East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	GDR
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
Games:	Summer Olympics
Games Link:	1988 Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Start Date:	17 September
End Date:	2 October 1988
Location:	Seoul, South Korea
Competitors:	259 (157 men, 102 women)
Sports:	16
Flagbearer:	Ulf Timmermann
Rank:	2
Gold:	37
Silver:	35
Bronze:	30
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1968
App End Year:	1988
See also:	(1896–1936, 1992–) (1956–1964)

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports.^[1] The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				18 September
				19 September
				21 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				22 September
				23 September
				23 September
				23 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				26 September
				27 September
				27 September
				29 September
				29 September
				30 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				20 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				22 September
				22 September
				23 September
				23 September
				23 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				26 September
				27 September
				29 September
				29 September
				29 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				2 October
				19 September
				21 September
				21 September
				22 September
				22 September
				22 September
				23 September
				23 September
				23 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				24 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				25 September
				26 September
				27 September
				28 September
				28 September
				29 September
				30 September
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October
				1 October

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	25	33	58
Boxing	11	–	11
Canoeing	11	4	15
Cycling	14	3	17
Diving	2	2	4
Fencing	7	0	7
Gymnastics	6	6	12
Handball	13	0	13
Judo	4	–	4
Rowing	21	23	44
Sailing	7	2	9
Shooting	13	2	15
Swimming	11	15	26
Volleyball	0	12	12
Weightlifting	4	–	4
Wrestling	8	–	8
Total	157	102	259

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's competition

Men's 5,000 metres

• Hansjörg Kunze
  1. Heat - 13:44.34
  2. Semifinal - 13:23.04
  3. Final - 13:15.73 (→ Bronze medal)

Men's 10,000 metres

• Hansjörg Kunze
  1. Heat - 28:22.09
  2. Final - 27:39.35 (→ 6th place)

Men's marathon

• Jörg Peter
  • Final - did not start (→ no ranking)

Men's 4 × 400 m relay

• Jens Carlowitz, Michael Schimmer, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
  • Heat - 3:08.13
• Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
  • Semifinal - 3:00.60
• Jens Carlowitz, Mathias Schersing, Frank Möller and Thomas Schönlebe
  • Final - 3:01.13 (→ 4th place)

Men's 3.000 m steeplechase

• Hagen Melzer

1. Heat - 8:36.45

1. Semifinal - 8:16.27

1. Final - 8:19.82 (→ 10th place)

Men's javelin throw

• • • Gerald Weiss Qualification - 79.16m
  • Final - 81.30 m (→ 6th place)
• Silvio Warsönke
  • Qualification - 78.22m (→ did not advance)
• Detlef Michel
  • Qualification - 77.70 m (→ did not advance)

Men's discus throw

• Jürgen Schult
  • Qualifying heat  - 64.70 m
  • Final  - 68.82m (→ Gold medal)

Men's shot put

• Ulf Timmermann
  • Qualifying heat  - 21.27m
  • Final  - 22.47m (→ Gold medal)
• Udo Beyer
  • Qualifying heat  - 20.97m
  • Final  - 21.40 m (→ 4th place)

Men's hammer throw

• Ralf Haber
  • Qualifying heat - 78.16m
  • Final - 80.44m (→ 4th place)
• Günther Rodehau
  • Qualifying heat - 78.12m
  • Final - 72.36m (→ 12th place)

Men's decathlon

• Christian Schenk - 8488 points (→ Gold medal))

1. 100 metres - 11.25s

1. Long jump - 7.43m

1. Shot put - 15.48m

1. High jump - 2.27m

1. 400 metres - 48.90 s

1. 110 m hurdles - 15.13s

1. Discus throw - 49.28m

1. Pole vault - 4.70 m

1. Javelin throw - 61.32m

1. 1.500 metres - 4:28.95s

• Torsten Voss - 8399 points (→ Silver medal))

