GDR athletics championships 1981

The women's quartet Geipel , Wöckel , Auerswald and Göhr from SC Motor Jena set a new GDR record for club relays in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

The GDR athletics championships were held for the 32nd time in 1981 and took place from August 7th to 9th at the Ernst Abbe sports field in Jena . The championship served as the final dress rehearsal for the European Athletics Cup in Zagreb a week later .

Among the men, four athletes ( Beck (400 m hurdles), Weber (pole high), Beyer (ball) and Steuk (hammer)) managed to defend their title from the previous year, which in the women’s five athletes ( Göhr (100 m) , Wöckel (200 m), Koch (400 m), Slupianek (ball) and Jahl (discus)) succeeded. With six titles each, the host SC Motor Jena and SC Magdeburg were the most successful teams and Frank Emmelmann from Magdeburg was the most successful athlete of this championship with three titles.

Sporting highlights were the junior European record of the only 16-year-old Heike Daute in the long jump, as well as the GDR records for club relays over 4 x 100 meters by SC Magdeburg for men and SC Motor Jena for women.

On May 23rd and 24th, Ramona Neubert set a new world record in the heptathlon in Halle (Saale) and on July 18th Uwe Dünkel achieved a new GDR record in the Berlin Wuhlheide over a 50 km walk.

Men

discipline	gold		silver		bronze
00100 m	Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg	10.19 s	Frank Hollender SC Dynamo Berlin	10.52 s	Bernhard Hoff SC Chemie Halle	10.53 s
00200 m	Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg	20.40 s	Bernhard Hoff SC Chemie Halle	20.56 s	Olaf Prenzler SC Magdeburg	21.00 s
00400 m	Andreas Knebel SC Magdeburg	45.72 s	Volker Beck SC Turbine Erfurt	46.02 s	Carsten Petters SC Unit Dresden	46.12 s
00800 m	Olaf Beyer ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 44.31 min	Detlef Wagenknecht SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 44.81 min	Andreas Busse SC unit Dresden	1: 46.02 min
01500 m	Olaf Beyer ASK Forward Potsdam	3: 46.43 min	Andreas Busse SC unit Dresden	3: 47.02 min	Frieder Killig SC DHfK Leipzig	3: 47.08 min
05000 m	Hansjörg Kunze SC Empor Rostock	13: 29.07 min	Werner Schildhauer SC Chemie Halle	13: 31.59 min	Olaf Kampe SC Magdeburg	13: 55.48 min
0010,000 m	Werner Schildhauer SC Chemie Halle	28: 11.23 min	Hansjörg Kunze SC Empor Rostock	28: 13.25 min	Klaus-Dieter Schiemenz ASK Forward Potsdam	28: 52.17 min
00marathon	Matthias Böckler SC Chemie Halle	2: 17: 40.0 h	Matthias Weller SC Motor Jena	2: 18: 08.8 h	Helfried Tannert SC Unit Dresden	2: 18: 46.0 h
110 m hurdles	Andreas Schlickke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13.65 s	Holger Pohland SC DHfK Leipzig	13.89 s	Ingo Bruhn SC Neubrandenburg	14.36 s
400 m hurdles	Volker Beck SC Turbine Erfurt	49.74 s	Jörg Hanniske SC Cottbus	51.02 s	Rolf Herrmann SC Dynamo Berlin	51.60 s
3000 m obstacle	Ralf Pönitzsch SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 31.57 min	Andreas Garack SC Cottbus	8: 31.77 min	Michael Klabuhn ASK Forward Potsdam	8: 36.18 min
4 × 100 m	SC Magdeburg Frank Löper Frank Emmelmann Olaf Prenzler Andreas Knebel	39.53 s	SC Dynamo Berlin Frank Hollender Detlef Burdack Uwe Grunert Wolfgang Guse	40.16 s	ASK Forward Potsdam Zülow Ingo Voge Klaus-Dieter Kurrat Frank Möller	40.43 s
4 × 400 m	SC DHfK Leipzig Frank Richter Andreas Neuber Enrico Becker Andreas Stolle	3: 07.54 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Andreas Huebner Rolf Herrmann Detlef Wagenknecht Uwe Preusche	3: 08.04 min	SC Cottbus Gerd Glodeck Fuchs Jörg Hanniske Udo Bauer	3: 10.79 min
20 km walk	Ralf Kowalsky TSC Berlin	1: 21: 39.1 h	Roland Wieser SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 22: 12.3 h	Ronald Weigel ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 22: 39.4 h
0050 km walk	Uwe Dünkel TSC Berlin	3: 45: 51.0 h	Hartwig Gauder SC Turbine Erfurt	3: 46: 56.4 h	Dietmar Meisch TSC Berlin	3: 48: 56.2 h
high jump	Rolf Beilschmidt SC Motor Jena	2.24 m	Jörg Freimuth ASK Forward Potsdam	2.24 m	Henry Lauterbach SC Turbine Erfurt	2.21 m
Pole vault	Axel Weber SC Motor Jena	5.35 m	Dieter Sickert SC Unit Dresden	5.00 m	Frank Henschel SC Cottbus	5.00 m
Long jump	Uwe Lange SC Dynamo Berlin	8.02 m	Henry Lauterbach SC Turbine Erfurt	7.97 m	Frank Nowack TSC Berlin	7.88 m
Triple jump	Matthias Schröder SC Tractor Schwerin	15.99 m	Axel Groß SC Empor Rostock	15.83 m	Bodo Behmer SC Neubrandenburg	15.83 m
Shot put	Udo Beyer ASK Forward Potsdam	21.44 m	Wolfgang Schmidt SC Dynamo Berlin	20.33 m	Mathias Schmidt SC Motor Jena	19.83 m
Discus throw	Armin Lemme SC Magdeburg	66.70 m	Wolfgang Schmidt SC Dynamo Berlin	66.28 m	Hilmar Hoßfeld SC Turbine Erfurt	62.98 m
Hammer throw	Roland Steuk TSC Berlin	75.28 m	Tobias Stopat SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	72.28 m	Matthias Moder SC Dynamo Berlin	69.88 m
Javelin throw	Gerald Weiß SC Tractor Schwerin	89.56 m	Detlef Michel TSC Berlin	86.76 m	Detlef Fuhrmann SC Chemie Halle	86.48 m
00Decathlon	Rainer Pottel TSC Berlin	8161 points	Siegfried Stark SC Tractor Schwerin	8036 points	Uwe Freimuth ASK Forward Potsdam	8011 points

