Germany at the 1964 Winter Olympics

The all-German team, last time consisting of sportsmen and women from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in the Olympic Winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck with a delegation of 96 athletes (73 men and 23 women ) participated and finished in sixth place in the medal table. The combiner Georg Thoma was selected as flag bearer for the opening ceremony. To the starting places in the all-German team found qualification fighting took place between the East and West German athletes. These were usually highly competitive. Finally took 40 athletes from nine DDR power centers and 56 sports clubs from the BRD part. The Luge Olympic champion Ortrun Enderlein was used as a flag bearer during the closing ceremony.

Participants by sport

Biathlon

In the only decision only athletes came out of the DDR power centers Cínovec and Oberhof at the start. On the outcome of the race they had no control.

Gentlemen:

  • Hans -Dieter Riechel (SG Dynamo Cínovec ) Single (20 km): 21 Place
  • Egon Schnabel ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 24th Place
  • Helmut Klöpsch (SG Dynamo Cínovec ) Single (20 km): 31 Place
  • Dieter Ritter (SG Dynamo Cínovec ) Single (20 km): 33 Place

Bob

The coming of Riessersee and Ohlstadt Bob had nothing to do with the awarding of medals.

Bobsled

  • Franz clamp, Ludwig Siebert, Joseph Sterff, Otto Göbl ( I GER ) ( SV Ohlstadt ) 5th Place
  • Franz Woermann, Anton Wackerle, Rupert grass Egger, Hubert Brown (GER II) 9th place

Two-

  • Franz Woermann, Hubert Brown (GER I) ( SC Riessersee ) 6th place
  • Hans Maurer, Rupert grass Egger (GER II) ( SC Riessersee ) 14th Place

Hockey

In the pre-Olympic qualification within Germany it went to extremely scarce. While both team parted in Fussen draw 4:4, the GDR selection had to be almost beaten with 3:4 front of his home crowd in Berlin. This represented the FRG - choice Germany in Innsbruck. The team qualified for the final round and finished in the final under 16 participating teams in seventh place.

  • Paul Ambros (EV Füssen)
  • Bernd Herzig (SC Nuremberg)
  • Michael Hobelsberger (SC Riessersee )
  • Ernst Kopf senior
  • Albert Loibl ( EC Bad Tolz )
  • Sepp Reif
  • Otto Snow Berger
  • Georg Scholz (EV Füssen)
  • Siegfried Schubert ( EV Füssen)
  • Dieter pool (EV Füssen)
  • Ernst Trautwein (EV Füssen)
  • Leonhard Waitl
  • Helmut Zanghellini (EV Füssen)
  • Kurt Sepp
  • Ulli Jansen ( Krefeld )
  • Horst Franz Schuldes (SC Riessersee )
  • Sylvester Wackerle (SC Riessersee )

Figure skating

Both states were represented with their six athletes, but medals were only to West Germany.

Women:

  • Manfred Schnelldorfer (ERC Munich)
  • Ralph Borghard (SC Dynamo Berlin) 11th Place
  • Sepp Schönmetzler ( EC Oberstdorf) 12th Place

Couples:

  • Marika Kilius / Hans -Jürgen Baumler (SC Riessersee )
  • Brigitte Woköck / Heinz- Ulrich Walther (SC Dynamo Berlin) 11th Place
  • Margit mustard / Peter Göbel (SC Unit Berlin ) 13th Place

Speed ​​Skating

In the women's runners came around the Olympic champion from 1960, Helga Haase, exclusively from the DDR power centers TSC and Dynamo Berlin. Haase alone could keep up on their competition courses with the world's best, but it was not enough for a medal again. In the men whose starters from Inzell, Schweinfurt and Berlin came the Inzeller Gerd Zimmermann succeeded over 10,000 m a remarkable seventh place.

Women:

  • Helga Haase (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 8th place 1000 m: 4th place 1500 m: 5th place
  • Brigitte Reichert (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 21 Place 1000 m: 25th place
  • Sigrit Behrenz (TSC Berlin) 500 m: 25th place
  • Erika Heinicke (TSC Berlin) 1000 m: 23 Place 1500 m: 28th place 3000 m: 28th place
  • Inge Lieckfeldt (SC Dynamo Berlin) 1500 m: 21 Place 3000 m: 21 Place
  • Rita Blankenburg (TSC Berlin)

Gentlemen

  • Helmut Kuhnert (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m; 16th Place
  • Herbert Höfl (DEC Frillensee ) 500 m: 24th Place 1500 m: 26th place
  • Günther Tilch (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 24th Place
  • Günter Traub (DEC Frillensee ) 500 m: 33 Place 1500 m: 17th Place 5000 m: 11th place 10,000 m: 19th Place
  • Gerhard Zimmermann ( DEC Frillensee ) 1500 m: 29th place 5000 m: 13th Place 10,000 m: 7th place
  • Jürgen Schmidt (TSC Berlin) 1500 m: 39th place 5000 m: 39th place
  • Juergen Traub (ERV Schweinfurt ) 10,000 m: 21 Place

Toboggan

With the Olympic debut of the luge the German athletes won five of nine to be awarded medals, four of which were won by athletes of the GDR's power center SC tractor Oberwiesenthal. In the women won, somewhat surprisingly, the hitherto unknown Ortrun Enderlein before their club -mate and World Champion from 1963, Ilse Geisler. In the men came to the triple success, the fourth starter, and one of the favorites in the men's senior team, Fritz Nachman, already in the first run crashed. In the doubles, the carriage Germany came I a on the thankless fourth place, while the other, already decorated medal, Duo Köhler / Bonsack crashed.

