West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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West Germany at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Flag of Germany.svg
Flag of Germany
IOC codeFRG
NOCGerman Olympic Sports Confederation
Websitewww.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Los Angeles
Competitors390 (267 men, 123 women) in 25 sports
Flag bearer Wilhelm Kuhweide (sailing)
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
17
Silver
19
Bronze
23
Total
59
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Germany (1896–1936, 1952, 1992–)
 Saar (1952)
 United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. West Germany had joined the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics four years previously. 390 competitors, 267 men and 123 women, took part in 194 events in 25 sports.[1]

Medalists[]

Gold[]

  • Dietmar M��genburg — Athletics, Men's High Jump
  • Rolf Danneberg — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
  • Ulrike Meyfarth — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Claudia Losch — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Ulrich Eicke — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000m Canadian Singles
  • Fredy Schmidtke — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial
  • Reiner Klimke — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
  • Reiner Klimke, Herbert Krug, and Uwe Sauer — Equestrian, Dressage Team
  • Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Gerhard Heer, Rafael Nickel, and Alexander Pusch — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
  • Sabine Bischoff, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Cornelia Hanisch, Christiane Weber, and Ute Wessel-Kirchels — Fencing, Women's Foil Team
  • Frank Wieneke — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
  • Michael Dürsch, Albert Hedderich, Raimund Hörmann, and Dieter Wiedenmann — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls
  • Michael Groß — Swimming, Men's 200m Freestyle
  • Michael Groß — Swimming, Men's 100m Butterfly
  • Karl-Heinz Radschinsky — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)
  • Rolf Milser — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
  • Pasquale Passarelli — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Silver[]

Bronze[]

Archery[]

Main article: Archery at the 1984 Summer Olympics

All five of the German archers posted solid scores in the nation's third Olympic archery competition, with none placing lower than 15th.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Manuela Dachner — 2508 points (→ 6th place)
  • Doris Haas — 2480 points (→ 11th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Athletics[]

Main article: Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Competition

Men's 400 metres

  • Erwin Skamrahl
  • Heat — 45.94
  • Quarterfinals — 46.39 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5,000 metres

  • Heat — 13:46.35
  • Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 13:48.66
  • Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Qualifying Heat — 28:30.28
  • Final — 28:08.21 (→ 5th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Final — 2:15:29 (→ 18th place)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualification — 2.24 m
  • Final — 2.35 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 2.24 m
  • Final — 2.15 m (→ 10th place)
  • Gerd Nagel
  • Qualification — 2.18 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

  • Final — 16.77 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Wolfram Gambke
  • Qualification — 82.98 m
  • Final — 82.46 m (→ 4th place)
  • Klaus Tafelmeier
  • Qualification — 73.52 m (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's Shot Put

  • Karsten Stolz
  • Qualifying Round — 18.98 m
  • Final — 18.31 m (→ 12th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Final — 66.60 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Final — 64.72 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Karl-Hans Riehm
  • Qualification — 75.50 m
  • Final — 77.98 m (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Klaus Ploghaus
  • Qualification — 74.68m
  • Final — 76.68 m (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Christoph Sahner
  • Qualification — 72.88 m
  • Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

  • Final Result — 8673 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Siegfried Wentz
  • Final Result — 8412 points (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Guido Kratschmer
  • Final Result — 8326 points (→ 4th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Final — did not start (→ no ranking)
Women's Competition

Women's 1,000 metres

  • Heat — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 1,500 metres

  • Heat — 4:10.64
  • Final — 4:04.41 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat — did not start (→ no ranking)

Women's 3,000 metres

  • Heat — 8:57.53
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

  • Final — 2:35:56 (→ 16th place)

Women's High Jump

  • Ulrike Meyfarth
  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 2.02m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)
  • Heike Redetzky
  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)
  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 56.20m
  • Final — 58.56m (→ 6th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 60.86m
  • Final — 63.26m (→ 6th place)
  • Qualification — 61.56m
  • Final — 62.34m (→ 7th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Claudia Losch
  • Final — 20.48 m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result — 6363 points (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)
  • Sabine Braun
  • Final Result — 6236 points (→ 6th place)
  • Birgit Dressel
  • Final Result — 6082 points (→ 9th place)

