GDR swimming championships 1973

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1973

Kornelia Ender cheers after her world record in the 100 m freestyle.

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 24th time in 1973 and took place in Berlin from July 11th to 15th . The venue was the open water pool in the Hohenschönhausen Sports Forum , where the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). For the first time at the championships, swimming times were measured in the hundredths range. With eight titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and Roger Pyttel from SC DHfK Leipzig , who won five titles, was the most successful athlete in this championship.

Despite the absence of Roland Matthes (infectious disease), there was a flood of records at the championships. Kornelia Ender set new world records in the 100 meters freestyle and 100 meters butterfly . Andrea Eife over 200 meters freestyle and 200 meters back and Rosemarie Kother over 200 meters butterfly set new European records. Roger Pyttel set new GDR records for men in the 100 and 400 meter freestyle and 200 meter medley. Renate Vogel succeeded in doing this over 100 meters chest and Gudrun Wegner over 400 meters medley. In addition, the men's relay from SC Dynamo Berlin over the 4 × 100 meter individual medley and the women's relay from SC DHfK Leipzig over the 4 × 100 meter freestyle and from SC Einheit Dresden over the 4 × 100 meter medley set new GDR records for club relays.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	52.78 s	Peter Bruch SC Dynamo Berlin	53.52 s	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	54.54 s
200 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 55.06 min	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	1: 58.28 min	Peter Bruch SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 58.40 min
400 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 06.58 min	Wilfried Hartung TSC Berlin	4: 09.92 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 12.87 min
1500 m freestyle0	Andreas Meier SC Empor Rostock	16: 32.05 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	16: 35.30 min	Klaus Dockhorn SC Chemie Halle	16: 36.12 min
100 m chest	Jürgen Glas SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 08.34 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 09.44 min	Ulrich Nitzsche SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 10.46 min
200 m chest	Jürgen Glas SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 26.02 min	Ulrich Nitzsche SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 29.37 min	Michael Spormann SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 36.87 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	57.08 s	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	57.48 s	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	59.61 s
200 m butterfly	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	2: 06.02 min	Gerd Glogowsky SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 08.97 min	Volker Pohl SC Dresden unit	2: 12.54 min
100 m back	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Rostock	1: 00.33 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	1: 01.21 min	Thomas Luckau SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.68 min
200 m back	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Rostock	2: 10.46 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	2: 10.96 min	Lothar Noack SC Unit Dresden	2: 11.14 min
200 m layers	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 10.06 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	2: 11.14 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 12.46 min
400 m layers	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 37.71 min	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	4: 40.50 min	Wolfram Dobroschke SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 50.85 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Lutz Unger Peter Bruch Krautz Thomas Luckau	3: 39.28 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	3: 39.40 min	TSC Berlin	3: 44.13 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	TSC Berlin Wilfried Hartung Hartmut Flöckner Wolfgang Wachenschwanz Strauss	8: 01.84 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 02.51 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	8: 02.53 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Dynamo Berlin Thomas Luckau Jürgen Glas Peter Bruch Lutz Unger	4: 02.00 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 05.69 min	ASK Forward Rostock Lutz Wanja Gerhard Jeschull Fred Reihs Uwe Haß	4: 09.38 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	58.25 s	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	59.51 s	Andrea Huebner SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	59.76 s
200 m freestyle	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 05.70 min	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	2: 05.79 min	Elke Sehmisch SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 09.25 min
400 m freestyle	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 27.96 min	Elke Sehmisch SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 29.85 min	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	4: 31.89 min
800 m freestyle	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	9: 11.93 min	Cornelia Dörr SC DHfK Leipzig	9: 20.80 min	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	9: 23.69 min
100 m chest	Renate Vogel SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 15.0 min	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 17.69 min	Doris Meier SC Magdeburg	1: 18.41 min
200 m chest	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 44.19 min	Renate Vogel SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 44.37 min	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 45.48 min
100 m butterfly	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 02.31 min	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 03.41 min	Roswitha Beier SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 03.64 min
200 m butterfly	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 16.03 min	Roswitha Beier SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 21.48 min	Anne-Kathrin Leucht SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 25.35 min
100 m back	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 07.00 min	Christine Herbst SC Unit Dresden	1: 08.54 min	Sylvia Eichner SC Dresden unit	1: 09.45 min
200 m back	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 22.34 min	Christine Herbst SC Unit Dresden	2: 25.53 min	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 26.81 min
200 m layers	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	2: 23.43 min	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 24.18 min	Andrea Huebner SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 24.75 min
400 m layers	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	5: 05.37 min	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	5: 08.06 min	Brigitte Schuchardt SC Turbine Erfurt	5: 11.61 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC DHfK Leipzig Ines Zimmermann Gabriele Wetzko Marina Jank Elke Sehmisch	4: 04.06 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 05.37 min	TSC Berlin	4: 15.24 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Unit Dresden Christine Herbst Karla Linke Gudrun Wegner Sylvia Eichner	4: 33.12 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 34.88 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 38.89 min

1. ↑ Renate Vogel's winning time of 1: 15.70 over 100 meters chest was corrected to a hand-stopped 1: 15.0 because the timing contact on her track was not triggered properly.

Medal table

The five-time GDR champion Roger Pyttel (left) in conversation with Wolfram Sperling.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	8th	8th	4th	20th
02		SC DHfK Leipzig	7th	7th	7th	21st
03		SC unit Dresden	4th	6th	6th	16
04th		SC Chemistry Hall	3	1	1	05
05		TSC Berlin	2	3	3	08th
06th		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	2	3	07th
07th		ASK forward Rostock	2	-	1	03
08th		SC Empor Rostock	1	-	-	01
09		SC Turbine Erfurt	-	1	2	03
		SC Magdeburg	-	1	2	03
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

• List of swimming world records over 100 meters freestyle
• List of swimming world records over 100 meters butterfly
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters butterfly
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters back

literature

• New Germany . No. 189-195 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1973, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 24th GDR Swimming Championships  - 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)