Women:

  • Ortrun Enderlein (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal )
  • Ilse Geisler (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal )
  • Minna Blüml (RSC Schliersee ) 10th Place

Gentlemen:

  • Thomas Köhler ( SC tractor Oberwiesenthal )
  • Klaus -Michael Bonsack (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal )
  • Hans Plenk (RC Berchtesgaden )
  • Fritz Nachman (RC Rottach -Egern ) excreted

Two-seater

  • Walter Eggert / Helmut Vollprecht (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 4th place
  • Klaus -Michael Bonsack / Thomas Köhler ( SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) excreted

Alpine Skiing

The pure West German women's team to the Olympic gold medalist from 1960, Heidi Biebl, could not build on the successes of Squaw Valley. However Biebl took fourth place in two competitions. As 1960 was the men's team, consisting of four West German and East German athletes two, again take a medal, this time bronze.

  • Heidi Biebl (SC Oberstaufen ) Departure: 4th place Giant Slalom: excreted Slalom: 4th place
  • Barbara Henneberger (TAK Munich) Departure: 5th place Giant Slalom: 7th place Slalom: 10th place
  • Burgl Färbinger (SC Schellenberg ) Departure: 12th Place Giant Slalom: 18th Place Slalom: excreted
  • Heidi Mittermaierstrasse (WSV Reit im Winkl ) Departure: 23th Place Giant Slalom: 22 Place Slalom: 10th place
  • Eberhard Riedel (Dynamo Johann George Town ) Giant Slalom: 15th Place Slalom: 8th Place
  • Wolfgang Bartels (SK Ramsau ) Departure: Giant Slalom: excreted Slalom: 9th place
  • Ludwig Leitner ( SC Kleinwalsertal ) Departure: 5th place Giant Slalom: 8th Place Slalom: 5th place
  • Willy Bogner ( MSV Munich) Departure: 9th place Giant Slalom: excreted
  • Fritz Wagner Berger ( ESV Traunstein ) Departure: 12th Place
  • Ernst Scherzer (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) Slalom: 13th Place

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

From the 13-member cross-country skiing team of seven athletes from East, six from West Germany came. In the individual decisions could draw attention to themselves only Walter Demel over 30 km with tenth place. He was so on this route best Central Europeans. In the season decisions, the ladies came a good fourth place, the men finished seventh.

Women:

  • Rita Czech - Blasl (SC Freiburg) 5 km: 12th Place 10 km: 15th Place 3x5 km relay: 4th place
  • Renate Dannhauer - Borges ( SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) 5 km: 15th Place 10 km: 14th Place 3x5 km relay: 4th place
  • Christine Nestler (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 5 km: 17th Place 10 km: 13th Place 3 x 5 km relay: 4th place
  • Elfriede Spiegelhauer (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 5 km: 19th Place 10 km: 14th Place

Gentlemen:

  • Walter Demel (SC Zwiesel ) 15 km: 22 Place 30 km: 10th place 4 × 10 km relay: 7th place
  • Enno Röder (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km: 24th Place 4 × 10 km relay: 7th place
  • Helmut Weidlich (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km: 36th place 4 × 10 km relay: 7th place
  • Karl Buhl (SC Sonthofen ) 15 km: 44th 4 × 10 km relay: 7th place
  • Heinz Seidel (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 30 km: 29th place
  • Rudolf Dannhauer (ASK forward Oberhof ) 30 km: 32nd 50 km: excreted
  • Siegfried and White ( SC Brend ) 50 km: 24th Place
  • Herbert wolffish (SC Ruhpolding ) 50 km: 30th place

Ski Jumping

With the Triple Four Hills Tournament winner and Olympic champion from 1960, Helmut Recknagel and Max Bolkart, also Four Hills Tournament winner, arrived, leapt at the end for the team jump out a medal. Dieter Neuendorf was after the first passage on the normal hill still on the bronze medal, but slipped to fifth place. Even on the large hill were German Springer meantime promising places, but it was only enough for fourth place, the Dieter Bokeloh occupied.

  • Dieter Neuendorf (ASK forward Oberhof ) Normal hill; 5th Place Large hill; 8th Place
  • Helmut Recknagel (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) Normal hill; 6th place Large hill; 7th place
  • Karl -Heinz Munk (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) Normal hill; 9th place Large hill; 21 Place
  • Max Bolkart (SC Oberstdorf) Normal hill; 37th place
  • Dieter Bokeloh (ASK forward Oberhof ) Large hill; 4th place

Nordic Combined

After jumping it looked after the repetition of the Olympic victory of 1960 in Squaw Valley for Georg Thoma from. The Hinterzarten was ranked one. Place four of Roland Weißpflog and sixth place by Rainer Dietel rounded out the good bounce result. In the long run, however, deteriorated until Horst Möhwald, the fourth starter, all German athletes and Georg Thoma was only the bronze medal.

  • Georg Thoma (SC Hinterzarten ) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km):
  • Roland Weißpflog (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km): 16th Place
  • Rainer Dietel (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km ): 9th place
  • Horst Möhwald (SC Spitzingersee ) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km): 17th Place
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