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| Unified Team at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | EUN |
| Medals Ranked 28th |
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| Other related appearances | |
 Russian Empire (1900–1912) Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–) Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–) Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–) Soviet Union (1952–1988) 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–) Olympic Athletes from Russia (2018) ROC (2020–2022) Individual Neutral Athletes (2024–2026) | |
TheUnified Team (Russian:Объединённая команда) was the name used for thesports team of the formerSoviet Union (except theBaltic states) at the1992 Winter Olympics inAlbertville and the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona.[1] TheIOC country code wasEUN, after the French name,Équipe unifiée. The Unified Team was sometimes informally called theCIS Team (Commonwealth of Independent States, as a counterpart ofCIS national football team taking part inEuro 1992 of the same year), althoughGeorgia 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.
At the 1992 Winter Olympics, theNational Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC due to thedissolution of the Soviet Union having only taken place little more than two months prior. During the opening ceremony, the team's placard displayedÉquipe 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 flagbearerValeriy 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.[2]
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, andCatalan), followed by Russian flagbearerAleksandr 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.[3] 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 theOlympic Hymn. In team events, the EUN team continued to use the Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn, as team members represented different nations.[4][5][6]
While only five of the EUN countries took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics, all twelve participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics. At the1994 Winter Olympics and the1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts as independent countries.
| Country (former Soviet republic) | IOC code (1994–) |
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| Armenia | ARM |
| Azerbaijan | AZE |
 Belarus* | BLR |
 Georgia | GEO |
 Kazakhstan* | KAZ |
| Kirghizia** | KGZ |
| Moldova | MDA |
 Russia* | RUS |
 Tajikistan | TJK |
 Turkmenia** | TKM |
| Ukraine* | UKR |
| Uzbekistan* | UZB |
* Unified Team participant in the Winter Olympic Games.
**Kyrgyzstan paraded under its former name Kirghizia, andTurkmenistan paraded under its former name Turkmenia.
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| 1900–1912 | Russian Empire (RU1) | ||||||||
| 1920 | Estonia (EST) | ||||||||
| 1924–1936 | Latvia (LAT) | Lithuania (LTU) | as part of Romania | ||||||
| 1952–1988 | Soviet Union (URS) | ||||||||
| 1992 | Estonia (EST) | Latvia (LAT) | Lithuania (LTU) | Unified Team (EUN) | |||||
| 1994 | Moldova (MDA) | Russia (RUS) | Belarus (BLR) | Armenia (ARM), Georgia (GEO), Kazakhstan (KAZ), Kyrgyzstan (KGZ), Ukraine (UKR), Uzbekistan (UZB) | |||||
| 1996–2016 | Azerbaijan (AZE), Tajikistan (TJK), Turkmenistan (TKM) | ||||||||
| 2018 | Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) | ||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Russian Olympic Committee(ROC) | ||||||||
| 2024– | Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) | ||||||||
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1992 Albertville Winter Olympics -Valeriy Medvedtsev (Biathlon)
1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics -Aleksandr Karelin (Wrestling)... The other ex-Soviet republics participated as a "unified team", although the winners were honoured under the flags of their own republics. ...'
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