East Germany at the 1988 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 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Competitors
Flag bearer Ulf Timmermann
Medals Gold
37		 Silver
35		 Bronze
30		 Total
102
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 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.

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[edit] Medals

East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Birgit Fischer and Anke Nothnagel — Canoeing, Women's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
  • Lutz Heßlich — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)
  • Roland Schröder, Ralf Brudel, Olaf Förster, and Thomas Greiner — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
  • Jutta Behrendt — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls
  • Birte Siech, Martina Walther, Gerlinde Doberschütz, Carola Hornig, and Sylvia Rose — Rowing, Women's Coxed Fours
  • Axel Wegner — Shooting, Men's Skeet Shooting
  • Joachim Kunz — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight (67½ kg)

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Olaf Heukrodt and Ingo Spelly — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs
  • Carsten Wolf, Steffen Blochwitz, Roland Hennig, and Dirk Meier — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit
  • Udo Wagner — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
  • Sylvio Kroll — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
  • Sven Loll — Judo, Men's Lightweight (71 kg)
  • Mario Streit, Detlef Kirchhoff, Dimitrie Popescu, and René Rensch — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
  • Ingo Steinhöfel — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Kathrin Dörre — Athletics, Women's Marathon
  • André Wohllebe — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000 m Kayak Singles
  • Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
  • Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Torsten Bréchôt-Oehmigen — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
  • Steffen Zühlke, Steffen Bogs, Heiko Habermann, and Jens Köppen — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls
  • Ronny Weller — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (110 kg)
  • Andreas Schröder — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 5,000 metres

  • Hansjörg Kunze
    1. Heat — 13:44.34
    2. Semi Final — 13:23.04
    3. Final — 13:15.73 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Men's 10,000 metres

Men's Marathon

  • Final — did not start (→ no ranking)

Men's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:08.13
  • Semi Final — 3:00.60
  • Final — 3:01.13 (→ 4th place)

Men's 3.000m Steeplechase

  1. Heat — 8:36.45
  2. Semi Final — 8:16.27
  3. Final — 8:19.82 (→ 10th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 79.16m
  • Final — 81.30m (→ 6th place)
  • Silvio Warsönke
  • Qualification — 78.22m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 77.70m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualifying Heat – 64.70m
  • Final – 68.82m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualifying Heat – 21.27m
  • Final – 22.47m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualifying Heat – 20.97m
  • Final – 21.40m (→ 4th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualifying Heat — 78.16m
  • Final — 80.44m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualifying Heat — 78.12m
  • Final — 72.36m (→ 12th place)

Men's Decathlon

  1. 100 metres — 11.25s
  2. Long Jump — 7.43m
  3. Shot Put — 15.48m
  4. High Jump — 2.27m
  5. 400 metres — 48.90s
  6. 110m Hurdles — 15.13s
  7. Discus Throw — 49.28m
  8. Pole Vault — 4.70m
  9. Javelin Throw — 61.32m
  10. 1.500 metres — 4:28.95s
  1. 100 metres — 10.87s
  2. Long Jump — 7.45m
  3. Shot Put — 14.97m
  4. High Jump — 1.97m
  5. 400 metres — 47.71s
  6. 110m Hurdles — 14.46s
  7. Discus Throw — 44.36m
  8. Pole Vault — 5.10m
  9. Javelin Throw — 61.76m
  10. 1.500 metres — 4:33.02s
  1. 100 metres — 11.57s
  2. Long Jump — 7.00m
  3. Shot Put — 15.60m
  4. High Jump — 1.94m
  5. 400 metres — 49.84s
  6. 110m Hurdles — 15.04s
  7. Discus Throw — 46.66m
  8. Pole Vault — 4.90m
  9. Javelin Throw — 60.20m
  10. 1.500 metres — 4:46.04s

Men's 50km Walk

  • Final — 3'38:56 (→ Silver Silver Medal
  • Final — 3'39:45 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal
  • Final — 3'46:31 (→ 9th place)


[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 4x100m Relay

  • Heat — 42.92
  • Semi Final — 42.23
  • Final — 42.09 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Women's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:27.37
  • Final — 3:18.29 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Women's Marathon

