1988 East German Athletics Championships

1988 East German Athletics Championships
1988 East German Athletics Championships
	Sprinter Sven Matthes (right) winning the men's 100 metres
Dates	24–26 June 1988
Host city	Rostock, East Germany
Venue	Ostseestadion
	← 1987 1989 →

The 1988 East German Athletics Championships (German: DDR-Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften 1988) was the 39th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for East Germany. It was held on 24–26 June at the Ostseestadion in Rostock. It served as the selection meeting for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

At the competition, Sven Matthes set a new European junior record of 10.18 in the men's 100 metres qualifying, Anke Schäning set a world junior record of 32:44.52 minutes in the women's 10,000 metres, and Beate Anders broke the senior German record in the women's 5000 metres race walk with 21:35.28 minutes.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Sven Matthes SC Dynamo Berlin	10.19 s	Steffen Bringmann SC DHfK Leipzig	10.21 s	Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg	10.26 s
200 metres	Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg	20.37 s	Olaf Prenzler SC Magdeburg	20.73 s	Torsten Heimrath SC Traktor Schwerin	20.89 s
400 metres	Thomas Schönlebe SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	45.56 s	Mathias Schersing SC Chemie Halle	46.15 s	Jens Carlowitz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	46.20 s
800 metres	Ralf Schumann SC Traktor Schwerin	1:47.38 min	Jürgen Herms SC Einheit Dresden	1:47.99 min	Jens Behmer SC Neubrandenburg	1:48.21 min
1500 metres	Jens-Peter Herold ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	3:46.62 min	Andreas Busse SC Einheit Dresden	3:47.29 min	Ivo Schutte SC Cottbus	3:47.51 min
5000 metres	Axel Krippschock SC Dynamo Berlin	13:48.63 min	Werner Schildhauer SC Chemie Halle	13:48.87 min	Olaf Dorow SC Empor Rostock	13:49.49 min
10,000 metres	Hansjörg Kunze SC Empor Rostock	27:55.85 min	Axel Krippschock SC Dynamo Berlin	28:03.51 min	Rainer Wachenbrunner SC Dynamo Berlin	28:19.94 min
Marathon	Rainer Wachenbrunner SC Dynamo Berlin	2:17:19.6	Roland Günther SC Magdeburg	2:21:46.7	Enrico Rösner BSG Motor Ammendorf	2:27:18.2
110 m hurdles	Holger Pohland SC DHfK Leipzig	13.67 s	Andreas Oschkenat SC Dynamo Berlin	13.70 s	Jörg Rölz SC Neubrandenburg	14.18 s
400 m hurdles	Uwe Ackermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	50.15 s	Hans-Joachim Ende SC Magdeburg	50.68 s	Volker Thiel SC Motor Jena	51.74 s
3000 m s'chase	Hagen Melzer SC Einheit Dresden	8:19.22 min	Frank Ruhkieck SC Traktor Schwerin	8:32.51 min	Uwe Pflügner SC Turbine Erfurt	8:39.18 min
4 × 100 m relay	SC Motor Jena Jörg Treffer Jens Heinrich Gerd Umlauft Heiko Truppel	40.09 s	SC Dynamo Berlin Lars Olbrich Sven Matthes Svend Maly Andreas Oschkenat	40.12 s	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Arne Rinckleb Axel Jang Jens Carlowitz Thomas Schönlebe	40.17 s
4 × 400 m relay	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Rico Lieder Uwe Ackermann Jens Carlowitz Thomas Schönlebe	3:06.38 min	ASK Vorwärts Potsdam Ralph Walter Lukas Guido Lieske Thomas Miethig	3:09.13 min	SC Turbine Erfurt Michael Gerlach Andreas Tschida Hauke Fuhlbrügge Matthias Schober	3:12.22 min
20 km walk	Ronald Weigel ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	1:20:57	Bernd Gummelt ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	1:21:45	Dietmar Meisch TSC Berlin	1:22:15
50 km walk	Ronald Weigel ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	3:42:33	Dietmar Meisch TSC Berlin	3:46:55	Bernd Gummelt ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	4:00:10
High jump	Gerd Wessig SC Traktor Schwerin	2.26 m	Thorsten Marschner SC Einheit Dresden	2.14 m	Carsten Siebert SC Cottbus	2.14 m
Pole vault	Uwe Langhammer SC Motor Jena	5.60 m	Christoph Pietz SC Dynamo Berlin	5.40 m	Enrico Mann SC Cottbus	5.40 m
Long jump	Ron Beer SC Dynamo Berlin	7.92 m	Jörg Pohl SC Empor Rostock	7.81 m	Andre Reichelt SC Einheit Dresden	7.80 m
Triple jump	Volker Mai SC Neubrandenburg	16.80 m	Dirk Gamlin SC Traktor Schwerin	16.66 m	Thomas Rex SC Turbine Erfurt	16.24 m
Shot put	Ulf Timmermann TSC Berlin	21.88 m	Udo Beyer ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	20.92 m	Klaus Görmer SC DHfK Leipzig	19.50 m
