Unified Team at the Olympics

Template:About Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox country at games The Unified Team (Template:Langx) 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 Barcelona.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The IOC country code was EUN, after the French name, Équipe unifiée. The Unified Team was sometimes informally called the CIS Team (Commonwealth of Independent States, as a counterpart of CIS national football team taking part in Euro 1992 of the same year), although Georgia did not join the CIS until 1993.

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.

Ceremonies procedures

At the 1992 Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) 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 prior. During the opening ceremony, the team's placard displayed Équipe unifiée in large print, with the names of the five participating countries displayed in smaller print below, and both the French and English announcers announced only the names of the participating countries without announcing the name "Unified Team". Russian flagbearer Valeriy Medvedtsev followed, carrying the Olympic Flag, followed by the team's athletes in no particular order, each carrying a small flag representing their individual country.<ref name="barcelona92 opening ceremony">Template:Cite AV media</ref>

By the time of the 1992 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. During the opening ceremony, the team's four-sided placard displayed "Unified Team" in the four official languages (French, English, Spanish, and Catalan), followed by Russian flagbearer Aleksandr Karelin carrying the Olympic Flag, followed by three more four-sided placards displaying the 12 constituent countries in English, followed by 12 flagbearers carrying the national flags of the 12 countries, followed by the athletes, all in no particular order. The announcers announced the name "Unified Team" in multiple languages, followed by the Spanish announcer announcing all 12 countries.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During medals ceremonies, where an EUN individual won a medal, the national flag of the medalist's nation was raised rather than the Olympic flag, and a gold medalist's national anthem was played rather than the Olympic Hymn. In team events, the EUN team continued to use the Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn, as team members represented different nations.<ref name="barcelona92">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Tatiana Gutsu medal ceremony">Template:Cite AV media</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>

Participating countries

While only five 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.

The Unified Team's participating countries in the Summer games and the IOC codes used by them in subsequent Olympics

Country (former Soviet republic)	IOC code (1994–)
Template:Flag	ARM
Template:Flag	AZE
Template:Flag*	BLR
Template:Flag	GEO
Template:Flag*	KAZ
Template:Flag**	KGZ
Template:Flag	MDA
Template:Flag*	RUS
Template:Flag	TJK
Template:Flag**	TKM
Template:Flag*	UKR
Template:Flag*	UZB

* Unified Team participant in the Winter Olympic Games.
** Kyrgyzstan paraded under its former name Kirghizia, and Turkmenistan paraded under its former name Turkmenia.

Timeline of participation

Date	Team
1900–1912	Template:FlagIOCteam
1920	Template:FlagIOCteam
1924–1936		Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam	as part of Template:Nowrap
1952–1988	Template:FlagIOCteam
1992	Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam
1994				Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:FlagIOCteam	Template:Nowrap, Template:Nowrap, Template:Nowrap
1996–2016								Template:Nowrap, Template:Nowrap
2018					Template:FlagIOCteam
2020–2022					Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)
2024–					Template:FlagIOCteam

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Template:GamesName	475	45	38	29	112	1
Total		45	38	29	112	30

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Template:GamesName	129	9	6	8	23	2
Total		9	6	8	23	21

Flag bearers

• Template:Flagicon 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics - Valeriy Medvedtsev (Biathlon)
• Template:Flagicon 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics - Aleksandr Karelin (Wrestling)

See also

• Unified Team at the Paralympics
• Unified Team of Germany
• Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• CIS national football team
• Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics
• Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the Olympics

External links

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