Germany at the 2002 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	GER
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2002
Website:
Location:	Salt Lake City
Competitors:	157 (88 men, 69 women)
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	Hilde Gerg (alpine skiing)
Rank:	2
Gold:	12
Silver:	16
Bronze:	8
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1928
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games (1952) (1956–1964) (1968–1988) (1968–1988)

Germany competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. In terms of gold medals, Germany finished ranking second with 12 gold medals. Meanwhile, the 36 total medals won by German athletes were the most of any nation at these Games, as well at any Winter Olympics, until this record was broken by the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				10 February
				11 February
				13 February
				13 February
				15 February
				17 February
				18 February
				18 February
				20 February
				21 February
				23 February
				23 February
				10 February
				11 February
				11 February
				13 February
				13 February
				13 February
				14 February
				16 February
				17 February
				17 February
				19 February
				19 February
				19 February
				20 February
				20 February
				22 February
				9 February
				13 February
				14 February
				14 February
				15 February
				16 February
				17 February
				19 February

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Max Rauffer	Downhill			1:42.52	34
Max Rauffer	Super-G			1:24.54	22
Markus Eberle	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Petra Haltmayr	Downhill			DNF	-
Sibylle Brauner				1:42.97	26
Regina Häusl				1:40.84	10
Hilde Gerg				1:40.49	4
Regina Häusl	Super-G			DNF	-
Petra Haltmayr				1:16.25	23
Martina Ertl-Renz				1:14.84	11
Hilde Gerg				1:13.99	5
Martina Ertl-Renz	Giant Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer		1:19.89	DNF	DNF	-
Petra Haltmayr		1:19.36	DNF	DNF	-
Annemarie Gerg		1:18.79	1:17.39	2:36.18	22
Annemarie Gerg	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer		54.18	53.80	1:47.98	6
Martina Ertl-Renz		54.08	53.74	1:47.82	5

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Hilde Gerg	DNF	47.70	45.57	DNF	-
Petra Haltmayr	DNF	47.05	45.27	DNF	-
Martina Ertl-Renz	1:16.78	45.10	43.28	2:45.16

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Frank Luck	2	26:47.7	29
	Michael Greis	2	26:18.4	15
	Ricco Groß	1	25:44.6	4
	Sven Fischer	1	25:20.2
12.5 km pursuit ^2	Michael Greis	3	34:19.9	16
	Sven Fischer	4	34:09.5	12
	Frank Luck	1	34:01.0	11
	Ricco Groß	2	33:30.6

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
20 km	Alexander Wolf	51:16.6	5	56:16.6	34
	Sven Fischer	51:23.2	4	55:23.2	29
	Ricco Groß	49:58.7	2	51:58.7	4
	Frank Luck	51:39.4	0	51:39.4

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Andrea Henkel	2	22:41.1	25
	Katrin Apel	3	22:01.7	12
	Uschi Disl	1	20:57.0
	Kati Wilhelm	0	20:41.4
10 km pursuit ^4	Andrea Henkel	1	32:35.4	13
	Uschi Disl	7	32:21.2	9
	Katrin Apel	3	31:47.9	7
	Kati Wilhelm	4	31:13.0

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
15 km	Katrin Apel	45:16.7	5	50:16.7	18
	Uschi Disl	45:43.4	4	49:43.4	12
	Martina Glagow-Beck	47:34.2	1	48:34.2	7
	Andrea Henkel	46:29.1	1	47:29.1

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

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

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	Two-man	47.54	2	47.52	1	47.44	1	47.61	1	3:10.11
GER-2	Franz Sagmeister René Spies	Two-man	47.77	6	47.69	4	47.61	3	47.77	7	3:10.84	6

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Franz Sagmeister Stefan Barucha	Four-man	46.91	7	46.77	4	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
GER-2	André Lange Enrico Kühn Kevin Kuske Carsten Embach	Four-man	46.71	2	46.64	3	46.84	1	47.32	2	3:07.51

Women

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Sandra Prokoff-Kiriasis Ulrike Holzner	Two-woman	49.10	2	48.96	2	1:38.06
GER-2	Susi Erdmann Nicole Herschmann	Two-woman	49.19	3	49.10	4	1:38.29

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

MenSprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
René Sommerfeldt	2:54.87	20	did not advance
Tobias Angerer	2:52.31	10 Q	2:54.4	1 Q	3:00.4	4 QB	2:58.0	7
Peter Schlickenrieder	2:51.12	5 Q	2:55.0	1 Q	3:09.9	1 QF	2:57.0

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit^1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Axel Teichmann	27:31.2	32 Q	25:53.4	38
Tobias Angerer	27:30.7	31 Q	24:50.9	23
Andreas Schlütter	26:52.5	12 Q	24:41.2	17
René Sommerfeldt	26:46.0	11 Q	24:15.7	10

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Peter Schlickenrieder	42:34.0	55
	Jens Filbrich	39:57.0	33
	Andreas Schlütter	39:19.2	15
	Axel Teichmann	39:05.3	14
30 km F	Tobias Angerer	1'16:13.1	33
	Axel Teichmann	1'14:23.8	19
	René Sommerfeldt	1'13:55.8	16
50 km C	Jens Filbrich	2'15:44.8	21
	Andreas Schlütter	2'08:54.8	4

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 10 km relay

WomenSprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	3:17.45	13 Q	3:15.9	3	did not advance
Manuela Henkel	3:16.89	10 Q	3:16.3	4	did not advance
Claudia Künzel-Nystad	3:16.41	9 Q	3:15.1	1 Q	3:24.5	2 QF	3:13.3	4
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	3:13.81	3 Q	3:40.2	1 Q	3:18.5	2 QF	3:12.2

Pursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit^2
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Claudia Künzel-Nystad	14:37.0	55	did not advance
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	14:05.4	29 Q	13:12.8	18
Manuela Henkel	13:49.8	16 Q	13:13.2	20
Viola Bauer	13:15.3	3 Q	12:12.9

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Manuela Henkel	30:00.5	18
	Viola Bauer	29:30.0	10
15 km F	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	43:53.1	35
	Claudia Künzel-Nystad	21:10.2	26
	Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle	40:57.6	12
30 km C	Manuela Henkel	DNF	-
	Viola Bauer	1'33:25.1	6

² Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 5 km relay

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Kevin Martin	8	1
Norway	Pål Trulsen	7	2
Switzerland	Andreas Schwaller	6	3
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	6	3
Finland	Markku Uusipaavalniemi	5	4
Germany 6th	Sebastian Stock	4	5
Denmark	Ulrik Schmidt	3	6
Great Britain	Hammy McMillan	3	6
United States	Tim Somerville	3	6
France	Dominique Dupont-Roc	0	9

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Contestants

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Kelley Law	8	1
Switzerland	Luzia Ebnöther	7	2
United States	Kari Erickson	6	3
Great Britain	Rhona Martin	5	4
Germany 5th	Natalie Neßler	5	4
Sweden	Elisabet Gustafson	5	4
Norway	Dordi Nordby	4	5
Japan	Akiko Katoh	2	7
Denmark	Lene Bidstrup	2	7
Russia	Olga Jarkova	1	8

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Contestants

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Pairs

Ice Dancing

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - group A

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

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	3	1	1	1	11	12	-1	3
	3	1	2	0	7	9	-2	2
	3	0	2	1	8	12	-4	1

First round - group C

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	3	1	1	1	12	7	+5	3
	3	1	1	1	8	10	-2	3
	3	0	3	0	5	18	-13	0

Quarter final

• Team roster

• Marc Seliger

• Robert Müller

• Christian Künast

• Dennis Seidenberg

• Daniel Kunce

• Christoph Schubert

• Mirko Lüdemann

• Erich Goldmann

• Christian Ehrhoff

• Andreas Renz

• Jörg Mayr

• Len Soccio

• Klaus Kathan

• Mark MacKay

• Stefan Ustorf

• Tobias Abstreiter

• Andreas Morczinietz

• Jochen Hecht

• Andreas Loth

• Marco Sturm

• Jan Benda

• Martin Reichel

• Jürgen Rumrich

• Wayne Hynes

• Daniel Kreutzer
• Head coach: Hans Zach

Women's tournament

First round - group B

Top two teams (shaded) advanced to semifinals.

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	3	2	1	0	7	6	+1	4
	3	0	2	1	6	18	-12	1
	3	0	2	1	6	21	-15	1

Classification round

5th place semi-final

5th place game

Contestants Maritta Becker Bettina Evers Steffi Frühwirt Claudia Grundmann Sandra Kinza Sabrina Kruck Michaela Lanzl Nina Linde Christina Oswald Franziska Reindl Nina Ritter Sabine Rückauer Anja Scheytt Jana Schreckenbach Esther Thyssen Maren Valenti Stephanie Wartosch-Kürten Julia Wierscher Raffi Wolf Nina Ziegenhals

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Denis Geppert	44.846	8	44.874	10	44.417	3	45.017	11	2:59.154	7
Karsten Albert	44.718	5	44.767	6	44.467	5	45.094	16	2:59.046	6
Georg Hackl	44.614	2	44.494	1	44.487	6	44.675	3	2:58.270

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	43.121	4	43.254	5	1:26.375	4
Alexander Resch Patric Leitner	42.953	1	43.129	2	1:26.082

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sylke Otto	43.356	3	43.076	1	42.940	1	43.092	2	2:52.464
Barbara Niedernhuber	43.346	2	43.134	2	43.215	3	43.090	1	2:52.785
Silke Kraushaar	43.294	1	43.224	3	43.195	2	43.152	3	2:52.865

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's sprint

Events:

