Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year


Since a certain time until 1991 in the end of each year the Federation of Sports Journalists of the USSR held an inquest among its members to name top ten athletes of the year of the USSR. Here is a list of them.

List

1971

1972

Alphabetical order.

1973

1975

Gennady Moisseev

1979

Ordered by number of points:
  1. Boris Mikhailov
  2. Vladimir Salnikov
  3. Yurik Vardanyan
  4. Anatoly Karpov
  5. Alexander Dityatin
  6. Natalya Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov
  7. Sergei Sukhoruchenkov
  8. Lyudmila Kondratyeva
  9. Galina Kulakova
  10. Nellie Kim

1983

1984

Announced on December 28, 1984.

1986

Announced on December 27, 1986.

1988

Ordered by number of points:
  1. Vladimir Salnikov
  2. Sergey Bubka
  3. Arvydas Sabonis
  4. Vladimir Artemov
  5. Yuri Zakharevich
  6. Yelena Shushunova
  7. Alexei Mikhailichenko
  8. Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh
  9. Tamara Tikhonova
  10. Gintautas Umaras

1989

Ordered by number of points:
  1. Garry Kasparov
  2. Elena Välbe
  3. Fyodor Cherenkov
  4. Igor Korobchinsky
  5. Svetlana Boguinskaya
  6. Radion Gataullin
  7. Alexandra Timoshenko
  8. Igor Zhelezovski
  9. Israel Akopkokhyan
  10. Alexander Karelin

1990

Ordered by number of points:
  1. Garry Kasparov
  2. Elena Välbe
  3. Andrei Cherkasov
  4. Sergei Yuran
  5. Anatoly Khrapaty
  6. Jüri Jaanson
  7. Radion Gataullin
  8. Alexander Karelin
  9. Svetlana Boginskaya
  10. Andrey Kurnyavka