East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

East Germany at the
1988 Summer Olympics

IOC code| GDR
NOC| National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic
in Seoul, South Korea
17 September – 2 October 1988
Competitors| 259 (157 men, 102 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer | Ulf Timmermann
Medals
Ranked 2nd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total
102
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 Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports.[1] The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988.[2]

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event  | Date

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Gold | Uwe Ampler
Mario Kummer
Maik Landsmann
Jan Schur | Cycling | Men's team time trial | 18 September
Gold | Kristin Otto | Swimming | Women's 100 metre freestyle | 19 September
Gold | Heike Friedrich | Swimming | Women's 200 metre freestyle | 21 September
Gold | Silke Hörner | Swimming | Women's 200 metre breaststroke | 21 September
Gold | Joachim Kunz | Weightlifting | Men's 67.5 kg | 21 September
Gold | Heike Friedrich
Daniela Hunger
Katrin Meißner
Kristin Otto
Sabina Schulze
Manuela Stellmach | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay | 22 September
Gold | Kristin Otto | Swimming | Women's 100 metre backstroke | 22 September
Gold | Ulf Timmermann | Athletics | Men's shot put | 23 September
Gold | Uwe Daßler | Swimming | Men's 400 metre freestyle | 23 September
Gold | Kristin Otto | Swimming | Women's 100 metre butterfly | 23 September
Gold | Gerlinde Doberschütz
Carola Hornig
Sylvia Rose
Birte Siech
Martina Walther | Rowing | Women's coxed four | 24 September
Gold | Birgit Peter
Martina Schröter | Rowing | Women's double sculls | 24 September
Gold | Bernd Eichwurzel
Frank Klawonn
Bernd Niesecke
Hendrik Reiher
Karsten Schmeling | Rowing | Men's coxed four | 24 September
Gold | Thomas Lange | Rowing | Men's single sculls | 24 September
Gold | Holger Behrendt | Gymnastics | Men's rings | 24 September
Gold | Axel Wegner | Shooting | Skeet | 24 September
Gold | Lutz Heßlich | Cycling | Men's sprint | 24 September
Gold | Daniela Hunger | Swimming | Women's 200 metre individual medley | 24 September
Gold | Silke Hörner
Katrin Meißner
Kristin Otto
Cornelia Sirch
Manuela Stellmach
Birte Weigang | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | 24 September
Gold | Jutta Behrendt | Rowing | Women's single sculls | 25 September
Gold | Kerstin Förster
Kristina Mundt
Beate Schramm
Jana Sorgers | Rowing | Women's quadruple sculls | 25 September
Gold | Ramona Balthasar
Kathrin Haacker
Anja Kluge
Daniela Neunast
Beatrix Schröer
Ute Stange
Annegret Strauch
Ute Wild
Judith Zeidler | Rowing | Women's eight | 25 September
Gold | Ralf Brudel
Olaf Förster
Thomas Greiner
Roland Schröder | Rowing | Men's coxless four | 25 September
Gold | Kristin Otto | Swimming | Women's 50 metre freestyle | 25 September
Gold | Kathleen Nord | Swimming | Women's 200 metre butterfly | 25 September
Gold | Sigrun Wodars | Athletics | Women's 800 metres | 26 September
Gold | Petra Felke | Athletics | Women's javelin throw | 26 September
Gold | Olaf Ludwig | Cycling | Men's individual road race | 27 September
Gold | Thomas Flach
Bernd Jäkel
Jochen Schümann | Sailing | Soling | 27 September
Gold | Martina Hellmann | Athletics | Women's discus throw | 29 September
Gold | Christian Schenk | Athletics | Men's decathlon | 29 September
Gold | Olaf Heukrodt | Canoeing | Men's C-1 500 metres | 30 September
Gold | Anke Nothnagel
Birgit Schmidt | Canoeing | Women's K-2 500 metres | 30 September
Gold | Anke Nothnagel
Ramona Portwich
Birgit Schmidt
Heike Singer | Canoeing | Women's K-4 500 metres | 1 October
Gold | Andreas Zülow | Boxing | Lightweight | 1 October
Gold | Henry Maske | Boxing | Middleweight | 1 October
Gold | Jürgen Schult | Athletics | Men's discus throw | 1 October
Silver | Holger Behrendt
Ralf Büchner
Ulf Hoffmann
Sylvio Kroll
Sven Tippelt
Andreas Wecker | Gymnastics | Men's artistic team all-around | 20 September
Silver | Uwe Daßler
Thomas Flemming
Lars Hinneburg
Sven Lodziewski
Steffen Zesner | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay | 21 September
Silver | Udo Wagner | Fencing | Men's foil | 21 September
Silver | Frank Baltrusch | Swimming | Men's 200 metre backstroke | 22 September
Silver | Heike Friedrich | Swimming | Women's 400 metre freestyle | 22 September
Silver | Ingo Steinhöfel | Weightlifting | Men's 75 kg | 22 September
Silver | Ralf Schumann | Shooting | Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol | 23 September
Silver | Ronald Weigel | Athletics | Men's 20 kilometres walk | 23 September
Silver | Birte Weigang | Swimming | Women's 100 metre butterfly | 23 September
Silver | Sylvio Kroll | Gymnastics | Men's vault | 24 September
Silver | Sabine John | Athletics | Women's heptathlon | 24 September
Silver | Christa Rothenburger | Cycling | Women's sprint | 24 September
Silver | Steffen Blochwitz
Roland Hennig
Dirk Meier
Uwe Preißler
Carsten Wolf | Cycling | Men's team pursuit | 24 September
Silver | Astrid Strauß | Swimming | Women's 800 metre freestyle | 24 September
Silver | Detlef Kirchhoff
René Rensch
Mario Streit | Rowing | Men's coxed pair | 25 September
Silver | Dagmar Kersten | Gymnastics | Women's uneven bars | 25 September
Silver | Patrick Kühl | Swimming | Men's 200 metre individual medley | 25 September
Silver | Kathrin Zimmermann | Swimming | Women's 200 metre backstroke | 25 September
Silver | Birte Weigang | Swimming | Women's 200 metre butterfly | 25 September
Silver | Christine Wachtel | Athletics | Women's 800 metres | 26 September
Silver | Petra Müller | Athletics | Women's 400 metres | 26 September
Silver | Sven Loll | Judo | Men's 71 kg | 27 September
Silver | Heike Drechsler | Athletics | Women's long jump | 29 September
Silver | Diana Gansky | Athletics | Women's discus throw | 29 September
Silver | Torsten Voss | Athletics | Men's decathlon | 29 September
Silver | Andreas Stähle | Canoeing | Men's K-1 500 metres | 30 September
Silver | Birgit Schmidt | Canoeing | Women's K-1 500 metres | 30 September
Silver | Ronald Weigel | Athletics | Men's 50 kilometres walk | 30 September
Silver | Gloria Siebert | Athletics | Women's 100 metres hurdles | 30 September
Silver | Jörg Schmidt | Canoeing | Men's C-1 1000 metres | 1 October
Silver | Olaf Heukrodt
Ingo Spelly | Canoeing | Men's C-2 1000 metres | 1 October
Silver | Kerstin Behrendt
Marlies Göhr
Ingrid Auerswald-Lange
Silke Möller | Athletics | Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1 October
Silver | Kathrin Neimke | Athletics | Women's shot put | 1 October
Silver | Henry Stöhr | Judo | Men's +95 kg | 1 October
Silver | Andreas Tews | Boxing | Flyweight | 2 October
Bronze | Daniela Hunger | Swimming | Women's 400 metre individual medley | 19 September
Bronze | Manuela Stellmach | Swimming | Women's 200 metre freestyle | 21 September
Bronze | Gabi Fähnrich
Martina Jentsch
Dagmar Kersten
Ulrike Klotz
Bettina Schieferdecker
Dörte Thümmler | Gymnastics | Women's artistic team all-around | 21 September
Bronze | Bernd Dittert | Cycling | Men's individual pursuit | 22 September
Bronze | Anke Möhring | Swimming | Women's 400 metre freestyle | 22 September
Bronze | Cornelia Sirch | Swimming | Women's 100 metre backstroke | 22 September
Bronze | Katrin Dörre | Athletics | Women's marathon | 23 September
Bronze | Thomas Flemming
Lars Hinneburg
Dirk Richter
Steffen Zesner | Swimming | Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay | 23 September
Bronze | Silke Hörner | Swimming | Women's 100 metre breaststroke | 23 September
Bronze | Sven Tippelt | Gymnastics | Men's rings | 24 September
Bronze | Sven Tippelt | Gymnastics | Men's parallel bars | 24 September
Bronze | Holger Behrendt | Gymnastics | Men's horizontal bar | 24 September
Bronze | Anke Behmer | Athletics | Women's heptathlon | 24 September
Bronze | Steffen Bogs
Heiko Habermann
Jens Köppen
Steffen Zühlke | Rowing | Men's quadruple sculls | 25 September
Bronze | Heike Drechsler | Athletics | Women's 100 metres | 25 September
Bronze | Uwe Daßler | Swimming | Men's 1500 metre freestyle | 25 September
Bronze | Katrin Meißner | Swimming | Women's 50 metre freestyle | 25 September
Bronze | Cornelia Sirch | Swimming | Women's 200 metre backstroke | 25 September
Bronze | Beate Koch | Athletics | Women's javelin throw | 26 September
Bronze | Ronny Weller | Weightlifting | Men's 110 kg | 27 September
Bronze | Ellen Fiedler | Athletics | Women's 400 metres hurdles | 28 September
Bronze | Torsten Bréchôt | Judo | Men's 78 kg | 28 September
Bronze | Heike Drechsler | Athletics | Women's 200 metres | 29 September
Bronze | Hartwig Gauder | Athletics | Men's 50 kilometres walk | 30 September
Bronze | André Wohllebe | Canoeing | Men's K-1 1000 metres | 1 October
Bronze | Hans-Jörg Bliesener
Kay Bluhm
Andreas Stähle
André Wohllebe | Canoeing | Men's K-4 1000 metres | 1 October
Bronze | Jens-Peter Herold | Athletics | Men's 1500 metres | 1 October
Bronze | Hansjörg Kunze | Athletics | Men's 5000 metres | 1 October
Bronze | Grit Breuer
Sabine Busch
Kirsten Emmelmann
Petra Müller
Dagmar Neubauer | Athletics | Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | 1 October
Bronze | Andreas Schröder | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 130 kg | 1 October

## Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[3]

Sport  | Men  | Women  | Total

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Athletics | 25 | 33 | 58
Boxing | 11 | – | 11
Canoeing | 11 | 4 | 15
Cycling | 14 | 3 | 17
Diving | 2 | 2 | 4
Fencing | 7 | 0 | 7
Gymnastics | 6 | 6 | 12
Handball | 13 | 0 | 13
Judo | 4 | – | 4
Rowing | 21 | 23 | 44
Sailing | 7 | 2 | 9
Shooting | 13 | 2 | 15
Swimming | 11 | 15 | 26
Volleyball | 0 | 12 | 12
Weightlifting | 4 | – | 4
Wrestling | 8 | – | 8
Total | 157 | 102 | 259

## Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

### Men's competition

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Men's 5,000 metres

* Hansjörg Kunze
1. Heat — 13:44.34
2. Semifinal — 13:23.04
3. Final — 13:15.73 (→  Bronze medal)

Men's 10,000 metres

* Hansjörg Kunze
1. Heat — 28:22.09
2. Final — 27:39.35 (→ 6th place)

Men's marathon

* Jörg Peter
* Final — did not start (→ no ranking)

Men's 4 × 400 m relay

* Jens Carlowitz, Michael Schimmer, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
* Heat — 3:08.13
* Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
* Semifinal — 3:00.60
* Jens Carlowitz, Mathias Schersing, Frank Möller and Thomas Schönlebe
* Final — 3:01.13 (→ 4th place)

Men's 3.000 m steeplechase

* Hagen Melzer

1. Heat — 8:36.45
2. Semifinal — 8:16.27
3. Final — 8:19.82 (→ 10th place)

Men's javelin throw

* Gerald Weiss
* Qualification — 79.16m
* Final — 81.30 m (→ 6th place)
* Silvio Warsönke
* Qualification — 78.22m (→ did not advance)
* Detlef Michel
* Qualification — 77.70 m (→ did not advance)

Men's discus throw

* Jürgen Schult
* Qualifying heat – 64.70 m
* Final – 68.82m (→  Gold medal)

Men's shot put

* Ulf Timmermann
* Qualifying heat – 21.27m
* Final – 22.47m (→  Gold medal)
* Udo Beyer
* Qualifying heat – 20.97m
* Final – 21.40 m (→ 4th place)

Men's hammer throw

* Ralf Haber
* Qualifying heat — 78.16m
* Final — 80.44m (→ 4th place)
* Günther Rodehau
* Qualifying heat — 78.12m
* Final — 72.36m (→ 12th place)

