East Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GDR
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1988
Location:	Calgary
Competitors:	53 (36 men, 17 women)
Sports:	8
Flagbearer:	Frank-Peter Roetsch (biathlon)
Rank:	2
Gold:	9
Silver:	10
Bronze:	6
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 Winter Olympic Games for the last time at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				14 February
				15 February
				18 February
				19 February
				20 February
				20 February
				23 February
				26 February
				27 February
				18 February
				18 February
				19 February
				21 February
				22 February
				23 February
				26 February
				27 February
				28 February
				28 February
				18 February
				21 February
				22 February
				23 February
				27 February
				28 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Biathlon	6	–	6
Bobsleigh	10	–	10
Cross-country skiing	2	5	7
Figure skating	2	3	5
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	3	–	3
Ski jumping	2	–	2
Speed skating	4	6	10
Total	36	17	53

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Frank Luck	1	25:57.6	6
	André Sehmisch	2	25:52.3	5
	Birk Anders	2	25:51.8	4
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	1	25:08.1

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Jürgen Wirth	57:25.9	3	1'00:25.9	16
	Matthias Jacob	55:20.1	3	58:20.1	9
	André Sehmisch	55:11.4	3	58:11.4	7
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	53:33.3	3	56:33.3

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 missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 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	Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł	Two-man	57.06	1	59.26	8	59.45	1	58.42	1	3:54.19
GDR-2	Bernhard Lehmann Mario Hoyer	Two-man	57.65	7	58.67	2	59.59	4	58.73	3	3:54.64

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer Bogdan Musioł Ingo Voge	Four-man	56.16	1	57.31	2	56.77	13	57.34	3	3:47.58
GDR-2	Detlef Richter Bodo Ferl Ludwig Jahn Alexander Szelig	Four-man	57.18	13	57.60	6	56.33	3	57.95	9	3:49.06	8

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Holger Bauroth	43:59.2	21
	Uwe Bellmann	42:17.8	5
30 km C	Holger Bauroth	1'30:03.4	22
	Uwe Bellmann	1'28:37.2	15
50 km F	Uwe Bellmann	2'08:18.6	8
	Holger Bauroth	2'07:02.4	5

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Susann Kuhfittig	16:41.9	37
	Silke Schwager-Braun	16:22.5	25
	Kerstin Moring	16:01.6	19
	Simone Opitz	15:41.1	13
10 km C	Kerstin Moring	32:12.8	25
	Susann Kuhfittig	32:01.5	23
	Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	31:53.0	21
	Simone Opitz	31:14.3	10
20 km F	Susann Kuhfittig	1'03:05.8	38
	Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	59:01.2	15
	Kerstin Moring	58:17.2	7
	Simone Opitz	57:54.3	5

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Simone Koch	14	8	8	19.6	9
Katarina Witt	3	1	2	4.2

Pairs

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michael Walter	46.578	6	46.754	6	46.838	9	46.763	3	3:06.933	5
Thomas Jacob	46.426	4	46.638	5	46.433	1	46.861	6	3:06.358	4
Jens Müller	46.301	1	46.444	1	46.436	2	46.367	1	3:05.548

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	45.786	1	46.154	2	1:31.940
Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	45.886	2	46.153	1	1:32.039

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cerstin Schmidt	46.078	3	46.020	1	46.059	2	46.024	3	3:04.181
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	45.906	2	46.057	2	46.150	3	45.992	1	3:04.105
Steffi Walter-Martin	45.282	1	46.173	3	46.969	1	46.003	2	3:03.973

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

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

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Uwe Prenzel	Individual	207.6	13	2:19.4	40:38.2	421.630	4
Marko Frank		209.4	10	2:07.4	41:15.6	416.020	8
Thomas Prenzel		215.5	5	1:26.7	41:18.1	415.640	9

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

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

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Remo Lederer	Normal hill	79.5	94.3	78.0	90.9	185.2	21
Jens Weißflog		81.5	99.5	80.0	97.1	196.6	9
Jens Weißflog	Large hill	104.5	95.7	93.5	76.3	172.0	31
Remo Lederer		105.5	98.1	97.0	83.7	181.8	22

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Peter Adeberg	38.11	28
	André Hoffmann	37.75	21
	Uwe-Jens Mey	36.45 WR
1000 m	André Hoffmann	1:14.62	15
	Peter Adeberg	1:14.19	8
	Uwe-Jens Mey	1:13.11
1500 m	Peter Adeberg	1:53.57	8
	André Hoffmann	1:52.06 WR
5000 m	Roland Freier	6:51.42	8
10,000 m	Roland Freier	14:19.16	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	40.71	10
	Angela Stahnke-Hauck	39.68	4
	Karin Enke-Kania	39.24
	Christa Rothenburger	39.12
1000 m	Angela Stahnke-Hauck	1:20.05	6
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	1:19.32	4
	Karin Enke-Kania	1:17.70
	Christa Rothenburger	1:17.65 WR
1500 m	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann	2:04.68	7
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:01.49
	Karin Enke-Kania	2:00.82
3000 m	Karin Enke-Kania	4:18.80	4
	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	4:16.92
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:12.09
5000 m	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann	7:34.59	7
	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	7:21.61
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	7:17.12

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/CAN/editions/43 Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics