East Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the
1988 Winter Olympics
IOC codeGDR
NOCNational Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Calgary
Competitors53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer Frank-Peter Roetsch (biathlon)
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
9
Silver
10
Bronze
6
Total
25
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)
 United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the last time at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Uwe-Jens Mey Speed skating Men's 500 metres 14 February
 Gold Jens Müller Luge Men's singles 15 February
 Gold Steffi Walter-Martin Luge Women's singles 18 February
 Gold Jörg Hoffmann
Jochen Pietzsch
Luge Doubles 19 February
 Gold Frank-Peter Roetsch Biathlon Individual 20 February
 Gold André Hoffmann Speed skating Men's 1500 metres 20 February
 Gold Frank-Peter Roetsch Biathlon Sprint 23 February
 Gold Christa Rothenburger Speed skating Women's 1000 metres 26 February
 Gold Katarina Witt Figure skating Women's singles 27 February
 Silver Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß Luge Women's singles 18 February
 Silver Uwe-Jens Mey Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 18 February
 Silver Stefan Krauße
Jan Behrendt
Luge Doubles 19 February
 Silver Wolfgang Hoppe
Bogdan Musiol
Bobsleigh Two-man 21 February
 Silver Christa Rothenburger Speed skating Women's 500 metres 22 February
 Silver Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 23 February
 Silver Karin Enke-Kania Speed skating Women's 1000 metres 26 February
 Silver Karin Enke-Kania Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 27 February
 Silver Wolfgang Hoppe
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Bogdan Musiol
Ingo Voge
Bobsleigh Four-man 28 February
 Silver Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 5000 metres 28 February
 Bronze Cerstin Schmidt Luge Women's singles 18 February
 Bronze Bernhard Lehmann
Mario Hoyer
Bobsleigh Two-man 21 February
 Bronze Karin Enke-Kania Speed skating Women's 500 metres 22 February
 Bronze Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 23 February
 Bronze Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 27 February
 Bronze Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn Speed skating Women's 5000 metres 28 February

Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]

Sport Men Women Total
Biathlon 6 6
Bobsleigh 10 10
Cross-country skiing 2 5 7
Figure skating 2 3 5
Luge 7 3 10
Nordic combined 3 3
Ski jumping 2 2
Speed skating 4 6 10
Total 36 17 53

Biathlon

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Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Frank Luck 1 25:57.6 6
André Sehmisch 2 25:52.3 5
Birk Anders 2 25:51.8 4
Frank-Peter Roetsch 1 25:08.1 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Jürgen Wirth 57:25.9 3 1'00:25.9 16
Matthias Jacob 55:20.1 3 58:20.1 9
André Sehmisch 55:11.4 3 58:11.4 7
Frank-Peter Roetsch 53:33.3 3 56:33.3 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Jürgen Wirth
Frank-Peter Roetsch
Matthias Jacob
André Sehmisch
3 1'24:28.4 5
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

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Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
GDR-1 Wolfgang Hoppe
Bogdan Musioł
Two-man 57.06 1 59.26 8 59.45 1 58.42 1 3:54.19 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
GDR-2 Bernhard Lehmann
Mario Hoyer
Two-man 57.65 7 58.67 2 59.59 4 58.73 3 3:54.64 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
GDR-1 Wolfgang Hoppe
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Bogdan Musioł
Ingo Voge
Four-man 56.16 1 57.31 2 56.77 13 57.34 3 3:47.58 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
GDR-2 Detlef Richter
Bodo Ferl
Ludwig Jahn
Alexander Szelig
Four-man 57.18 13 57.60 6 56.33 3 57.95 9 3:49.06 8

Cross-country skiing

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km
C
Holger Bauroth 43:59.2 21
Uwe Bellmann 42:17.8 5
30 km
C
Holger Bauroth 1'30:03.4 22
Uwe Bellmann 1'28:37.2 15
50 km
F
Uwe Bellmann 2'08:18.6 8
Holger Bauroth 2'07:02.4 5
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C
Susann Kuhfittig 16:41.9 37
Silke Schwager-Braun 16:22.5 25
Kerstin Moring 16:01.6 19
Simone Opitz 15:41.1 13
10 km
C
Kerstin Moring 32:12.8 25
Susann Kuhfittig 32:01.5 23
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm 31:53.0 21
Simone Opitz 31:14.3 10
20 km
F
Susann Kuhfittig 1'03:05.8 38
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm 59:01.2 15
Kerstin Moring 58:17.2 7
Simone Opitz 57:54.3 5
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Kerstin Moring
Simone Opitz
Silke Schwager-Braun
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm
1'02:19.9 5

Figure skating

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Men
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Michael Huth 21 25 23 45.6 23
Women
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Simone Koch 14 8 8 19.6 9
Katarina Witt 3 1 2 4.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pairs
Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Peggy Schwarz
Alexander König
11 6 11.5 7

Luge

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Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Michael Walter 46.578 6 46.754 6 46.838 9 46.763 3 3:06.933 5
Thomas Jacob 46.426 4 46.638 5 46.433 1 46.861 6 3:06.358 4
Jens Müller 46.301 1 46.444 1 46.436 2 46.367 1 3:05.548 1st place, gold medalist(s)

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Jörg Hoffmann
Jochen Pietzsch
45.786 1 46.154 2 1:31.940 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Stefan Krauße
Jan Behrendt
45.886 2 46.153 1 1:32.039 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Cerstin Schmidt 46.078 3 46.020 1 46.059 2 46.024 3 3:04.181 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß 45.906 2 46.057 2 46.150 3 45.992 1 3:04.105 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Steffi Walter-Martin 45.282 1 46.173 3 46.969 1 46.003 2 3:03.973 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Nordic combined

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Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Points Rank
Uwe Prenzel Individual 207.6 13 2:19.4 40:38.2 421.630 4
Marko Frank 209.4 10 2:07.4 41:15.6 416.020 8
Thomas Prenzel 215.5 5 1:26.7 41:18.1 415.640 9

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
  • 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Thomas Prenzel
Marko Frank
Uwe Prenzel
571.6 5 4:51.0 1'23:04.5 5

Ski jumping

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Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Remo Lederer Normal hill 79.5 94.3 78.0 90.9 185.2 21
Jens Weißflog 81.5 99.5 80.0 97.1 196.6 9
Jens Weißflog Large hill 104.5 95.7 93.5 76.3 172.0 31
Remo Lederer 105.5 98.1 97.0 83.7 181.8 22

Speed skating

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Peter Adeberg 38.11 28
André Hoffmann 37.75 21
Uwe-Jens Mey 36.45 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1000 m André Hoffmann 1:14.62 15
Peter Adeberg 1:14.19 8
Uwe-Jens Mey 1:13.11 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1500 m Peter Adeberg 1:53.57 8
André Hoffmann 1:52.06 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
5000 m Roland Freier 6:51.42 8
10,000 m Roland Freier 14:19.16 8
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 40.71 10
Angela Stahnke-Hauck 39.68 4
Karin Enke-Kania 39.24 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Christa Rothenburger 39.12 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1000 m Angela Stahnke-Hauck 1:20.05 6
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 1:19.32 4
Karin Enke-Kania 1:17.70 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Christa Rothenburger 1:17.65 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1500 m Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann 2:04.68 7
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 2:01.49 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Karin Enke-Kania 2:00.82 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3000 m Karin Enke-Kania 4:18.80 4
Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 4:16.92 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 4:12.09 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
5000 m Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann 7:34.59 7
Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 7:21.61 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 7:17.12 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

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