East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics
East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics | |
---|---|
![]() | |
IOC code | GDR |
NOC | National Olympic Committee of the GDR |
in Seoul | |
Competitors | 259 (157 men, 102 women) in 16 sports |
Flag bearer | Ulf Timmermann |
Medals Ranked 2nd |
|
Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
![]() ![]() |
Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports.[1] The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988.[2]
Medalists
East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals overall.
Gold
- Ulf Timmermann — Athletics, men's shot put
- Jürgen Schult — Athletics, men's discus throw
- Christian Schenk — Athletics, men's decathlon
- Sigrun Wodars — Athletics, women's 800 metres
- Martina Hellmann — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Petra Felke — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Andreas Zülow — Boxing, men's lightweight
- Henry Maske — Boxing, men's middleweight
- Olaf Heukrodt — Canoeing, men's C1 500 m Canadian singles
- Birgit Fischer and Anke Nothnagel — Canoeing, women's K2 500 m kayak pairs
- Heike Singer, Birgit Fischer, Anke Nothnagel and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, women's K4 500 m kayak fours
- Lutz Heßlich — Cycling, men's 1000 m sprint (scratch)
- Olaf Ludwig — Cycling, men's individual road race
- Jan Schur, Uwe Ampler, Mario Kummer and Maik Landsmann — Cycling, men's team time trial
- Holger Behrendt — Gymnastics, men's rings
- Thomas Lange — Rowing, men's single sculls
- Roland Schröder, Ralf Brudel, Olaf Förster and Thomas Greiner — Rowing, men's coxless fours
- Hendrik Reiher, Karsten Schmeling, Bernd Eichwurzel, Frank Klawonn and Bernd Niesecke — Rowing, men's coxed fours
- Jutta Behrendt — Rowing, women's single sculls
- Birgit Peter and Martina Schröter — Rowing, women's double sculls
- Jana Sorgers, Kerstin Förster, Kristina Mundt and Beate Schramm — Rowing, women's quadruple sculls
- Birte Siech, Martina Walther, Gerlinde Doberschütz, Carola Hornig and Sylvia Rose — Rowing, women's coxed fours
- Ute Stange, Ute Wild, Judith Zeidler, Daniela Neunast, Beatrix Schröer, Annegret Strauch, Ramona Balthasar, Kathrin Haacker and Anja Kluge — Rowing, women's eights
- Axel Wegner — Shooting, men's skeet shooting
- Uwe Dassler — Swimming, men's 400 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 50 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m freestyle
- Heike Friedrich — Swimming, women's 200 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke
- Silke Hörner — Swimming, women's 200 m breaststroke
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m butterfly
- Kathleen Nord — Swimming, women's 200 m butterfly
- Daniela Hunger — Swimming, women's 200 m individual medley
- Manuela Stellmach, Daniela Hunger, Katrin Meissner and Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
- Birte Weigang, Silke Hörner, Katrin Meissner and Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Joachim Kunz — Weightlifting, men's lightweight (67½ kg)
- Thomas Flach, Bernd Jäkel and Jochen Schümann — Sailing, men's Soling
Silver
- Ronald Weigel — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
- Ronald Weigel — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
- Torsten Voss — Athletics, men's decathlon
- Petra Müller — Athletics, women's 400 metres
- Christine Wachtel — Athletics, women's 800 metres
- Gloria Siebert — Athletics, women's 100 m hurdles
- Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr and Ingrid Lange— Athletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's long jump
