East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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East Germany at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Flag of East Germany.svg
IOC code GDR
NOC National Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Seoul, South Korea
17 September – 2 October 1988
Competitors259 (157 men, 102 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer Ulf Timmermann
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
37
Silver
35
Bronze
30
Total
102
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
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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. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports. [1] The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988. [2]

Contents

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Uwe Ampler
Mario Kummer
Maik Landsmann
Jan Schur
Cycling Men's team time trial 18 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kristin Otto Swimming Women's 100 metre freestyle 19 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Heike Friedrich Swimming Women's 200 metre freestyle 21 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Silke Hörner Swimming Women's 200 metre breaststroke 21 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Joachim Kunz Weightlifting Men's 67.5 kg 21 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Heike Friedrich
Daniela Hunger
Katrin Meißner
Kristin Otto
Sabina Schulze
Manuela Stellmach
Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 22 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kristin Otto Swimming Women's 100 metre backstroke 22 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ulf Timmermann Athletics Men's shot put 23 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Uwe Daßler Swimming Men's 400 metre freestyle 23 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kristin Otto Swimming Women's 100 metre butterfly 23 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gerlinde Doberschütz
Carola Hornig
Sylvia Rose
Birte Siech
Martina Walther
Rowing Women's coxed four 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Birgit Peter
Martina Schröter
Rowing Women's double sculls 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Bernd Eichwurzel
Frank Klawonn
Bernd Niesecke
Hendrik Reiher
Karsten Schmeling
Rowing Men's coxed four 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Thomas Lange Rowing Men's single sculls 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Holger Behrendt Gymnastics Men's rings 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Axel Wegner Shooting Skeet 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Lutz Heßlich Cycling Men's sprint 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Daniela Hunger Swimming Women's 200 metre individual medley 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Silke Hörner
Katrin Meißner
Kristin Otto
Cornelia Sirch
Manuela Stellmach
Birte Weigang
Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jutta Behrendt Rowing Women's single sculls 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kerstin Förster
Kristina Mundt
Beate Schramm
Jana Sorgers
Rowing Women's quadruple sculls 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ramona Balthasar
Kathrin Haacker
Anja Kluge
Daniela Neunast
Beatrix Schröer
Ute Stange
Annegret Strauch
Ute Wild
Judith Zeidler
Rowing Women's eight 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ralf Brudel
Olaf Förster
Thomas Greiner
Roland Schröder
Rowing Men's coxless four 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kristin Otto Swimming Women's 50 metre freestyle 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kathleen Nord Swimming Women's 200 metre butterfly 25 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sigrun Wodars Athletics Women's 800 metres 26 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Petra Felke Athletics Women's javelin throw 26 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Olaf Ludwig Cycling Men's individual road race 27 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Thomas Flach
Bernd Jäkel
Jochen Schümann
Sailing Soling 27 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Martina Hellmann Athletics Women's discus throw 29 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Christian Schenk Athletics Men's decathlon 29 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Olaf Heukrodt Canoeing Men's C-1 500 metres 30 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Anke Nothnagel
Birgit Schmidt
Canoeing Women's K-2 500 metres 30 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Anke Nothnagel
Ramona Portwich
Birgit Schmidt
Heike Singer
Canoeing Women's K-4 500 metres 1 October
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Andreas Zülow Boxing Lightweight 1 October
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Henry Maske Boxing Middleweight 1 October
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jürgen Schult Athletics Men's discus throw 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Holger Behrendt
Ralf Büchner
Ulf Hoffmann
Sylvio Kroll
Sven Tippelt
Andreas Wecker
Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around 20 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Uwe Daßler
Thomas Flemming
Lars Hinneburg
Sven Lodziewski
Steffen Zesner
Swimming Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay 21 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Udo Wagner Fencing Men's foil 21 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Frank Baltrusch Swimming Men's 200 metre backstroke 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Heike Friedrich Swimming Women's 400 metre freestyle 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ingo Steinhöfel Weightlifting Men's 75 kg 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ralf Schumann Shooting Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol 23 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ronald Weigel Athletics Men's 20 kilometres walk 23 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Birte Weigang Swimming Women's 100 metre butterfly 23 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sylvio Kroll Gymnastics Men's vault 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sabine John Athletics Women's heptathlon 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Christa Rothenburger Cycling Women's sprint 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Steffen Blochwitz
Roland Hennig
Dirk Meier
Uwe Preißler
Carsten Wolf
Cycling Men's team pursuit 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Astrid Strauß Swimming Women's 800 metre freestyle 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Detlef Kirchhoff
René Rensch
Mario Streit
Rowing Men's coxed pair 25 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Dagmar Kersten Gymnastics Women's uneven bars 25 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Patrick Kühl Swimming Men's 200 metre individual medley 25 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kathrin Zimmermann Swimming Women's 200 metre backstroke 25 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Birte Weigang Swimming Women's 200 metre butterfly 25 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Christine Wachtel Athletics Women's 800 metres 26 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Petra Müller Athletics Women's 400 metres 26 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Sven Loll Judo Men's 71 kg 27 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Heike Drechsler Athletics Women's long jump 29 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Diana Gansky Athletics Women's discus throw 29 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Torsten Voss Athletics Men's decathlon 29 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Andreas Stähle Canoeing Men's K-1 500 metres 30 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Birgit Schmidt Canoeing Women's K-1 500 metres 30 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ronald Weigel Athletics Men's 50 kilometres walk 30 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Gloria Siebert Athletics Women's 100 metres hurdles 30 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Jörg Schmidt Canoeing Men's C-1 1000 metres 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Olaf Heukrodt
Ingo Spelly
Canoeing Men's C-2 1000 metres 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kerstin Behrendt
Marlies Göhr
Ingrid Auerswald-Lange
Silke Möller
Athletics Women's 4 × 100 metres relay 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Kathrin Neimke Athletics Women's shot put 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Henry Stöhr Judo Men's +95 kg 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Andreas Tews Boxing Flyweight 2 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Daniela Hunger Swimming Women's 400 metre individual medley 19 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Manuela Stellmach Swimming Women's 200 metre freestyle 21 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Gabi Fähnrich
Martina Jentsch
Dagmar Kersten
Ulrike Klotz
Bettina Schieferdecker
Dörte Thümmler
Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around 21 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Bernd Dittert Cycling Men's individual pursuit 22 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Anke Möhring Swimming Women's 400 metre freestyle 22 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Cornelia Sirch Swimming Women's 100 metre backstroke 22 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Katrin Dörre Athletics Women's marathon 23 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Thomas Flemming
Lars Hinneburg
Dirk Richter
Steffen Zesner
Swimming Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 23 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Silke Hörner Swimming Women's 100 metre breaststroke 23 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sven Tippelt Gymnastics Men's rings 24 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sven Tippelt Gymnastics Men's parallel bars 24 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Holger Behrendt Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar 24 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Anke Behmer Athletics Women's heptathlon 24 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Steffen Bogs
Heiko Habermann
Jens Köppen
Steffen Zühlke
Rowing Men's quadruple sculls 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Heike Drechsler Athletics Women's 100 metres 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Uwe Daßler Swimming Men's 1500 metre freestyle 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Katrin Meißner Swimming Women's 50 metre freestyle 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Cornelia Sirch Swimming Women's 200 metre backstroke 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Beate Koch Athletics Women's javelin throw 26 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ronny Weller Weightlifting Men's 110 kg 27 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ellen Fiedler Athletics Women's 400 metres hurdles 28 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Torsten Bréchôt Judo Men's 78 kg 28 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Heike Drechsler Athletics Women's 200 metres 29 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hartwig Gauder Athletics Men's 50 kilometres walk 30 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze André Wohllebe Canoeing Men's K-1 1000 metres 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hans-Jörg Bliesener
Kay Bluhm
Andreas Stähle
André Wohllebe
Canoeing Men's K-4 1000 metres 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Jens-Peter Herold Athletics Men's 1500 metres 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hansjörg Kunze Athletics Men's 5000 metres 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Grit Breuer
Sabine Busch
Kirsten Emmelmann
Petra Müller
Dagmar Neubauer
Athletics Women's 4 × 400 metres relay 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Andreas Schröder Wrestling Men's freestyle 130 kg 1 October