1. 100 metres - 10.87s

1. Long jump - 7.45m

1. Shot put - 14.97m

1. High jump - 1.97m

1. 400 metres - 47.71s

1. 110 m hurdles - 14.46s

1. Discus throw - 44.36m

1. Pole vault - 5.10 m

1. Javelin throw - 61.76m

1. 1.500 metres - 4:33.02s

• Uwe Freimuth - 7860 points (→ 18th place)

1. 100 metres - 11.57s

1. Long jump - 7.00 m

1. Shot put - 15.60 m

1. High jump - 1.94m

1. 400 metres - 49.84s

1. 110 m hurdles - 15.04s

1. Discus throw - 46.66m

1. Pole vault - 4.90 m

1. Javelin throw - 60.20 m

1. 1.500 metres - 4:46.04s

Men's 20 km walk

• Ronald Weigel
  • Final - 1:20:00 (→ Silver medal)
• Axel Noack
  • Final - 1:21:14 (→ 8th place)

Men's 50 km walk

• Ronald Weigel
  • Final - 3'38:56 (→ Silver medal)
• Hartwig Gauder
  • Final - 3'39:45 (→ Bronze medal)
• Dietmar Meisch
  • Final - 3'46:31 (→ 9th place)

Women's competition

Women's 4 × 100 m relay

• • • Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange and Marlies Göhr Heat - 42.92
  • Semifinal - 42.23
  • Final - 42.09 (→ Silver medal)

Women's 4 × 400 m relay

• • • Grit Breuer, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller Heat - 3:27.37
    • Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Petra Müller Final - 3:18.29 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's marathon

• Katrin Dörre  - 2"26:21 (→ Bronze medal)
• Birgit Stephan  - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's discus throw

• Martina Hellmann
  • Qualification  - 67.12m
  • Final  - 72.30 m (→ Gold medal)
• Diana Gansky
  • Qualification  - 65.40 m
  • Final  - 71.88m (→ Silver medal)
• Gabriele Reinsch
  • Qualification  - 66.88m
  • Final  - 67.26m (→ 7th place)

Women's javelin throw

• Petra Felke
  • Qualification  - 67.06m
  • Final  - 74.68m (→ Gold medal)
• Beate Koch
  • Qualification  - 66.86m
  • Final  - 67.30 m (→ Bronze medal)
• Silke Renk
  • Qualification  - 63.64m
  • Final  - 66.38m (→ 5th place)

Women's shot put

• Kathrin Neimke
  • Qualification  - 20.18m
  • Final  - 21.07m (→ Silver medal)
• Ines Müller
  • Qualification  - 19.79m
  • Final  - 20.37m (→ 4th place)
• Heike Hartwig
  • Qualification  - 20.06m
  • Final  - 20.20 m (→ 6th place)

Women's heptathlon

• Sabine John
  • Final result - 6897 points (→ Silver medal)
• Anke Behmer
  • Final result - 6858 points (→ Bronze medal)
• Ines Schulz
  • Final result - 6411 points (→ 6th place)

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's bantamweight (54 kg)

• René Breitbarth
  1. First round - defeated Magare Tshekiso (BTS), 5–0
  2. Second round - defeated Vedat Tutuk (TUR), 5–0
  3. Third round - lost to Jorge Julio Rocha (COL), 1–4

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988.

Men's road race

• Olaf Ludwig - 4:32:22 (→ Gold medal)
• Uwe Raab
• Uwe Ampler

Men's team time trial

• Uwe Ampler
• Mario Kummer
• Maik Landsmann
• Jan Schur

Men's sprint

• Lutz Heßlich

Men's 1 km time trial

• Maic Malchow

Men's individual pursuit

• Bernd Dittert

Men's team pursuit

• Steffen Blochwitz
• Roland Hennig
• Carsten Wolf
• Dirk Meier
• Uwe Preißler

Men's points race

• Olaf Ludwig

Women's road race

• Angela Ranft - 2:00:52 (→ 25th place)
• Petra Rossner - DNF (→ no ranking)