Women

discipline	gold		silver		bronze
0100 m	Marlies Göhr SC Motor Jena	11.20 s	Bärbel Wöckel SC Motor Jena	11.22 s	Kirsten Siemon SC Empor Rostock	11.37 s
0200 m	Bärbel Wöckel SC Motor Jena	22.07 s	Kirsten Siemon SC Empor Rostock	22.50 s	Gesine Walther SC Turbine Erfurt	22.62 s
0400 m	Marita Koch SC Empor Rostock	49.64 s	Dagmar Rübsam SC Turbine Erfurt	50.98 s	Gabriele Löwe SC Unit Dresden	51.84 s
0800 m	Martina Steuk TSC Berlin	1: 58.71 min	Hildegard Ullrich SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 58.83 min	Marion Huebner SC Chemie Halle	2: 00.38 min
1500 m	Angelika Zauber SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 59.90 min	Ulrike Bruns ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 01.44 min	Beate Liebich SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 03.68 min
3000 m	Ulrike Bruns ASK Forward Potsdam	8: 49.67 min	Angelika Zauber SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 50.45 min	Beate Liebich SC Turbine Erfurt	9: 17.22 min
100 m hurdles	Kerstin Knabe SC DHfK Leipzig	13.08 s	Gloria Kovarik SC Cottbus	13.26 s	Bettine Gärtz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13.32 s
400 m hurdles	Ellen Neumann SC Dynamo Berlin	54.79 s	Petra Pfaff SC Cottbus	55.54 s	Birgit Sonntag SC Cottbus	56.98 s
4 × 100 m	SC Motor Jena Ines Geipel Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	42.35 s	SC Turbine Erfurt Anneliese Walter Gesine Walther Dagmar Rübsam Siegfried	43.96 s	SC Magdeburg Sylvia Kirchner Ilona Eulenstein Undine Hartmann Cornelia Feuerbach	44.86 s
4 × 400 m	SC Magdeburg Cornelia Feuerbach Heidrun Giggel Ilona Eulenstein Undine Hartmann	3: 33.85 min	SC Cottbus Birgit Sunday Hinz Petra Pfaff Sabine Pfaff	3: 35.12 min	SC Turbine Erfurt Sabine Busch Hildegard Ullrich Andrea Werther Beate Liebich	3: 36.30 min
high jump	Andrea Reichstein SC DHfK Leipzig	1.93 m	Jutta Kirst SC Dynamo Berlin	1.91 m	Manuela Schröder SC Cottbus	1.91 m
Long jump	Heike Daute SC Motor Jena	6.91 m	Sigrid Ulbricht SC Magdeburg	6.89 m	Heidrun Geissler SC Empor Rostock	6.68 m
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek SC Dynamo Berlin	21.46 m	Margitta Pufe SC Motor Jena	20.37 m	Helma Knorscheidt SC Chemie Halle	20.16 m
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl ASK Forward Potsdam	66.72 m	Petra Sziegaud SC Dynamo Berlin	65.38 m	Irina Meszynski TSC Berlin	65.18 m
Javelin throw	Petra Potreck SC Tractor Schwerin	66.08 m	Ute Hommola SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	64.04 m	Petra Felke SC Motor Jena	63.40 m
00Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert SC Unit Dresden	6621 points	Marion Weser SC unit Dresden	6090 points	Sabine Möbius SC DHfK Leipzig	5961 points

1. ↑ The champion in the 10,000-meter run was determined on May 30th in Cottbus's Max Reimann Stadium .
2. ↑ ^{a b} The champion in 50-km walk and marathon were on July 18 in Berlin Wuhlheide determined
3. ↑ ^{a b} The champion in the all around were on 23 and 24 May in Halle (Saale) determined

Medal table

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	total
01		SC Motor Jena	6th	03	2	11
02		SC Magdeburg	6th	01	3	10
03		ASK forward Potsdam	5	02	5	12
04th		TSC Berlin	5	01	3	09
05		SC Dynamo Berlin	4th	10	2	16
06th		SC DHfK Leipzig	3	01	2	06th
07th		SC Tractor Schwerin	3	01	-	04th
08th		SC Empor Rostock	2	03	2	07th
09		SC Chemistry Hall	2	02	4th	08th
10		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	02	1	05
11		SC Turbine Erfurt	1	06th	6th	13
12		SC unit Dresden	1	03	4th	08th
13		SC Cottbus	-	05	4th	09
14th		SC Neubrandenburg	-	0-	2	02
	Total		40	40	40	120

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 241-243 .
• New Germany . 123, 129, 170 and 184-188. Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1981, ISSN  0323-3375 .

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