East Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GDR
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1976
Location:	Innsbruck
Competitors:	59 (40 men, 19 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Meinhard Nehmer (bobsleigh)
Rank:	2
Gold:	7
Silver:	5
Bronze:	7
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1968
App End Year:	1988
See also:	(1896–1936, 1992–) (1956–1964)

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Two-man
			Four-man
			Men's individual
			Men's doubles
			Women's individual
			Men's individual
			Men's normal hill
			Men's 50 km
			Pairs
			Women's individual
			Men's normal hill
			Women's 3000m
			Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
			Women's 4 × 5 km relay
			Women's singles
			Pairs
			Men's individual
			Men's individual
			Men's large hill

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^1	Rank
20 km	Manfred Beer	1'18:42.50	5	1'23:42.50	27
	Karl-Heinz Wolf	1'15:06.89	5	1'20:06.89	15
	Manfred Geyer	1'13:11.37	6	1'19:11.37	12

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Horst Schönau Raimund Bethge	Two-man	56.89	8	56.79	8	56.74	7	56.55	4	3:46.97	7
GDR-2	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen	Two-man	56.24	3	56.04	1	55.87	1	56.27	1	3:44.42

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Meinhard Nehmer Jochen Babock Bernhard Germeshausen Bernhard Lehmann	Four-man	54.43	1	54.64	1	55.51	2	55.85	2	3:40.43
GDR-2	Horst Schönau Horst Bernhardt Harald Seifert Raimund Bethge	Four-man	55.11	6	55.12	5	55.63	4	56.58	4	3:42.44	4

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Gerhard Grimmer	48:45.04	49
	Gerd Heßler	47:08.77	28
	Jürgen Wolf	47:04.49	25
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	45:42.97	9
30 km	Dieter Meinel	1'36:37.35	33
	Axel Lesser	1'34:53.14	17
	Gerhard Grimmer	1'34:52.15	16
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1'32:00.91	6
50 km	Dieter Meinel	2'49:52.42	33
	Gerd Heßler	2'47:34.90	28
	Gerhard Grimmer	2'41:15.46	5
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	2'38:13.21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Sigrun Krause	16:55.54	16
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	16:42.86	12
	Barbara Petzold	16:42.44	11
	Monika Debertshäuser	16:34.94	7
10 km	Monika Debertshäuser	31:50.06	14
	Sigrun Krause	31:39.76	12
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	31:12.33	8
	Barbara Petzold	31:12.20	7

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marion Weber	12	9	10	175.82	99	11
Anett Pötzsch	4	3	4	187.42	33	4
Christine Errath	5	2	3	188.16	28

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kerstin Stolfig Veit Kempe	7	6	129.57	59	6
Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann	4	3	134.57	34
Romy Kermer Rolf Österreich	2	2	136.35	21

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn	52.916	6	51.968	2	51.690	2	52.000	3	3:28.574
Hans-Heinrich Winckler	52.848	5	52.328	6	52.069	4	52.209	4	3:29.454	4
Dettlef Günther	52.381	1	52.107	4	51.418	1	51.782	1	3:27.688

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	42.773	1	42.831	1	1:25.604
Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn	43.291	6	46.566	24	1:29.847	16

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eva-Maria Wernicke	43.007	5	42.646	2	42.711	7	42.898	4	2:51.262	4
Ute Rührold	42.926	3	42.708	3	42.439	3	42.773	2	2:50.846
Margit Schumann	42.854	1	42.830	7	42.285	1	42.652	1	2:50.621

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Konrad Winkler	Individual	74.5	77.0	213.9	4	49:51.11	203.57	7	417.47
Günter Deckert		71.0	74.0	194.2	18	49:51.00	203.58	6	397.78	13
Claus Tuchscherer		78.5	79.0	218.7	3	51:16.12	190.81	20	409.51	5
Ulrich Wehling		80.0	80.5	225.5	1	50:28.95	197.89	13	423.39

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Henry Glaß	Normal hill	80.0	118.3	79.5 (fall)	85.5	203.8	44
Bernd Eckstein		80.5	118.6	81.5 (fall)	90.7	209.3	32
Jochen Danneberg		83.5	124.4	82.5	121.8	246.2
Hans-Georg Aschenbach		84.5	128.0	82.0	124.0	252.0
Henry Glaß	Large hill	91.0	104.4	97.0	117.3	221.7
Hans-Georg Aschenbach		92.5	109.5	89.0	102.6	212.1	8
Bernd Eckstein		94.0	109.6	91.5	106.6	216.2	7
Jochen Danneberg		102.0	118.8	89.5	102.8	221.6	4

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Harald Oehme	41.54	24
1000 m	Harald Oehme	1:23.88	20
	Klaus Wunderlich	1:21.67	10
1500 m	Klaus Wunderlich	2:03.41	9
5000 m	Manfred Winter	7:58.28	18
	Klaus Wunderlich	7:33.82	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Ute Dix	45.60	20
	Ines Bautzmann	44.87	15
	Heike Lange	44.21	10
1000 m	Ute Dix	1:34.14	21
	Monika Zernicek	1:31.68	12
	Heike Lange	1:30.55	8
1500 m	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:20.05	10
	Ines Bautzmann	2:19.63	7
	Karin Kessow	2:19.05	5
3000 m	Ines Bautzmann	4:46.67	5
	Karin Kessow	4:45.60	4
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:45.23

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com