GDR swimming championships 1974

Anne-Katrin Schott set a new world record over 200 m breasts.

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 25th time in 1974 and took place from July 4th to 8th in Rostock , where the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). With eleven titles, the SC DHfK Leipzig was the most successful team and with Roger Pyttel , who won seven titles, the most successful athlete of this championship.

Sporting highlights of the championship were the four world records of Kornelia Ender over 100 meters freestyle, Anne-Katrin Schott over 200 meters chest and Ulrike Richter over 100 and 200 meters back as well as Angela Franke's European record over 200 meters freestyle. Christian Lietzmann set new GDR records for men in the 200 and 400 meter medley and for women Angela Franke in the 400 meter freestyle. Furthermore, the women's relay from SC DHfK Leipzig set new GDR records for club relays over 4 × 100 meters freestyle and from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt over 4 × 100 meters.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	53.55 s	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	53.98 s	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	54.20 s
200 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 55.56 min	Wilfried Hartung TSC Berlin	1: 57.88 min	Andreas Meier SC Empor Rostock	1: 58.54 min
400 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 07.30 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 09.13 min	Wilfried Hartung TSC Berlin	4: 09.52 min
1500 m freestyle0	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	16: 26.12 min	Berger SC Empor Rostock	16: 28.53 min	Axel Freudenberg SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	16: 29.29 min
100 m chest	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 08.96 min	Jürgen Glas SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 09.71 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 09.78 min
200 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 29.34 min	Ulrich Nitzsche SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 30.71 min	Michael Spormann SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 33.29 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	56.62 s	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	56.72 s	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	58.41 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 05.40 min	Volker Pohl SC Dresden unit	2: 07.85 min	Gerd Glogowsky SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 08.34 min
100 m back	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	57.39 s	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	59.11 s	Thomas Luckau SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.31 min
200 m back	Roland Matthes SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 04.8 min	Thomas Luckau SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 09.2 min	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 09.3 min
200 m layers	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	2: 08.35 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 12.63 min	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 13.34 min
400 m layers	Christian Lietzmann SC unit Dresden	4: 34.74 min	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 41.78 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 45.77 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	TSC Berlin Hartmut Flöckner Wilfried Hartung Michael Krause Wolfgang Wachenschwanz	3: 40.45 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Christoph Baumbach Gerd Glogowsky Wolfram Dobroschke	3: 40.57 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Frank Puddle Thomas Luckau Foersterling Krautz	3: 45.83 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Wolfram Sperling Christoph Baumbach Gerd Glogowsky	7: 59.65 min	TSC Berlin	8: 07.57 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 20.76 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Wolfram Sperling Gerd Glogowsky Christoph Baumbach	4: 05.44 min	ASK forward Potsdam	4: 07.17 min	SC unit Dresden	4: 09.01 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	57.51 s	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	58.51 s	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 00.06 min
200 m freestyle	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	2: 05.25 min	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 07.08 min	Monika Seltmann SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 08.71 min
400 m freestyle	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	4: 22.19 min	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	4: 23.47 min	Cornelia Dörr SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 25.48 min
800 m freestyle	Cornelia Dörr SC DHfK Leipzig	9: 02.86 min	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	9: 04.95 min	Marion Papra TSC Berlin	9: 11.49 min
100 m chest	Renate Vogel SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 14.58 min	Anne-Katrin Schott SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 15.52 min	Karla Linke SC unit Dresden	1: 15.59 min
200 m chest	Anne-Katrin Schott SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 37.89 min	Renate Vogel SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 38.85 min	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 40.23 min
100 m butterfly	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 02.86 min	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 03.21 min	Roswitha Beier SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 04.97 min
200 m butterfly	Rosemarie Kother SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 15.96 min	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	2: 18.94 min	Anne-Kathrin Leucht SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 20.12 min
100 m back	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 04.43 min	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 06.01 min	Monika Seltmann SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 07.94 min
200 m back	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 18.41 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 22.25 min	Andrea Eife SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 24.70 min
200 m layers	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	2: 21.46 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 21.50 min	Andrea Huebner SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 24.46 min
400 m layers	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 57.76 min	Angela Franke SC Magdeburg	5:00:01 min	Gudrun Wegner SC Unit Dresden	5: 02.50 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Hannelore Anke Ulrike Tauber Jorzig Andrea Huebner	4: 02.27 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Monika Seltmann Barbara Krause Monika Meyer Andrea Eife	4: 04.01 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Ines Zimmermann Ute Brückner Cornelia Dörr Marina Jank	4: 04.94 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC DHfK Leipzig Maike Lohse Anne-Katrin Schott Anne-Kathrin Leucht Ute Brückner	4: 30.11 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 30.46 min	SC unit Dresden	4: 32.57 min

Medal table

Ulrike Richter set new world records over 100 and 200 m backs.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC DHfK Leipzig	110	4th	4th	19th
02		SC unit Dresden	4th	2	5	11
03		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	5	3	11
04th		SC Turbine Erfurt	3	2	2	07th
05		SC Magdeburg	3	2	-	05
06th		SC Dynamo Berlin	2	6th	9	17th
07th		SC Chemistry Hall	2	3	-	05
08th		TSC Berlin	1	2	2	05
09		ASK forward Potsdam	-	2	3	05
10		SC Empor Rostock	-	1	1	02
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1975 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1974, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 217 .
• New Germany . No. 182-188 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1974, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 25th GDR Swimming Championships  - collection of images, 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)