United Team of Germany at the 1964 Winter Olympics

United Team of Germany at the
1964 Winter Olympics
United Team of Germany at the; 1964 Winter Olympics
	"Olympic" Flag of Germany, ; defaced with white Olympic rings,; used 1960, 1964 (and 1968 by separated teams)
IOC code	EUA
NOC	United Team of Germany
in Innsbruck
Competitors	96 (73 men, 23 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Georg Thoma (nordic combined)
Medals ; Ranked 6th	Gold3Silver3Bronze3Total9
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1956 ; 1960 ; 1964 ;
Other related appearances
	Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–); East Germany (1968–1988); West Germany (1968–1988)

Last updated October 12, 2025

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic; GDR) and West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany; FRG) competed together as the United Team of Germany at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Nationality	Sport	Event
Gold	Manfred Schnelldorfer	West Germany	Figure skating	Men's singles
Gold	Thomas Köhler	East Germany	Luge	Men's singles
Gold	Ortrun Enderlein	East Germany	Luge	Women's singles
Silver	Marika Kilius Hans Jürgen Bäumler	West Germany (both)	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	East Germany	Luge	Men's singles
Silver	Ilse Geisler	East Germany	Luge	Women's singles
Bronze	Wolfgang Bartels	West Germany	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill
Bronze	Hans Plenk	West Germany	Luge	Men's singles
Bronze	Georg Thoma	West Germany	Nordic combined	Men's individual

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Fritz Wagnerberger	Downhill	2:21.03	12
Willy Bogner		2:20.72	9
Luggi Leitner		2:19.67	5
Wolfgang Bartels		2:19.48
Willy Bogner	Giant Slalom	DSQ	–
Wolfgang Bartels		DNF	–
Eberhard Riedel		1:54.17	15
Luggi Leitner		1:50.04	8

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
Athlete	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Wolfgang Bartels	57.91	40	55.84	8 QF	1:13.83	14	1:02.09	7	2:15.92	9
Eberhard Riedel	55.88	30	54.44	3 QF	1:13.57	11	1:05.28	21	2:18.85	18
Ernst Scherzer	54.77	19 QF	–	–	1:14.67	21	1:03.43	14	2:18.10	13
Luggi Leitner	51.45	2 QF	–	–	1:11.19	8	1:01.75	4	2:12.94	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Heidi Mittermaier	Downhill					2:03.05	23
Burgl Färbinger						2:01.23	12
Barbi Henneberger						1:58.03	5
Heidi Biebl						1:57.87	4
Heidi Biebl	Giant Slalom					DSQ	–
Heidi Mittermaier						2:00.77	22
Burgl Färbinger						1:58.84	18
Barbi Henneberger						1:54.26	7
Burgl Färbinger	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Heidi Mittermaier		47.41	16	50.14	9	1:37.55	10
Barbi Henneberger		47.17	14	50.38	10	1:37.55	10
Heidi Biebl		44.61	4	49.43	7	1:34.04	4

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Dieter Ritter	1'22:51.4	8	1'38:51.4	33
	Helmut Klöpsch	1'32:08.5	3	1'38:08.5	31
	Egon Schnabel	1'30:53.0	2	1'34:53.0	24
	Hans-Dieter Riechel	1'28:30.9	3	1'34:30.9	21

¹ Two minutes added per 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
GER-1	Franz Wörmann Hubert Braun	Two-man	1:06.87	10	1:06.42	8	1:05.17	1	1:06.24	3	4:27.70	6
GER-2	Hans Maurer Rupert Grasegger	Two-man	1:06.72	8	1:07.76	16	1:06.92	12	1:08.37	17	4:29.77	14

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
GER-1	Franz Schelle Ludwig Siebert Josef Sterff Otto Göbl	Four-man	1:04.21	7	1:03.50	1	1:04.15	5	1:04.33	6	4:16.19	5
GER-2	Franz Wörmann Anton Wackerle Rupert Grasegger Hubert Braun	Four-man	1:04.47	10	1:04.42	10	1:05.25	14	1:04.54	7	4:18.68	9

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Karl Buhl	57:10.2	44
	Helmut Weidlich	56:04.6	36
	Enno Röder	54:52.8	24
	Walter Demel	54:37.0	22
30 km	Alfons Dorner	1'41:09.5	34
	Rudolf Dannhauer	1'40:35.7	32
	Heinz Seidel	1'40:01.0	29
	Walter Demel	1'33:10.2	10
50 km	Rudolf Dannhauer	DNF	–
	Herbert Steinbeißer	3'06:52.2	30
	Siegfried Weiß	3'00:43.0	24

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Heinz Seidel Helmut Weidlich Enno Röder Walter Demel	2'26:34.4	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Elfriede Spiegelhauer-Uhlig	19:52.3	19
	Christine Nestler	19:21.4	17
	Renate Dannhauer-Borges	19:17.0	15
	Rita Czech-Blasl	19:09.1	12
10 km	Elfriede Spiegelhauer-Uhlig	44:08.8	16
	Rita Czech-Blasl	44:07.8	15
	Renate Dannhauer-Borges	43:52.7	14
	Christine Nestler	43:38.2	13

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Christine Nestler Rita Czech-Blasl Renate Dannhauer-Borges	1'04:29.9	4