Women's sprint

• Christa Rothenburger-Luding

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event.^[4]

Men's foil

• Udo Wagner
• Jens Howe
• Aris Enkelmann

Men's team foil

• Aris Enkelmann, Adrian Germanus, Jens Gusek, Jens Howe, Udo Wagner

Men's épée

• Torsten Kühnemund
• Uwe Proske

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's 100 m freestyle

• Steffen Zesner
  1. Heat  - 50.73
  2. Final  - scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)
• Sven Lodziewski
  1. Heat  - 50.77
  2. B-Final  - 51.00 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m freestyle

• Steffen Zesner
  1. Heat  - 1:49.13
  2. Final  - 1:48.77 (→ 6th place)
• Thomas Flemming
  1. Heat  - 1:49.52
  2. B-Final  - 1:50.18 (→ 10th place)

Men's 400 m freestyle

• Uwe Dassler
  1. Heat  - 3:49.90
  2. Final  - 3:46.95 (→ Gold medal)
• Jörg Hoffmann
  1. Heat  - 3:53.78
  2. B-Final  - 3:52.13 (→ 9th place)

Men's 1500 m freestyle

• Uwe Dassler
  1. Heat  - 15:08.91
  2. Final  - 15:06.15 (→ Bronze medal)
• Jörg Hoffmann
  1. Heat  - 15:14.13 (→ did not advance, 6th place)

Men's 100 m backstroke

• Frank Baltrusch
  1. Heat  - 56.45
  2. Final  - 56.10 (→ 6th place)
• Dirk Richter
  1. Heat  - 56.52
  2. B-Final  - 56.66 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m backstroke

• Frank Baltrusch
  1. Heat  - 2:01.49
  2. Final  - 1:59.60 (→ Silver medal)
• Dirk Richter
  1. Heat  - 2:01.54
  2. Final  - 2:01.67 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m breaststroke

• Christian Poswiat
  1. Heat  - 1:02.99
  2. Final  - 1:03.43 (→ 8th place)
• Raik Hannemann
  1. Heat  - 1:04.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200 m breaststroke

• Christian Poswiat
  1. Heat  - 2:20.99 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 200 m individual medley

• Patrick Kühl
  1. Heat  - 2:03.77
  2. Final  - 2:01.61 (→ Silver medal)
• Raik Hannemann
  1. Heat  - 2:04.03
  2. Final  - 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 400 m individual medley

• Patrick Kühl
  1. Heat  - 4:18.60
  2. Final  - 4:18.44 (→ 5th place)
• Raik Hannemann
  1. Heat  - 2:04.03
  2. Final  - 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

• Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Steffen Zesner
  1. Heat  - 3:20.47
  2. Final  - 3:19.82 (→ Bronze medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

• Uwe Dassler, Lars Hinneburg, Sven Lodziewski and Thomas Flemming
  1. Heat  - 7:16.61
• Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner
  1. Final  - 7:13.68 (→ Silver medal)

Women's 50 m freestyle

• Kristin Otto
  1. Heat  - 25.85
  2. B-Final  - 25.49 (→ Gold medal)
• Katrin Meissner
  1. Heat  - 25.77
  2. Final  - 25.71 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 100 m freestyle

• Kristin Otto
  1. Heat  - 55.80
  2. B-Final  - 54.93 (→ Gold medal)
• Manuela Stellmach
  1. Heat  - 56.14
  2. Final  - 55.52 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m freestyle

• Heike Friedrich
  1. Heat  - 1:59.02
  2. B-Final  - 1:57.65 (→ Gold medal)
• Manuela Stellmach
  1. Heat  - 2:00.30
  2. Final  - 1:59.01 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 400 m freestyle

• Heike Friedrich
  1. Heat  - 4:11.30
  2. B-Final  - 4:05.94 (→ Silver medal)
• Anke Möhring
  1. Heat  - 4:10.64
  2. Final  - 4:06.62 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 800 m freestyle

