East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

East Germany at the
1980 Summer Olympics

IOC code| GDR
NOC| National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic
in Moscow, Soviet Union
19 July–3 August 1980
Competitors| 346 (222 men, 124 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearers | Kristina Richter (opening), Waldemar Cierpinski (closing)
Medals
Ranked 2nd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total
126
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 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 346 competitors, 222 men and 124 women, took part in 167 events in 17 sports.[1]

## Medalists

[edit]

Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

|
|
|

Gold | Waldemar Cierpinski | Athletics | Men's marathon
Gold | Thomas Munkelt | Athletics | Men's 110 m Hurdles
Gold | Volker Beck | Athletics | Men's 400 m Hurdles
Gold | Hartwig Gauder | Athletics | Men's 50km Walk
Gold | Gerd Wessig | Athletics | Men's High Jump
Gold | Lutz Dombrowski | Athletics | Men's Long Jump
Gold | Bärbel Wöckel | Athletics | Women's 200 m
Gold | Marita Koch | Athletics | Women's 400 m
Gold | Romy Müller
Bärbel Wöckel
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr | Athletics | Women's 4 × 100 m Relay
Gold | Ilona Slupianek | Athletics | Women's Shot Put
Gold | Evelin Jahl | Athletics | Women's Discus
Gold | Rudi Fink | Boxing | Men's Featherweight
Gold | Rüdiger Helm | Canoeing | Men's K-1 1000 m
Gold | Rüdiger Helm
Bernd Olbricht
Harald Marg
Bernd Duvigneau | Canoeing | Men's K-4 1000 m
Gold | Birgit Fischer | Canoeing | Women's K-1 500 m
Gold | Carsta Genäuß
Martina Bischof | Canoeing | Women's K-2 500 m
Gold | Lothar Thoms | Cycling | Men's 1000 m Individual Time Trial
Gold | Lutz Heßlich | Cycling | Men's Sprint
Gold | Falk Hoffmann | Diving | Men's 10 m Platform
Gold | Martina Jäschke | Diving | Women's 10 m Platform
Gold | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Floor
Gold | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Uneven Bars
Gold | East Germany Men's National Handball Team

* Hans-Georg Beyer
* Lothar Doering
* Günter Dreibrodt
* Ernst Gerlach
* Klaus Gruner
* Rainer Höft
* Hans-Georg Jaunich
* Hartmut Krüger
* Peter Rost
* Dietmar Schmidt
* Wieland Schmidt
* Siegfried Voigt
* Frank-Michael Wahl
* Ingolf Wiegert

| Handball | Men's Tournament
Gold | Dietmar Lorenz | Judo | Men's Open
Gold | Joachim Dreifke
Klaus Kröppelien | Rowing | Men's Double Sculls
Gold | Frank Dundr
Carsten Bunk
Uwe Heppner
Martin Winter | 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
Jürgen Thiele | Rowing | Men's Coxless Fours
Gold | Dieter Wendisch
Walter Dießner
Ullrich Dießner
Gottfried Döhn
Andreas Gregor | Rowing | Men's Coxed Fours
Gold | Bernd Krauß
Hans-Peter Koppe
Ulrich Kons
Jörg Friedrich
Jens Doberschütz
Ulrich Karnatz
Uwe Dühring
Bernd Höing
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | Rowing | Men's Eights
Gold | Sybille Reinhardt
Jutta Ploch
Jutta Lau
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Buhr | Rowing | Women's Quadruple Sculls
Gold | Ute Steindorf
Cornelia Klier | Rowing | Women's Coxless Pairs
Gold | Ramona Kapheim
Silvia Fröhlich
Angelika Noack
Romy Saalfeld
Kirsten Wenzel | Rowing | Women's Coxed Fours
Gold | Martina Boesler
Kersten Neisser
Christiane Köpke
Birgit Schütz
Gabriele Kühn
Ilona Richter
Marita Sandig
Karin Metze
Marina Wilke | Rowing | Women's Eights
Gold | Jörg Woithe | Swimming | Men's 100 m Freestyle
Gold | Barbara Krause | Swimming | Women's 100 m Freestyle
Gold | Barbara Krause | Swimming | Women's 200 m Freestyle
Gold | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 400 m Freestyle
Gold | Petra Schneider | Swimming | Women's 400 m Individual Medley
Gold | Rica Reinisch | Swimming | Women's 100 m Backstroke
Gold | Rica Reinisch | Swimming | Women's 200 m Backstroke
Gold | Ute Geweniger | Swimming | Women's 100 m Breaststroke
Gold | Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 100 m Butterfly
Gold | Ines Geißler | Swimming | Women's 200 m Butterfly
Gold | Barbara Krause
Caren Metschuck
Ines Diers
Sarina Hülsenbeck | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
Gold | Rica Reinisch
Ute Geweniger
Andrea Pollack
Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
Silver | Jürgen Straub | Athletics | Men's 1500 m
Silver | Klaus Thiele
Andreas Knebel
Frank Schaffer
Volker Beck | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
Silver | Frank Paschek | Athletics | Men's Long Jump
Silver | Marlies Göhr | Athletics | Women's 100 m
Silver | Christiane Wartenberg | Athletics | Women's 1500 m
Silver | Johanna Schaller-Klier | Athletics | Women's 100 m Hurdles
Silver | Barbara Krug
Gabriele Löwe
Christina Lathan
Marita Koch | Athletics | Women's 4 × 400 m Relay
Silver | Brigitte Wujak | Athletics | Women's Long Jump
Silver | Olaf Heukrodt
Uwe Madeja | Canoeing | Men's C-2 1000 m
Silver | Gerald Mortag
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
Volker Winkler | Cycling | Men's Team Pursuit
Silver | Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Olaf Ludwig
Hans-Joachim Hartnick | Cycling | Men's Team Time Trial
Silver | Martina Proeber | Diving | Women's 3 m Springboard
Silver | East Germany national football team