Men's decathlon

* Christian Schenk — 8488 points (→  Gold medal))

1. 100 metres — 11.25s
2. Long jump — 7.43m
3. Shot put — 15.48m
4. High jump — 2.27m
5. 400 metres — 48.90 s
6. 110 m hurdles — 15.13s
7. Discus throw — 49.28m
8. Pole vault — 4.70 m
9. Javelin throw — 61.32m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:28.95s

* Torsten Voss — 8399 points (→  Silver medal))

1. 100 metres — 10.87s
2. Long jump — 7.45m
3. Shot put — 14.97m
4. High jump — 1.97m
5. 400 metres — 47.71s
6. 110 m hurdles — 14.46s
7. Discus throw — 44.36m
8. Pole vault — 5.10 m
9. Javelin throw — 61.76m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:33.02s

* Uwe Freimuth — 7860 points (→ 18th place)

1. 100 metres — 11.57s
2. Long jump — 7.00 m
3. Shot put — 15.60 m
4. High jump — 1.94m
5. 400 metres — 49.84s
6. 110 m hurdles — 15.04s
7. Discus throw — 46.66m
8. Pole vault — 4.90 m
9. Javelin throw — 60.20 m
10. 1.500 metres — 4:46.04s

Men's 20 km walk

* Ronald Weigel
* Final — 1:20:00 (→  Silver medal)
* Axel Noack
* Final — 1:21:14 (→ 8th place)

Men's 50 km walk

* Ronald Weigel
* Final — 3'38:56 (→  Silver medal)
* Hartwig Gauder
* Final — 3'39:45 (→  Bronze medal)
* Dietmar Meisch
* Final — 3'46:31 (→ 9th place)

### Women's competition

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Women's 4 × 100 m relay

* Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange and Marlies Göhr
* Heat — 42.92
* Semifinal — 42.23
* Final — 42.09 (→  Silver medal)

Women's 4 × 400 m relay

* Grit Breuer, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller
* Heat — 3:27.37
* Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Petra Müller
* Final — 3:18.29 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's marathon

* Katrin Dörre – 2"26:21 (→  Bronze medal)
* Birgit Stephan – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's discus throw

* Martina Hellmann
* Qualification – 67.12m
* Final – 72.30 m (→  Gold medal)
* Diana Gansky
* Qualification – 65.40 m
* Final – 71.88m (→  Silver medal)
* Gabriele Reinsch
* Qualification – 66.88m
* Final – 67.26m (→ 7th place)

Women's javelin throw

* Petra Felke
* Qualification – 67.06m
* Final – 74.68m (→  Gold medal)
* Beate Koch
* Qualification – 66.86m
* Final – 67.30 m (→  Bronze medal)
* Silke Renk
* Qualification – 63.64m
* Final – 66.38m (→ 5th place)

Women's shot put

* Kathrin Neimke
* Qualification – 20.18m
* Final – 21.07m (→  Silver medal)
* Ines Müller
* Qualification – 19.79m
* Final – 20.37m (→ 4th place)
* Heike Hartwig
* Qualification – 20.06m
* Final – 20.20 m (→ 6th place)

Women's heptathlon

* Sabine John
* Final result — 6897 points (→  Silver medal)
* Anke Behmer
* Final result — 6858 points (→  Bronze medal)
* Ines Schulz
* Final result — 6411 points (→ 6th place)

## Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Men's bantamweight (54 kg)

* René Breitbarth
1. First round — defeated Magare Tshekiso (BTS), 5–0
2. Second round — defeated Vedat Tutuk (TUR), 5–0
3. Third round — lost to Jorge Julio Rocha (COL), 1–4

## Canoeing

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Main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988.

Men's road race

* Olaf Ludwig — 4:32:22 (→ Gold medal)
* Uwe Raab
* Uwe Ampler

Men's team time trial

* Uwe Ampler
* Mario Kummer
* Maik Landsmann
* Jan Schur

Men's sprint

* Lutz Heßlich

Men's 1 km time trial

* Maic Malchow

Men's individual pursuit

* Bernd Dittert

Men's team pursuit

* Steffen Blochwitz
* Roland Hennig
* Carsten Wolf
* Dirk Meier
* Uwe Preißler

Men's points race

* Olaf Ludwig

Women's road race

* Angela Ranft — 2:00:52 (→ 25th place)
* Petra Rossner — DNF (→ no ranking)