Basketball[]

Main article: Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (83-96)
  • Lost to Italy (72-80)
  • Lost to Australia (66-66)
  • Defeated Egypt (85-58)
  • Defeated Brazil (78-75)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Lost to United States (67-78)
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to Italy (71-98)
  • 7th/8th place: Lost to Australia (76-83) → 8th place
  • Team Roster

Boxing[]

Main article: Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

  • Stefan Gertel
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Lost to Louis Gomis (France), retired in the second round

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

  • Alexander Künzler
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Mohamed Ali Aldahan (Syria), 5:0
    3. Third Round — Defeated Kamel Abboud (Algeria), 4:1
    4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Luciano Bruno (Italy), 0:5

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Manfred Zielonka → Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Ambrose Mlilo (Zimbabwe), 4:1
    3. Third Round — Defeated Gustavo Ollo (Argentina), 5:0
    4. Quarterfinals — Defeated Gnohery Sery (Ivory Coast), 5:0
    5. Semifinals — Lost to Frank Tate (United States), walk-over

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

  • Markus Bott
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Lost to Anton Josipović (Yugoslavia), 1:4

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

  • Peter Hussing
    1. First Round — Defeated Olaf Mayer (Austria), 5:0
    2. Quarterfinals — Lost to Aziz Salihu (Yugoslavia), 2:3

Canoeing[]

Main article: Canoeing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cycling[]

Main article: Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Twenty cyclists, sixteen men and four women, represented West Germany in 1984.

Men's individual road race
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
  • Fredy Schmidtke
Individual pursuit
Team pursuit
Points race
  • Final — 16 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final — 3 points (→ 19th place)
Women's individual road race

Diving[]

Main article: Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Albin Killat
  • Preliminary Round — 549.39
  • Final — 569.52 (→ 7th place)
  • Preliminary Round — 533.61
  • Final — 549.33 (→ 10th place)

Equestrianism[]

Main article: Equestrian at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Fencing[]

Main article: Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented West Germany in 1984.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
  • Cornelia Hanisch
  • Sabine Bischoff
  • Christiane Weber
Women's team foil
  • Christiane Weber, Cornelia Hanisch, Sabine Bischoff, Ute Kircheis-Wessel, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser

Football[]

Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • West Germany – Morocco 2 – 0
  • West Germany – Brazil 0 – 1
  • West Germany – Saudi Arabia 4 – 0
  • Quarter Finals
  • West Germany – Yugoslavia 2 – 5
  • Team Roster:

Gymnastics[]

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Handball[]

Main article: Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Team Competition
  • Team Roster
  • Jochen Fraatz
  • Thomas Happe
  • Arnulf Meffle
  • Rüdiger Neitzel
  • Michael Paul
  • Dirk Rauin
  • Siegfried Roch
  • Michael Roth
  • Ulrich Roth
  • Martin Schwalb
  • Uwe Schwenker
  • Thomas Springel
  • Andreas Thiel
  • Klaus Wöller
  • Erhard Wunderlich
Women's Team Competition
  • Team Roster
  • Maike Becker
  • Elke Blumauer
  • Sabine Erbs
  • Astrid Huhn
  • Kerstin Jonsson
  • Sabrina Koschella
  • Corinna Kunze
  • Roswitha Mroczynski
  • Petra Platen
  • Vanadis Putzke
  • Silvia Schmitt
  • Dagmar Stelberg
  • Claudia Sturm

Hockey[]

Main article: Field hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Spain (3-1)
  • Defeated United States (4-0)
  • Lost to Australia (0-3)
  • Defeated Malaysia (5-0)
  • Drew with India (0-0)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated Great Britain (1-0)
  • Final
  • Lost to Pakistan (1-2) after extra time → Silver Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
Women's Team Competition
  • Round Robin
  • Drew with Australia (2-2)
  • Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • Lost to The Netherlands (2-6)
  • Defeated New Zealand (1-0)
  • Drew with United States (1-1) → Silver Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

Judo[]

Main article: Judo at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon[]

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Three male modern pentathletes represented West Germany in 1984.