* Bodo Rudwaleit
* Artur Ullrich
* Lothar Hause
* Frank Uhlig
* Frank Baum
* Rüdiger Schnuphase
* Frank Terletzki
* Wolfgang Steinbach
* Jürgen Bähringer
* Werner Peter
* Dieter Kühn
* Norbert Trieloff
* Matthias Müller
* Matthias Liebers
* Bernd Jakubowski
* Wolf-Rüdiger Netz

| Football | Men's Tournament
Silver | Ralf-Peter Hemmann
Lutz Hoffmann
Lutz Mack
Michael Nikolay
Andreas Bronst
Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Team All-Around
Silver | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Individual All-Around
Silver | Steffi Kräker | Gymnastics | Women's Vault
Silver | Cornelia Linse
Heidi Westphal | Rowing | Women's Double Sculls
Silver | Jörn Borowski
Egbert Swensson | Sailing | 470
Silver | Harald Vollmar | Shooting | Men's 50 m Pistol
Silver | Hellfried Heilfort | Shooting | Men's 50 m Rifle Prone
Silver | Bernd Hartstein | Shooting | Men's 50 m Rifle Three Positions
Silver | Jürgen Wiefel | Shooting | Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
Silver | Thomas Pfeffer | Shooting | Men's 50 m Running Target
Silver | Roger Pyttel | Swimming | Men's 100 m Butterfly
Silver | Frank Pfütze
Jörg Woithe
Detlev Grabs
Rainer Strohbach | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
Silver | Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 100 m Freestyle
Silver | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 200 m Freestyle
Silver | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 800 m Freestyle
Silver | Petra Schneider | Swimming | Women's 400 m Freestyle
Silver | Ina Kleber | Swimming | Women's 100 m Backstroke
Silver | Cornelia Polit | Swimming | Women's 200 m Backstroke
Silver | Andrea Pollack | Swimming | Women's 100 m Butterfly
Silver | Sybille Schönrock | Swimming | Women's 200 m Butterfly
Silver | East Germany women's national volleyball team

* Katharina Bullin
* Barbara Czekalla
* Brigitte Fetzer
* Andrea Heim
* Ute Kostrzewa
* Heike Lehmann
* Christine Mummhardt
* Karin Püschel
* Karla Roffeis
* Martina Schmidt
* Annette Schultz
* Anke Westendorf

