East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the
1980 Winter Olympics
East Germany at the; 1980 Winter Olympics
	Flag of East Germany
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic
in Lake Placid
Competitors	53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Jan Hoffmann (figure skating)
Medals ; Ranked 2nd	Gold9Silver7Bronze7Total23
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 July 07, 2025

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold medals and 23 medals overall.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Frank Ullrich	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Gold	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musiol Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Gold	Barbara Petzold	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Gold	Anett Pötzsch	Figure skating	Women's singles
Gold	Bernhard Glass	Luge	Men's individual
Gold	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	Luge	Men's doubles
Gold	Ulrich Wehling	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Gold	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Silver	Frank Ullrich	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Silver	Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Jan Hoffmann	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Melitta Sollman	Luge	Women's individual
Silver	Manfred Deckert	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Sabine Becker	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Bronze	Eberhard Rösch	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Bronze	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Bronze	Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff	Figure skating	Pairs
Bronze	Konrad Winkler	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Sylvia Albrecht	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Bronze	Sabine Becker	Speed skating	Women's 1500m

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Mathias Jung	4	35:50.36	21
	Klaus Siebert	2	33:32.76	4
	Frank Ullrich	2	32:10.69

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Klaus Siebert	1'07:48.71	6	1'13:48.71	15
	Eberhard Rösch	1'09:11.73	2	1'11:11.73
	Frank Ullrich	1'05:27.79	3	1'08:27.79

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	3	1'34:56.99

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł	Two-man	1:02.39	3	1:02.88	4	1:02.86	3	1:02.95	4	4:11.08
GDR-2	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Two-man	1:02.58	4	1:02.48	1	1:03.31	9	1:02.56	2	4:10.93

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Four-man	59.86	1	1:00.03	1	59.73	1	1:00.30	2	3:59.92
GDR-2	Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner	Four-man	1:00.24	2	1:00.35	2	1:00.04	3	1:00.34	3	4:00.97

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	45:00.40	37
30 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	1'30:05.17	9
50 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	2'38:13.53	26

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Ute Nesstler	15:53.38	16
	Marlies Rostock	15:36.28	9
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	15:31.83	7
	Barbara Petzold	15:23.62	4
10 km	Carola Anding	31:45.82	12
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	31:29.14	8
	Marlies Rostock	31:28.79	7
	Barbara Petzold	30:31.54

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold	1'02:11.10

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Hermann Schulz	9	9	13	166.70	98	11
Jan Hoffmann	1	2	2	189.72	15

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Anett Pötzsch	1	4	3	189.00	11

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach	6	6	136.00	53	6
Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff	4	3	140.52	33

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn	43.802	6	1:24.301	26	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Bernhard Glass	43.609	4	43.780	2	43.925	3	43.482	1	2:54.796
Dettlef Günther	43.199	1	43.555	1	46.879	23	43.530	2	2:57.163	4

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	39.303	1	40.028	2	1:19.331
Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn	39.972	8	39.942	1	1:19.914	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Margit Schumann	39.611	7	39.715	6	39.567	4	39.262	2	2:38.255	6
Ilona Brand	39.393	4	39.506	4	39.700	6	39.516	6	2:38.115	5
Melitta Sollman	39.289	2	39.640	5	39.360	2	39.368	3	2:37.657

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
Uwe Dotzauer	Individual	80.5	81.0	217.6	4	49:52.4	200.815	13	418.415	5
Ulrich Wehling		80.0	85.0	227.2	1	49:24.5	205.000	9	432.200
Gunter Schmieder		79.0	80.0	201.7	11	49:42.0	202.375	11	404.075	8
Konrad Winkler		81.0	83.5	214.5	5	48:45.7	210.820	8	425.320

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Henry Glaß	Normal hill	81.0	114.8	81.5	116.6	231.4	15
Martin Weber		83.0	118.5	83.5	118.3	236.8	11
Jochen Danneberg		83.5	118.8	77.0	103.9	222.7	20
Manfred Deckert		85.0	121.7	88.0	127.5	249.2
Harald Duschek	Large hill	95.5	98.9	95.0	99.7	198.6	33
Henry Glaß		98.5	105.6	110.5	126.4	232.0	11
Manfred Deckert		102.0	111.0	100.0	108.2	219.2	20
Klaus Ostwald		107.0	119.0	98.5	106.1	225.1	15

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Andreas Dietel	39.21	13
500 m	Steffen Doering	39.06	11
1000 m	Steffen Doering	1:21.19	26
1000 m	Andreas Dietel	1:17.71	7
1500 m	Andreas Ehrig	1:59.47	9
1500 m	Andreas Dietel	1:57.14	4
5000 m	Andreas Ehrig	7:14.56	10
10,000 m	Andreas Dietel	15:15.03	15
10,000 m	Andreas Ehrig	14:51.94	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	43.60	12
	Cornelia Jacob	42.98	6
	Karin Kania-Enke	41.78 OR
1000 m	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	1:29.69	18
	Karin Kania-Enke	1:26.66	4
	Sylvia Albrecht	1:26.46
1500 m	Sylvia Albrecht	2:14.27	9
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:13.05	6
	Sabine Becker	2:12.38
3000 m	Sylvia Albrecht	4:47.76	14
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:37.69	4
	Sabine Becker	4:32.79

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