- Kathrin Neimke — Athletics, women's shot put
- Diana Gansky — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Sabine John — Athletics, women's heptathlon
- Andreas Tews — Boxing, men's flyweight
- Andreas Stähle — Canoeing, men's K1 500 m kayak singles
- Jörg Schmidt — Canoeing, men's C1 1000 m Canadian singles
- Olaf Heukrodt and Ingo Spelly — Canoeing, men's C2 1000 m Canadian pairs
- Birgit Fischer — Canoeing, women's K1 500 m kayak singles
- Carsten Wolf, Steffen Blochwitz, Roland Hennig and Dirk Meier — Cycling, men's 4000 m team pursuit
- Christa Luding-Rothenburger — Cycling, women's sprint
- Udo Wagner — Fencing, men's foil individual
- Sylvio Kroll — Gymnastics, men's long horse vault
- Ralf Büchner, Holger Behrendt, Ulf Hoffmann, Sylvio Kroll, Sven Tippelt and Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, men's team combined exercises
- Dagmar Kersten — Gymnastics, women's asymmetrical bars
- Sven Loll — Judo, men's lightweight (71 kg)
- Henry Stöhr — Judo, men's heavyweight (+95 kg)
- Mario Streit, Detlef Kirchhoff and René Rensch — Rowing, men's coxed pairs
- Ralf Schumann — Shooting, men's rapid-fire pistol
- Frank Baltrusch — Swimming, men's 200 m backstroke
- Patrick Kühl — Swimming, men's 200 m individual medley
- Steffen Zesner, Uwe Dassler, Thomas Flemming and Sven Lodziewski — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
- Heike Friedrich — Swimming, women's 400 m freestyle
- Astrid Strauss — Swimming, women's 800 m freestyle
- Kathrin Zimmermann — Swimming, women's 200 m backstroke
- Birte Weigang — Swimming, women's 100 m butterfly
- Birte Weigang — Swimming, women's 200 m butterfly
- Ingo Steinhöfel — Weightlifting, men's middleweight (75 kg)
Bronze
- Jens-Peter Herold — Athletics, men's 1.500 metres
- Hansjörg Kunze — Athletics, men's 5.000 metres
- Hartwig Gauder — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's 100 metres
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's 200 metres
- Kathrin Dörre — Athletics, women's marathon
- Ellen Fiedler — Athletics, women's 400 m hurdles
- Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Sabine Busch, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller — Athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
- Beate Koch — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Anke Behmer — Athletics, women's heptathlon
- André Wohllebe — Canoeing, men's K1 1000 m kayak singles
- André Wohllebe, Hans-Jörg Bliesener, Kay Bluhm and Andreas Stähle — Canoeing, men's K4 1000 m kayak fours
- Bernd Dittert — Cycling, men's 4000 m individual pursuit
- Holger Behrendt — Gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
- Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, men's parallel bars
- Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, men's rings
- Ulrike Klotz, Bettina Schieferdecker, Dörte Thümmler, Gabriele Fähnrich, Martina Jentsch and Dagmar Kersten — Gymnastics, women's team combined exercises
- Torsten Bréchôt — Judo, men's half middleweight (78 kg)
- Steffen Zühlke, Steffen Bogs, Heiko Habermann and Jens Köppen — Rowing, men's quadruple sculls
- Uwe Dassler — Swimming, men's 1500 m freestyle
- Steffen Zesner, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Dirk Richter — Swimming, men's 4 × 100 m freestyle
- Katrin Meissner — Swimming, women's 50 m freestyle
- Manuela Stellmach — Swimming, women's 200 m freestyle
- Anke Möhring — Swimming, women's 400 m freestyle
- Cornelia Sirch — Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke
- Cornelia Sirch — Swimming, women's 200 m backstroke
- Silke Hörner — Swimming, women's 100 m breaststroke
- Daniela Hunger — Swimming, women's 400 m individual medley
- Ronny Weller — Weightlifting, men's heavyweight (110 kg)
- Andreas Schröder — Wrestling, men's freestyle super heavyweight
Athletics
Men's competition
Men's 5,000 metres
Men's 10,000 metres
- Hansjörg Kunze
- Heat — 28:22.09
- Final — 27:39.35 (→ 6th place)
Men's marathon
- Jörg Peter
- Final — did not start (→ no ranking)
Men's 4 × 400 m relay
- Jens Carlowitz, Michael Schimmer, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
- Heat — 3:08.13
- Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
- Semifinal — 3:00.60
- Jens Carlowitz, Mathias Schersing, Frank Möller and Thomas Schönlebe
- Final — 3:01.13 (→ 4th place)
Men's 3.000 m steeplechase
- Heat — 8:36.45
- Semifinal — 8:16.27
- Final — 8:19.82 (→ 10th place)
Men's javelin throw
- Gerald Weiss
- Qualification — 79.16m
- Final — 81.30 m (→ 6th place)
- Silvio Warsönke
- Qualification — 78.22m (→ did not advance)
- Detlef Michel
- Qualification — 77.70 m (→ did not advance)
Men's discus throw
Men's shot put
- Ulf Timmermann
- Udo Beyer
- Qualifying heat – 20.97m
- Final – 21.40 m (→ 4th place)
Men's hammer throw
- Ralf Haber
- Qualifying heat — 78.16m
- Final — 80.44m (→ 4th place)
- Günther Rodehau
- Qualifying heat — 78.12m
- Final — 72.36m (→ 12th place)
Men's decathlon
- Christian Schenk — 8488 points (→
Gold medal))
- 100 metres — 11.25s
- Long jump — 7.43m
- Shot put — 15.48m
- High jump — 2.27m
- 400 metres — 48.90 s
- 110 m hurdles — 15.13s
- Discus throw — 49.28m
- Pole vault — 4.70 m
- Javelin throw — 61.32m
- 1.500 metres — 4:28.95s
- Torsten Voss — 8399 points (→
Silver medal))
- 100 metres — 10.87s
- Long jump — 7.45m
- Shot put — 14.97m
- High jump — 1.97m
- 400 metres — 47.71s
- 110 m hurdles — 14.46s
- Discus throw — 44.36m
- Pole vault — 5.10 m
- Javelin throw — 61.76m
- 1.500 metres — 4:33.02s
- Uwe Freimuth — 7860 points (→ 18th place)
- 100 metres — 11.57s
- Long jump — 7.00 m
- Shot put — 15.60 m
- High jump — 1.94m
- 400 metres — 49.84s
- 110 m hurdles — 15.04s
- Discus throw — 46.66m
- Pole vault — 4.90 m
- Javelin throw — 60.20 m
- 1.500 metres — 4:46.04s
Men's 20 km walk
- Ronald Weigel
- Axel Noack
- Final — 1:21:14 (→ 8th place)
Men's 50 km walk
- Ronald Weigel
- Hartwig Gauder
- Dietmar Meisch
- Final — 3'46:31 (→ 9th place)
Women's competition
Women's 4 × 100 m relay
Women's 4 × 400 m relay
- Grit Breuer, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller
- Heat — 3:27.37
- Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Petra Müller
Women's marathon
- Katrin Dörre – 2"26:21 (→
Bronze medal)
- Birgit Stephan – did not finish (→ no ranking)
Women's discus throw
- Martina Hellmann
- Diana Gansky
- Gabriele Reinsch
- Qualification – 66.88m
- Final – 67.26m (→ 7th place)
Women's javelin throw
- Petra Felke
- Beate Koch
- Silke Renk
- Qualification – 63.64m
- Final – 66.38m (→ 5th place)
Women's shot put
- Kathrin Neimke
- Ines Müller
- Qualification – 19.79m
- Final – 20.37m (→ 4th place)
- Heike Hartwig
- Qualification – 20.06m
- Final – 20.20 m (→ 6th place)
Women's heptathlon
- Sabine John
- Anke Behmer
- Ines Schulz
- Final result — 6411 points (→ 6th place)
Boxing
Men's bantamweight (54 kg)
- René Breitbarth
- First round — defeated Magare Tshekiso (BTS), 5–0
- Second round — defeated Vedat Tutuk (TUR), 5–0
- Third round — lost to Jorge Julio Rocha (COL), 1–4
Canoeing
Cycling
Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988.
