Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The Russian Federation competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's fifth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation. The Russian Olympic Committee sent a total of 436 athletes to the Games, 208 men and 228 women, to compete in 24 sports. For the first time in its Olympic history, Russia was represented by more female than male athletes.
Russia left London with a total of 82 medals, finishing fourth in the overall medal standings, but was later stripped of 15 medals for doping violations. Most of these medals were awarded to the team in athletics, wrestling, gymnastics, boxing and weightlifting. Of the twenty-four sports played by the Russian athletes, at least a single Olympic medal was won in sixteen of them. Russian athletes dominated in rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming, where they won gold medals in all the events. Nine Russian athletes won more than a single Olympic medal in London. Russia's team-sport athletes also proved successful at these games, as the men's volleyball and basketball teams won gold and bronze medals, respectively. For the first time in its history, Russia won Olympic gold medals in judo, winning two golds in the men’s events. The success was attributed to an increased investment in the sport by the government and Vladimir Putin’s personal interest.
Among the nation's medalists were Aliya Mustafina, who emerged as one of the most successful Russian gymnasts in history, with a total of four Olympic medals at a single games, and Maria Sharapova, who won silver in the women's tennis singles against United States' Serena Williams. Anastasia Davydova became the most successful synchronized swimmer in Olympic history, with a total of five gold medals, while her compatriots Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina managed to win gold medals in both duet and team events. Olga Zabelinskaya became the first Russian female cyclist to win two Olympic medals in road events. Diver Ilya Zakharov recaptured Russia's success in his sport after 12 years, as he won its first ever gold medal in men's springboard. Rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva made history by becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion in the individual all-around event, while the Russian group in rhythmic gymnastics defended their Olympic title for the fourth consecutive time in the group all-around.
Medalists
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Judo | Men's 60 kg | |||
| Judo | Men's 73 kg | |||
| Judo | Men's 100 kg | |||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's uneven bars | |||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg | |||
Svetlana Romashina | Synchronized swimming | Women's duet | ||
| Diving | Men's 3 m springboard | |||
| Athletics | Women's 400 m hurdles | |||
| Wrestling | Women's freestyle 72 kg | |||
Maria Gromova Natalia Ischenko Elvira Khasyanova Daria Korobova Aleksandra Patskevich Svetlana Romashina Alla Shishkina Angelika Timanina | Synchronized swimming | Women's team | ||
| Wrestling | Men's freestyle 55 kg | |||
Alexander Dyachenko | Canoeing | Men's K-2 200 m | ||
| Gymnastics | Women's rhythmic individual all-around | |||
| Athletics | Women's 20 km walk | |||
| Athletics | Women's high jump | |||
| Boxing | Men's light heavyweight | |||
Uliana Donskova Ksenia Dudkina Alina Makarenko Anastasia Nazarenko Karolina Sevastyanova | Gymnastics | Women's rhythmic group all-around | ||
| Volleyball | Men's tournament | |||
| Wrestling | Men's freestyle 120 kg | |||
Anastasia Grishina Viktoria Komova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka | Gymnastics | Women's artistic team all-around | ||
Evgeny Kuznetsov | Diving | Men's 3 m synchronized springboard | ||
| Fencing | Women's sabre | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's artistic individual all-around | |||
Inna Deriglazova Kamila Gafurzyanova Larisa Korobeynikova | Fencing | Women's team foil | ||
| Gymnastics | Men's trampoline | |||
| Judo | Men's +100 kg | |||
| Swimming | Women's 200m backstroke | |||
| Swimming | Men's 100m butterfly | |||
| Tennis | Women's singles | |||
| Weightlifting | Women's +75 kg | |||
| Gymnastics | Men's vault | |||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg | |||
| Athletics | Women's long jump | |||
| Boxing | Women's lightweight | |||
| Boxing | Women's middleweight | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's rhythmic individual all-around | |||
| Wrestling | Men's freestyle 60 kg | |||
| Athletics | Women's 800 m | |||
| Athletics | Women's 1500 m | |||
| Fencing | Men's sabre | |||
| Andrey Grechin Danila Izotov Yevgeny Lagunov Nikita Lobintsev Vladimir Morozov | Swimming | Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | ||
| Cycling | Women's road race | |||
| Judo | Men's 81 kg | |||
| Cycling | Women's time trial | |||
| Shooting | Men's double trap | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's artistic individual all-around | |||
| Swimming | Women's 200 m breaststroke | |||
Nina Vislova | Badminton | Women's doubles | ||
| Athletics | Women's marathon | |||
| Gymnastics | Men's floor | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's vault | |||
Nadia Petrova | Tennis | Women's doubles | ||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg | |||
| Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg | |||
| Athletics | Women's pole vault | |||
| Gymnastics | Women's floor | |||
