East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GDR
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1980
Flagcaption:	Flag of East Germany
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	53 (36 men, 17 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Jan Hoffmann (figure skating)
Rank:	2
Gold:	9
Silver:	7
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 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold medals and 23 medals overall.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's 10 km sprint
			Four-man
			Women's 10 km
			Women's 4 × 5 km relay
			Women's singles
			Men's individual
			Men's doubles
			Men's individual
			Women's 500m
			Men's 20 km
			Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
			Two-man
			Men's singles
			Women's individual
			Men's normal hill
			Women's 3000m
			Men's 20 km
			Two-man
			Four-man
			Pairs
			Men's individual
			Women's 1000m
			Women's 1500m

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Mathias Jung	4	35:50.36	21
	Klaus Siebert	2	33:32.76	4
	Frank Ullrich	2	32:10.69

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Klaus Siebert	1'07:48.71	6	1'13:48.71	15
	Eberhard Rösch	1'09:11.73	2	1'11:11.73
	Frank Ullrich	1'05:27.79	3	1'08:27.79

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 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	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł	Two-man	1:02.39	3	1:02.88	4	1:02.86	3	1:02.95	4	4:11.08
GDR-2	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Two-man	1:02.58	4	1:02.48	1	1:03.31	9	1:02.56	2	4:10.93

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 Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Four-man	59.86	1	1:00.03	1	59.73	1	1:00.30	2	3:59.92
GDR-2	Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner	Four-man	1:00.24	2	1:00.35	2	1:00.04	3	1:00.34	3	4:00.97

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	45:00.40	37
30 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	1'30:05.17	9
50 km	Alf-Gerd Deckert	2'38:13.53	26

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Ute Nesstler	15:53.38	16
	Marlies Rostock	15:36.28	9
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	15:31.83	7
	Barbara Petzold	15:23.62	4
10 km	Carola Anding	31:45.82	12
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	31:29.14	8
	Marlies Rostock	31:28.79	7
	Barbara Petzold	30:31.54

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Hermann Schulz	9	9	13	166.70	98	11
Jan Hoffmann	1	2	2	189.72	15

Women

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach	6	6	136.00	53	6
Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff	4	3	140.52	33

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1980 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	43.802	6	1:24.301	26	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Bernhard Glass	43.609	4	43.780	2	43.925	3	43.482	1	2:54.796
Dettlef Günther	43.199	1	43.555	1	46.879	23	43.530	2	2:57.163	4

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	39.303	1	40.028	2	1:19.331
Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn	39.972	8	39.942	1	1:19.914	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Margit Schumann	39.611	7	39.715	6	39.567	4	39.262	2	2:38.255	6
Ilona Brand	39.393	4	39.506	4	39.700	6	39.516	6	2:38.115	5
Melitta Sollman	39.289	2	39.640	5	39.360	2	39.368	3	2:37.657

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 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
Uwe Dotzauer	Individual	80.5	81.0	217.6	4	49:52.4	200.815	13	418.415	5
Ulrich Wehling		80.0	85.0	227.2	1	49:24.5	205.000	9	432.200
Gunter Schmieder		79.0	80.0	201.7	11	49:42.0	202.375	11	404.075	8
Konrad Winkler		81.0	83.5	214.5	5	48:45.7	210.820	8	425.320

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Henry Glaß	Normal hill	81.0	114.8	81.5	116.6	231.4	15
Martin Weber		83.0	118.5	83.5	118.3	236.8	11
Jochen Danneberg		83.5	118.8	77.0	103.9	222.7	20
Manfred Deckert		85.0	121.7	88.0	127.5	249.2
Harald Duschek	Large hill	95.5	98.9	95.0	99.7	198.6	33
Henry Glaß		98.5	105.6	110.5	126.4	232.0	11
Manfred Deckert		102.0	111.0	100.0	108.2	219.2	20
Klaus Ostwald		107.0	119.0	98.5	106.1	225.1	15

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Andreas Dietel	39.21	13
	Steffen Doering	39.06	11
1000 m	Steffen Doering	1:21.19	26
	Andreas Dietel	1:17.71	7
1500 m	Andreas Ehrig	1:59.47	9
	Andreas Dietel	1:57.14	4
5000 m	Andreas Ehrig	7:14.56	10
10,000 m	Andreas Dietel	15:15.03	15
	Andreas Ehrig	14:51.94	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	43.60	12
	Cornelia Jacob	42.98	6
	Karin Kania-Enke	41.78 OR
1000 m	Christa Luding-Rothenburger	1:29.69	18
	Karin Kania-Enke	1:26.66	4
	Sylvia Albrecht	1:26.46
1500 m	Sylvia Albrecht	2:14.27	9
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:13.05	6
	Sabine Becker	2:12.38
3000 m	Sylvia Albrecht	4:47.76	14
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:37.69	4
	Sabine Becker	4:32.79

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com