| Volleyball | Women's Tournament
Silver | Joachim Kunz | Weightlifting | Men's 67.5 kg
Silver | Jürgen Heuser | Weightlifting | Men's +110 kg
Bronze | Frank Schaffer | Athletics | Men's 400 m
Bronze | Roland Wieser | Athletics | Men's 20km Walk
Bronze | Jörg Freimuth | Athletics | Men's High Jump
Bronze | Udo Beyer | Athletics | Men's Shot Put
Bronze | Wolfgang Hanisch | Athletics | Men's Javelin
Bronze | Ingrid Auerswald | Athletics | Women's 100 m
Bronze | Christina Lathan | Athletics | Women's 400 m
Bronze | Jutta Kirst | Athletics | Women's High Jump
Bronze | Margitta Droese-Pufe | Athletics | Women's Shot Put
Bronze | Ute Hommola | Athletics | Women's Javelin
Bronze | Richard Nowakowski | Boxing | Men's Lightweight
Bronze | Karl-Heinz Krüger | Boxing | Men's Welterweight
Bronze | Detlef Kästner | Boxing | Men's Light Middleweight
Bronze | Herbert Bauch | Boxing | Men's Light Heavyweight
Bronze | Jürgen Fanghänel | Boxing | Men's Heavyweight
Bronze | Olaf Heukrodt | Canoeing | Men's C-1 500 m
Bronze | Eckhard Leue | Canoeing | Men's C-1 1000 m
Bronze | Rüdiger Helm
Bernd Olbricht | Canoeing | Men's K-2 500 m
Bronze | Karin Guthke | Diving | Women's 3 m Springboard
Bronze | Michael Nikolay | Gymnastics | Men's Pommel Horse
Bronze | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Vault
Bronze | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Parallel Bars
Bronze | Maxi Gnauck
Silvia Hindorff
Steffi Kräker
Katharina Rensch
Karola Sube
Birgit Süß | Gymnastics | Women's Team All-Around
Bronze | Steffi Kräker | Gymnastics | Women's Uneven Bars
Bronze | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Floor
Bronze | East Germany Women's National Handball Team

* Birgit Heinecke
* Roswitha Krause
* Waltraud Kretzschmar
* Katrin Krüger
* Kornelia Kunisch
* Evelyn Matz
* Kristina Richter
* Christina Rost
* Sabine Röther
* Renate Rudolph
* Marion Tietz
* Petra Uhlig
* Claudia Wunderlich
* Hannelore Zober

| Handball | Women's Tournament
Bronze | Karl-Heinz Lehmann | Judo | Men's 71 kg
Bronze | Harald Heinke | Judo | Men's 78 kg
Bronze | Detlef Ultsch | Judo | Men's 86 kg
Bronze | Dietmar Lorenz | Judo | Men's 95 kg
Bronze | Peter Kersten | Rowing | Men's Single Sculls
Bronze | Martina Schröter | Rowing | Women's Single Sculls
Bronze | Jörg Damme | Shooting | Men's Trap
Bronze | Roger Pyttel | Swimming | Men's 200 m Butterfly
Bronze | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 100 m Freestyle
Bronze | Carmela Schmidt | Swimming | Women's 200 m Freestyle
Bronze | Carmela Schmidt | Swimming | Women's 400 m Freestyle
Bronze | Heike Dähne | Swimming | Women's 800 m Freestyle
Bronze | Petra Riedel | Swimming | Women's 100 m Backstroke
Bronze | Birgit Treiber | Swimming | Women's 200 m Backstroke
Bronze | Christiane Knacke | Swimming | Women's 100 m Butterfly
Bronze | Frank Mantek | Weightlifting | Men's 90 kg
Bronze | Uwe Neupert | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 90kg

## Athletics

[edit]

Main article: Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Competition

Men's 100 metres

* Eugen Ray
* Heat — 10.38
* Quarterfinals — 10.30
* Semifinals — 10.47 (→ did not advance)
* Sören Schlegel
* Heat — 10.44
* Quarterfinals — 10.28 (→ did not advance)
* Klaus-Dieter Kurrat
* Heat — 10.53
* Quarterfinals — 10.54 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

* Andreas Busse
* Heat — 1:47.4
* Semifinals — 1:46.9
* Final — 1:46.9 (→ 5th place)
* Detlef Wagenknecht
* Heat — 1:47.5
* Semifinals — 1:46.7
* Final — 1:47.0 (→ 6th place)
* Olaf Beyer
* Heat — 1:48.9
* Semifinals — 1:47.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres

* Jürgen Straub
* Heat — 3:37.0
* Semifinals — 3:39.4
* Final — 3:38.8 (→  Silver Medal)
* Andreas Busse
* Heat — 3:44.3
* Semifinals — 3:43.5
* Final — 3:40.2 (→ 4th place)

