Unified Team

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The Unified Team (EUN) was allowed by the IOC to use the Olympic Emblem in place of a national flag.
The Unified Team (EUN) was allowed by the IOC to use the Olympic Emblem in place of a national flag.

The Unified Team 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. The official French name used was Équipe Unifiée, hence the abbreviation EUN which appears in result listings. The Unified Team was sometimes informally called the CIS Team (Commonwealth of Independent States), although Georgia did not join the CIS until 1993.

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists. By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform. Where an EUN individual won a medal, the national flag of the medallist's nation was raised rather than the Olympic flag, and a gold medallist's national anthem was played rather than the Olympic Hymn. The EUN team continued to be represented at all ceremonies by the Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn.

While only six of the EUN countries took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics, all twelve participated in the Summer Olympics. For details of the Unified Team's participation, see:

Table of the EUN's participating countries, the IOC codes used by them in subsequent Olympics, and their extent of 1992 participation
Country (former
Soviet republic)		 IOC code
(1994–)		 No of games participated in
 Armenia ARM 2
 Azerbaijan AZE 1
 Belarus BLR 2
 Georgia GEO 1
 Kazakhstan KAZ 2
 Kyrgyzstan KGZ 1
 Moldova MDA 1
 Russia RUS 2
 Tajikistan TJK 1
 Turkmenistan TKM 1
 Ukraine UKR 2
 Uzbekistan UZB 2

Performance:

  • The Unified Team finished second to Germany in the overall medal tally at Albertville with 9 golds, 6 silvers, and 8 bronzes; 23 medals in total
  • The team finished first at Barcelona with 45 golds, 38 silvers, and 29 bronzes; 112 medals in total

(Note, however, that the International Olympic Committee does not officially recognise national medal totals.)

See also

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