East Germany at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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East Germany at the
1984 Winter Olympics
Flag of East Germany.svg
IOC codeGDR
NOCNational Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Sarajevo
Competitors56 (40 men, 16 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer Frank Ullrich (biathlon)
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
9
Silver
9
Bronze
6
Total
24
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 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Medalists[]

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Wolfgang Hoppe
Dietmar Schauerhammer		 Bobsleigh Two-man
 Gold Wolfgang Hoppe
Roland Wetzig
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Andreas Kirchner		 Bobsleigh Four-man
 Gold Katarina Witt Figure skating Women's singles
 Gold Steffi Walter-Martin Luge Women's individual
 Gold Jens Weißflog Ski jumping Men's normal hill
 Gold Christa Luding-Rothenburger Speed skating Women's 500m
 Gold Karin Kania-Enke Speed skating Women's 1000m
 Gold Karin Kania-Enke Speed skating Women's 1500m
 Gold Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 3000m
 Silver Frank-Peter Roetsch Biathlon Men's 20 km
 Silver Bernhard Lehmann
Bogdan Musiol		 Bobsleigh Two-man
 Silver Bernhard Lehmann
Bogdan Musiol
Ingo Voge
Eberhard Weise		 Bobsleigh Four-man
 Silver Bettina Schmidt Luge Women's individual
 Silver Jens Weißflog Ski jumping Men's large hill
 Silver Karin Kania-Enke Speed skating Women's 500m
 Silver Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 1000m
 Silver Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich Speed skating Women's 1500m
 Silver Karin Kania-Enke Speed skating Women's 3000m
 Bronze Matthias Jacob Biathlon Men's 10 km Sprint
 Bronze Jörg Hoffmann
Jochen Pietzsch		 Luge Men's doubles
 Bronze Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß Luge Women's individual
 Bronze René Schöfisch Speed skating Men's 5000m
 Bronze René Schöfisch Speed skating Men's 10,000m
 Bronze Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn Speed skating Women's 3000m

Biathlon[]

Main article: Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Frank Ullrich 3 32:40.2 17
Frank-Peter Roetsch 2 31:49.8 7
Matthias Jacob 0 31:10.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Event Athlete Time Penalties Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Holger Wick 1'12:19.1 9 1'21:19.1 29
Frank Ullrich 1'11:53.7 3 1'14:53.7 5
Frank-Peter Roetsch 1'10:21.4 3 1'13:21.4 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Holger Wick
Frank-Peter Roetsch
Matthias Jacob
Frank Ullrich 		1 1'40:04.7 4
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh[]

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
GDR-1 Bernhard Lehmann
Bogdan Musioł 		Two-man 51.59 3 51.94 3 51.15 2 51.36 4 3:26.04 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
GDR-2 Wolfgang Hoppe
Dietmar Schauerhammer 		Two-man 51.51 1 51.93 2 51.06 1 51.06 1 3:25.56 1st place, gold 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 Wolfgang Hoppe
Roland Wetzig
Dietmar Schauerhammer
Andreas Kirchner 		Four-man 49.65 1 50.18 1 50.18 1 50.21 1 3:20.22 1st place, gold medalist(s)
GDR-2 Bernhard Lehmann
Bogdan Musioł
Ingo Voge
Eberhard Weise 		Four-man 49.69 2 50.33 2 50.32 2 50.44 2 3:20.78 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Cross-country skiing[]

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
15 km Karsten Brandt 45:40.1 41
Frank Schröder 43:52.1 26
Uwe Wünsch 43:49.9 23
Uwe Bellmann 42:35.8 7
30 km Frank Schröder 1'39:01.4 43
Karsten Brandt 1'35:54.8 30
Uwe Wünsch 1'34:13.9 25
Uwe Bellmann 1'31:59.3 10
50 km Uwe Bellmann DNF –
Uwe Wünsch 2'35:48.9 43
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Karsten Brandt
Uwe Wünsch
Frank Schröder
Uwe Bellmann 		2'02:13.9 9
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km Petra Voge 19:16.6 36
Carola Anding 18:17.7 21
Petra Rohrmann 18:09.4 18
Ute Noack 17:46.0 8
10 km Carola Anding 34:33.3 24
Petra Rohrmann 34:00.3 17
Ute Noack 33:37.5 15
20 km Carola Anding 1'07:27.8 30
Petra Rohrmann 1'06:30.0 20
Ute Noack 1'05:43.5 18
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Petra Voge
Petra Rohrmann
Carola Anding
Ute Noack 		1'11:10.7 8

