Johanna Klier is a retired hurdler and Olympic gold medallist.
Evelin Kaufer is a retired East German sprinter who competed in the 100 metres.
Evelin Jahl is a German former discus thrower, who won two Olympic gold medals representing East Germany.
Henrietta Ebert is a German rower, who won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was a member of the SC Dynamo Potsdam.
Margarete Selling is a retired East German rower who won the 1966 European Championships in the eight event. She married the judoka Herbert Niemann (1935–1991).
Ramona Balthasar is a German rower.
Eugen Ray was an East German sprinter who ran in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur is a former East German cyclist. He was born in Heyrothsberge, Province of Saxony. His sporting career began with SC DHfK Leipzig. He was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships and the Peace Race. Between 1959 and 1990 Schur was a member of the Volkskammer, the East German parliament.
Günter Perleberg also spelled Günther; was a German sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with a gold in the K-1 4 × 500 m and a silver in the K-4 1000 m.
Gabriele Wetzko is a former German swimmer. Born in Leipzig, East Germany, she competed for East Germany in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.
Gabriele "Gabi" Kühn is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Roswietha Zobelt is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Anke Ohde is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. She won five gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two in the K-1 500 m, one in the K-2 500 m (1974), and two in the K-4 500 m events. In 1976, she was displaced by fellow SC Neubrandenburg club member Carola Zirzow in the K-1. The Olympic nomination for the K-2 went to the world champions, Bärbel Köster and Zirzow. Ohde thus went to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as a canoeing reserve and did not compete. Ohde finished her active career after the Montreal Olympics.
Manfred Merkel is a retired East German slalom canoeist.
Inge Görmer is a former East-German speedskater. She took part in five international championships. Four times as East-German at the World Allround Championships and once, as member of the German Unified team, at the Winter Olympics (1960).
Kirsten Wenzel is a rowing cox who represented East Germany.
Ursula Küper is a retired German swimmer. In 1960, she set a world record in the 100 m breaststroke. The same year she competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. Two years later she won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1962 European Aquatics Championships. She finished eighth in this event at the 1964 Olympics.
Ortrun Zöphel-Enderlein is a former East German (GDR) luger, and one of the most successful lugers in the 1960s. Enderlein started her working career at the SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal, and was first introduced to luge in her home village of Raschau in the Ore Mountains. In the 1964 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, she became the first female luger to win gold at the Olympics. and won the World Cup in 1965 in Davos and 1967 in Hammarstrand. The athletic achievements of the lugers Thomas Köhler and Enderlein were celebrated and politicised in the GDR during the Cold War when the GDR was not recognised by West Germany, and athletic events in either part of Germany with athletes from both countries were not permitted because of the Hallstein Doctrine.
The women's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on February 27, at the Olympic Oval.
Ute Polster-Lehmann was a German rhythmic gymnast who competed for East Germany. She was the 1967 world all-around silver medalist.