Women's sprint

* Christa Rothenburger-Luding

## Diving

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Main article: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Preliminary  | Final

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Points  | Rank  | Points  | Rank
Jan Hempel | 10 m platform | 558.03  | 5 Q | 583.77  | 5
Steffen Haage | 529.68  | 8 Q | 541.02  | 7

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Preliminary  | Final

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Points  | Rank  | Points  | Rank
Brita Baldus | 3 m springboard | 464.01  | 6 Q | 479.19  | 7
Silke Abicht | 10 m platform | 393.99  | 7 Q | 350.61  | 8

## Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event.[4]

Men's foil

* Udo Wagner
* Jens Howe
* Aris Enkelmann

Men's team foil

* Aris Enkelmann, Adrian Germanus, Jens Gusek, Jens Howe, Udo Wagner

Men's épée

* Torsten Kühnemund
* Uwe Proske

## Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Handball

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Main article: Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Judo

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Main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Men:

* 10 metre air pistol - Gernot Eder (9th place); Jens Potteck (10th place)
* 25 metre rapid fire pistol - Ralf Schumann (2nd place)  Silver medal

Roland Müller (=18th place)

* 50 metre pistol - Gernot Eder (5th place); Uwe Potteck (9th place)
* 10 metre air rifle - Andreas Wolfram (8th place)
* 50 metre rifle three positions - Andreas Wolfram (10th place); Olaf Heß otherwise Olaf Hess (=18th place)
* 50 metre rifle prone - Olaf Heß otherwise Olaf Hess (=15th place); Andreas Wolfram (=15th place)
* 50 metre running target - Thomas Pfeffer (7th place); Mike Herrmann (=15th place)

Open:

* Trap - Jörg Damme (=15th place)
* Skeet - Axel Wegner \- (1st place)  Gold medal

Jürgen Raabe (6th place); Bernhard Hochwald (=11th place)

Women:

* 10 metre air pistol - Anke Völker (5th place)
* 25 metre pistol - Anke Völker (=24th place)
* 10 metre air rifle - Katja Klepp (37th place)
* 50 metre rifle three positions - Katja Klepp (4th place)

## Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 m freestyle

* Steffen Zesner
1. Heat – 50.73
2. Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)
* Sven Lodziewski
1. Heat – 50.77
2. B-Final – 51.00 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m freestyle

* Steffen Zesner
1. Heat – 1:49.13
2. Final – 1:48.77 (→ 6th place)
* Thomas Flemming
1. Heat – 1:49.52
2. B-Final – 1:50.18 (→ 10th place)

Men's 400 m freestyle

* Uwe Dassler
1. Heat – 3:49.90
2. Final – 3:46.95 (→  Gold medal)
* Jörg Hoffmann
1. Heat – 3:53.78
2. B-Final – 3:52.13 (→ 9th place)

Men's 1500 m freestyle

* Uwe Dassler
1. Heat – 15:08.91
2. Final – 15:06.15 (→  Bronze medal)
* Jörg Hoffmann
1. Heat – 15:14.13 (→ did not advance, 6th place)

Men's 100 m backstroke

* Frank Baltrusch
1. Heat – 56.45
2. Final – 56.10 (→ 6th place)
* Dirk Richter
1. Heat – 56.52
2. B-Final – 56.66 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m backstroke

* Frank Baltrusch
1. Heat – 2:01.49
2. Final – 1:59.60 (→  Silver medal)
* Dirk Richter
1. Heat – 2:01.54
2. Final – 2:01.67 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100 m breaststroke

* Christian Poswiat
1. Heat – 1:02.99
2. Final – 1:03.43 (→ 8th place)
* Raik Hannemann
1. Heat – 1:04.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200 m breaststroke

* Christian Poswiat
1. Heat – 2:20.99 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 200 m individual medley

* Patrick Kühl
1. Heat – 2:03.77
2. Final – 2:01.61 (→  Silver medal)
* Raik Hannemann
1. Heat – 2:04.03
2. Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 400 m individual medley

* Patrick Kühl
1. Heat – 4:18.60
2. Final – 4:18.44 (→ 5th place)
* Raik Hannemann
1. Heat – 2:04.03
2. Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

* Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Steffen Zesner
1. Heat – 3:20.47
2. Final – 3:19.82 (→  Bronze medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

* Uwe Dassler, Lars Hinneburg, Sven Lodziewski and Thomas Flemming
1. Heat – 7:16.61
* Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner
1. Final – 7:13.68 (→  Silver medal)

