GDR Swimming Championships 1976

Roger Pyttel at the award ceremony for the 200 m butterfly.

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 27th time in 1976 and took place in Berlin from June 1st to 5th . The venue was the indoor swimming pool of the Hohenschönhausen Sports Forum , in which the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). With nine titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and Roger Pyttel from SC DHfK Leipzig , who won six titles, was the most successful athlete in this championship.

The championships saw a flood of world records . The women alone set fifteen new records, a record was only missed over the 200 m chest. Kornelia Ender was the first woman to stay below the two-minute limit in the 200 meter freestyle. Rosemarie Gabriel improved her record from the prelim again in the final over the 200 meter butterfly. As the starting swimmer of the 4 × 100 meter relay relay, Ulrike Richter set a new record over 100 meters back. With that she improved Kornelia Ender's record in the individual final. Roger Pyttel set new records for men. He also improved his world record from the preliminary run in the final over the 200 meter butterfly. He was the first man to stay below the two-minute limit. In the run-up to the 100 meter butterfly he set a new European record.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	51.98 sec	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	53.36 s	Peter Bruch SC Dynamo Berlin	53.44 s
200 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 53.31 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	1: 54.54 min	Wilfried Hartung TSC Berlin	1: 55.62 min
400 m freestyle	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 58.59 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	3: 58.69 min	Lutz Löscher SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 02.91 min
1500 m freestyle0	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	15: 54.53 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	16:02.90 min	Lutz Löscher SC DHfK Leipzig	16:04:23 min
100 m chest	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 06.45 min	Gregor Arnicke ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 08.51 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 08.61 min
200 m chest	Wolfram Sperling SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 27.66 min	Gregor Arnicke ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 29.08 min	Lehmann SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 29.09 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	55.35 s	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	56.87 s	René Plaeschke ASK Forward Potsdam	58.82 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 59.63 min	Hartmut Flöckner TSC Berlin	2: 03.25 min	Hilmar Leopold SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 07.25 min
100 m back	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	58.03 s	Michael Tauber SC Dynamo Berlin	59.27 s	Karsten Lange TSC Berlin	1: 00.00 min
200 m back	Michael Tauber SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 07.34 min	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 08.04 min	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 10.20 min
200 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 11.20 min	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 11.40 min	Andre Klahn SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 12.79 min
400 m layers	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 36.43 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 36.70 min	Steffen Böhmert SC Unit Dresden	4: 37.90 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	TSC Berlin Wilfried Hartung Hartmut Flöckner Wolfgang Wachenschwanz Michael Krause	3: 34.32 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 35.85 min	ASK forward Potsdam	3: 39.29 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Lutz Löscher Steffen Lorenz Gerd Glogowsky	7: 45.01 min	TSC Berlin	7: 46.42 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	7: 51.90 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC DHfK Leipzig Peter Töpfer Wolfram Sperling Roger Pyttel Gerd Glogowsky	3: 59.63 min	ASK forward Potsdam	3: 59.91 min	TSC Berlin	4: 01.81 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	55.73 sec	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	56.01 s	Claudia Hempel TSC Berlin	56.80 s
200 m freestyle	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 59.78 min	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 00.27 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 01.91 min
400 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 11.69 min	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 12.71 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 19.52 min
800 m freestyle	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 40.68 min	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 48.77 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 50.04 min
100 m chest	Carola Nitschke SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 11.93 min	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 12.69 min	Doris Meier SC Magdeburg	1: 15.03 min
200 m chest	Carola Nitschke SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 36.19 min	Hannelore Anke SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 36.62 min	Karla Linke SC unit Dresden	2: 37.20 min
100 m butterfly	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 00.13 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.02 min	Rosemarie Gabriel SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.39 min
200 m butterfly	Rosemarie Gabriel SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 11.22 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 12.78 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 13.34 min
100 m back	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	1: 01.62 min	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 02.00 min	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	1: 02.78 min
200 m back	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 12.47 min	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 13.27 min	Antje Stille SC Magdeburg	2: 16.48 min
200 m layers	Kornelia Ender SC Chemie Halle	2: 17.14 min	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 19.04 min	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 19.77 min
400 m layers	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	4: 48.79 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 49.76 min	Sabine Kahle SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 51.43 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Barbara Krause Monika Seltmann Rosemarie Gabriel Andrea Pollack	3: 48.80 min	SC unit Dresden	3: 53.25 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	3: 54.37 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Dynamo Berlin Monika Seltmann Carola Nitschke Andrea Pollack Barbara Krause	4: 13.41 min	SC Unit Dresden Ulrike Richter Karla Linke Maukisch Daniela Beier	4: 18.44 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Jutta Engelmann Marina Jank Anne-Katrin Schott Petra Priemer	4: 19.41 min

1. ↑ Roger Pyttel set a new GDR record with 52.48 in advance.
2. ↑ Frank Pfütze undercut his own European record with 3: 58.59, but at the same time Volodymyr Raskatow swam 3: 58.02 in the USSR title fights in Kiev.
3. ↑ Roger Pyttel set a new European record with 55.22.
4. ↑ Roger Pyttel already set a new world record with 2: 00.21.
5. ↑ Roger Pyttel set a new GDR record as a starting swimmer with 1: 53.25.
6. ↑ Rosemarie Gabriel already set a new world record with 2: 12.84.
7. ↑ Ulrike Richter set a new world record as a starting swimmer with 1: 01.51.

Medal table

The top three winners over the 100 m backseat (from left Richter, Ender and Driver)

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
1		SC Dynamo Berlin	9	8th	100	27
2		SC DHfK Leipzig	8th	-	6th	14th
3		SC Chemistry Hall	5	-	-	05
4th		TSC Berlin	2	5	4th	11
5		SC unit Dresden	2	5	3	10
6th		ASK forward Potsdam	1	5	2	08th
7th		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	5	-	06th
8th		SC Turbine Erfurt	1	1	2	04th
9		SC Magdeburg	-	-	2	02
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

• List of swimming world records over 100 meter freestyle , 200 meter freestyle , 400 meter freestyle , 800 meter freestyle ,
• List of swimming world records over 100 meters chest
• List of swimming world records over 100 meters butterfly , 200 meters butterfly ,
• List of swimming world records over 100 meters back , 200 meters back
• List of swimming world records over 200 meters and 400 meters
• List of swimming world records over 4 × 100 meters freestyle
• List of swimming world records over 4 × 100 meters
• List of European swimming records over 100 meters butterfly

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1977 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1976, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 206-207 .
• New Germany . No. 130-135 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1976, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 27th 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)