Men's 10,000 metres

* Jörg Peter
* Heat — 28:50.0
* Final — 28:05.5 (→ 6th place)
* Werner Schildhauer
* Heat — 28:32.1
* Final — 28:11.0 (→ 7th place)

Men's Marathon

* Waldemar Cierpinski
* Final — 2:11:03 (→  Gold Medal)
* Hans-Joachim Truppel
* Final — 2:14:55 (→ 11th place)
* Jürgen Eberding
* Final — 2:18:04 (→ 21st place)

Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay

* Klaus Thiele, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, and Volker Beck
* Heat — 3:03.4
* Final — 3:01.3 (→  Silver Medal)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

* Thomas Munkelt
* Heat — 13.55
* Semifinals — 13.49
* Final — 13.39 (→  Gold Medal)
* Thomas Dittrich
* Heat — 13.93
* Semifinals — 13.90 (→ did not advance)
* Andreas Schlißke
* Heat — 14.18
* Semifinals — 14.60 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

* Volker Beck
* Heat — 50.35
* Semifinals — 50.36
* Final — 48.70 (→  Gold Medal)

Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase

* Ralf Pönitsch
* Heat — 8:56.5 (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

* Axel Weber
* Qualification — 5.15 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

* Lutz Dombrowski
* Qualification — 8.17 m
* Final — 8.54 m (→  Gold Medal)
* Frank Paschek
* Qualification — 8.17 m
* Final — 8.21 m (→  Silver Medal)
* Peter Rieger
* Qualification — 7.59 m (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

* Gerd Wessig
* Qualification — 2.21 m
* Final — 2.36 m (→  Gold Medal)
* Jörg Freimuth
* Qualification — 2.21 m
* Final — 2.31 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Henry Lauterbach
* Qualification — 2.21 m
* Final — 2.29 m (→ 4th place)

Men's Discus Throw

* Wolfgang Schmidt
* Qualification — 62.46 m
* Final — 65.64 m (→ 4th place)
* Hilmar Hossfeld
* Qualification — 59.92 m
* Final — 61.14 m (→ 11th place)
* Armin Lemme
* Qualification — 59.44 m (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Men's Shot Put

* Udo Beyer
* Qualification — 19.94 m
* Final — 21.06 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Hans-Jürgen Jacobi
* Qualification — 19.92 m
* Final — 20.32 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

* Wolfgang Hanisch
* Qualification — 85.82 m
* Final — 86.72 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Detlef Fuhrmann
* Qualification — 78.80 m
* Final — 83.50 m (→ 7th place)
* Detlef Michel
* Qualification — 78.34 m (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

* Roland Steuk
* Qualification — 73.52 m
* Final — 77.54 m (→ 4th place)
* Detlef Gerstenberg
* Qualification — 75.04 m
* Final — 74.60 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Decathlon

* Steffen Grummt
* Final — 7892 points (→ 8th place)
* Siegfried Stark
* Final — retired (→ no ranking)
* Rainer Pottel
* Final — retired (→ no ranking)

Men's 20 km Walk

* Roland Wieser
* Final — 1:25:58.2 (→  Bronze Medal)
* Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller
* Final — 1:29:21.7 (→ 8th place)
* Werner Heyer
* Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Men's 50 km Walk

* Hartwig Gauder
* Final — 3:49:24 (→  Gold Medal)
* Dietmar Meisch
* Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
* Uwe Dünkel
* Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's Competition

Women's 100 metres

* Marlies Göhr
* Heat — 11.41
* Quarterfinals — 11.12
* Semifinals — 11.18
* Final — 11.07 (→  Silver Medal)
* Ingrid Auerswald
* Heat — 11.32
* Quarterfinals — 11.09
* Semifinals — 11.27
* Final — 11.14 (→  Bronze Medal)
* Romy Müller
* Heat — 11.41
* Quarterfinals — 11.12
* Semifinals — 11.22
* Final — 11.16 (→ 5th place)

Women's 800 metres

* Martina Kämpfert
* Heat — 1:58.8
* Semifinals — 1:58.1
* Final — 1:56.3 (→ 4th place)
* Hildegard Ullrich
* Heat — 2:00.1
* Semifinals — 1:58.7
* Final — 1:57.2 (→ 5th place)

Women's 1,500 metres

* Christiane Wartenberg
* Heat — 4:00.4
* Final — 3:57.8 (→  Silver Medal)
* Ulrike Bruns
* Heat — 4:01.6
* Final — 4:00.7 (→ 5th place)
* Beate Liebich
* Heat — 4:06.8 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Hurdles

* Johanna Schaller-Klier
* Heat — 13.03
* Semifinal — 12.77
* Final — 12.63 (→  Silver Medal)
* Kerstin Knabe
* Heat — 12.77
* Semifinal — 12.99
* Final — 12.66 (→ 4th place)
* Bettine Gärtz
* Heat — 13.06
* Semifinal — 13.04
* Final — 13.14 (→ 7th place)

Women's Long Jump

* Brigitte Wujak
* Qualification — 6.65 m
* Final — 7.04 m (→  Silver Medal)
* Siegrun Siegl
* Qualification — 6.53 m
* Final — 6.87 m (→ 5th place)
* Siegrid Heimann
* Qualification — 6.71 m
* Final — 6.71 m (→ 7th place)

Women's High Jump

* Jutta Kirst
* Qualification — 1.88 m
* Final — 1.94 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Rosemarie Ackermann
* Qualification — 1.88 m
* Final — 1.91 m (→ 4th place)
* Andrea Reichstein
* Qualification — 1.88 m
* Final — 1.91 m (→ 6th place)

Women's Discus Throw

* Evelin Jahl
* Qualification — 60.22 m
* Final — 69.96 m (→  Gold Medal)
* Gisela Beyer
* Qualification — 62.86 m
* Final — 67.08 m (→ 4th place)
* Margitta Pufe
* Qualification — 65.52 m
* Final — 66.12 m (→ 5th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

* Ute Hommola
* Qualification — 63.52 m
* Final — 66.56 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Ute Richter
* Qualification — 66.66 m
* Final — 66.54 m (→ 4th place)
* Ruth Fuchs
* Qualification — 64.26 m
* Final — 63.94 m (→ 8th place)

Women's Shot Put

* Ilona Slupianek
* Final — 22.41 m (→  Gold Medal)
* Margitta Pufe
* Final — 21.20 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* Ines Reichenbach
* Final — 19.66 m (→ 8th place)

Women's Pentathlon

* Ramona Neubert — 4698 points (→ 4th place)
1. 100 metres — 13.93 s
2. Shot Put — 13.68 m
3. High Jump — 1.77 m
4. Long Jump — 6.63 m
5. 800 metres — 2:07.70
* Burglinde Pollak — 4553 points (→ 6th place)
1. 100 metres — 13.74 s
2. Shot Put — 16.67 m
3. High Jump — 1.68 m
4. Long Jump — 5.93 m
5. 800 metres — 2:14.40
* Christine Laser — 1712 points (→ no ranking)
1. 100 metres — 13.67 s
2. Shot Put — 13.39 m
3. High Jump — DNF

## Boxing

[edit]

Main article: Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

* Dietmar Geilich
1. First Round — Defeated Thapa Birender Singh (India) on points (3–2)
2. Second Round — Defeated Pedro Manuel Nieves (Venezuela) on points (5–0)
3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Shamil Sabirov (Soviet Union) on points (1–4)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

* Mario Behrendt
1. First Round — Lost to Dumitru Cipere (Romania) on points (0–5)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

* Rudi Fink →  Gold Medal
1. First Round — Defeated Hannu Kaislama (Finland) on points (5–0)
2. Second Round — Defeated Esmail Mohamad (Afghanistan) after knock-out in first round
3. Third Round — Defeated Carlos González (Mexico) after knock-out in first round
4. Quarter Finals — Defeated Winfred Kabunda (Zambia) on points (4–1)
5. Semi Finals — Defeated Viktor Rybakov (Soviet Union) on points (4–1)
6. Final — Defeated Adolfo Horta (Cuba) on points (4–1)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

* Richard Nowakowski →  Bronze Medal
1. First Round — Defeated Christopher Ossai (Nigeria) on points (5–0)
2. Second Round — Defeated Geofrey Nyeko (Uganda) after referee stopped contest in first round
3. Quarter Finals — Defeated George Gilbody (Great Britain) on points (5–0)
4. Semi Finals — Lost to Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) after referee stopped contest in first round

