East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

East Germany at the
1976 Summer Olympics

IOC code| GDR
NOC| National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic
in Montreal
Competitors| 267 (154 men, 113 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer | Hans-Georg Reimann (athletics)
Medals
Ranked 2nd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988

Other related appearances
Germany (1896–1936, 1992–)
United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 267 competitors, 154 men and 113 women, took part in 139 events in 17 sports.[1]

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Waldemar Cierpinski | Athletics | men's marathon
Gold | Udo Beyer | Athletics | men's shot put
Gold | Bärbel Eckert | Athletics | women's 200 m
Gold | Johanna Schaller | Athletics | women's 100 m hurdles
Gold | Marlies Oelsner
Renate Stecher
Carla Bodendorf
Bärbel Eckert | Athletics | women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Gold | Doris Maletzki
Brigitte Rohde
Ellen Streidt
Christina Brehmer | Athletics | women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Gold | Angela Voigt | Athletics | women's long jump
Gold | Rosemarie Ackermann | Athletics | women's high jump
Gold | Evelin Schlaak | Athletics | women's discus throw
Gold | Ruth Fuchs | Athletics | women's javelin throw
Gold | Siegrun Siegl | Athletics | women's pentathlon
Gold | Jochen Bachfeld | Boxing | men's −67 kg
Gold | Rüdiger Helm | Canoeing | men's K-1 1000 m
Gold | Joachim Mattern
Bernd Olbricht | Canoeing | men's K-2 500 m
Gold | Carola Zirzow | Canoeing | women's K-1 500 m
Gold | Klaus-Jürgen Grünke | Cycling | men's 1000 m time trial
Gold | Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin
Wilfried Gröbner
Jürgen Croy
Gerd Weber
Hans-Jürgen Dörner
Konrad Weise
Lothar Kurbjuweit
Reinhard Lauck
Gert Heidler
Reinhard Häfner
Hans-Jürgen Riediger
Bernd Bransch
Martin Hoffmann
Gerd Kische
Wolfram Löwe
Hartmut Schade
Dieter Riedel | Football | men's football
Gold | Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Rüdiger Reiche
Karl-Heinz Bußert
Michael Wolfgramm | Rowing | men's quadruple sculls
Gold | Jörg Landvoigt
Bernd Landvoigt | Rowing | men's coxless pairs
Gold | Harald Jährling
Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
Georg Spohr | Rowing | men's coxed pairs
Gold | Siegfried Brietzke
Andreas Decker
Stefan Semmler
Wolfgang Mager | Rowing | men's coxless fours
Gold | Bernd Baumgart
Gottfried Döhn
Werner Klatt
Hans-Joachim Lück
Dieter Wendisch
Roland Kostulski
Ulrich Karnatz
Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
Karl-Heinz Danielowski | Rowing | men's eights
Gold | Christine Scheiblich | Rowing | women's single sculls
Gold | Anke Borchmann
Jutta Lau
Viola Poley
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Weigelt | Rowing | women's quadruple sculls
Gold | Karin Metze
Bianka Schwede
Gabriele Lohs
Andrea Kurth
Sabine Heß | Rowing | women's coxed fours
Gold | Viola Goretzki
Christiane Knetsch
Ilona Richter
Brigitte Ahrenholz
Monika Kallies
Henrietta Ebert
Helma Lehmann
Irina Müller
Marina Wilke | Rowing | women's eights
Gold | Jochen Schümann | Sailing | men's Finn
Gold | Uwe Potteck | Shooting | men's 50 m pistol
Gold | Norbert Klaar | Shooting | men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Gold | Kornelia Ender | Swimming | women's 100 m freestyle
Gold | Kornelia Ender | Swimming | women's 200 m freestyle
Gold | Petra Thümer | Swimming | women's 400 m freestyle
Gold | Petra Thümer | Swimming | women's 800 m freestyle
Gold | Ulrike Richter | Swimming | women's 100 m backstroke
Gold | Ulrike Richter | Swimming | women's 200 m backstroke
Gold | Hannelore Anke | Swimming | women's 100 m breaststroke
Gold | Kornelia Ender | Swimming | women's 100 m butterfly