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. [3]

SportMenWomenTotal
Athletics 253358
Boxing 1111
Canoeing 11415
Cycling 14317
Diving 224
Fencing 707
Gymnastics 6612
Handball 13013
Judo 44
Rowing 212344
Sailing 729
Shooting 13215
Swimming 111526
Volleyball 01212
Weightlifting 44
Wrestling 88
Total157102259

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's 5,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres

Men's marathon

Men's 4 × 400 m relay

Men's 3.000 m steeplechase

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

Men's javelin throw

Men's discus throw

Men's shot put

Men's hammer throw

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 48.90 s
  6. 110 m hurdles 15.13s
  7. Discus throw 49.28m
  8. Pole vault 4.70 m
  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. 110 m hurdles 14.46s
  7. Discus throw 44.36m
  8. Pole vault 5.10 m
  9. Javelin throw 61.76m
  10. 1.500 metres 4:33.02s
  1. 100 metres 11.57s
  2. Long jump 7.00 m
  3. Shot put 15.60 m
  4. High jump 1.94m
  5. 400 metres 49.84s
  6. 110 m hurdles 15.04s
  7. Discus throw 46.66m
  8. Pole vault 4.90 m
  9. Javelin throw 60.20 m
  10. 1.500 metres 4:46.04s

Men's 20 km walk

Men's 50 km walk

Women's competition

Women's 4 × 100 m relay

Women's 4 × 400 m relay

Women's marathon

Women's discus throw

Women's javelin throw

Women's shot put

Women's heptathlon

Boxing

Men's bantamweight (54 kg)

Canoeing

Cycling

Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988.

Men's road race
Men's team time trial
Men's sprint
Men's 1 km time trial
Men's individual pursuit
Men's team pursuit
Men's points race
Women's road race
Women's sprint

Diving

Fencing

Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event. [4]

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100 m freestyle

Men's 200 m freestyle

Men's 400 m freestyle

Men's 1500 m freestyle

Men's 100 m backstroke

Men's 200 m backstroke

Men's 100 m breaststroke

Men's 200 m breaststroke

Men's 200 m individual medley

Men's 400 m individual medley

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay


Women's 50 m freestyle

Women's 100 m freestyle

Women's 200 m freestyle

Women's 400 m freestyle

Women's 800 m freestyle

Women's 100 m backstroke

Women's 200 m backstroke

Women's 100 m breaststroke

Women's 200 m breaststroke

Women's 100 m butterfly

Women's 200 m butterfly

Women's 200 m individual medley

Women's 400 m individual medley

Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay

Volleyball

Women's tournament

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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