  • Katrin Dörre – 2"26:21 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • Birgit Stephan – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification – 67.12m
  • Final – 72.30m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification – 65.40m
  • Final – 71.88m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification – 66.88m
  • Final – 67.26m (→ 7th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification – 67.06m
  • Final – 74.68m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification – 66.86m
  • Final – 67.30m (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification – 63.64m
  • Final – 66.38m (→ 5th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Qualification – 20.18m
  • Final – 21.07m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification – 19.79m
  • Final – 20.37m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification – 20.06m
  • Final – 20.20m (→ 6th place)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result — 6897 points (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final Result — 6858 points (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Ines Schulz
  • Final Result — 6411 points (→ 6th place)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

  • René Breitbarth
    1. First Round — Defeated Magare Tshekiso (BTS), 5:0
    2. Second Round — Defeated Vedat Tutuk (TUR), 5:0
    3. Third Round — Lost to Jorge Julio Rocha (COL), 1:4

[edit] Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Angela Ranft — 2:00:52 (→ 25th place)
  • Petra Rossner — DNF (→ no ranking)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Steffen Zesner
    1. Heat – 50.73
    2. Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Uwe Dassler
    1. Heat – 3:49.90
    2. Final – 3:46.95 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Uwe Dassler
    1. Heat – 15:08.91
    2. Final – 15:06.15 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Dirk Richter
    1. Heat – 56.52
    2. B-Final – 56.66 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Dirk Richter
    1. Heat – 2:01.54
    2. Final – 2:01.67 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Christian Poswiat
    1. Heat – 1:02.99
    2. Final – 1:03.43 (→ 8th place)
  • Raik Hannemann
    1. Heat – 1:04.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Christian Poswiat
    1. Heat – 2:20.99 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Patrick Kühl
    1. Heat – 2:03.77
    2. Final – 2:01.61 (→ Silver Silver Medal)
  • Raik Hannemann
    1. Heat – 2:04.03
    2. Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Patrick Kühl
    1. Heat – 4:18.60
    2. Final – 4:18.44 (→ 5th place)
  • Raik Hannemann
    1. Heat – 2:04.03
    2. Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay


Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Kristin Otto
    1. Heat – 25.85
    2. B-Final – 25.49 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Kristin Otto
    1. Heat – 55.80
    2. B-Final – 54.93 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Anke Möhring
    1. Heat – 4:10.64
    2. Final – 4:06.62 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Astrid Strauss
    1. Heat – 8:28.07
    2. B-Final – 8:22.09 (→ Silver Silver Medal)
  • Anke Möhring
    1. Heat – 8:30.95
    2. Final – 8:23.09 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Kristin Otto
    1. Heat – 1:01.45
    2. Final – 1:00.89 (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Cornelia Sirch
    1. Heat – 1:01.63
    2. Final – 1:01.57 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Kathrin Zimmermann
    1. Heat – 2:12.81
    2. Final – 2:10.61 (→ Silver Silver Medal)
  • Cornelia Sirch
    1. Heat – 2:10.46
    2. Final – 2:11.45 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Silke Hörner
    1. Heat – 1:08.35
    2. Final – 1:08.83 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • Annett Rex
    1. Heat – 1:10.61
    2. Final – 1:10.67 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Silke Hörner
    1. Heat – 2:27.63
    2. Final – 2:26.71 (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Susanne Boernike
    1. Heat – 2:30.71
    2. B-Final – 2:28.55 (→ 9th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Kristin Otto
    1. Heat – 1:00.40
    2. Final – 59.00 (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Birte Weigang
    1. Heat – 59.97
    2. Final – 59.45 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Kathleen Nord
    1. Heat – 2:11.81
    2. Final – 2:09.51 (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Birte Weigang
    1. Heat – 2:11.97
    2. Final – 2:09.91 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Daniela Hunger
    1. Heat – 4:44.85
    2. Final – 4:39.76 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • Kathleen Nord
    1. Heat – 4:42.92
    2. Final – 4:41.64 (→ 5th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • 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
  • Steffi Schmidt
  • Susuanne Lahme
  • Monika Beu
  • Ariane Radfan
  • Kathrin Langschwager
  • Maike Arlt
  • Brit Wiedemann
  • Ute Steppin
  • Grit Jensen
  • Dörte Stüdemann
  • Heike Jensen
  • Ute Langenau
  • Head Coach: Siegfried Köhler