- Olaf Ludwig — 4:32:22 (→ Gold medal)
- Uwe Raab
- Uwe Ampler
- Angela Ranft — 2:00:52 (→ 25th place)
- Petra Rossner — DNF (→ no ranking)
Diving
Fencing
Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event.[3]
Gymnastics
Handball
Judo
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 100 m freestyle
- Steffen Zesner
- Heat – 50.73
- Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)
- Sven Lodziewski
- Heat – 50.77
- B-Final – 51.00 (→ 12th place)
Men's 200 m freestyle
- Steffen Zesner
- Heat – 1:49.13
- Final – 1:48.77 (→ 6th place)
- Thomas Flemming
- Heat – 1:49.52
- B-Final – 1:50.18 (→ 10th place)
Men's 400 m freestyle
- Uwe Dassler
- Jörg Hoffmann
- Heat – 3:53.78
- B-Final – 3:52.13 (→ 9th place)
Men's 1500 m freestyle
- Uwe Dassler
- Jörg Hoffmann
- Heat – 15:14.13 (→ did not advance, 6th place)
Men's 100 m backstroke
- Frank Baltrusch
- Heat – 56.45
- Final – 56.10 (→ 6th place)
- Dirk Richter
- Heat – 56.52
- B-Final – 56.66 (→ 9th place)
Men's 200 m backstroke
- Frank Baltrusch
- Dirk Richter
- Heat – 2:01.54
- Final – 2:01.67 (→ 5th place)
Men's 100 m breaststroke
- Christian Poswiat
- Heat – 1:02.99
- Final – 1:03.43 (→ 8th place)
- Raik Hannemann
- Heat – 1:04.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place)
Men's 200 m breaststroke
- Christian Poswiat
- Heat – 2:20.99 (→ did not advance, 27th place)
Men's 200 m individual medley
- Patrick Kühl
- Raik Hannemann
- Heat – 2:04.03
- Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)
Men's 400 m individual medley
- Patrick Kühl
- Heat – 4:18.60
- Final – 4:18.44 (→ 5th place)
- Raik Hannemann
- Heat – 2:04.03
- Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
- Uwe Dassler, Lars Hinneburg, Sven Lodziewski and Thomas Flemming
- Heat – 7:16.61
- Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner
Women's 50 m freestyle
Women's 100 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto
- Manuela Stellmach
- Heat – 56.14
- Final – 55.52 (→ 4th place)
Women's 200 m freestyle
Women's 400 m freestyle
Women's 800 m freestyle
- Astrid Strauss
- Anke Möhring
- Heat – 8:30.95
- Final – 8:23.09 (→ 4th place)
Women's 100 m backstroke
Women's 200 m backstroke
Women's 100 m breaststroke
- Silke Hörner
- Annett Rex
- Heat – 1:10.61
- Final – 1:10.67 (→ 8th place)
Women's 200 m breaststroke
- Silke Hörner
- Susanne Boernike
- Heat – 2:30.71
- B-Final – 2:28.55 (→ 9th place)
Women's 100 m butterfly
Women's 200 m butterfly
Women's 200 m individual medley
Women's 400 m individual medley
- Daniela Hunger
- Kathleen Nord
- Heat – 4:42.92
- Final – 4:41.64 (→ 5th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
- Katrin Meissner, Sabina Schulze, Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger
- Heat – 3:43.13
- Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Cornelia Sirch, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Manuela Stellmach
- Heat – 4:08.53
- Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Katrin Meissner
Volleyball
Women's tournament
- Preliminary round (Group A)
- Lost to South Korea (1–3)
- Defeated Japan (3–2)
- Lost to Soviet Union (0–3)
- Classification matches
- 5th/8th place: defeated United States (3–1)
- 5th/6th place: defeated Brazil (3–0) → Fifth place
- Team roster
- Head coach: Siegfried Köhler
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
- ^ "East Germany at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "Das DDR-Aufgebot für den Medaillenkampf" [The GDR squad for the medal fight]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 44, no. 209. 3 September 1988. p. 6. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "East Germany Fencing at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.