• large hill ski jumping
• 7.5 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Jens Gaiser	102.4	22	18:19.3	23
Björn Kircheisen	105.8	15	17:45.2	9
Marcel Höhlig	111.6	8	18:32.2	25
Ronny Ackermann	119.9	2	16:49.1

Men's individual

Events:

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

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Sebastian Haseney	199.0	38	43:37.0	21
Georg Hettich	209.5	32	45:17.8	34
Björn Kircheisen	232.0	14	40:55.9	5
Ronny Ackermann	254.0	5	40:27.8	4

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 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Arian Nachbar	500 m	44.057	2 Q	43.626	4	did not advance
Arian Nachbar	1000 m	1:33.585	3	did not advance
André Hartwig	1500 m	2:22.541	2 Q			2:25.936	6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Yvonne Kunze	500 m	45.717	2 Q	46.465	4	did not advance
Susanne Rudolph		45.288	3	did not advance
Christin Priebst	1000 m	1:49.569	2 Q	1:36.848	4	did not advance
Yvonne Kunze		1:42.389	2 Q	1:35.830	4	did not advance
Yvonne Kunze	1500 m	2:29.779	5	did not advance
Christin Priebst		2:27.649	3 Q			2:32.884	4 QB	2:32.442	8
Yvonne Kunze Christin Priebst Ulrike Lehmann Aika Klein	3000 m relay					4:22.917	4 QB	4:22.222	8

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Willi Schneider	51.67	10	51.47	8	1:43.14	9
Frank Kleber	51.58	8	51.76	13	1:43.34	11

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Steffi Hanzlik	52.82	6	53.13	8	1:45.95	7
Diana Sartor	52.55	4	52.98	5	1:45.53	4

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Christof Duffner	Normal hill	91.5	117.5	7 Q	91.5	117.5	14 Q	92.0	117.5	235.0	17
Michael Uhrmann		92.0	118.0	5 Q	92.0	118.0	12 Q	95.5	127.0	245.0	8
Martin Schmitt		Pre-qualified			94.5	125.5	6 Q	94.5	124.5	250.0	7
Sven Hannawald		Pre-qualified			97.0	131.0	2 Q	99.0	136.5	267.5
Michael Uhrmann	Large hill	119.0	111.2	6 Q	124.0	120.2	14 Q	119.0	112.2	232.4	16
Martin Schmitt		Pre-qualified			126.0	127.3	6 Q	119.5	113.1	240.4	10
Stephan Hocke		Pre-qualified			125.0	123.5	9 Q	120.5	113.4	236.9	12
Sven Hannawald		Pre-qualified			132.5	140.5	1 Q	131.0	114.8	255.3	4

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Markus Ebner	37.64	18	did not advance
Mathias Behounek	37.31	13 Q	Richard Richardsson L	did not advance

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Daniel Tyrkas	22.5	25	21.4	26	did not advance
Xaver Hoffmann	32.3	14	32.6	14	did not advance
Jan Michaelis	39.7	5 QF			0.2	12

Women's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Heidi Renoth	43.54	21	did not advance
Katharina Himmler	42.54	11 Q	Isabella Dal Balcon L	did not advance

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sabine Wehr-Hasler	22.1	17	29.7	8	did not advance
Nicola Thost	34.3	4 QF			27.7	11

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Jan Friesinger	36.80	32	DNF	-	DNF	-
	Christian Breuer	36.50	31	35.57	27	72.07	26
	Michael Künzel	35.47	18	35.37	25	70.84	19
1000 m	Jan Friesinger					1:10.71	34
	Christian Breuer					1:10.38	30
	Michael Künzel					1:09.64	24
1500 m	Christian Breuer					DNF	-
	Frank Dittrich					1:51.02	43
	Jan Friesinger					1:50.26	41
5000 m	René Taubenrauch					7:19.76	32
	Frank Dittrich					6:25.89	9
	Jens Boden					6:21.73
10,000 m	Frank Dittrich					13:28.73	10
	Jens Boden					13:23.43	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Marion Wohlrab	38.66	19	38.71	17	77.37	19
	Jenny Wolf	38.36	16	38.37	13	76.73	15
	Sabine Völker	37.62	5	37.57	2	75.19
	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	37.34	2	37.60	3	74.94
1000 m	Marion Wohlrab					1:16.51	21
	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt					1:14.60	6
	Anni Friesinger					1:14.47	5
	Sabine Völker					1:13.96
1500 m	Marion Wohlrab					1:59.67	22
	Claudia Pechstein					1:55.93	6
	Sabine Völker					1:54.97
	Anni Friesinger					1:54.02 WR
3000 m	Daniela Anschütz					4:07.55	12
	Anni Friesinger					3:59.39	4
	Claudia Pechstein					3:57.70 WR
5000 m	Daniela Anschütz					7:10.17	12
	Anni Friesinger					6:58.39	6
	Claudia Pechstein					6:46.91 WR

References

• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com