East Germany at the 1984 Winter Olympics

The GDR participated in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo with a delegation of 56 athletes (40 men and 16 women ) participated and was in accordance with the medal table the most successful nation. On ice hockey and alpine skiing disciplines in the no GDR athletes participated.

  • 2.1 Medals by sport
  • 2.2 Medals by sport clubs
  • 2.3 Participants by Sport Clubs

Participants by sport

Biathlon

Against the strong teams from Germany, Norway and the USSR, the biathletes had a hard time with each one silver and bronze could build only partly on the success of Lake Placid.

  • Matthias Jacob ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Sprint (10 km): Season (4 x 7,5 km): 4th place
  • Frank Ullrich (ASK forward Oberhof ) Sprint (10 km): 17th Place Single (20 km): 5th place Season (4 x 7,5 km): 4th place
  • Holger Wick ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 29th place Season (4 x 7,5 km): 4th place
  • Frank -Peter Roetsch (SG Dynamo Cínovec ) Sprint ( 10 km): 7th place Single (20 km): Season (4 x 7,5 km): 4th place
  • Jürgen Wirth ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 16th Place Season (4 x 7,5 km): 5th Place
  • Ralf Göthel (SG Dynamo Cínovec ) without the use

Bob

With two double wins the East German athletes were those of the total dominance in the Bobwettbewerben. Wolfgang Hoppe was double Olympic champion.

Bobsled

  • DDR I Wolfgang Hoppe (ASK forward Oberhof ) Roland Wetzig (ASK forward Oberhof ) Dietmar Schauer Hammer ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Andreas Kirchner ( ASK forward Oberhof )

Two-

  • DDR II Wolfgang Hoppe (ASK forward Oberhof ) Dietmar Schauer Hammer ( ASK forward Oberhof )
  • DDR I Bernhard Lehmann (ASK forward Oberhof ) Bogdan Musiol (ASK forward Oberhof )

Without competition use were:

  • Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt (ASK forward Oberhof ) Henry Gerlach (ASK forward Oberhof ) Bernhard Germeshausen (ASK forward Oberhof ) Matthias Trübner (ASK forward Oberhof )

Figure skating

Women:

  • Katarina Witt ( SC Karl- Marx-Stadt )

Couples:

  • Sabine Bäß / Tassilo Thierenbach (SC Karl- Marx-Stadt ) Pair of running: 4th place
  • Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert ( SC Dynamo Berlin) Pair of running: 5th place
  • Babette Preußler / Tobias Schröter (SC Dynamo Berlin) Pair of running: 11th place

Speed ​​Skating

The speed skaters have been extremely successful and won only nine of twelve to be awarded medals. All four decisions have been won. The impressive dominance was found in three double wins and a triple victory over 3000 m. With Karin Enke also came the most successful East German athletes from speed skating. In the men's René Schöfisch shone with two bronze medals over the long haul.

Women:

  • Christa Roth Burger ( SC Einheit Dresden ) 500 m: 1000 m: 5th place
  • Andrea Beautiful (SC Einheit Dresden ) 1000 m: 1500 m: 3000 m:
  • Karin Enke (SC Einheit Dresden ) 500 m: 1000 m: 1500 m: 3000 m:
  • Gabi Schonbrunn (SC Karl- Marx-Stadt ) 1500 m: 4th place 3000 m:
  • Skadi Walter ( SC Einheit Dresden ) 500 m: 5th place

Gentlemen:

  • Uwe -Jens Mey (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 8th place 1000 m: 25th place
  • Andreas Dietel (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 20th Place 1000 m: 7th place 1500 m: 6th place 10000 m: 32nd
  • René Schöfisch (TSC Berlin) 5000 m: 10000 m:
  • Andreas Ehrig (TSC Berlin) 1500 m: 5th place 5000 m: 4th place 10000 m: 11th place
  • André Hoffmann ( SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 11th place 1000 m: 5th place 1500 m: 11th place

Toboggan

The sledders inner celebrated a triple success. In the men's Michael Walter missed a medal just barely, in the doubles came even added a bronze medal.

Women:

Gentlemen:

  • Michael Walter ( SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 4th place
  • Torsten Görlitz (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 5th Place
  • Norbert Loch (ASK forward Oberhof ) 13th Place

Two-seater

  • Detlef Bertz / Hans -Joachim amount (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 15th Place
  • Jörg Hoffmann / Jochen Pietzsch (ASK forward Oberhof )

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

The newly formed women's team, in which only Carola Anding had been to Lake Placid this, could not build on the successes of 1980. Only an eighth place about 5 km by Ute Noack designed the otherwise dull record of cross-country skiers somewhat friendlier. In the men's Uwe Bellmann was able to convince the individual rankings seven and ten, for the season, however, it was enough just to ninth place.

Women:

  • Carola Anding (ASK forward Oberhof ) 4x5 km relay; 8th Place 5 km; 21 Place 20 km; 30th place 10 km; 24th Place
  • Ute Noack (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 4x5 km relay; 8th Place 5 km; 8th Place 20 km; 18th Place 10 km; 15th Place
  • Petra Rohrmann (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) 4x5 km relay; 8th Place 5 km; 18th Place 20 km; 20th Place 10 km; 17th Place
  • Petra Voge (ASK forward Oberhof ) 4x5 km relay; 8 space 5 km; 36th

Gentlemen:

  • Karsten Brandt ( SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km; 41st 30 km; 30th place 4x10 km relay; 9th place
  • Uwe Bellmann (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 15 km; 7th place 30 km; 10th Place 50 km; given up 4x10 km relay; 9th place
  • Frank Schröder ( SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km; 26th place 30 km; 43rd 4x10 km relay; 9th place
  • Uwe Wünsch (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 15 km; 23th Place 30 km; 25th place 50 km; 43rd 4x10 km relay; 9th place

Ski Jumping

1984 was the year of Jens Weißflog. Around the turn of the year 1983/84 he had already won the Four Hills Tournament. Together with Matti Nykänen he determined the competitions, won on the normal hill, while on the large hill he let Nykänen precedence. In the shadow of Weißflog were particularly impressed by Stefan Stannarius, the past scraped on the normal hill just short of the bronze medal.

  • Matthias Buse (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Large hill; 21 Place
  • Holger Friday ( SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Normal hill; 35th place
  • Klaus Ostwald ( SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Normal hill; 13th Place Large hill; 26th place
  • Stefan Stannarius (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) Normal hill; 4th place Large hill; 9th place
  • Jens Weißflog (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) Normal hill; Large hill;

Nordic Combined

After jumping was especially Gunter Schmieder in fourth place in a good position, with Uwe Dotzauer was positioned more promising with twelfth place. While Dotzauer, rising to a good seventh place, Schmieder coincided with the fifth worst run time back in 15th place.

  • Uwe Dotzauer (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Single ( normal hill 90 m / 15 km): 7th place

Statistics

Medals by sport

20 of 24 medals were won by athletes runners. The two ski jumping medals were the last Olympic medals for East Germany in the classic Nordic ski disciplines.

Medals by sport clubs

Due mostly to the highly successful bobsledder who all came from Oberhof, which ASK medal richest sports club was. Compared to just five Olympians, the SC Einheit Dresden was the most successful. Four times gold and silver were brought to the Elbe.

Participants by sports clubs

The ASk Oberhof presented a good third of the Olympian, with about 12 bobsledder mitreisten. The remaining participants came from eight other sports clubs.

Weblink

  • Olympic team of the GDR in 1984 in the database of Sports- Reference.com (English)

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