GDR swimming championships 1977

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1977

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 28th time in 1977 and took place from July 6th to 10th in the Leipzig swimming stadium , where the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). With eleven titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and with Frank Pfütze , Barbara Krause and Andrea Pollack , who won four titles just like Roger Pyttel from SC DHfK Leipzig , the most successful athletes of this championship.

The sporting highlights of the championship were the two world records of Petra Thümer over 800 meters freestyle and Ulrike Tauber over 200 meters medley. Gregor Arnicke set a new GDR record over 200 meters chest.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	52.24 s	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	52.97 s	Wolfgang Wachenschwanz TSC Berlin	53.61 s
200 m freestyle	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 54.93 min	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 55.55 min	Michael Tauber SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 55.98 min
400 m freestyle	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	4:00, 1 min	Lutz Löscher SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 01.6 min	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 02.7 min
1500 m freestyle0	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	16: 17.73 min	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	16: 26.19 min	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	16: 29.07 min
100 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 06.33 min	Gregor Arnicke ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 06.43 min	Falk Becker SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 07.95 min
200 m chest	Gregor Arnicke ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 25.83 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 25.84 min	Gunnar Quaas SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 28.57 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	55.54 s	René Plaeschke ASK Forward Potsdam	57.88 s	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	58.23 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 01.54 min	Hilmar Leopold SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 07.19 min	Andreas Schmidt SC unit Dresden	2: 09.85 min
100 m back	Lutz Wanja ASK Forward Potsdam	58.77 s	Michael Tauber SC Dynamo Berlin	58.79 s	Matthias Krija ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 00.36 min
200 m back	Michael Tauber SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 07.17 min	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	2: 08.84 min	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 09.22 min
200 m layers	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 09.20 min	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 09.73 min	Andre Klahn SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 12.31 min
400 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 36.24 min	Uwe Zillgith SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 39.49 min	Andre Klahn SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 40.47 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	ASK Forward Potsdam René Plaeschke Jürgen Kroboth Lutz Wanja Matthias Krija	3: 35.30 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Lutz Löscher Roger Pyttel Thomas Buchmann Falk Becker	3: 35.98 min	TSC Berlin Gold Wolfgang Wachenschwanz Genschow Bloch	3: 36.01 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Frank Pfütze Detlev Grabs Michael Tauber Frank Eife	7: 45.19 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Hilmar Leopold Andre Klahn Lutz Löscher	7: 49.07 min	TSC Berlin Rainer Strohbach Bloch Genschow Herrmann	8: 01.70 min
4 × 100 m layers	ASK Forward Potsdam Lutz Wanja Gregor Arnicke René Plaeschke Jürgen Kroboth	3: 55.33 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Dietmar Göhring Gunnar Quaas Roger Pyttel Thomas Buchmann	4: 01.18 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Michael Tauber Uwe Koltsch Antonin Speer Detlev Grabs	4: 01.26 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	55.86 s	Petra Priemer SC DHfK Leipzig	57.58 s	Heike Witt SC Dynamo Berlin	57.60 s
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 59.75 min	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 00.97 min	Birgit Wächtler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 04.35 min
400 m freestyle	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 09.98 min	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 13.51 min	Sabine Kahle SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 19.25 min
800 m freestyle	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 35.04 min	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 46.91 min	Marina Altmann SC Dynamo Berlin	8: 54.45 min
100 m chest	Ramona Reinke SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 13.82 min	Carola Nitschke SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 14.13 min	Petra Gose SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 14.27 min
200 m chest	Karla Linke SC unit Dresden	2: 38.96 min	Petra Gose SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 40.36 min	Ramona Reinke SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 41.30 min
100 m butterfly	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.27 min	Christiane Knacke SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 02.20 min	Marina Jank SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 02.63 min
200 m butterfly	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 13.03 min	Anett Fiebig SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 13.69 min	Gabriele Wuschek SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 16.76 min
100 m back	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 02.84 min	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	1: 02.94 min	Antje Stille SC Magdeburg	1: 03.82 min
200 m back	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 14.42 min	Ulrike Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 15.54 min	Antje Stille SC Magdeburg	2: 15.72 min
200 m layers	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 16.96 min	Sabine Kahle SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 18.47 min	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 19.98 min
400 m layers	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 46.36 min	Sabine Kahle SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 53.08 min	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	4: 53.24 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Heike Witt Andrea Pollack Jane Lang Barbara Krause	3: 50.68 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Birgit Wächtler Ulrike Tauber Anett Fiebig Petra Thümer	3: 54.35 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Petra Priemer Ute Brückner Jutta Engelmann Marina Jank	3: 55.82 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Dynamo Berlin Birgit Matz Carola Nitschke Andrea Pollack Barbara Krause	4: 17.20 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Carola Jähnichen Ramona Reinke Marina Jank Petra Priemer	4: 19.14 min	SC Unit Dresden Ulrike Richter Karla Linke Kathrin Sittner Birgit Driver	4: 20.42 min

Medal table

Petra Thümer (left) the winner with a world record time in the 800 m freestyle and the runner-up Barbara Krause.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
1		SC Dynamo Berlin	110	8th	7th	26th0
2		SC DHfK Leipzig	5	8th	8th	21st0
3		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4th	3	2	9
4th		ASK forward Potsdam	4th	3	1	8th
5		SC unit Dresden	3	2	4th	9
6th		SC Turbine Erfurt	2	4th	1	7th
7th		SC Magdeburg	-	1	3	4th
8th		TSC Berlin	-	-	3	3
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

• List of swimming world records over 800 meters freestyle
• List of swimming world records over 200 meters

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1978 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1977, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 212-213 .
• New Germany . No. 157-163 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1977, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 28th 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)