Gold | Andrea Pollack | Swimming | women's 200 m butterfly
Gold | Ulrike Tauber | Swimming | women's 400 m individual medley
Gold | Ulrike Richter
Hannelore Anke
Kornelia Ender
Andrea Pollack | Swimming | women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
Silver | Manfred Kokot
Jörg Pfeifer
Klaus-Dieter Kurrat
Alexander Thieme | Athletics | men's 4 × 100 metres relay
Silver | Hans-Georg Reimann | Athletics | men's 20 km walk
Silver | Wolfgang Schmidt | Athletics | men's discus throw
Silver | Renate Stecher | Athletics | women's 100 m
Silver | Christina Brehmer | Athletics | women's 400 m
Silver | Gunhild Hoffmeister | Athletics | women's 1500 m
Silver | Christine Laser | Athletics | women's pentathlon
Silver | Richard Nowakowski | Boxing | men's −57 kg
Silver | Christa Köhler | Diving | women's 3 m springboard
Silver | Carola Dombeck | Gymnastics | men's vault
Silver | Gabriele Badorek
Hannelore Burosch
Roswitha Krause
Waltraud Kretzschmar
Evelyn Matz
Liane Michaelis
Eva Paskuy
Kristina Richter
Christina Rost
Silvia Siefert
Marion Tietz
Petra Uhlig
Christina Voß
Hannelore Zober | Handball | women's handball
Silver | Andreas Schulz
Rüdiger Kunze
Walter Dießner
Ullrich Dießner
Johannes Thomas | Rowing | men's coxed four
Silver | Sabine Jahn
Petra Boesler | Rowing | women's double sculls
Silver | Angelika Noack
Sabine Dähne | Rowing | women's coxless pairs
Silver | Harald Vollmar | Shooting | men's 50 m pistol
Silver | Jürgen Wiefel | Shooting | men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Silver | Petra Priemer | Swimming | women's 100 m freestyle
Silver | Birgit Treiber | Swimming | women's 100 m backstroke
Silver | Birgit Treiber | Swimming | women's 200 m backstroke
Silver | Andrea Pollack | Swimming | women's 100 m butterfly
Silver | Ulrike Tauber | Swimming | women's 200 m butterfly
Silver | Petra Priemer
Kornelia Ender
Claudia Hempel
Andrea Pollack | Swimming | women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Silver | Gerd Bonk | Weightlifting | men's +110 kg
Silver | Hans-Dieter Brüchert | Wrestling | men's freestyle −57 kg
Bronze | Frank Baumgartl | Athletics | men's 3000 m steeplechase
Bronze | Peter Frenkel | Athletics | men's 20 km walk
Bronze | Frank Wartenberg | Athletics | men's long jump
Bronze | Renate Stecher | Athletics | women's 200 m
Bronze | Ellen Streidt | Athletics | women's 400 m
Bronze | Elfi Zinn | Athletics | women's 800 m
Bronze | Ulrike Klapezynski | Athletics | women's 1500 m
Bronze | Gabriele Hinzmann | Athletics | women's discus throw
Bronze | Burglinde Pollak | Athletics | women's pentathlon
Bronze | Rüdiger Helm | Canoeing | men's K-1 500 m
Bronze | Frank-Peter Bischof
Bernd Duvigneau
Rüdiger Helm
Jürgen Lehnert | Canoeing | men's K-4 1000 m
Bronze | Carola Zirzow
Bärbel Köster | Canoeing | women's K-2 500 m
Bronze | Jürgen Geschke | Cycling | men's sprint
Bronze | Thomas Huschke | Cycling | men's individual pursuit
Bronze | Roland Brückner
Rainer Hanschke
Bernd Jäger
Wolfgang Klotz
Lutz Mack
Michael Nikolay | Gymnastics | men's team all-around
Bronze | Michael Nikolay | Gymnastics | men's pommel horse
Bronze | Carola Dombeck
Gitta Escher
Kerstin Gerschau
Angelika Hellmann
Marion Kische
Steffi Kräker | Gymnastics | women's team all-around
Bronze | Joachim Dreifke | Rowing | men's single sculls
Bronze | Uli Schmied
Jürgen Bertow | Rowing | men's double sculls
Bronze | Dieter Below
Michael Zachries
Olaf Engelhardt | Sailing | men's Soling
Bronze | Roland Matthes | Swimming | men's 100 m backstroke
Bronze | Rosemarie Gabriel | Swimming | women's 200 m butterfly
Bronze | Peter Wenzel | Weightlifting | men's −75 kg
Bronze | Helmut Losch | Weightlifting | men's +110 kg
Bronze | Heinz-Helmut Wehling | Wrestling | men's Greco-Roman −68 kg

## Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Men's Marathon

* Waldemar Cierpinski — 2:09.55 (→  Gold Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

* Manfred Kokot, Jörg Pfeifer, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, and Alexander Thieme
* Heat — 39.42
* Semi Final — 39.43
* Final — 38.66 s (→  Silver Medal)

Men's High Jump

* Rolf Beilschmidt
* Qualification — 2.16 m
* Final — 2.18 m (→ 7th place)
* Henry Lauterbach
* Qualification — 2.13 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

* Frank Wartenberg
* Qualification — 7.89 m
* Final — 8.02 m (→  Bronze Medal)

Men's Discus Throw

* Wolfgang Schmidt
* Qualification — 63.14 m
* Final — 66.22 m (→  Silver Medal)
* Norbert Thiede
* Qualification — 61.14 m
* Final — 64.30 m (→ 4th place)
* Siegfried Pachale
* Qualification — 60.64 m
* Final — 64.24 m (→ 5th place)

Men's 20 km Race Walk

* Hans-Georg Reimann — 1:25:13 (→  Silver Medal)
* Peter Frenkel — 1:25:29 (→  Bronze Medal)
* Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller — 1:26:50 (→ 4th place)

Women's Shot Put

* Marianne Adam
* Final — 20.55 m (→ 4th place)
* Ilona Slupianek
* Final — 20.54 m (→ 5th place)
* Margitta Droese
* Final — 19.79 m (→ 6th place)

## Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

* Dietmar Geilich
1. First Round — Bye
2. Second Round — Lost to Armando Guevara (VEN), 0:5

## Canoeing

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Main article: Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Eleven cyclists represented East Germany in 1976.

Individual road race

* Karl-Dietrich Diers — 4:49:01 (→ 16th place)
* Gerhard Lauke — did not finish (→ no ranking)
* Hans-Joachim Hartnick — did not finish (→ no ranking)
* Siegbert Schmeisser — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Team time trial

* Hans-Joachim Hartnick
* Karl-Dietrich Diers
* Gerhard Lauke
* Michael Schiffner

Sprint

* Jürgen Geschke —  Bronze Medal

1000 m time trial

* Klaus-Jürgen Grünke — 1:05.927 (→  Gold Medal)

Individual pursuit

* Thomas Huschke —  Bronze Medal

Team pursuit

* Norbert Dürpisch
* Thomas Huschke
* Uwe Unterwalder
* Matthias Wiegand

## Diving

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Main article: Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

One male fencer represented East Germany in 1976.

Men's foil

* Klaus Haertter

## Football

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Main article: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Gold Medal

* First Round
* Drew with  Brazil 0-0
* Defeated  Spain 1-0
* Quarterfinals
* Defeated  France 4-0
* Semifinals
* Defeated  Soviet Union 2-1
* Final
* Defeated  Poland 3-1
* Team roster
* Jürgen Croy
* Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin
* Gerd Weber
* Gert Heidler
* Hans-Jürgen Dörner
* Konrad Weise
* Lothar Kurbjuweit
* Reinhard Lauck
* Reinhard Häfner
* Hans-Jürgen Riediger
* Bernd Bransch
* Martin Hoffmann
* Gerd Kische
* Dieter Riedel
* Wolfram Löwe
* Hartmut Schade
* Wilfried Gröbner
* Head coach: Georg Buschner

## Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Handball

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Main article: Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Judo

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Main article: Judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

East Germany had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all fourteen rowing events in 1976. Each team received a medal.[2]

Men's single sculls – 3rd place ( bronze medal)

* Joachim Dreifke

Men's double sculls – 3rd place ( bronze medal)

* Uli Schmied
* Jürgen Bertow

Men's coxless pair – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Jörg Landvoigt
* Bernd Landvoigt

Men's coxed pair – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Harald Jährling
* Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
* Georg Spohr

Men's quadruple sculls – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
* Rüdiger Reiche
* Karl-Heinz Bußert
* Michael Wolfgramm

Men's coxless four – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Siegfried Brietzke
* Andreas Decker
* Stefan Semmler
* Wolfgang Mager

Men's coxed four – 2nd place ( silver medal)

* Andreas Schulz
* Rüdiger Kunze
* Walter Dießner
* Ullrich Dießner
* Johannes Thomas

