Germany at the 1998 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GER
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1998
Website:
Location:	Nagano
Competitors:	125 (78 men, 47 women)
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	Jochen Behle (cross-country skiing)
Rank:	1
Gold:	12
Silver:	9
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games (1952) (1956–1964) (1968–1988) (1968–1988)

Germany competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				9 February
				11 February
				11 February
				12 February
				13 February
				16 February
				17 February
				19 February
				19 February
				20 February
				21 February
				21 February
				10 February
				11 February
				11 February
				11 February
				15 February
				16 February
				17 February
				17 February
				20 February
				9 February
				9 February
				10 February
				11 February
				15 February
				15 February
				17 February
				20 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
Alpine skiing	1	6	7
Biathlon	6	5	11
Bobsleigh	9	–	9
Cross-country skiing	5	5	10
Curling	5	5	10
Figure skating	3	3	6
Freestyle skiing	0	3	3
Ice hockey	23	0	23
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	5	–	5
Short track speed skating	1	4	5
Ski jumping	4	–	4
Snowboarding	3	5	8
Speed skating	6	8	14
Total	78	47	125

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Markus Eberle	Giant slalom	1:24.01	DNF	DNF	-
Markus Eberle	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Regina Häusl	Downhill			DNF	-
Hilde Gerg				1:29.96	9
Katrin Gutensohn				1:29.96	9
Katja Seizinger				1:29.89
Hilde Gerg	Super-G			1:18.59	10
Martina Ertl				1:18.46	7
Katja Seizinger				1:18.44	6
Regina Häusl				1:18.27	4
Regina Häusl	Giant slalom	1:26.37	1:38.20	3:04.57	30
Hilde Gerg		1:21.45	1:34.44	2:55.89	13
Martina Ertl		1:20.38	1:32.34	2:52.72	4
Katja Seizinger		1:20.19	1:32.42	2:52.61
Monika Bergmann	Slalom	47.78	47.21	1:34.99	9
Martina Ertl		46.22	46.69	1:32.91	4
Hilde Gerg		45.89	46.51	1:32.40

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Monika Bergmann	1:33.35	37.41	35.08	2:45.84	12
Hilde Gerg	1:29.92	36.52	35.06	2:41.50
Martina Ertl	1:29.76	36.45	34.71	2:40.92
Katja Seizinger	1:28.52	37.14	35.08	2:40.74

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Carsten Heymann	2	30:09.6	34
	Sven Fischer	2	29:47.1	29
	Ricco Groß	1	29:13.9	17
	Frank Luck	1	28:40.3	7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Jan Wüstenfeld	57:07.9	4	1'01:07.9	32
	Sven Fischer	56:26.1	3	59:26.1	16
	Peter Sendel	57:30.3	1	58:30.3	8
	Ricco Groß	57:15.4	1	58:15.4	6

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Martina Zellner	2	25:09.8	30
	Petra Behle	2	24:09.9	16
	Katrin Apel	1	23:32.4
	Uschi Disl	1	23:08.7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
15 km	Katja Beer	57:26.4	4	1'01:26.4	39
	Petra Behle	58:29.7	1	59:29.7	27
	Martina Zellner	52:46.3	4	56:46.3	10
	Uschi Disl	54:17.9	1	55:17.9

Women's 4 × 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 1998 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	Two-man	54.82	7	54.62	6	54.11	1	54.34	3	3:37.89
GER-2	Dirk Wiese Marco Jakobs	Two-man	54.83	8	54.66	8	54.63	11	54.76	13	3:38.88	11

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Harald Czudaj Torsten Voss Steffen Görmer Alexander Szelig	Four-man	53.12	7	53.50	7	53.70	2	2:40.32	8
GER-2	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	Four-man	52.70	1	52.90	1	53.81	8	2:39.41

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km C	Jochen Behle	29:55.9	40
	René Sommerfeldt	29:52.5	38
	Johann Mühlegg	29:12.3	27
	Andreas Schlütter	28:48.0	16
15 km pursuit¹ F	René Sommerfeldt	43:49.5	29
	Johann Mühlegg	41:48.3	17
	Andreas Schlütter	41:08.3	12
30 km C	Jochen Behle	DNF	-
	Torald Rein	1'49:06.7	57
	Andreas Schlütter	1'40:27.1	21
50 km F	Andreas Schlütter	2'17:52.1	36
	René Sommerfeldt	2'16:19.9	26
	Johann Mühlegg	2'07:25.3	7

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km C	Sigrid Wille	19:15.6	38
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	19:14.7	37
	Constanze Blum	19:02.4	30
	Kati Wilhelm	18:56.9	26
10 km pursuit² F	Sigrid Wille	34:15.1	54
	Kati Wilhelm	31:54.0	32
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	31:53.4	31
	Constanze Blum	31:28.5	26
15 km C	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	51:54.0	38
	Manuela Henkel	51:53.4	36
	Sigrid Wille	51:19.3	28
	Constanze Blum	50:30.3	21
30 km F	Manuela Henkel	DNF	-
	Constanze Blum	1'31:52.9	31
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	1'30:54.6	26
	Kati Wilhelm	1'28:27.7	16

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	W	L
	6	1
	5	2
	5	2
	3	4
	3	4
	3	4
	2	5
8th	1	6

Contestants

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	W	L
	6	1
	6	1
	5	2
	4	3
	2	5
	2	5
	2	5
8th	1	6

Contestants

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Peggy Schwarz Mirko Mueller	9	8	12.5	9
Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	2	3	4.0

Ice Dancing

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Gabriele Rauscher	Moguls	35.20	22.11	12 Q	34.13	23.59	11
Sandra Schmitt		33.92	22.63	6 Q	33.50	23.67	9
Tatjana Mittermayer		34.69	23.07	3 Q	33.50	24.62

