East Germany at the 1984 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the
1984 Winter Olympics
East Germany at the; 1984 Winter Olympics
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Sarajevo
Competitors	56 (40 men, 16 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Frank Ullrich (biathlon)
Medals ; Ranked 1st	Gold9Silver9Bronze6Total24
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 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Gold	Wolfgang Hoppe Roland Wetzig Dietmar Schauerhammer Andreas Kirchner	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Gold	Katarina Witt	Figure skating	Women's singles
Gold	Steffi Walter-Martin	Luge	Women's individual
Gold	Jens Weißflog	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Gold	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Gold	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Gold	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 1500m
Gold	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Silver	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Silver	Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol Ingo Voge Eberhard Weise	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Silver	Bettina Schmidt	Luge	Women's individual
Silver	Jens Weißflog	Ski jumping	Men's large hill
Silver	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 1500m
Silver	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Bronze	Matthias Jacob	Biathlon	Men's 10 km Sprint
Bronze	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	Luge	Men's doubles
Bronze	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	Luge	Women's individual
Bronze	René Schöfisch	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Bronze	René Schöfisch	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m
Bronze	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	Speed skating	Women's 3000m

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Frank Ullrich	3	32:40.2	17
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	2	31:49.8	7
	Matthias Jacob	0	31:10.5

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Holger Wick	1'12:19.1	9	1'21:19.1	29
	Frank Ullrich	1'11:53.7	3	1'14:53.7	5
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	1'10:21.4	3	1'13:21.4

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Holger Wick Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob Frank Ullrich	1	1'40:04.7	4

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

² One minute added per missed target.

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	Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musioł	Two-man	51.59	3	51.94	3	51.15	2	51.36	4	3:26.04
GDR-2	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer	Two-man	51.51	1	51.93	2	51.06	1	51.06	1	3:25.56

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	Wolfgang Hoppe Roland Wetzig Dietmar Schauerhammer Andreas Kirchner	Four-man	49.65	1	50.18	1	50.18	1	50.21	1	3:20.22
GDR-2	Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musioł Ingo Voge Eberhard Weise	Four-man	49.69	2	50.33	2	50.32	2	50.44	2	3:20.78

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Karsten Brandt	45:40.1	41
	Frank Schröder	43:52.1	26
	Uwe Wünsch	43:49.9	23
	Uwe Bellmann	42:35.8	7
30 km	Frank Schröder	1'39:01.4	43
	Karsten Brandt	1'35:54.8	30
	Uwe Wünsch	1'34:13.9	25
	Uwe Bellmann	1'31:59.3	10
50 km	Uwe Bellmann	DNF	–
50 km	Uwe Wünsch	2'35:48.9	43

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Karsten Brandt Uwe Wünsch Frank Schröder Uwe Bellmann	2'02:13.9	9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Petra Voge	19:16.6	36
	Carola Anding	18:17.7	21
	Petra Rohrmann	18:09.4	18
	Ute Noack	17:46.0	8
10 km	Carola Anding	34:33.3	24
	Petra Rohrmann	34:00.3	17
	Ute Noack	33:37.5	15
20 km	Carola Anding	1'07:27.8	30
	Petra Rohrmann	1'06:30.0	20
	Ute Noack	1'05:43.5	18

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Petra Voge Petra Rohrmann Carola Anding Ute Noack	1'11:10.7	8

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Falko Kirsten	15	21	13	30.4	16

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Katarina Witt	3	1	1	3.2

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Babette Preußler Tobias Schröter	14	11	18.0	11
Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert	5	5	7.5	5
Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach	4	4	6.0	4

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Norbert Loch	46.784	12	46.886	11	47.214	17	46.830	14	3:07.714	13
Michael Walter	46.196	4	46.305	4	46.358	7	46.172	6	3:05.031	4
Torsten Görlitzer	46.177	2	46.205	1	46.571	10	46.176	7	3:05.129	5

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	41.996	3	41.891	4	1:23.887
Hans-Joachim Menge Detlef Bertz	46.935	15	47.238	15	1:34.173	15

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	41.908	3	41.945	3	41.793	3	41.602	2	2:47.248
Bettina Schmidt	41.662	2	41.929	2	41.636	2	41.646	3	2:46.873
Steffi Walter-Martin	41.639	1	41.863	1	41.496	1	41.572	1	2:46.570

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
Andreas Langer	Individual	80.0	81.5	195.1	16	49:52.8	189.880	15	384.980	16
Uwe Dotzauer		81.0	85.0	199.5	12	48:56.8	198.280	7	397.780	7
Gunter Schmieder		86.5	87.0	208.4	4	51:16.3	177.355	24	385.755	15

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Holger Freitag	Normal hill	78.0	87.8	77.0	85.7	173.5	35
Stefan Stannarius		84.0	99.4	89.5	111.7	211.1	4
Klaus Ostwald		84.5	100.7	84.0	100.4	201.1	13
Jens Weißflog		90.0	110.5	87.0	104.7	215.2
Klaus Ostwald	Large hill	98.5	89.6	95.0	82.2	171.8	26
Stefan Stannarius		101.0	95.6	99.5	93.0	188.6	9
Matthias Buse		102.0	97.0	93.0	79.9	176.9	21
Jens Weißflog		107.0	106.0	107.5	107.7	213.7

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Andreas Dietel	39.45	20
	André Hoffmann	38.87	11
	Uwe-Jens Mey	38.66	8
1000 m	Uwe-Jens Mey	1:19.14	25
	Andreas Dietel	1:17.46	7
	André Hoffmann	1:16.85	5
1500 m	André Hoffmann	2:00.23	11
	Andreas Dietel	1:59.73	6
	Andreas Ehrig	1:59.41	5
5000 m	Andreas Ehrig	7:17.63	4
5000 m	René Schöfisch	7:17.49
10,000 m	Andreas Dietel	16:01.89	32
	Andreas Ehrig	15:03.76	11
	René Schöfisch	14:46.91

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Skadi Walter	42.16	5
	Karin Kania-Enke	41.28
	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	41.02 OR
1000 m	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	1:23.98	5
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	1:22.83
	Karin Kania-Enke	1:21.61 OR
1500 m	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	2:07.69	4
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:05.29
	Karin Kania-Enke	2:03.42 WR
3000 m	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	4:33.13
	Karin Kania-Enke	4:26.33
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:24.79 OR

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