Figure skating[]

Main article: Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Falko Kirsten 15 21 13 30.4 16
Women
Athlete CF SP FS TFP Rank
Katarina Witt 3 1 1 3.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pairs
Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Babette Preußler
Tobias Schröter 		14 11 18.0 11
Birgit Lorenz
Knut Schubert 		5 5 7.5 5
Sabine Baeß
Tassilo Thierbach 		4 4 6.0 4

Luge[]

Main article: Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Norbert Loch 46.784 12 46.886 11 47.214 17 46.830 14 3:07.714 13
Michael Walter 46.196 4 46.305 4 46.358 7 46.172 6 3:05.031 4
Torsten Görlitzer 46.177 2 46.205 1 46.571 10 46.176 7 3:05.129 5

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Jörg Hoffmann
Jochen Pietzsch 		41.996 3 41.891 4 1:23.887 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Hans-Joachim Menge
Detlef Bertz 		46.935 15 47.238 15 1:34.173 15
Women
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß 41.908 3 41.945 3 41.793 3 41.602 2 2:47.248 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Bettina Schmidt 41.662 2 41.929 2 41.636 2 41.646 3 2:46.873 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Steffi Walter-Martin 41.639 1 41.863 1 41.496 1 41.572 1 2:46.570 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Nordic combined[]

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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
Andreas Langer Individual 80.0 81.5 195.1 16 49:52.8 189.880 15 384.980 16
Uwe Dotzauer 81.0 85.0 199.5 12 48:56.8 198.280 7 397.780 7
Gunter Schmieder 86.5 87.0 208.4 4 51:16.3 177.355 24 385.755 15

Ski jumping[]

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Holger Freitag Normal hill 78.0 87.8 77.0 85.7 173.5 35
Stefan Stannarius 84.0 99.4 89.5 111.7 211.1 4
Klaus Ostwald 84.5 100.7 84.0 100.4 201.1 13
Jens Weißflog 90.0 110.5 87.0 104.7 215.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Klaus Ostwald Large hill 98.5 89.6 95.0 82.2 171.8 26
Stefan Stannarius 101.0 95.6 99.5 93.0 188.6 9
Matthias Buse 102.0 97.0 93.0 79.9 176.9 21
Jens Weißflog 107.0 106.0 107.5 107.7 213.7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Speed skating[]

Main article: Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Andreas Dietel 39.45 20
André Hoffmann 38.87 11
Uwe-Jens Mey 38.66 8
1000 m Uwe-Jens Mey 1:19.14 25
Andreas Dietel 1:17.46 7
André Hoffmann 1:16.85 5
1500 m André Hoffmann 2:00.23 11
Andreas Dietel 1:59.73 6
Andreas Ehrig 1:59.41 5
5000 m Andreas Ehrig 7:17.63 4
René Schöfisch 7:17.49 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
10,000 m Andreas Dietel 16:01.89 32
Andreas Ehrig 15:03.76 11
René Schöfisch 14:46.91 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Skadi Walter 42.16 5
Karin Kania-Enke 41.28 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Christa Luding-Rothenburger 41.02 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1000 m Christa Luding-Rothenburger 1:23.98 5
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 1:22.83 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Karin Kania-Enke 1:21.61 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1500 m Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 2:07.69 4
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 2:05.29 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Karin Kania-Enke 2:03.42 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
3000 m Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn 4:33.13 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Karin Kania-Enke 4:26.33 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich 4:24.79 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References[]

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