East Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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East Germany at the
1988 Winter Olympics
Flag of East Germany.svg
IOC code GDR
NOC National 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
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  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.

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Medalists

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

Competitors

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

SportMenWomenTotal
Biathlon 66
Bobsleigh 1010
Cross-country skiing 257
Figure skating 235
Luge 7310
Nordic combined 33
Ski jumping 22
Speed skating 4610
Total361753

Biathlon

Men
EventAthleteMisses 1TimeRank
10 km Sprint Frank Luck 125:57.66
André Sehmisch 225:52.35
Birk Anders 225:51.84
Frank-Peter Roetsch 125:08.1Gold medal icon.svg
EventAthleteTimeMissesAdjusted time 2Rank
20 km Jürgen Wirth 57:25.931'00:25.916
Matthias Jacob 55:20.1358:20.19
André Sehmisch 55:11.4358:11.47
Frank-Peter Roetsch 53:33.3356:33.3Gold medal icon.svg
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
AthletesRace
Misses 1TimeRank
Jürgen Wirth
Frank-Peter Roetsch
Matthias Jacob
André Sehmisch
31'24:28.45
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
GDR-1 Wolfgang Hoppe
Bogdan Musioł
Two-man57.06159.26859.45158.4213:54.19Silver medal icon.svg
GDR-2 Bernhard Lehmann
Mario Hoyer
Two-man57.65758.67259.59458.7333:54.64Bronze medal icon.svg
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
GDR-1 Wolfgang Hoppe
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Bogdan Musioł
Ingo Voge
Four-man56.16157.31256.771357.3433:47.58Silver medal icon.svg
GDR-2 Detlef Richter
Bodo Ferl
Ludwig Jahn
Alexander Szelig
Four-man57.181357.60656.33357.9593:49.068

Cross-country skiing

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
15 km
C
Holger Bauroth 43:59.221
Uwe Bellmann 42:17.85
30 km
C
Holger Bauroth 1'30:03.422
Uwe Bellmann 1'28:37.215
50 km
F
Uwe Bellmann 2'08:18.68
Holger Bauroth 2'07:02.45
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
5 km
C
Susann Kuhfittig 16:41.937
Silke Schwager-Braun 16:22.525
Kerstin Moring 16:01.619
Simone Opitz 15:41.113
10 km
C
Kerstin Moring 32:12.825
Susann Kuhfittig 32:01.523
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm 31:53.021
Simone Opitz 31:14.310
20 km
F
Susann Kuhfittig 1'03:05.838
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm 59:01.215
Kerstin Moring 58:17.27
Simone Opitz 57:54.35
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
AthletesRace
TimeRank
Kerstin Moring
Simone Opitz
Silke Schwager-Braun
Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm
1'02:19.95

Figure skating

Men
AthleteCFSPFSTFPRank
Michael Huth 21252345.623
Women
AthleteCFSPFSTFPRank
Simone Koch 148819.69
Katarina Witt 3124.2Gold medal icon.svg
Pairs
AthletesSPFSTFPRank
Peggy Schwarz
Alexander König
11611.57

Luge

Men
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Michael Walter 46.578646.754646.838946.76333:06.9335
Thomas Jacob 46.426446.638546.433146.86163:06.3584
Jens Müller 46.301146.444146.436246.36713:05.548Gold medal icon.svg

(Men's) Doubles

AthletesRun 1Run 2Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Jörg Hoffmann
Jochen Pietzsch
45.786146.15421:31.940Gold medal icon.svg
Stefan Krauße
Jan Behrendt
45.886246.15311:32.039Silver medal icon.svg
Women
AthleteRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4Total
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Cerstin Schmidt 46.078346.020146.059246.02433:04.181Bronze medal icon.svg
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß 45.906246.057246.150345.99213:04.105Silver medal icon.svg
Steffi Walter-Martin 45.282146.173346.969146.00323:03.973Gold medal icon.svg

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:

AthleteEventSki JumpingCross-countryTotal
PointsRankStart atTimePointsRank
Uwe Prenzel Individual207.6132:19.440:38.2421.6304
Marko Frank 209.4102:07.441:15.6416.0208
Thomas Prenzel 215.551:26.741:18.1415.6409

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

AthletesSki jumpingCross-countryTotal
PointsRankStart atTimeRank
Thomas Prenzel
Marko Frank
Uwe Prenzel
571.654:51.01'23:04.55

Ski jumping

AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2Total
DistancePointsDistancePointsPointsRank
Remo Lederer Normal hill79.594.378.090.9185.221
Jens Weißflog 81.599.580.097.1196.69
Jens Weißflog Large hill104.595.793.576.3172.031
Remo Lederer 105.598.197.083.7181.822

Speed skating

Men
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Peter Adeberg 38.1128
André Hoffmann 37.7521
Uwe-Jens Mey 36.45 WRGold medal icon.svg
1000 m André Hoffmann 1:14.6215
Peter Adeberg 1:14.198
Uwe-Jens Mey 1:13.11Silver medal icon.svg
1500 m Peter Adeberg 1:53.578
André Hoffmann 1:52.06 WRGold medal icon.svg
5000 m Roland Freier 6:51.428
10,000 m Roland Freier 14:19.168
Women
EventAthleteRace
TimeRank
500 m Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 40.7110
Angela Stahnke-Hauck 39.684
Karin Enke-Kania 39.24Bronze medal icon.svg
Christa Rothenburger 39.12Silver medal icon.svg
1000 m Angela Stahnke-Hauck 1:20.056
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 1:19.324
Karin Enke-Kania 1:17.70Silver medal icon.svg
Christa Rothenburger 1:17.65 WRGold medal icon.svg
1500 m Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann 2:04.687
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 2:01.49Bronze medal icon.svg
Karin Enke-Kania 2:00.82Silver medal icon.svg
3000 m Karin Enke-Kania 4:18.804
Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 4:16.92Bronze medal icon.svg
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 4:12.09Silver medal icon.svg
5000 m Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann 7:34.597
Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 7:21.61Bronze medal icon.svg
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 7:17.12Silver medal icon.svg

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References

  1. Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics