West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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West Germany at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Flag of Germany.svg
IOC code FRG
NOC German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website www.dosb.de  (in German, English, and French)
in Los Angeles
Competitors390 (267 men, 123 women) in 25 sports
Flag bearer Wilhelm Kuhweide (sailing)
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
17
Silver
19
Bronze
23
Total
59
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany (1896–1936, 1952, 1992–)
Flag of Saar (1947-1956).svg  Saar (1952)
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. West Germany had joined the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics four years previously. 390 competitors, 267 men and 123 women, took part in 194 events in 25 sports. [1]

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Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Michael Groß Swimming Men's 200 metre freestyle 29 July
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Fredy Schmidtke Cycling Men's track time trial 30 July
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Michael Groß Swimming Men's 100 metre butterfly 30 July
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Karl-Heinz Radschinsky Weightlifting Men's 75 kg 2 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Claudia Losch Athletics Women's shot put 3 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Pasquale Passarelli Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg 3 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Michael Dürsch
Albert Hedderich
Raimund Hörmann
Dieter Wiedenmann
Rowing Men's quadruple sculls 5 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Rolf Milser Weightlifting Men's 100 kg 6 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sabine Bischoff
Zita Funkenhauser
Cornelia Hanisch
Christiane Weber
Ute Wessel
Fencing Women's team foil 7 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Frank Wieneke Judo Men's 78 kg 7 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Reiner Klimke
Herbert Krug
Uwe Sauer
Equestrian Team dressage 9 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Reiner Klimke Equestrian Individual dressage 10 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ulrike Meyfarth Athletics Women's high jump 10 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Rolf Danneberg Athletics Men's discus throw 10 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ulrich Eicke Canoeing Men's C-1 1000 metres 11 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Elmar Borrmann
Volker Fischer
Gerhard Heer
Rafael Nickel
Alexander Pusch
Fencing Men's team épée 11 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Dietmar Mögenburg Athletics Men's high jump 11 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Thomas Fahrner
Michael Groß
Rainer Henkel (*)
Dirk Korthals
Alexander Schowtka
Swimming Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay 30 July
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Rolf Gölz Cycling Men's individual pursuit 1 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Markus Scherer Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg 1 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ulrike Holmer Shooting Women's 50 metre rifle three positions 2 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Matthias Behr Fencing Men's foil 2 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Uwe Messerschmidt Cycling Men's points race 3 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Michael Groß Swimming Men's 200 metre butterfly 3 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ina Beyermann
Ute Hasse
Svenja Schlicht
Karin Seick
Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay 3 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Cornelia Hanisch Fencing Women's foil 3 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Peter-Michael Kolbe Rowing Men's single sculls 5 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Frank Beck
Matthias Behr
Mathias Gey
Harald Hein
Klaus Reichert
Fencing Men's team foil 5 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Karl-Hans Riehm Athletics Men's hammer throw 6 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Joachim Griese
Michael Marcour
Sailing Star 8 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Jürgen Hingsen Athletics Men's decathlon 9 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Barbara Schüttpelz Canoeing Women's K-1 500 metres 10 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver West Germany women's national field hockey team
Field hockey Women's tournament 10 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Martin Knosp Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg 10 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver West Germany men's national field hockey team
Field hockey Men's tournament 11 August
Silver medal icon.svg Silver West Germany men's national handball team
Handball Men's tournament 11 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sandra Schumacher Cycling Women's individual road race 29 July
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Petra Zindler Swimming Women's 400 metre individual medley 29 July
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Thomas Fahrner Swimming Men's 200 metre freestyle 29 July
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Christiane Pielke
Susanne Schuster
Karin Seick
Iris Zscherpe
Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 31 July
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Karin Seick Swimming Women's 100 metre butterfly 2 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Claus Erhorn
Dietmar Hogrefe
Bettina Overesch
Burkhard Tesdorpf
Equestrian Team eventing 3 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Cycling Men's team pursuit 3 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ellen Becker
Iris Völkner
Rowing Women's coxless pair 4 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Ina Beyermann Swimming Women's 200 metre butterfly 4 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Stefan Pfeiffer Swimming Men's 1500 metre freestyle 4 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sabine Everts Athletics Women's heptathlon 4 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Harald Schmid Athletics Men's 400 metres hurdles 5 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Klaus Ploghaus Athletics Men's hammer throw 6 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Fritz Ligges
Peter Luther
Paul Schockemöhle
Franke Sloothaak
Equestrian Team jumping 7 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Manfred Nerlinger Weightlifting Men's +110 kg 8 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Siegfried Wentz Athletics Men's decathlon 9 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Günther Neureuther Judo Men's 95 kg 9 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Manfred Zielonka Boxing Men's light-middleweight 9 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Josefa Idem
Barbara Schüttpelz
Canoeing Women's K-2 500 metres 10 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze West Germany men's national water polo team
Water polo Men's tournament 10 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Gaby Bußmann
Heide-Elke Gaugel
Nicole Leistenschneider (*)
Heike Schulte-Mattler
Christina Sussiek (*)
Ute Thimm
Athletics Women's 4 × 400 metres relay 11 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Arthur Schnabel Judo Men's open category 11 August
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Regina Weber Gymnastics Women's rhythmic individual all-around 11 August

Archery

All five of the German archers posted solid scores in the nation's third Olympic archery competition, with none placing lower than 15th.

Women's Individual Competition:

Men's Individual Competition:

Athletics

Men's Competition

Men's 400 metres

  • Heat 45.94
  • Quarterfinals 46.39 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Heat 13:46.35
  • Semifinals did not finish (→ did not advance)
  • Heat 13:48.66
  • Semifinals did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Qualifying Heat 28:30.28
  • Final 28:08.21 (→ 5th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Final 2:15:29 (→ 18th place)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualification 2.24 m
  • Final 2.35 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification 2.24 m
  • Final 2.15 m (→ 10th place)
  • Qualification 2.18 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

  • Final 16.77 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification 82.98 m
  • Final 82.46 m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification 73.52 m (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualifying Round 18.98 m
  • Final 18.31 m (→ 12th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Final 66.60 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Final 64.72 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification 75.50 m
  • Final 77.98 m (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification 74.68 m
  • Final 76.68 m (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification 72.88 m
  • Final no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

  • Final Result 8673 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final Result 8412 points (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Final Result 8326 points (→ 4th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Final did not start (→ no ranking)
Women's Competition

Women's 1000 metres

  • Heat did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 1500 metres

  • Heat 4:10.64
  • Final 4:04.41 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat did not start (→ no ranking)

Women's 3000 metres

  • Heat 8:57.53
  • Final did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

  • Final 2:35:56 (→ 16th place)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification 1.90 m
  • Final 2.02 m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)
  • Qualification 1.90 m
  • Final 1.85 m (→ 11th place)
  • Qualification 1.90 m
  • Final 1.85 m (→ 11th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification 56.20 m
  • Final 58.56 m (→ 6th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification 60.86 m
  • Final 63.26 m (→ 6th place)
  • Qualification 61.56 m
  • Final 62.34 m (→ 7th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Final 20.48 m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result 6363 points (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)
  • Final Result 6236 points (→ 6th place)
  • Final Result 6082 points (→ 9th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (83-96)
  • Lost to Italy (72-80)
  • Lost to Australia (66-66)
  • Defeated Egypt (85-58)
  • Defeated Brazil (78-75)
  • Lost to United States (67-78)
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to Italy (71-98)
  • 7th/8th place: Lost to Australia (76-83) → 8th place

Boxing

Men's Bantamweight ( 54 kg)

Men's Lightweight ( 60 kg)

Men's Light Welterweight ( 63.5 kg)

Men's Welterweight ( 67 kg)

Men's Light Middleweight ( 71 kg)

Men's Middleweight ( 75 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight ( 81 kg)

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

Canoeing

Cycling

Twenty cyclists, sixteen men and four women, represented West Germany in 1984.

Men's individual road race
Team time trial
Sprint
1000 m time trial
Individual pursuit
Team pursuit
Points race
  • Final 16 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final 3 points (→ 19th place)
Women's individual road race

Diving

Men's 3 m Springboard

  • Preliminary Round 549.39
  • Final 569.52 (→ 7th place)
  • Preliminary Round 533.61
  • Final 549.33 (→ 10th place)

Equestrianism

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented West Germany in 1984.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Field hockey

Men's Team Competition
  • Defeated Spain (3-1)
  • Defeated United States (4-0)
  • Lost to Australia (0-3)
  • Defeated Malaysia (5-0)
  • Drew with India (0-0)
  • Defeated Great Britain (1-0)
  • Lost to Pakistan (1-2) after extra time → Med 2.png Silver Medal
Women's Team Competition
  • Drew with Australia (2-2)
  • Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • Lost to The Netherlands (2-6)
  • Defeated New Zealand (1-0)
  • Drew with United States (1-1) → Med 2.png Silver Medal

Football

Men's Team Competition

Gymnastics

Handball

Men's Team Competition
Women's Team Competition

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male modern pentathletes represented West Germany in 1984.

Individual
Team

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's Competition

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat 51.02
  • Final 50.93 (→ 8th place)
  • Heat 51.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat 1:48.03
  • Final 1:47.44 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat 1:50.00
  • Final 1:49.69 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat 3:53.41
  • Final 3:52.91 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat 3:55.26
  • B-Final 3:50.91 (→ 9th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Heat 15:21.95
  • Final 15:12.77 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat 15:23.60
  • Final 15:20.03 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat 57.90
  • B-Final 58.30 (→ 11th place)
  • Heat 58.19
  • B-Final 58.56 (→ 15th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Heat 2:04.45
  • Final 2:03.95 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat 2:05.22
  • B-Final 2:05.66 (→ 13th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Heat 1:03.53
  • Final 1:03.95 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat 1:04.40
  • B-Final 1:04.43 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Heat 2:22.99 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
  • Heat 2:24.60 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat 54.02
  • Final 53.08 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat 55.22
  • Final 54.95 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

  • Heat 1:58.72
  • Final 1:57.40 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Heat 2:06.06 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Heat 2:06.07
  • Final 2:05.88 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat 2:06.41
  • Final 2:06.66 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Heat 4:28.10
  • B-Final 4:28.94 (→ 12th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat 3:24.69
  • Final 3:22.98 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat 7:25.29
  • Final 7:15.73 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat 3:49.75
  • Final 3:44.26 (→ 4th place)
Women's Competition

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat 56.85
  • Final 56.90 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat 57.31
  • B-Final 57.19 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat 2:02.42
  • Final 2:01.89 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat 2:03.95
  • B-Final 2:03.42 (→ 10th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat 4:17.92
  • Final 4:16.33 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat 4:18.94
  • B-Final scratched (→ 17th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Heat 8:53.34 (→ did not advance, 11th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat 3:46.49
  • Final 3:45.56 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat 4:13.58
  • Final 4:11.97 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat 1:04.02
  • Final 1:03.46 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat 1:05.27 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Heat 2:15.69
  • Final 2:15.93 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat 2:19.59
  • B-Final 2:16.93 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Heat 2:13.26
  • Final 2:11.91 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat 2:15.20
  • B-Final 2:16.50 (→ 14th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Heat 2:19.17
  • Final 2:17.82 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat 2:20.05
  • Final 2:19.86 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Heat 4:52.49
  • Final 4:48.57 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Synchronized swimming

Volleyball

Women's Team Competition
  • Lost to United States (0-3)
  • Lost to China (0-3)
  • Defeated Brazil (3-0)
  • 5th/8th place: Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to South Korea (0-3) → Sixth place

Water polo

Men's Team Competition
  • Defeated Australia (10-6)
  • Defeated Japan (15-8)
  • Defeated Italy (10-4)
  • Drew with Spain (8-8)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (9-10)
  • Lost to United States (7-8)
  • Defeated Netherlands (15-2) → Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

  1. "West Germany at the 1984 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-21.