East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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East Germany at the Olympic Games

Flag of the German Democratic Republic
IOC code  GDR
NOC Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Ostdeutschland
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Flag bearer Manfred Wolke
Medals Gold
20		 Silver
23		 Bronze
23		 Total
66
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Winter Games
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988

*With FRG as the Unified Team of Germany
Other related appearances
Germany Germany (1896–1936, 1992–)

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Contents

[edit] Medals

East Germany finished in third position in the final medal rankings, with 20 gold medals and 66 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Siegbert Horn — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Reinhard Eiben — Canoeing, Men's C1 Canadian Slalom Singles
  • Rolf-Dieter Amend and Walter Hofmann — Canoeing, Men's C2 Canadian Slalom Pairs
  • Angelika Bahmann — Canoeing, Women's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Karin Janz — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
  • Karin Janz — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
  • Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
  • Wolfgang Gunkel, Jörg Lucke, and Klaus-Dieter Neubert — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
  • Dieter Schubert, Frank Forberger, Dieter Grahn and Frank Rühle — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Petra Grabowski and Ilse Kaschube — Canoeing, Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
  • Uwe Unterwalder, Thomas Huschke, Heinz Richter, and Herbert Richter — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
  • Karin Janz — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
  • Roland Matthes, Klaus Katzur, Hartmut Flöckner, and Lutz Unger — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
  • Roswitha Beier — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
  • Gabriele Wetzko, Andrea Eife, Kornelia Ender, and Elke Sehmisch — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Christine Herbst, Renate Vogel, Roswitha Beier, and Kornelia Ender — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
  • Rainer Tscharke, Wolfgang Webner, Wolfgang Weise, Siegfried Schneider, Arnold Schulz, Rudi Schumann, Jürgen Maune, Horst Peter, Eckehard Pietzsch, Horst Hagen, Wolfgang Löwe, and Wolfgang Maibohm — Volleyball, Men's Team Competition
  • Heinz-Helmut Wehling — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
  • Paul Borowski, Karl-Heinz Thun and Konrad Weichert — Sailing, Men's Dragon Class

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Marina Janicke — Diving, Women's 3m Springboard
  • Marina Janicke — Diving, Women's 10m Platform
  • Harald Gimpel — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Jürgen Packe, Reinhard Rychly, Wolfgang Thüne, Matthias Brehme, Wolfgang Klotz, and Klaus Köste — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises 559.70
  • Dietmar Hötger — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)
  • Wolfgang Güldenpfennig — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
  • Werner Lippoldt — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
  • Michael Buchheim — Shooting, Men's Skeet Shooting
  • Lutz Unger, Peter Bruch, Wilfried Hartung, and Roland Matthes — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Gudrun Wegner — Swimming, Women's 400m Freestyle
  • Stefan Grützner — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
  • Gerd Bonk — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 metres

  • Heat — 1:46.9
  • Semifinals — 1:48.1
  • Final — 1:48.0 (→ 8th place)

Men's 1500 metres

  • Heat — 3:40.4
  • Semifinals — 3:44.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Relay

  • Heat — 39.17s
  • Semifinals — 39.06s
  • Final — 38.90s (→ 5th place)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.21m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Ion Györfi (ROM), 4:1
  • Third Round — Defeated Mikko Saarinen (FIN), 5:0
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Emeterio Villanueva (MEX), 5:0
  • Semifinals — Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski (POL), 1:4

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • First Round — Defeated Atanas Suvandzhiev (BUL), KO-1
  • Quarterfinals — Lost to Ion Alexe (ROM), 0:5

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race

  • Karl-Heinz Oberfranz — 30th place
  • Wolfgang Wesemann — 33rd place
  • Dieter Gonschorek — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Wolfram Kühn — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Final — 1:07.02 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's Tandem

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard:

  • Falk Hoffmann — 544.95 points (→ 7th place)
  • Helge Ziethen — 511.02 points (→ 12th place)

Men's 10m Platform:

  • Lothar Matthes — 465.75 points (→ 4th place)
  • Falk Hoffmann — 436.71 points (→ 10th place)
  • Wolfram Ristau — 268.59 points (→ 23rd place)

Women's 3m Springboard:

  • Marina Janicke — 430.92 points (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heidi Becker — 405.78 points (→ 9th place)
  • Christa Köhler — 394.20 points (→ 11th place)

Women's 10m Platform:

  • Marina Janicke — 360.54 points (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Sylvia Fiedler — 341.67 points (→ 6th place)

[edit] Handball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

As expected, the East Germans dominated the first round, defeating Iceland, Tunisia, and Czechoslovakia in turn to win their division. The second round began with a loss to the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia's wins over the Soviet Union and Sweden meant that the East Germans had to defeat Sweden as well just to tie the Czechoslovakian team in the standings, which they did. However, the tie-breaker went against the East Germans and they placed second in the division. They played the other division's second place team, Romania in the bronze medal game and lost, receiving fourth place.

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • East Germany – Iceland 16-11 (7-6)
  • East Germany – Tunisia 21-9 (11-2)
  • East Germany – Czechoslovakia 14-12 (5-4)
  • Second Round (Group A)
  • East Germany – Soviet Union 8-11 (4-4)
  • East Germany – Sweden 14-11 (8-6)
  • Bronze Medal Game
  • East Germany – Romania 16-19 (8-11) → 4th place

[edit] Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

  • Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
  • Heat — 7:46.31
  • Repechage — 8:05.19
  • Semi Finals — 8:16.35
  • Final — 7:14.45 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Wolfgang Günkel, Jörg Lücke and Klaus-Dieter Neubert
  • Heat — 7:54.11
  • Semi Finals — 8:13.87
  • Final — 7:17.25 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Peter Bruch
  • Heat — 54.25s
  • Semifinals — 53.97s (→ did not advance)
  • Wilfried Härtung
  • Heat — 54.37s (→ did not advance)
  • Hartmut Flöckner
  • Heat — 54.36s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Wilfried Härtung
  • Heat — 1:56.95 (→ did not advance)
  • Udo Poser
  • Heat — 1:57.23 (→ did not advance)
  • Peter Bruch
  • Heat — 1:58.49 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

  • Wilfried Härtung, Peter Bruch, Udo Poser and Lutz Unger
  • Heat — 3:35.13
  • Final — 3:32.42 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

  • Wilfried Härtung, Udo Poser, Roger Pyttel and Lutz Unger
  • Heat — 7:51.11
  • Wilfried Härtung, Peter Bruch, Udo Poser, and Lutz Unger
  • Final — 7:49.11 (→ 6th place)

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Cuba (3-0)
  • Defeated Brazil (3-1)
  • Lost to Japan (0-3)
  • Defeated West Germany (3-0)
  • Defeated Romania (3-0)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Soviet Union (3-1)
  • Final
  • Lost to Japan (1-3) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Siggi Schneider
  • Arnold Schulz
  • Wolfgang Webner
  • Eckhardt Pietzsch
  • Rudi Schumann
  • Wolfgang Weise
  • Horst Hagen
  • Horst Peter
  • Wolfgang Löwe
  • Rainer Tscharke
  • Wolf Maibohn
  • Jürgen Maune