Armed Forces (sports society)

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The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces ( sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA;, Fizkulturno-sportivnoe obyedinenie Vooruzhonnykh Sil SSSR), also called the Sports Clubs of the Soviet Ministry of Defense or simply Armed Forces or Army were a system of departmental sports clubs and one of the largest sports societies in the USSR. Established at first within officers' clubs of the Red Army, after the Second World War they were reformed into sports clubs for all ranks in the armed forces. All the sports clubs were supervised by the Sports Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR and the sports committees of military districts and naval fleets, with each district and fleet having its own club. The army clubs were often abbreviated as SKA and previously as SKVO and DO. The largest club was located in Moscow, CSKA Moscow ("C" standing for Central). The military sports clubs had an opportunity to enlist all top athletes of a country due to the mandatory conscription policies in force then. Alongside the SKA teams in the Soviet Army, each service branch of the Armed Forces maintained service-wide clubs, with component teams coming under district or fleet club supervision. Following the World War II, there was an acute competitiveness in all types of sports (i.e. football, ice hockey, basketball, etc.) between the Soviet Armed Forces Sports Association clubs and the clubs of the Dynamo representing Soviet security forces (MVD and KGB).

Regional multi-sport clubs

Medal recipients of the Armed Forces sports society at Olympics

City represented and sports discipline are given in parentheses.

Summer Olympics

1952 Summer Olympics

1956 Summer Olympics

1960 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

1968 Summer Olympics

1972 Summer Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

Olympians of the Unified Team

1992 Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

1956 Winter Olympics

1960 Winter Olympics

1964 Winter Olympics

1968 Winter Olympics

1972 Winter Olympics

1976 Winter Olympics

1980 Winter Olympics

1984 Winter Olympics

1988 Winter Olympics

Overall Olympic performance by the society

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for one team", as usual.

Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

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