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Preliminary round

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

width=165	Team	width=40		width=40		width=40		width=40	width=40	width=40	width=40	width=40
	3	2	0	1	14	4	+10	5
	3	2	1	0	7	9	-2	4
	3	1	2	0	5	8	-3	2
	3	0	2	1	5	10	-5	1

Consolation round

Team roster

Olaf Kölzig

Josef Heiß

Klaus Merk

Mirko Lüdemann

Erich Goldmann

Uwe Krupp

Markus Wieland

Daniel Kunce

Brad Bergen

Jochen Molling

Lars Brüggemann

Peter Draisaitl

Jan Benda

Mark MacKay

Reemt Pyka

Jochen Hecht

Benoît Doucet

Stefan Ustorf

Thomas Brandl

Andreas Lupzig

Dieter Hegen

Jürgen Rumrich

Marco Sturm
Head coach: George Kingston

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karsten Albert	50.353	12	50.172	13	50.080	11	50.499	17	3:21.104	12
Jens Müller	49.954	4	49.700	3	49.729	2	49.710	2	3:19.093
Georg Hackl	49.619	1	49.573	1	49.614	1	49.630	1	3:18.436

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	50.592	1	50.513	3	1:41.105
Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	51.408	10	50.816	6	1:42.224	8

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Susi Erdmann	51.475	4	51.348	5	50.895	3	50.731	5	3:24.449	4
Barbara Niedernhuber	51.216	2	51.103	1	50.837	2	50.625	3	3:23.781
Silke Kraushaar	51.197	1	51.178	2	50.787	1	50.617	2	3:23.779

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Cross-country time	Total rank
Matthias Looß	Individual	187.0	41	46:54.2	32
Josef Buchner		203.0	26	DNF	-
Ronny Ackermann		209.5	18	43:52.9	12
Jens Deimel		221.0	10	43:56.3	13

Men's team

Four participants per team.

Events:

normal hill ski jumping
5 km cross-country skiing

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Arian Nachbar	500 m	44.882	3	did not advance
Arian Nachbar	1000 m	1:32.493	3	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Yvonne Kunze	500 m	46.887	3	did not advance
Susanne Busch	500 m	1:30.607	4	did not advance
Susanne Busch	1000 m	1:38.379	3	did not advance
Yvonne Kunze	1000 m	1:44.870	3	did not advance
Susanne Busch Anne Eckner Yvonne Kunze Katrin Weber	3000 m relay		4:38.776	4 QB	4:37.110	8

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hansjörg Jäkle	Normal hill	82.0	99.5	19 Q	82.5	101.0	200.5	17
Martin Schmitt		82.0	100.0	18 Q	82.0	99.5	199.5	19
Sven Hannawald		83.5	103.0	13 Q	84.0	104.5	207.5	14
Dieter Thoma		84.5	106.0	12 Q	83.0	102.5	208.5	13
Hansjörg Jäkle	Large hill	92.0	61.1	57	did not advance
Sven Hannawald		100.0	78.0	48	did not advance
Dieter Thoma		114.0	105.2	22 Q	128.0	130.4	235.6	12
Martin Schmitt		118.5	112.3	11 Q	123.0	121.4	233.7	14

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Bernd Kroschewski	1:03.53	DSQ	DSQ	-
Dieter Moherndl	1:03.03	1:07.00	2:10.03	14

Men's halfpipe

Women's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Burgl Heckmair	DNF	-	DNF	-
Sandra Farmand	1:14.39	1:08.71	2:23.10	9
Heidi Renoth	1:11.92	1:07.25	2:19.17

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
Athlete	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sandra Farmand	22.1	25	DNF	-	did not advance
Sabine Wehr-Hasler	29.5	15	30.5	11	did not advance
Nicola Thost	30.6	13	37.4	1 QF	74.6

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Peter Adeberg	36.92	31	DNF	-	DNF	-
	Christian Breuer	36.78	26	36.41	15	73.19	19
	Michael Künzel	36.56	15	36.19	8	72.75	11
1000 m	Christian Breuer					1:12.33	16
1000 m	Peter Adeberg					1:11.90	9
1500 m	René Taubenrauch					1:54.91	38
	Frank Dittrich					1:53.64	33
	Peter Adeberg					1:51.50	13
	Christian Breuer					1:50.96	9
5000 m	Alexander Baumgärtel					6:39.44	13
	René Taubenrauch					6:35.21	6
	Frank Dittrich					6:32.17	5
10,000 m	René Taubenrauch					13:52.10	11
	Alexander Baumgärtel					13:48.44	10
	Frank Dittrich					13:36.58	6

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Anke Baier-Loef	39.73	16	39.75	16	79.48	15
	Sabine Völker	39.19	10	39.00	6	78.19	7
	Monique Garbrecht	39.11	7	39.34	10	78.45	8
	Franziska Schenk	38.88	5	38.57	4	77.45	4
1000 m	Franziska Schenk					DNF	-
	Anke Baier-Loef					1:19.42	16
	Monique Garbrecht					1:18.76	10
	Sabine Völker					1:17.54	4
1500 m	Claudia Pechstein					1:59.46	7
	Anni Friesinger					1:59.20	5
	Gunda Niemann					1:58.66
3000 m	Anni Friesinger					4:09.44
	Claudia Pechstein					4:08.47
	Gunda Niemann					4:07.29 OR
5000 m	Heike Warnicke					7:30.83	14
	Gunda Niemann					6:59.65
	Claudia Pechstein					6:59.61 WR

References

Notes and References

https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GER/editions/46 Germany at the 1998 Winter Olympics