Popov

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Fourth round	Fifth round	Sixth round	Seventh round	Final round	Rank
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result

• Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

Rank	Republic	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	61	31	49	141
2	Ukrainian SSR	19	13	24	56
3	Byelorussian SSR	14	3	8	25
4	Lithuanian SSR	11	3	3	17
5	Kazakh SSR	8	3	8	19
6	Georgian SSR	5	1	5	11
7	Latvian SSR	5	1	0	6
8	Moldavian SSR	2	3	2	7
9	Armenian SSR	2	2	0	4
10	Estonian SSR	2	1	2	5
11	Azerbaijan SSR	2	1	1	4
12	Uzbek SSR	1	2	1	4
13	Kirghiz SSR	1	2	0	3
14	Tajik SSR	1	0	0	1
Totals (14 entries)		134	66	103	303

• Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Paralympics