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult SC Traktor Schwerin	66.92 m	Andreas Becker SC Empor Rostock	62.60 m	Lutz Friedrich SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	60.96 m
Hammer throw	Ralf Haber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	80.30 m	Günther Rodehau SC Einheit Dresden	79.04 m	Jörn Hübner SC Cottbus	74.38 m
Javelin throw	Silvio Warsönke SC Cottbus	82.64 m	Gerald Weiß SC Traktor Schwerin	81.92 m	Steffen Kauerauf SC DHfK Leipzig	76.64 m
Decathlon	Uwe Freimuth ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	8290 pts	Thomas Fahner ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	8276 pts	Christian Schenk SC Empor Rostock	8225 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marlies Göhr SC Motor Jena	11.07 s	Silke Möller SC Empor Rostock	11.07 s	Ingrid Lange SC Motor Jena	11.39 s
200 metres	Heike Drechsler SC Motor Jena	21.84 s	Silke Möller SC Empor Rostock	22.30 s	Heike Morgenstern ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	22.81 s
400 metres	Petra Müller SC Chemie Halle	50.26 s	Kirsten Emmelmann SC Magdeburg	50.99 s	Dagmar Neubauer SC Turbine Erfurt	51.20 s
800 metres	Christine Wachtel SC Neubrandenburg	1:58.29 min	Sigrun Wodars SC Neubrandenburg	1:58.65 min	Martina Steuk TSC Berlin	1:59.95 min
1500 metres	Birgit Barth SC Dynamo Berlin	4:09.33 min	Andrea Hahmann ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	4:09.77 min	Ellen Kiessling SC Einheit Dresden	4:09.93 min
3000 metres	Kathrin Ullrich SC Dynamo Berlin	8:48.80 min	Ellen Kiessling SC Einheit Dresden	9:05.87 min	Gabriele Meinel SC Cottbus	9:07.13 min
10,000 metres	Kathrin Ullrich SC Dynamo Berlin	31:26.79 min	Anke Schäning SC Empor Rostock	32:44.52 min WJR	Birgit Jerschabek SC Traktor Schwerin	33:29.33 min
Marathon	Andrea Fleischer SC Motor Jena	2:49:50.1	Kristina Garlipp SC Motor Jena	2:52:00.1	Kerstin Herzberg SC Motor Jena	2:53:34.5
100 m hurdles	Cornelia Oschkenat SC Dynamo Berlin	12.52 s	Kerstin Knabe SC DHfK Leipzig	12.80 s	Kristin Patzwahl SC DHfK Leipzig	12.95 s
400 m hurdles	Sabine Busch SC Turbine Erfurt	54.11 s	Ellen Fiedler SC Dynamo Berlin	54.74 s	Susanne Losch SC Turbine Erfurt	54.89 s
4 × 100 m relay	SC Motor Jena Karina Knuhr Sabine Günther Ingrid Lange Marlies Göhr	43.40 s	SC Magdeburg Annette Kersten Manuela Braun Diana Dietz Heike Theele	44.04 s	SC Neubrandenburg Doreen Fahrendorff Katrin Krabbe Manuela Derr Grit Breuer	44.12 s
4 × 400 m relay	SC Turbine Erfurt Katrin Schreiter Dagmar Neubauer Daniela Steinecke Susanne Losch	3:29.12 min	SC Magdeburg Stefanie Fabert Cornelia Ullrich Heike Tillack Kati Bohmeier	3:38.99 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Constanze Taube Andrea Dittner Beate Kuhls Ulrike Schmiedel	3:49.06 min
5000 m walk	Beate Anders TSC Berlin	21:35.28 min NR	Dagmar Grimmenstein SC Turbine Erfurt	22:58.61 min	Simone Thust SC DHfK Leipzig	23:05 min
10 km walk	Beate Anders TSC Berlin	46:28 min	Claudia Barthel BSG Lokomotive Magdeburg	58:35 min	Antje Kahr BSG Lokomotive Wittenberge	1:00:33
High jump	Gabriele Günz SC DHfK Leipzig	1.91 m	Susanne Beyer SC Dynamo Berlin	1.91 m	Kerstin Brandt SC Empor Rostock	1.91 m
Long jump	Heike Drechsler SC Motor Jena	7.20 m	Heike Grabe SC Magdeburg	6.50 m	Gaby Ehlert SC DHfK Leipzig	6.49 m
Shot put	Kathrin Neimke SC Magdeburg	21.06 m	Ines Müller SC Empor Rostock	20.96 m	Heike Hartwig SC Dynamo Berlin	20.62 m
Discus throw	Diana Gansky ASK Vorwärts Potsdam	72.54 m	Gabriele Reinsch SC Cottbus	71.88 m	Silvia Madetzky SC Chemie Halle	67.00 m
Javelin throw	Petra Felke SC Motor Jena	73.86 m	Silke Renk SC Chemie Halle	71.00 m	Beate Koch SC Motor Jena	68.32 m
Heptathlon	Heike Tischler SC Motor Jena	6404 pts	Ines Schulz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	6396 pts	Birgit Gautzsch SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	6146 pts

References

Leichtathletik Historie (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
Manfred Seifert (1988), Sport88. Ein Jahrbuch des DDR-Sport (in German), Berlin: Sportverlag Berlin, pp. 222–224, ISSN 0232-203X
Neues Deutschland (in German), Berlin: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, 1988, ISSN 0323-3375
Der Leichtathlet (in German), Berlin: Deutscher Verband für Leichtathletik der DDR, 1988, ISSN 0323-4134

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