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sepp Schönmetzler	12	8	1743.1	92	12
Ralph Borghard	10	7	1742.2	90	11
Manfred Schnelldorfer	1	1	1916.9	13

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Uschi Keszler	25	18	1642.3	213	24
Franziska Schmidt	22	21	1662.8	193	23
Gabriele Seyfert	21	17	1685.1	177	19
Inge Paul	17	12	1720.3	139	14

Pairs

Athletes	Points	Places	Rank
Margit Senf Peter Göbel	87.9	113.5	13
Brigitte Wokoeck Heinz-Ulrich Walther	88.8	103.5	11
Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	103.6	15	¹

¹ Pairs silver medalists Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler were stripped of their silver medals in 1966 because it had been found out that they had signed professional contracts before the Olympics. At the time, only amateurs could compete in the Olympic Games. Although they were reawarded the medal in 1987, many official results lists have removed them entirely.

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Germany	2–1	Poland

Medal Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	54	10	14
2	Sweden	7	5	2	47	16	10
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	38	19	10
4	Canada	7	5	2	32	17	10
5	United States	7	2	5	29	33	4
6	Finland	7	2	5	10	31	4
7	Germany	7	2	5	13	49	4
8	Switzerland	7	0	7	9	57	0

Czechoslovakia 11-1 Germany
USA 8-0 Germany
Canada 4-2 Germany
Sweden 10-2 Germany
USSR 10-0 Germany
Germany 6-5 Switzerland
Germany 2-1 Finland

	Contestants Paul Ambros Bernd Herzig Michael Hobelsberger Ernst Köpf Albert Loibl Sepp Reif Otto Schneitberger Georg Scholz Siegfried Schubert Dieter Schwimmbeck Ernst Tautwein Leonhard Waitl Helmut Zanghellini Kurt Sepp Ulli Jansen Horst Franz Schuldes Sylvester Wackerle, Jr.

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fritz Nachmann	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–
Hans Plenk	52.12	3	52.25	3	52.31	3	53.47	7	3:30.15
Klaus-Michael Bonsack	51.61	2	51.33	1	51.68	2	52.42	1	3:27.04
Thomas Köhler	51.27	1	51.53	2	51.50	1	52.47	2	3:26.77

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Walter Eggert Helmut Vollprecht	51.27	3	51.81	4	1:43.08	4
Thomas Köhler Klaus-Michael Bonsack	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Minna Blüml	56.87	16	53.80	8	52.33	4	53.32	6	3:36.32	10
Ilse Geisler	51.28	2	51.48	2	51.20	2	53.46	7	3:27.42
Ortrun Enderlein	51.13	1	51.12	1	50.87	1	51.55	1	3:24.67

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
Horst Möhwald	Individual	65.5	61.0	189.2	23	52:56.2	206.98	11	396.18	17
Rainer Dietel		72.0	67.5	223.8	6	54:07.3	193.34	15	417.14	9
Georg Thoma		73.0	71.0	241.1	1	52:31.2	211.78	10	452.88
Roland Weißpflog		71.0	68.0	232.4	4	56:18.2	169.30	23	401.70	16

Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Max Bolkart	Normal hill	72.5	98.1	70.0	93.4	191.5	37
Helmut Recknagel		77.0	105.4	75.5	105.0	210.4	6
Karl-Heinz Munk		77.0	104.9	75.0	102.1	207.0	9
Dieter Neuendorf		78.5	109.3	77.0	105.4	214.7	5
Dieter Bokeloh	Large hill	92.0	108.1	83.5	106.5	214.6	4
Dieter Neuendorf		92.5	109.8	84.5	102.8	212.6	8
Karl-Heinz Munk		87.0	104.5	80.0	96.1	200.6	21
Helmut Recknagel		89.0	107.0	86.5	105.8	212.8	7

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Günter Traub	43.4	33
	Günther Tilch	42.3	24
	Herbert Höfl	42.3	24
	Helmut Kuhnert	41.8	16
1500 m	Jürgen Schmidt	2:20.0	39
	Gerd Zimmermann	2:17.3	29
	Herbert Höfl	2:16.8	26
	Günter Traub	2:15.3	17
5000 m	Jürgen Schmidt	8:36.6	39
	Gerd Zimmermann	7:56.8	13
	Günter Traub	7:53.9	11
10,000 m	Jürgen Traub	17:08.9	21
	Günter Traub	16:58.4	19
	Gerd Zimmermann	16:22.5	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Sigrit Behrenz	50.9	25
	Brigitte Reichert	49.8	21
	Helga Haase	47.2	8
1000 m	Brigitte Reichert	1:44.9	25
	Erika Heinicke	1:43.2	23
	Helga Haase	1:35.7	4
1500 m	Erika Heinicke	2:40.4	28
	Inge Lieckfeldt	2:36.2	21
	Helga Haase	2:28.6	5
3000 m	Erika Heinicke	5:56.0	28
	Inge Lieckfeldt	5:42.7	21
	Rita Blankenburg	5:40.8	17

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United Team of Germany at the 1964 Winter Olympics
"Olympic" Flag of Germany, defaced with white Olympic rings, used 1960, 1964 (and 1968 by separated teams)
IOC code	EUA
NOC	United Team of Germany
in Innsbruck
Competitors	96 (73 men, 23 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Georg Thoma (nordic combined)
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 3 Total 9
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1956 1960 1964
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–) East Germany (1968–1988) West Germany (1968–1988)