East German Athletics Championships 1979

Final over 400 meter hurdles with Bärbel Klepp and Petra Pfaff .

The GDR athletics championships were held for the 30th time in 1979 and took place from August 9th to 12th in the Karl-Marx-Städter Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion .

The championships over 10,000 meters, in the marathon and in the men's 50 km walk took place from July 7th to 8th in Leipzig .

Men

discipline	gold		silver		bronze
0100 m	Olaf Prenzler SC Magdeburg	10.31 s	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat ASK Forward Potsdam	10.43 s	Detlef Kübeck SC Tractor Schwerin	10.49 s
0200 m	Bernhard Hoff SC Chemie Halle	20.84 s	Olaf Prenzler SC Magdeburg	20.89 s	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat ASK Forward Potsdam	20.91 s
0400 m	Frank Schaffer ASK Forward Potsdam	45.73 s	Manfred Konow SC Tractor Schwerin	45.94 s	Frank Richter SC DHfK Leipzig	45.98 s
0800 m	Olaf Beyer ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 46.5 min	Detlef Wagenknecht SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 47.2 min	Andreas Hauck ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 47.4 min
1500 m	Jürgen Straub ASK Forward Potsdam	3: 38.4 min	Hansjörg Kunze SC Empor Rostock	3: 40.1 min	Andreas Busse SC unit Dresden	3: 40.7 min
5000 m	Ralf Pönitzsch SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13: 26.9 min	Jörg Peter SC Unit Dresden	13: 27.4 min	Werner Schildhauer SC Chemie Halle	13:30.1 min
010,000 m	Waldemar Cierpinski SC Chemie Halle	28: 54.0 min	Jürgen Bär SC DHfK Leipzig	29: 07.7 min	Lutz Obschonka SC unit Dresden	29: 13.5 min
marathon	Hans-Joachim Truppel SC Motor Jena	2:20:02 h	Jürgen Eberding SC Magdeburg	2:24:05 h	Dietmar Knies HSG KMU Leipzig	2:27:55 h
110 m hurdles	Thomas Munkelt SC DHfK Leipzig	13.60 s	Thomas Dittrich SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13.84 s	Andreas Schlickke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13.85 s
400 m hurdles	Manfred Konow SC Tractor Schwerin	50.68 s	Andreas Münch SC Turbine Erfurt	51.00 s	Uwe Ackermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	51.32 s
3000 m obstacle	Ralf Pönitzsch SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 37.2 min	Hagen Melzer SC unit Dresden	8: 41.0 min	Andreas Garack SC Cottbus	8: 41.7 min
4 × 100 m	SC Magdeburg Krüger , Kühne , Prenzler , Jaenicke	40.10 s	SC Dynamo Berlin 0	40.42 s	ASK forward Potsdam 0	40.45 s
4 × 400 m	SC DHfK Leipzig Neuber , Becker , Pohle , Richter	3: 07.2 min	SC Cottbus 0	3: 08.2 min	ASK forward Potsdam 0	3: 08.8 min
20 km walk	Fred Sparmann ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 25: 24.8 hours	Mario Kerber ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 25: 41.3 h	Werner Heyer SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 26: 11.5 h
0050 km walk	Hartwig Gauder SC Turbine Erfurt	4:01:20 h	Horst-Joachim Matern SC Dynamo Berlin	4:03:39 h	Fred Sparmann ASK Forward Potsdam	4:06:44 h
high jump	Rolf Beilschmidt SC Motor Jena	2.28 m	Gerd Wessig SC Tractor Schwerin	2.19 m	Edgar Kirst SC Dynamo Berlin	2.16 m
Pole vault	Axel Weber SC Motor Jena	5.20 m	Dirk Eckardt SC Motor Jena	5.00 m	Hans-Jürgen Elbel ASK Forward Potsdam	5.00 m
Long jump	Lutz Dombrowski SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8.11 m	Frank Paschek TSC Berlin	7.84 m	Lutz Franke SC DHfK Leipzig	7.83 m
Triple jump	Klaus Hufnagel SC Magdeburg	16.15 m	Heiko Fermumm SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	15.78 m	Joachim Lukowsky TSC Berlin	15.65 m
Shot put	Udo Beyer ASK Forward Potsdam	21.12 m	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi SC Turbine Erfurt	20.21 m	Wolfgang Schmidt SC Dynamo Berlin	19.93 m
Discus throw	Wolfgang Schmidt SC Dynamo Berlin	66.26 m	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi SC Turbine Erfurt	64.84 m	Armin Lemme SC Magdeburg	63.18 m
Hammer throw	Roland Steuk TSC Berlin	75.94 m	Tobias Stopat SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	73.16 m	Bernhard Ullrich SC Magdeburg	68.72 m
Javelin throw	Detlef Michel TSC Berlin	88.26 m	Detlef Fuhrmann SC Chemie Halle	83.52 m	Karl Heller SC Dynamo Berlin	82.62 m
Decathlon	Steffen Grummt SC Motor Jena	7576 points	Wolfgang Kühne SC Chemie Halle	7487 points	Wolfgang Lindner ASK Forward Potsdam	7441 points