Men's eight – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Bernd Baumgart
* Gottfried Döhn
* Werner Klatt
* Hans-Joachim Lück
* Dieter Wendisch
* Roland Kostulski
* Ulrich Karnatz
* Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
* Karl-Heinz Danielowski

Women's single sculls – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Christine Scheiblich

Women's double sculls – 2nd place ( silver medal)

* Sabine Jahn
* Petra Boesler

Women's coxless pair – 2nd place ( silver medal)

* Angelika Noack
* Sabine Dähne

Women's coxed four – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Karin Metze
* Bianka Schwede
* Gabriele Lohs
* Andrea Kurth
* Sabine Heß

Women's quadruple sculls – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Anke Borchmann
* Jutta Lau
* Viola Poley
* Roswietha Zobelt
* Liane Weigelt

Women's eight – 1st place ( gold medal)

* Viola Goretzki
* Christiane Knetsch
* Ilona Richter
* Brigitte Ahrenholz
* Monika Kallies
* Henrietta Ebert
* Helma Lehmann
* Irina Müller
* Marina Wilke

## Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Men's Competition

100 meter Backstroke

* Roland Matthes — 57.22 —  Bronze Medal

Women's Competition

100 meter Freestyle

* Kornelia Ender — 55.65 —  Gold Medal
* Petra Priemer — 56.49 —  Silver Medal

200 meter Freestyle

* Kornelia Ender — 1:59.26 —  Gold Medal

400 meter Freestyle

* Petra Thumer — 4:09.89 —  Gold Medal

800 meter Freestyle

* Petra Thumer — 8:37.14 —  Gold Medal

100 meter Backstroke

* Ulrike Richter — 1:01.83 —  Gold Medal
* Birgit Treiber — 1:03.41 —  Silver Medal

200 meter Backstroke

* Ulrike Richter — 2:13.43 —  Gold Medal
* Birgit Treiber — 2:14.97 —  Silver Medal

100 meter Breaststroke

* Hannelore Anke — 1:11.16 —  Gold Medal

100 meter Butterfly

* Kornelia Ender — 1:00.13 —  Gold Medal
* Andrea Pollack — 1:00.98 —  Silver Medal

200 meter Butterfly

* Andrea Pollack — 2:11.41 —  Gold Medal
* Ulrike Tauber — 2:12.50 —  Silver Medal
* Rosemarie Gabriel — 2:12.86—  Bronze Medal

400 meter Individual Medley

* Ulrike Tauber — 4:42.77 —  Gold Medal

4 × 100 meter Freestyle Relay

* Petra Priemer; Kornelia Ender; Claudia Hempel; Andrea Pollack — 3:45.50 —  Silver Medal

4 × 100 meter Medley Relay

* Ulrike Richter; Hannelore Anke; Kornelia Ender; Andrea Pollack — 4:07.95 —  Gold Medal

## Volleyball

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Main article: Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Women's team competition

* Preliminary round (group B)
* Lost to Cuba (1–3)
* Lost to South Korea (2–3)
* Lost to Soviet Union (2–3)
* Classification Matches
* 5th/8th place: Defeated Peru (3–2)
* 5th/6th place: Lost to Cuba (0–3) → Sixth place
* Team roster
* Karla Roffeis
* Johanna Strotzer
* Cornelia Rickert
* Christina Walther
* Ingrid Mierzwiak
* Helga Offen
* Barbara Czekalla
* Jutta Balster
* Anke Westendorf
* Hannelor Meincke
* Monika Meissner
* Gudrun Gartner
* Head coach: Dieter Grund

## Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ "East Germany at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "East Germany Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

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Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada

Africa|

* Cameroon*
* Egypt*
* Ivory Coast
* Morocco*
* Senegal
* Tunisia*
*withdrew from Games after competition began

America|

* Antigua
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bermuda
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Cayman Islands
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Netherlands Antilles
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Puerto Rico
* Suriname
* Trinidad-Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela
* Virgin Islands

Asia|

* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Israel
* Japan
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Kuwait
* Lebanon
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Thailand

Europe|

* Andorra
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Czechoslovakia
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* East Germany
* West Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Italy
* Liechtenstein
* Luxembourg
* Monaco
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* San Marino
* Soviet Union
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Yugoslavia

Oceania|

* Australia
* Fiji
* New Zealand
* Papua New Guinea

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East Germany at the Olympics

| Summer Olympic Games|

* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988

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Winter Olympic Games|

* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988

East Germany did not participate in 1984 due to a boycott.

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