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)

* Dietmar Schwarz
1. First Round — Defeated Teddy Makofi (Zambia) on points (5–0)
2. Second Round — Lost to José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) after referee stopped contest in third round

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

* Jürgen Fanghänel →  Bronze Medal
1. First Round — Defeated Luis Castillo (Ecuador) on points (4–1)
2. Quarter Finals — Defeated Petr Stoimenov (Bulgaria) after referee stopped contest in second round
3. Semi Finals — Lost to Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (0–5)

## Canoeing

[edit]

Main article: Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

East Germany was represented by 13 canoeists, 10 men and 3 women.[2]

Athlete  | Event  | Preliminary  | Semifinal  | Final

|
|
|
|

Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Olaf Heukrodt | Men's C-1 500 m | 1:55.37  | 2 QF  | —  | —  | 1:54.38  |
Eckhard Leue | Men's C-1 1000 m | 4:04.09  | 2 QF  | —  | —  | 4:15.02  |
Olaf Heukrodt
Uwe Madeja | Men's C-2 1000 m | 3:47.43  | 4 QS  | 3:54.99  | 1 QF  | 3:49.93  |
Frank-Peter Bischof | Men's K-1 500 m | 1:46.13  | 1 QF  | 1:46.21  | 1 QF  | 1:45.97  | 5
Birgit Fischer | Women's K-1 500 m | 1:56.92  | 1 QF  | —  | —  | 1:57.96  |
Rüdiger Helm | Men's K-1 1000 m | 3:45.20  | 1 QF  | 3:52.04  | 1 QF  | 3:48.77  |
Rüdiger Helm
Bernd Olbricht | Men's K-2 500 m | 1:35.36  | 1 QF  | 1:35.88  | 1 QF  | 1:34.00  |
Carsta Genäuß
Martina Bischof | Women's K-2 500 m | 1:46.95  | 1 QF  | —  | —  | 1:43.88  |
Peter Hempel
Harry Nolte | Men's K-2 1000 m | 3:25.71  | 2 QF  | 3:32.77  | 1 QF  | 3:31.02  | 5
Rüdiger Helm
Bernd Olbricht
Harald Marg
Bernd Duvigneau | Men's K-4 1000 m | 3:04.86  | 1 QF  | —  | —  | 3:13.76  |

## Cycling

[edit]

Main article: Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Thirteen cyclists represented East Germany in 1980.

Individual road race

* Thomas Barth
* Andreas Petermann
* Olaf Ludwig
* Bernd Drogan

Team time trial

* Falk Boden
* Bernd Drogan
* Olaf Ludwig
* Hans-Joachim Hartnick

Sprint

* Lutz Heßlich

1000 m time trial

* Lothar Thoms

Individual pursuit

* Harald Wolf

Team pursuit

* Gerald Mortag
* Uwe Unterwalder
* Matthias Wiegand
* Volker Winkler

## Diving

[edit]

Main article: Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Springboard

* Falk Hoffmann
* Preliminary Round — 567.78 points (→ 3rd place)
* Final — 858.510 points (→ 4th place)
* Frank Taubert
* Preliminary Round — 524.04 points (→ 9th place, did not advance)
* Dieter Waskow
* Preliminary Round — 522.87 points (→ 10th place, did not advance)

Men's Platform

* Falk Hoffmann
* Preliminary Round — 546.12 points (→ 1st place)
* Final — 835.650 points (→  Gold Medal)
* Dieter Waskow
* Preliminary Round — 515.16 points (→ 6th place)
* Final — 802.800 points (→ 5th place)
* Thomas Knuths
* Preliminary Round — 521.01 points (→ 3rd place)
* Final — 783.975 points (→ 6th place)

Women's Springboard

* Martina Proeber
* Preliminary Round — 450.99 points (→ 3rd place)
* Final — 698.895 points (→  Silver Medal)
* Karin Guthke
* Preliminary Round — 435.21 points (→ 4th place)
* Final — 685.245 points (→  Bronze Medal)
* Martina Jäschke
* Preliminary Round — 427.47 points (→ 6th place)
* Final — 668.115 points (→ 5th place)

Women's Platform

* Martina Jäschke
* Preliminary Round — 359.88 points (→ 4th place)
* Final — 596.250 points (→  Gold Medal)
* Ramona Wenzel
* Preliminary Round — 358.86 points (→ 6th place)
* Final — 542.070 points (→ 4th place)
* Kerstin Krause
* Preliminary Round — 322.68 points (→ 9th place, did not advance)

## Fencing

[edit]

Main article: Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

14 fencers, 10 men and 4 women, represented East Germany in 1980.