| Weightlifting | Men's +105 kg | |||
| Wrestling | Women's freestyle 63 kg | |||
| Taekwondo | Men's 58 kg | |||
Ilya Pervukhin | Canoeing | Men's C-2 1000 m | ||
| Boxing | Men's light flyweight | |||
| Wrestling | Men's freestyle 74 kg | |||
| Boxing | Men's flyweight | |||
| Boxing | Men's welterweight | |||
| Canoeing | Men's C-1 200 m | |||
| Taekwondo | Women's +67 kg | |||
| Basketball | Men's team |
Competitors
The Russian Olympic Committee selected a team of 436 athletes, 208 men and 228 women, to compete in all sports except field hockey and football; it was the nation's third-largest team sent to the Olympics, tying its record with Sydney in 2000. Athletics was the nation's largest team by sport, with a total of 104 competitors.The Russian team featured twelve defending champions from Beijing, including pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, synchronized swimmer Anastasia Davydova, race walkers Olga Kaniskina and Valeriy Borchin, modern pentathlete Andrey Moiseev and rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva. Among these champions, Isinbayeva, Davydova and Kanaeva managed to defend their Olympic titles for the second consecutive time in their events. Kanaeva became the first rhythmic gymnast to win back to back gold medal at the Olympics. Volleyballer Yevgeniya Estes became the first Russian athlete to compete in six Olympic games, although she first appeared as part of the Unified Team. Meanwhile, rifle shooters Artem Khadjibekov and Sergei Kovalenko, and volleyballer Sergey Tetyukhin made their fifth Olympic appearance. Equestrian show jumper Vladimir Tuganov, at age 51, was the oldest athlete of the team, while relay swimmer Mariya Baklakova was the youngest at age 15.
Other notable Russian athletes featured NBA basketball players Andrei Kirilenko and Timofey Mozgov, high jumpers Ivan Ukhov and Anna Chicherova, US-based swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Arkady Vyatchanin, and gymnast and world individual all-around champion Aliya Mustafina. World number-one female tennis player Maria Sharapova, who competed at her first Olympics, became Russia's first female flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Archery | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Athletics | 43 | 61 | 104 |
| Badminton | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Basketball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Boxing | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| Canoeing | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| Cycling | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| Diving | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Equestrian | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Fencing | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Gymnastics | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| Handball | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Judo | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Modern pentathlon | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Rowing | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Sailing | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Shooting | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| Swimming | 19 | 16 | 35 |
| Synchronised swimming | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Table tennis | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Taekwondo | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Tennis | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Triathlon | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Volleyball | 14 | 16 | 30 |
| Water polo | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Weightlifting | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| Wrestling | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Total | 208 | 228 | 436 |
Archery
Russian athletes have qualified a team of 3 through 2011 World Archery Championships.Athletics
Russian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events : 26 Russian track and field athletes failed doping tests in the aftermath of the London Olympics, nine medals were rescinded. On 1 May 2013, discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova stripped off her silver medal and thereby received a 10-year ban by the International Olympic Committee for a positive doping test on oxandrolone. On January 30, 2015 3000 m steeplechaser Yuliya Zaripova received a 2 years and 6 months ban from the Russian Anti-Doping Agency after a positive doping test for blood doping. Afterwards, it was that said Russia “sabotaged” the 2012 Olympics by allowing athletes who should have been banned for doping violations to compete in the London Olympics, with RUSADA covering up positive tests and punishing only those athletes that would have been banned anyway.;Key
in men's marathon
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – Decathlon
| Athlete | Event | 100 m | 400 m | 1500 m | Final | Rank | |||||||
| Ilya Shkurenev | Result | 11.01 | 7.25 | 12.89 | 2.02 | 49.81 PB | 14.39 | 43.51 | 5.10 | 53.81 | 4:42.80 | 7948 | 16 |
| Ilya Shkurenev | Points | 858 | 874 | 661 | 822 | 823 | 925 | 736 | 941 | 645 | 663 | 7948 | 16 |
| Sergey Sviridov | Result | 10.78 PB | 7.45 | 14.42 | 1.99 PB | 48.91 | 15.42 | 47.43 | 4.60 PB | 68.42 | 4:36.63 | 8219 | 8 |
| Sergey Sviridov | Points | 910 | 922 | 754 | 794 | 866 | 799 | 817 | 790 | 865 | 702 | 8219 | 8 |
and her teammate Ekaterina Poistogova in the women's 800 metres.
