East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the
1968 Winter Olympics
East Germany at the; 1968 Winter Olympics
	Flag of Germany superimposed; with the Olympic rings
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Grenoble
Competitors	57 (45 men, 12 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Thomas Köhler (luge)
Medals ; Ranked 10th	Gold1Silver2Bronze2Total5
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980 ; 1984 ; 1988 ;
Other related appearances
	Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–); United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Last updated August 12, 2024

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. East German athletes had competed together with West German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler	Luge	Men's doubles
Silver	Gabriele Seyfert	Figure skating	Women's singles
Silver	Thomas Köhler	Luge	Men's individual
Bronze	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	Luge	Men's individual
Bronze	Andreas Kunz	Nordic combined	Men's individual

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eberhard Riedel	Downhill					DNF	–
Eberhard Riedel	Giant Slalom	1:55.59	53	1:51.08	25	3:46.67	41

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Eberhard Riedel	53.62	1 QF	–	–	52.00	25	52.07	16	1:44.07	13

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Heinz Kluge	1'19:55.2	7	1'26:55.2	24
	Hansjörg Knauthe	1'23:04.9	2	1'25:04.9	21
	Dieter Speer	1'18:13.3	6	1'24:13.3	18
	Horst Koschka	1'18:37.7	3	1'21:37.7	10

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Heinz Kluge Hans-Gert Jahn Horst Koschka Dieter Speer	4	2'21:54.5	6

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Axel Lesser	DNF	–
	Peter Thiel	52:07.8	37
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	51:51.6	33
	Gerhard Grimmer	51:22.1	29
30 km	Helmut Unger	1'44:47.9	37
	Axel Lesser	1'44:16.2	36
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1'39:30.5	19
	Gerhard Grimmer	1'38:46.0	15
50 km	Gert-Dietmar Klause	2'36:52.5	25

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Gerhard Grimmer Axel Lesser Peter Thiel Gert-Dietmar Klause	2'19:22.8	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Anni Unger	17:30.7	16
	Renate Fischer-Köhler	17:25.5	14
	Gudrun Schmidt	17:24.3	13
	Christine Nestler	17:23.5	12
10 km	Anni Unger	40:36.8	22
	Renate Fischer-Köhler	39:27.4	16
	Gudrun Schmidt	39:22.8	14
	Christine Nestler	39:07.9	9

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Renate Fischer-Köhler Gudrun Schmidt Christine Nestler	59:33.9	6

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Jan Hoffmann	26	25	1437.8	238	26
Günter Zöller	10	14	1727.9	100	11

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sonja Morgenstern	29	22	1475.9	251	28
Gabriele Seyfert	2	2	1882.3	18

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Irine Müller Hans-Georg Dallmer	9	8	289.4	82	9
Heidemarie Steiner Heinz-Ulrich Walther	4	4	303.1	37	4

Ice hockey

First round

East Germany - Norway 3:1 (2:1, 1:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Joachim Ziesche, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa - Odd Syversen.

Final Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

USSR – East Germany 9:0 (4:0, 2:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Firsov 3, Vikulov 2, Mišakov, Staršinov, Alexandrov, Zajcev.
Referees: Wycisk (POL), Johannessen (NOR)

Canada – East Germany 11:0 (4:0, 4:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Mott 4, Huck 2, Hargreaves, O’Shea, Bourbonnais, Monteith, H. Pinder.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Sweden – East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs.
Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)

Czechoslovakia – East Germany 10:3 (5:2, 1:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Horešovský 4, Nedomanský 2, Jiřík, Suchý, Kochta, Ševčík – Karrenbauer, Novy, Peters.
Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)

East Germany – Finland 2:3 (1:2, 0:1, 1:0)
Goalscorers: R. Noack, Peters – Harju 2, Keinonen.
Referees: Bucala (TCH), Dahlberg (SWE)

East Germany – USA 4:6 (1:3, 1:1, 2:2)
Goalscorers: Fuchs 2, Karrenbauer 2 – Stordahl 2, P. Hurley 2, Volmar, Lilyholm.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Seglin (URS)

East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

Contestants

8. EAST GERMANY
Goaltenders: Dieter Pürschel, Klaus Hirche.
Defence: Dieter Voigt, Manfred Buder, Helmut Novy, Dieter Kratzsch, Wolfgang Plotka, Wilfried Sock, Ulrich Noack.
Forwards: Bernd Karrenbauer, Hartmut Nickel, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa, Joachim Ziesche, Bernd Poindl, Dietmar Peters, Bernd Hiller, Rüdiger Noack.
Coach: Rudi Schmieder.

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Wolfgang Scheidel	DSQ	–	–	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Klaus-Michael Bonsack	57.90	8	57.63	2	57.80	5	2:53.33
Thomas Köhler	57.68	5	57.47	1	57.51	1	2:52.66
Horst Hörnlein	57.49	3	58.04	4	58.57	13	2:54.10	7

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler	47.88	1	47.97	1	1:35.85
Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow	48.80	5	49.01	6	1:37.81	5

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ortrun Enderlein	DSQ	–	–	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Anna-Maria Müller	DSQ	–	–	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Angela Knösel	DSQ	–	–	–	–	–	DSQ	–

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Roland Weißpflog	Individual	67.0	66.0	186.3	29	48:33.5	238.00	2	424.30	9
Karl-Heinz Luck		69.5	71.0	198.8	20	50:14.7	215.22	8	414.02	11
Andreas Kunz		72.5	74.0	216.9	10	49:19.8	227.20	3	444.10

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Bernd Karwofsky	Normal hill	72.0	98.5	67.0 (fall)	53.0	151.5	54
Wolfgang Stöhr		73.5	101.4	71.0	97.9	199.3	20
Manfred Queck		75.5	104.1	72.5	101.3	205.4	14
Dieter Neuendorf		76.5	108.7	73.0	102.6	211.3	7
Dieter Neuendorf	Large hill	93.0	100.6	92.0	98.2	198.8	15
Manfred Queck		96.5	104.0	98.5	108.8	212.8	4
Wolfgang Stöhr		96.5	106.0	92.5	99.9	205.9	7

Speed skating

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher	47.8	16
1000 m	Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher	1:35.6	12
1500 m	Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher	2:27.1	8

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East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Flag of Germany superimposed with the Olympic rings
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Grenoble
Competitors	57 (45 men, 12 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Thomas Köhler (luge)
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 5
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–) United Team of Germany (1956–1964)