GDR Swimming Championships 1972

The venue for the GDR swimming championships in 1972

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 23rd time in 1972 and took place from July 8th to 12th in the Leipzig swimming stadium , where the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). With six titles each, SC DHfK Leipzig and SC Turbine Erfurt were the most successful teams and Roland Matthes with four titles the most successful athletes of this championship.

The sporting highlights of the championship were Roland Matthes' world record over 200 meters back and the two European records of Gudrun Wegner over 800 meters freestyle and Rosemarie Kother over 200 meters butterfly.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	53.6 s	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	54.1 s	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	54.1 s
200 m freestyle	Udo Poser ASK Forward Rostock	1: 58.3 min	Wilfried Hartung TSC Berlin	1: 58.8 min	Lutz Unger SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 59.3 min
400 m freestyle	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 09.4 min	Klaus Dockhorn SC Chemie Halle	4: 11.9 min	Fred Reihs ASK Forward Rostock	4: 17.9 min
1500 m freestyle0	Axel Freudenberg SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	16: 37.7 min	Klaus Dockhorn SC Chemie Halle	16: 37.9 min	Bernd Jaudzim's ASK Forward Rostock	16: 58.2 min
100 m chest	Klaus Katzur ASK Forward Rostock	1: 07.7 min	Rainer Hradetzky SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 08.3 min	Dieter Appelt SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 10.0 min
200 m chest	Klaus Katzur ASK Forward Rostock	2: 26.2 min	Rainer Hradetzky SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 29.7 min	Dieter Appelt SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 31.0 min
100 m butterfly	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	56.5 s	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	57.5 s	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	57.7 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 06.9 min	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	2: 07.4 min	Gerd Glogowsky SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 09.7 min
100 m back	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	56.8 s	Jürgen Krüger SC Unit Dresden	1: 00.1 min	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Rostock	1: 00.6 min
200 m back	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 02.8 min	Lothar Noack SC Unit Dresden	2: 10.2 min	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Rostock	2: 10.8 min
200 m layers	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 11.1 min	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 11.2 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	2: 14.1 min
400 m layers	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 38.9 min	Bertram Türpe SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 44.5 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	4: 50.2 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Axel Lehmann Bertram Türpe Christoph Baumbach	3: 38.6 min	TSC Berlin	3: 40.1 min	ASK forward Rostock	3: 43.6 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	ASK forward Rostock Wilke Udo Poser Uwe Haß Rolf Schmück	7: 57.0 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	8: 00.0 min	TSC Berlin	8: 09.7 min
4 × 100 m layers	ASK Forward Rostock Lutz Wanja Klaus Katzur Rolf Schmück Udo Poser	4: 03.0 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 05.2 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 08.5 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Gabriele Wetzko SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 00.2 min	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 00.6 min	Sylvia Eichner SC Dresden unit	1: 00.8 min
200 m freestyle	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 08.1 min	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	2: 09.9 min	Karin Tülling SC Empor Rostock	2: 09.9 min
400 m freestyle	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 29.3 min	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	4: 30.5 min	Elke Sehmisch SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 34.0 min
800 m freestyle	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	9: 10.5 min	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	9: 25.9 min	Karin Tülling SC Empor Rostock	9: 29.7 min
100 m chest	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 16.4 min	Sylvia Langer ASK Forward Rostock	1: 17.0 min	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 17.6 min
200 m chest	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 45.4 min	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 45.5 min	Sylvia Langer ASK Forward Rostock	2: 46.4 min
100 m butterfly	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 04.9 min	Roswitha Beier SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 05.3 min	Gabriele Wetzko SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 07.0 min
200 m butterfly	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 19.5 min	Helga Lindner SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 21.6 min	Brigitte Mertz SC Empor Rostock	2: 26.1 min
100 m back	Susanne Hilger SC Empor Rostock	1: 08.4 min	Christine Herbst SC Unit Dresden	1: 08.6 min	Ina Lauterbach SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 10.5 min
200 m back	Christine Herbst SC Unit Dresden	2: 25.7 min	Susanne Hilger SC Empor Rostock	2: 26.4 min	Barbara Hofmeister SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 28.9 min
200 m layers	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	2: 28.1 min	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 28.7 min	Evelyn Stolze SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 28.9 min
400 m layers	Evelyn Stolze SC Dynamo Berlin	5: 11.9 min	Marlis Pohl SC Empor Rostock	5: 13.1 min	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	5: 14.2 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Unit Dresden Sylvia Eichner Gudrun Wegner Reiche Christine Herbst	4: 07.7 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 08.2 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 09.3 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Krause Renate Vogel Helga Lindner Andrea Huebner	4: 36.5 min	SC Empor Rostock	4: 38.7 min	SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 39.6 min

1. ↑ Axel Freudenberg set a new GDR record in the 800 m intermediate time in 8: 49.4.

Medal table

The first three winners in the women's 200 m freestyle (from left Wegner, Eife and Tülling).

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC DHfK Leipzig	6th	5	6th	17th
02		SC Turbine Erfurt	6th	2	1	09
03		SC Dynamo Berlin	5	5	4th	14th
04th		ASK forward Rostock	5	1	6th	12
05		SC unit Dresden	3	5	3	11
06th		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	2	3	07th
07th		SC Empor Rostock	1	3	3	07th
08th		SC Chemistry Hall	1	2	-	03
09		TSC Berlin	-	4th	2	06th
10		SC Magdeburg	-	-	1	01
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

• List of swimming world records over 200 meters back
• List of European swimming records over 800 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters butterfly

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1973 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1972, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 193 .
• New Germany . No. 187-192 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1972, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 23rd GDR championships in sport swimming  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Result lists men (freestyle)
• Results lists men (chest, butterfly, back and position)
• Result lists women (freestyle)
• Result lists women (chest, butterfly, back and position)