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – Heptathlon
| Athlete | Event | 200 m | 800 m | Final | Rank | |||||
| Tatyana Chernova | Result | 13.48 | 1.80 | 14.17 SB | 23.67 | 6.54 | 46.29 | 2:09.56 | ||
| Tatyana Chernova | Points | 1053 | 978 | 805 | 1013 | 1020 | 788 | 971 | ||
| Olga Kurban | Result | 13.56 | 1.80 | 13.71 | 23.88 | 5.83 | 40.36 | 2:19.82 | 6084 | 20 |
| Olga Kurban | Points | 1041 | 978 | 775 | 992 | 798 | 674 | 826 | 6084 | 20 |
| Kristina Savitskaya | Result | 13.37 PB | 1.83 | 14.77 PB | 24.46 PB | 6.21 PB | 43.70 | 2:12.27 PB | 6452 | 8 |
| Kristina Savitskaya | Points | 1069 | 1016 | 845 | 937 | 915 | 738 | 932 | 6452 | 8 |
Badminton
Basketball
qualified for the event by win the EuroBasket Women 2011. The men qualified through the world qualification tournament.- Women's event – 1 team of 12 players
- Men's event – 1 team of 12 players.
Men's tournament
;Group play
;Quarter-final
;Semifinal
;Bronze medal game
Women's tournament
;Roster;Group play
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal match
Boxing
Russia has so far qualified boxers for the following events;Men
;Women
Canoeing
Slalom
Russia has qualified boats for the following eventsSprint
Russia has qualified 15 athletes quota places through 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships held at Szeged, Hungary.;Men
;Women
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final ; FB = Qualify to final B
Cycling
Russia has qualified cyclists for the following eventsRoad
;Men| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Vladimir Isaichev | Road race | 5:46:37 | 51 |
| Alexandr Kolobnev | Road race | 5:46:05 | 23 |
| Denis Menchov | Road race | 5:46:51 | 97 |
| Denis Menchov | Time trial | 54:59.26 | 20 |
;Women
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Tatiana Antoshina | Road race | 3:35:56 | 25 |
| Tatiana Antoshina | Time trial | 40:12.49 | 12 |
| Larisa Pankova | Road race | 3:37:22 | 38 |
| Olga Zabelinskaya | Road race | 3:35:31 | |
| Olga Zabelinskaya | Time trial | 37:57.35 |
Track
;Sprint;Team sprint
;Pursuit
;Keirin
| Athlete | Event | 1st round | Repechage | 2nd round | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Rank | Rank | Rank | Rank |
| Sergey Borisov | Men's keirin | 5 R | 5 | Did not advance | 15 |
| Ekaterina Gnidenko | Women's keirin |
;Omnium
Mountain biking
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Evgeny Pechenin | Men's cross-country | 1:41:40 | 37 |
| Irina Kalentieva | Women's cross-country | 1:32:33 | 4 |
Diving
Russia has qualified a maximum of 7 divers from 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai. Russia also qualified another diver in the men's 10 m platform and the men's 10 m platform synchronised team at the 2012 Diving World Cup.;Men
;Women
Equestrian
Eventing
Show jumping
Fencing
Russia has qualified 15 fencers.;Men
;Women
Gymnastics
Artistic
;Men;Team
;Individual finals
;Women
;Individual finals
Rhythmic
Trampoline
Handball
- Women's team event – 1 team of 14 players
Women's tournament
;Quarterfinals
Judo
Russia has qualified 7 men and 5 women for the olympics.;Men
;Women
Modern pentathlon
Russia has qualified two men and two women.Rowing
;Men;Women
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A ; FB=Final B ; FC=Final C ; FD=Final D ; FE=Final E ; FF=Final F ; SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Sailing
Russia has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events;Men
;Women
M = Medal race; EL = Did not advance
;Match racing
Shooting
Russia has earned 24 quotas in shooting events:;Men
;Women
Swimming
Russian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events, and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time ):;Men
;Women
Synchronized swimming
Russia has qualified 9 quota places in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics.Table tennis
Russia has qualified two athletes for singles table tennis events. Based on their world ranking as of 16 May 2011 Alexey Smirnov and Alexander Shibaev have qualified for the men's event.Taekwondo
Russia has ensured berths in the following events of taekwondo by reaching the top 3 of the 2011 WTF World Qualification Tournament: Russia also qualified in two more events in the European Championships.Tennis
;Men;Women
;Mixed
Triathlon
| Athlete | Event | Swim | Trans 1 | Bike | Trans 2 | Run | Total Time | Rank |
| Alexander Bryukhankov | Men's | 17:22 | 0:40 | 58:51 | 0:32 | 30:10 | 1:47:35 | 7 |
| Dmitry Polyanski | Men's | 17:14 | 0:38 | 1:00:35 | 0:29 | 30:28 | 1:49:24 | 21 |
| Ivan Vasiliev | Men's | 17:03 | 0:46 | 59:04 | 0:28 | 31:22 | 1:47:35 | 13 |
| Irina Abysova | Women's | 19:20 | 0:46 | 1:05:34 | 0:31 | 35:41 | 2:01:52 | 13 |
| Alexandra Razarenova | Women's | 19:47 | 0:51 | 1:10:36 | 0:30 | 37:27 | 2:09:11 | 47 |
Volleyball
Russia has qualified a men's team and a women's team for the indoor tournaments.- Men's team event – 1 team of 12 players
- Women's team event – 1 team of 12 players
Beach
Men's indoor tournament
;Team roster;Group play
;Quarterfinal
;Semifinal
;Final
Women's indoor tournament
;Team roster;Group play
;Quarterfinals
Water polo
- Women's team event – 1 team of 13 players
Women's tournament
;Quarterfinals
;5–8th place semifinals
;Fifth place game
Weightlifting
Russia has qualified 6 men and 4 women.;Men
;Women
Wrestling
;Men's freestyle;Men's Greco-Roman
;Women's freestyle
Russian doping scandal
Media attention began growing in December 2014 when German broadcaster ARD reported on state-sponsored doping in Russia, comparing it to doping in East Germany. In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency published a report and the International Association of Athletics Federations suspended Russia indefinitely from world track and field events. The 335-page report, compiled following a nearly yearlong investigation by a commission led by former anti-doping agency President Dick Pound, urged the International Association of Athletics Federations to suspend Russia from competition, including the Olympics in Brazil. The report said Russia “sabotaged” the 2012 Olympics by allowing athletes who should have been banned for doping violations to compete in the London Games. It recommended the anti-doping agency impose lifetime suspensions for 10 Russian coaches and athletes, including women’s 800-meters gold medalist Mariya Savinova. The United Kingdom Anti-Doping agency later assisted WADA with testing in Russia. In June 2016, they reported that they were unable to fully carry out their work and noted intimidation by armed Federal Security Service agents.After a Russian former lab director made allegations about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, WADA commissioned an independent investigation led by Richard McLaren. McLaren's investigation found corroborating evidence, concluding in a report published in July 2016 that the Ministry of Sport and the FSB had operated a "state-directed failsafe system" using a "disappearing positive methodology" from "at least late 2011 to August 2015".