Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Alpine skiing

;Men
;Men's slalom
;Women

Biathlon

;Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Rinnat Safin	1'15:22.59	7	1'22:22.59	19
20 km	Ivan Biakov	1'17:42.78	3	1'20:42.78	12
20 km	Viktor Mamatov	1'16:16.26	2	1'18:16.26	7
20 km	Aleksandr Tikhonov	1'12:48.65	4	1'16:48.65	4

;Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Cross-country skiing

;Men
;Men's 4 × 10 km relay
;Women
;Women's 3 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

;Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Yuri Ovchinnikov	15	6	2477.5	104.5	12
Vladimir Kovalev	7	11	2521.6	80	8
Sergei Chetverukhin	3	1	2672.4	20

;Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marina Sanaya	19	18	2198.6	160	18

;Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Irina Cherniaeva Vasili Blagov	6	5	399.1	52	6
Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin	2	2	419.4	15
Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov	1	1	420.4	12

Ice hockey

Medal round

USSR 9-3 Finland
USSR 3-3 Sweden
USSR 7-2 USA
USSR 9-3 Poland
USSR 5-2 Czechoslovakia

Luge

;Men
Doubles
;Women

Speed skating

;Men
;Women

Medals by republic

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.