East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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East Germany at the
1980 Winter Olympics
Flag of East Germany
IOC codeGDR
NOCNational Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Lake Placid
Competitors53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearerJan Hoffmann (figure skating)
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
9
Silver
7
Bronze
7
Total
23
Winter Olympics appearances (
overview)
Other related appearances
 Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)
 United Team of Germany (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
 Gold Frank Ullrich Biathlon Men's 10 km sprint
 Gold
Bogdan Musiol
Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt
Bobsleigh Four-man
 Gold Barbara Petzold Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km
 Gold
Veronika Hesse-Schmidt
Barbara Petzold
Cross-country skiing Women's 4 × 5 km relay
 Gold Anett Pötzsch Figure skating Women's singles
 Gold Bernhard Glass Luge Men's individual
 Gold Hans Rinn
Norbert Hahn
Luge Men's doubles
 Gold Ulrich Wehling Nordic combined Men's individual
 Gold
Karin Kania-Enke
Speed skating Women's 500m
 Silver Frank Ullrich Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Silver Mathias Jung
Klaus Siebert
Frank Ullrich
Eberhard Rösch
Biathlon Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
 Silver Bernhard Germeshausen
Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt
Bobsleigh Two-man
 Silver Jan Hoffmann Figure skating Men's singles
 Silver
Melitta Sollman
Luge Women's individual
 Silver Manfred Deckert Ski jumping Men's normal hill
 Silver Sabine Becker Speed skating Women's 3000m
 Bronze Eberhard Rösch Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Bronze
Bogdan Musiol
Bobsleigh Two-man
 Bronze Horst Schönau
Roland Wetzig
Detlef Richter
Andreas Kirchner
Bobsleigh Four-man
 Bronze
Uwe Bewersdorff
Figure skating Pairs
 Bronze Konrad Winkler Nordic combined Men's individual
 Bronze Sylvia Albrecht Speed skating Women's 1000m
 Bronze Sabine Becker Speed skating Women's 1500m

Biathlon

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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Frank Ullrich 1'05:27.79 3 1'08:27.79 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Mathias Jung
Klaus Siebert
Frank Ullrich
Eberhard Rösch
3 1'34:56.99 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
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

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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
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 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Cross-country skiing

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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Veronika Hesse-Schmidt
Barbara Petzold
1'02:11.10 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Figure skating

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 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Women
Athlete CF SP FS Points Places Rank
Anett Pötzsch 1 4 3 189.00 11 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pairs
Athletes SP FS Points Places Rank
Sabine Baeß
Tassilo Thierbach
6 6 136.00 53 6
Uwe Bewersdorff
4 3 140.52 33 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Luge

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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
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 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Nordic combined

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
  • 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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Ski jumping

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 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
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

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 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1000 m Christa Luding-Rothenburger 1:29.69 18
Karin Kania-Enke
1:26.66 4
Sylvia Albrecht 1:26.46 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
1500 m Sylvia Albrecht 2:14.27 9
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich
2:13.05 6
Sabine Becker 2:12.38 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
3000 m Sylvia Albrecht 4:47.76 14
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich
4:37.69 4
Sabine Becker 4:32.79 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References