Men's foil

* Hartmuth Behrens
* Klaus Kotzmann
* Klaus Haertter

Men's team foil

* Siegmar Gutzeit, Hartmuth Behrens, Adrian Germanus, Klaus Kotzmann, Klaus Haertter

Men's sabre

* Frank-Eberhard Höltje
* Peter Ulbrich
* Rüdiger Müller

Men's team sabre

* Rüdiger Müller, Hendrik Jung, Peter Ulbrich, Frank-Eberhard Höltje, Gerd May

Women's foil

* Mandy Niklaus
* Gabriele Janke
* Sabine Hertrampf

Women's team foil

* Mandy Niklaus, Gabriele Janke, Sabine Hertrampf, Beate Schubert

## Football

[edit]

Main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

### Preliminary round

[edit]

Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

East Germany | 3  | 2  | 1  | 0  | 7  | 1  | +6  | 5
Algeria | 3  | 1  | 1  | 1  | 4  | 2  | +2  | 3
Spain | 3  | 0  | 3  | 0  | 2  | 2  | 0  | 3
Syria | 3  | 0  | 1  | 2  | 0  | 8  | −8  | 1

Source: [citation needed]

July 20, 1980
12:00

East Germany | 1–1|  Spain

|
|

Kühn 49' | Report | Marcos 50'

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson

* * *

July 22, 1980
12:00

East Germany | 1–0|  Algeria

|
|

Terletzki 61' | Report |

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho

* * *

July 24, 1980
12:00

East Germany | 5–0|  Syria

|
|

Hause 6'
Netz 25' 45'
Peter 75'
Terletzki 82' | Report |

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson

### Bracket

[edit]

| Quarter-finals| | Semi-finals| | Final

|
|
|
|
|

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

| July 27 - Moscow| | | | |

|  Soviet Union| 2

| July 29 - Moscow

|  Kuwait| 1 |

|  East Germany| 1

| July 27 - Kyiv

| |  Soviet Union| 0 |

|  East Germany| 4

| | August 2 - Moscow

|  Iraq| 0 |

|  Czechoslovakia| 1

| July 27 - Leningrad

| |  East Germany| 0

|  Czechoslovakia| 3

| July 29 - Moscow|

|  Cuba| 0 |

|  Czechoslovakia| 2

| July 27 - Minsk

| |  Yugoslavia| 0 |

|  Yugoslavia| 3

|  Algeria| 0 |

July 27, 1980
12:00

East Germany | 4–0|  Iraq

|
|

Schnuphase 4' (p.k.)
Netz 11'
Steinbach 17'
Terletzki 22' | Report |

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho

July 29, 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 0–1|  East Germany

|
|

| Report | Netz 16'

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 95,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson

August 2, 1980
12:00

Czechoslovakia | 1–0|  East Germany

|
|

Svoboda 77' | Report |

Lenin Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.

|

GK | 1 | Bodo Rudwaleit
LB | 2 | Artur Ullrich
CB | 3 | Lothar Hause
LM | 5 | Frank Baum
RM | 6 | Rüdiger Schnuphase
CM | 7 | Frank Terletzki
CM | 8 | Wolfgang Steinbach
CF | 11 | Dieter Kühn
CB | 12 | Norbert Trieloff
RB | 13 | Matthias Müller
MF | 14 | Matthias Liebers
CF | 17 | Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
? | ? | Jürgen Bähringer
? | ? | Werner Peter
? | ? | Frank Uhlig
? | ? | Bernd Jakubowski
? | ? | Andreas Trautmann
Manager:
Rudolf Krause

## Gymnastics

[edit]

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Handball

[edit]

Main article: Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Defeated Spain (21–17)
* Drew with Hungary (14–14)
* Defeated Cuba (27–20)
* Defeated Poland (22–21)
* Defeated Denmark (24–20)
* Classification Match
* Final: Defeated Soviet Union (23–22) →  Gold Medal
* Team Roster
* Siegfried Voigt
* Günter Dreibrodt
* Peter Rost
* Klaus Gruner
* Hans-Georg Beyer
* Dietmar Schmidt
* Hartmut Krüger
* Lothar Doering
* Ernst Gerlach
* Frank-Michael Wahl
* Ingolf Wiegert
* Wieland Schmidt
* Rainer Höft
* Hans-Georg Jaunich