Women

discipline	gold		silver		bronze
0100 m	Marlies Göhr SC Motor Jena	11.09 s	Christina Brehmer SC Dynamo Berlin	11.20 s	Ingrid Auerswald SC Motor Jena	11.38 s
0200 m	Marita Koch SC Empor Rostock	22.05 s	Marlies Göhr SC Motor Jena	22.90 s	Romy Schneider SC Dynamo Berlin	23.19 s
0400 m	Gabriele Kotte SC Unit Dresden Christina Brehmer SC Dynamo Berlin	50.70 s	-	-	Brigitte Köhn SC Neubrandenburg	51.16 s
0800 m	Anita Weiß SC Neubrandenburg	1: 58.7 min	Hildegard Ullrich SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 58.8 min	Marion Hülbner SC Chemie Halle	1: 59.7 min
1500 m	Christiane Wartenberg SC Chemie Halle	4: 05.4 min	Hildegard Ullrich SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 07.1 min	Beate Liebich SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 07.5 min
100 m hurdles	Kerstin Claus SC DHfK Leipzig	12.87 s	Regina Beyer SC Cottbus	13.02 s	Bettine Gärtz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13.43 s
400 m hurdles	Bärbel Klepp SC Magdeburg	55.92 s	Petra Pfaff SC Cottbus	56.46 s	Hildegard Ullrich SC Turbine Erfurt	57.16 s
4 × 100 m	SC Turbine Erfurt Böhme , Böhmer , Hirsch , Siegl	44.16 s	SC Magdeburg 0	46.08 s	-	-
4 × 400 m	SC Turbine Erfurt Kusche , Busch , Liebich , Ullrich	3: 37.1 min	SC Magdeburg 0	3: 40.3 min	SC DHfK Leipzig 0	3: 44.4 min
high jump	Rosemarie Ackermann SC Cottbus	1.92 m	Kristine Nitzsche SC Cottbus	1.89 m	Kerstin Dedner SC Empor Rostock Andrea Reichstein SC DHfK Leipzig	1.86 m
Long jump	Angela Voigt SC Magdeburg	6.68 m	Helga Radtke SC Empor Rostock	6.63 m	Ramona Neubert SC Unit Dresden	6.44 m
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek SC Dynamo Berlin	21.39 m	Margitta Pufe SC Motor Jena	21.16 m	Marianne Adam SC Dynamo Berlin	21.04 m
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl ASK Forward Potsdam	68.04 m	Margitta Pufe SC Motor Jena	65.54 m	Martina Opitz SC DHfK Leipzig	64.52 m
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs SC Motor Jena	66.50 m	Ute Hommola SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	61.02 m	Ute Richter SC Unit Dresden	57.92 m
Pentathlon	Burglinde Pollak ASK Forward Potsdam	4516 points	Christine Laser SC Turbine Erfurt	4393 points	Margit Ader SC Tractor Schwerin	4157 points

Medal table

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	total
01		ASK forward Potsdam	7th	2	7th	16
02		SC Motor Jena	6th	4th	1	11
03		SC Magdeburg	5	4th	2	11
04th		SC Turbine Erfurt	3	6th	2	11
05		SC Dynamo Berlin	3	4th	6th	13
06th		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	4th	3	10
07th		SC Chemistry Hall	3	2	2	07th
08th		SC DHfK Leipzig	3	1	5	09
09		TSC Berlin	2	1	1	04th
10		SC Cottbus	1	4th	1	06th
11		SC unit Dresden	1	2	4th	07th
12		SC Tractor Schwerin	1	2	2	05
13		SC Empor Rostock	1	2	1	04th
14th		SC Neubrandenburg	1	-	1	02
15th		HSG KMU Leipzig	-	-	1	01
	Total		40	38	39	117

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 189-190 .
• New Germany . 159 and 187-189. Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1979, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : GDR Athletics Championships 1979  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Result lists

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The masters were from 7 to 8 July at Leipzig determined