The biographies of the people depicted in the RED FILES episode "Soviet Sports Wars" along with the production staff are presented below.

Key Players
Ralph Boston	Natalia Kuchinskaya
Leonid Brezhnev	Alexander Kurashov
Robert Edelman	Larissa Latynina
Anatoly Firsov	Lev Markov
Konstantin Gyanov	Jesse Owens
Paul Henderson	Anatoly Tarasov
Anatoly Kolesov	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Olga Korbut	Alexander Yakushev
RED FILES Production Team
Gábor Beszterczey	Barbara Keys
William Cran	Stephan Lang
George Feifer	Steven Leibman
Paul Foss	Jonathan Sanders
J. Mitchell Johnson