Women's Team Competition

* Results
* Defeated Czechoslovakia (16–10)
* Drew with Yugoslavia (15–15)
* Defeated People's Rep. of Congo (28–6)
* Defeated Hungary (19–9)
* Lost again USSR (13–18)
* East Germany won  Bronze Medal
* Team Roster
* Birgit Heinecke
* Roswitha Krause
* Waltraud Kretzschmar
* Katrin Krüger
* Kornelia Kunisch
* Evelyn Matz
* Kristina Richter
* Christina Rost
* Sabine Röther
* Renate Rudolph
* Marion Tietz
* Petra Uhlig
* Claudia Wunderlich
* Hannelore Zober

|

## Judo

[edit]

Main article: Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Rowing

[edit]

Main article: Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Sailing

[edit]

Main article: Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Shooting

[edit]

Main article: Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Swimming

[edit]

Main article: Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 m Freestyle

* Frank Kühne
* Heats — 52.93 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

* Frank Kühne
* Heats — 1:53.63 (→ did not advance)
* Detlev Grabs
* Heats — 1:53.38 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

* Bettina Löbel
* Heats — 1:14.32 (→ did not advance)
* Silvia Rinka
* Heats — 1:12.88 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

* Petra Schneider
* Heats — 4:46.53
* Final — 4:36.29 (→  Gold Medal)
* Grit Slaby
* Heats — 4:52.01
* Final — 4:48.54 (→ 4th place)
* Ulrike Tauber
* Heats — 4:51.97
* Final — 4:49.18 (→ 5th place)

## Volleyball

[edit]

Main article: Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Women's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Defeated Cuba (3–1)
* Lost to Soviet Union (1–3)
* Defeated Peru (3–2)
* Final
* Lost to Soviet Union (1–3) →  Silver Medal
* Team Roster
* Ute Kostrzewa
* Andrea Heim
* Annette Schultz
* Christine Mummhardt
* Heike Lehmann
* Barbara Czekalla
* Karla Roffeis
* Martina Schmidt
* Anke Westendorf
* Karin Püschel
* Brigitte Fetzer
* Katharina Bullin

## Weightlifting

[edit]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

-56 kg category

* Andreas Letz
* Snatch: 115.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 150.0 kg
* Total: 265.0 kg (→ 4th place)

-67.5 kg category

* Joachim Kunz
* Snatch: 145.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 190.0 kg
* Total: 335.0 kg →  Silver Medal
* Gunter Ambrass
* Total: 320.0 kg (→ 4th place)

-90 kg category

* Frank Mantek
* Snatch: 165.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 205.0 kg
* Total: 370.0 kg →  Bronze Medal

-100 kg category

* Michael Hennig
* Total: 362.5 kg (→ 4th place)
* Manfred Funke
* Total: 377.5 kg (→ 6th place)

+110 kg category

* Jürgen Heuser
* Snatch: 182.5 kg, Clean and jerk: 227.5 kg
* Total: 410.0 kg →  Silver Medal

## Wrestling

[edit]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "East Germany at the 1980 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
2. ^ East Germany Canoeing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games Archived 23 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved 14 May 2015.

* v
* t
* e

Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union

Africa|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Benin
* Botswana
* Cameroon
* Congo
* Ethiopia
* Guinea
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Mali
* Mozambique
* Nigeria
* Sierra Leone
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Tanzania
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

America|

* Brazil
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Peru
* Puerto Rico
* Trinidad-Tobago
* Venezuela

Asia|

* Afghanistan
* Burma
* India
* Iraq
* Jordan
* North Korea
* Kuwait
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Mongolia
* Nepal
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Vietnam

Europe|

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

Oceania|

* Australia
* New Zealand

* v
* t
* e

East Germany at the Olympics

| Summer Olympic Games|

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

|

Winter Olympic Games|

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

East Germany did not participate in 1984 due to a boycott.
*[Pld]: Played
*[W]: Won
*[D]: Drawn
*[L]: Lost
*[GF]: Goals for
*[GA]: Goals against
*[GD]: Goal difference
*[Pts]: Points
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template