• Astrid Strauss
  1. Heat  - 8:28.07
  2. B-Final  - 8:22.09 (→ Silver medal)
• Anke Möhring
  1. Heat  - 8:30.95
  2. Final  - 8:23.09 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100 m backstroke

• Kristin Otto
  1. Heat  - 1:01.45
  2. Final  - 1:00.89 (→ Gold medal)
• Cornelia Sirch
  1. Heat  - 1:01.63
  2. Final  - 1:01.57 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 200 m backstroke

• Kathrin Zimmermann
  1. Heat  - 2:12.81
  2. Final  - 2:10.61 (→ Silver medal)
• Cornelia Sirch
  1. Heat  - 2:10.46
  2. Final  - 2:11.45 (→ Bronze medal)

Women's 100 m breaststroke

• Silke Hörner
  1. Heat  - 1:08.35
  2. Final  - 1:08.83 (→ Bronze medal)
• Annett Rex
  1. Heat  - 1:10.61
  2. Final  - 1:10.67 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m breaststroke

• Silke Hörner
  1. Heat  - 2:27.63
  2. Final  - 2:26.71 (→ Gold medal)
• Susanne Boernike
  1. Heat  - 2:30.71
  2. B-Final  - 2:28.55 (→ 9th place)

Women's 100 m butterfly

• Kristin Otto
  1. Heat  - 1:00.40
  2. Final  - 59.00 (→ Gold medal)
• Birte Weigang
  1. Heat  - 59.97
  2. Final  - 59.45 (→ Silver medal)

Women's 200 m butterfly

• Kathleen Nord
  1. Heat  - 2:11.81
  2. Final  - 2:09.51 (→ Gold medal)
• Birte Weigang
  1. Heat  - 2:11.97
  2. Final  - 2:09.91 (→ Silver medal)

Women's 200 m individual medley

• Daniela Hunger
  1. Heat  - 2:16.23
  2. Final  - 2:12.59 (→ Gold medal)

Women's 400 m individual medley

• Daniela Hunger
  1. Heat  - 4:44.85
  2. Final  - 4:39.76 (→ Bronze medal)
• Kathleen Nord
  1. Heat  - 4:42.92
  2. Final  - 4:41.64 (→ 5th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

• Katrin Meissner, Sabina Schulze, Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger
  1. Heat  - 3:43.13
• Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach
  1. Final  - 3:40.63 (→ Gold medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay

• Cornelia Sirch, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Manuela Stellmach
  1. Heat  - 4:08.53
• Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Katrin Meissner
  1. Final  - 4:03.74 (→ Gold medal)

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Women's tournament

• Preliminary round (Group A)
  • Lost to South Korea (1–3)
  • Defeated Japan (3–2)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0–3)
• Classification matches
  • 5th/8th place: defeated United States (3–1)
  • 5th/6th place: defeated Brazil (3–0) → Fifth place
• Team roster
  • Steffi Schmidt
  • Susanne Lahme
  • Monika Beu
  • Ariane Radfan
  • Kathrin Langschwager
  • Maike Arlt
  • Brit Wiedemann
  • Ute Steppin
  • Grit Jensen
  • Dörte Stüdemann
  • Heike Jensen
  • Ute Langenau
• Head coach: Siegfried Köhler

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: East Germany at the 1988 Summer Games . 17 July 2011 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110630024659/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GDR/summer/1988/ . 30 June 2011 .
2. News: Das DDR-Aufgebot für den Medaillenkampf . The GDR squad for the medal fight . 23 September 2018 . . 44 . 209 . 3 September 1988 . 6 . de . registration . 23 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180923085612/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19880903-0-6-89-0 . dead .
3. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GDR/editions/22 East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics
4. Web site: East Germany Fencing at the 1988 Summer Games . 17 July 2011 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110315090314/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GDR/summer/1988/FEN/ . 15 March 2011 .