Individual
Team
  • Achim Bellmann
  • Michael Rehbein
  • Christian Sandow

Rhythmic gymnastics[]

Main article: Rhythmic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Rowing[]

Main article: Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Sailing[]

Main article: Sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Shooting[]

Main article: Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Swimming[]

Main article: Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Competition

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Heat — 51.02
  • Final — 50.93 (→ 8th place)
  • Heat — 51.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Heat — 1:48.03
  • Final — 1:47.44 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat — 1:50.00
  • Final — 1:49.69 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 400m Freestyle

  • Stefan Pfeiffer
  • Heat — 3:53.41
  • Final — 3:52.91 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat — 3:55.26
  • B-Final — 3:50.91 (→ 9th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

  • Stefan Pfeiffer
  • Heat — 15:21.95
  • Final — 15:12.77 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Rainer Henkel
  • Heat — 15:23.60
  • Final — 15:20.03 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

  • Stefan Peter
  • Heat — 57.90
  • B-Final — 58.30 (→ 11th place)
  • Heat — 58.19
  • B-Final — 58.56 (→ 15th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

  • Heat — 2:04.45
  • Final — 2:03.95 (→ 6th place)
  • Stefan Peter
  • Heat — 2:05.22
  • B-Final — 2:05.66 (→ 13th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

  • Heat — 1:03.53
  • Final — 1:03.95 (→ 7th place)
  • Peter Lang
  • Heat — 1:04.40
  • B-Final — 1:04.43 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

  • Heat — 2:22.99 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
  • Peter Lang
  • Heat — 2:24.60 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

  • Heat — 54.02
  • Final — 53.08 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Andreas Behrend
  • Heat — 55.22
  • Final — 54.95 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

  • Heat — 1:58.72
  • Final — 1:57.40 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Andreas Behrend
  • Heat — 2:06.06 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 2:06.07
  • Final — 2:05.88 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 2:06.41
  • Final — 2:06.66 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 4:28.10
  • B-Final — 4:28.94 (→ 12th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:24.69
  • Final — 3:22.98 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:25.29
  • Final — 7:15.73 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 3:49.75
  • Final — 3:44.26 (→ 4th place)
Women's Competition

Women's 100m Freestyle

  • Heat — 56.85
  • Final — 56.90 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 57.31
  • B-Final — 57.19 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

  • Heat — 2:02.42
  • Final — 2:01.89 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 2:03.95
  • B-Final — 2:03.42 (→ 10th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

  • Birgit Kowalczik
  • Heat — 4:17.92
  • Final — 4:16.33 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 4:18.94
  • B-Final — scratched (→ 17th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

  • Birgit Kowalczik
  • Heat — 8:53.34 (→ did not advance, 11th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 3:46.49
  • Final — 3:45.56 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat — 4:13.58
  • Final — 4:11.97 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Women's 100m Backstroke

  • Heat — 1:04.02
  • Final — 1:03.46 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 1:05.27 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

  • Heat — 2:15.69
  • Final — 2:15.93 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 2:19.59
  • B-Final — 2:16.93 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

  • Heat — 2:13.26
  • Final — 2:11.91 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 2:15.20
  • B-Final — 2:16.50 (→ 14th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 2:19.17
  • Final — 2:17.82 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat — 2:20.05
  • Final — 2:19.86 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

  • Heat — 4:52.49
  • Final — 4:48.57 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Synchronized swimming[]

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Volleyball[]

Main article: Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Women's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Lost to United States (0-3)
  • Lost to China (0-3)
  • Defeated Brazil (3-0)
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to South Korea (0-3) → Sixth place
  • Team Roster

Water polo[]

Main article: Water polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Australia (10-6)
  • Defeated Japan (15-8)
  • Defeated Italy (10-4)
  • Final Round (Group D)
  • Drew with Spain (8-8)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (9-10)
  • Lost to United States (7-8)
  • Defeated Netherlands (15-2) → Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Wrestling[]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

References[]

  1. ^ "West Germany at the 1984 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
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