Women's 50 m freestyle

* Kristin Otto
1. Heat – 25.85
2. B-Final – 25.49 (→  Gold medal)
* Katrin Meissner
1. Heat – 25.77
2. Final – 25.71 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's 100 m freestyle

* Kristin Otto
1. Heat – 55.80
2. B-Final – 54.93 (→  Gold medal)
* Manuela Stellmach
1. Heat – 56.14
2. Final – 55.52 (→ 4th place)

Women's 200 m freestyle

* Heike Friedrich
1. Heat – 1:59.02
2. B-Final – 1:57.65 (→  Gold medal)
* Manuela Stellmach
1. Heat – 2:00.30
2. Final – 1:59.01 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's 400 m freestyle

* Heike Friedrich
1. Heat – 4:11.30
2. B-Final – 4:05.94 (→  Silver medal)
* Anke Möhring
1. Heat – 4:10.64
2. Final – 4:06.62 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's 800 m freestyle

* Astrid Strauss
1. Heat – 8:28.07
2. B-Final – 8:22.09 (→  Silver medal)
* Anke Möhring
1. Heat – 8:30.95
2. Final – 8:23.09 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100 m backstroke

* Kristin Otto
1. Heat – 1:01.45
2. Final – 1:00.89 (→  Gold medal)
* Cornelia Sirch
1. Heat – 1:01.63
2. Final – 1:01.57 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's 200 m backstroke

* Kathrin Zimmermann
1. Heat – 2:12.81
2. Final – 2:10.61 (→  Silver medal)
* Cornelia Sirch
1. Heat – 2:10.46
2. Final – 2:11.45 (→  Bronze medal)

Women's 100 m breaststroke

* Silke Hörner
1. Heat – 1:08.35
2. Final – 1:08.83 (→  Bronze medal)
* Annett Rex
1. Heat – 1:10.61
2. Final – 1:10.67 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m breaststroke

* Silke Hörner
1. Heat – 2:27.63
2. Final – 2:26.71 (→  Gold medal)
* Susanne Boernike
1. Heat – 2:30.71
2. B-Final – 2:28.55 (→ 9th place)

Women's 100 m butterfly

* Kristin Otto
1. Heat – 1:00.40
2. Final – 59.00 (→  Gold medal)
* Birte Weigang
1. Heat – 59.97
2. Final – 59.45 (→  Silver medal)

Women's 200 m butterfly

* Kathleen Nord
1. Heat – 2:11.81
2. Final – 2:09.51 (→  Gold medal)
* Birte Weigang
1. Heat – 2:11.97
2. Final – 2:09.91 (→  Silver medal)

Women's 200 m individual medley

* Daniela Hunger
1. Heat – 2:16.23
2. Final – 2:12.59 (→  Gold medal)

Women's 400 m individual medley

* Daniela Hunger
1. Heat – 4:44.85
2. Final – 4:39.76 (→  Bronze medal)
* Kathleen Nord
1. Heat – 4:42.92
2. Final – 4:41.64 (→ 5th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

* Katrin Meissner, Sabina Schulze, Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger
1. Heat – 3:43.13
* Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach
1. Final – 3:40.63 (→  Gold medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay

* Cornelia Sirch, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Manuela Stellmach
1. Heat – 4:08.53
* Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Katrin Meissner
1. Final – 4:03.74 (→  Gold medal)

## Volleyball

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Main article: Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

### Women's tournament

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* Preliminary round (Group A)
* Lost to South Korea (1–3)
* Defeated Japan (3–2)
* Lost to Soviet Union (0–3)
* Classification matches
* 5th/8th place: defeated United States (3–1)
* 5th/6th place: defeated Brazil (3–0) → Fifth place
* Team roster
* Steffi Schmidt
* Susanne Lahme
* Monika Beu
* Ariane Radfan
* Kathrin Langschwager
* Maike Arlt
* Brit Wiedemann
* Ute Steppin
* Grit Jensen
* Dörte Stüdemann
* Heike Jensen
* Ute Langenau
* Head coach: Siegfried Köhler

## Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ "East Germany at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
2. ^ "Das DDR-Aufgebot für den Medaillenkampf" [The GDR squad for the medal fight]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 44, no. 209\. 3 September 1988. p. 6\. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
3. ^ East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics
4. ^ "East Germany Fencing at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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