East German Swimming Championships 1979

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1979

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 30th time in 1979 and took place from August 2nd to 5th in Brandenburg an der Havel in the Volksbad am Marienberg , where the champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). It was also the last championships in an open water pool. With ten titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and with Detlev Grabs and Barbara Krause , who won four titles just like Jörg Walter from SC Turbine Erfurt , the most successful athletes of this championship.

The sporting highlights of the championship were Petra Schneider's European record over 200 meters, as well as Jörg Woithe's GDR records over 100 meters freestyle and Rainer Strohbach over 800 and 1500 meters freestyle. Furthermore, the men's relay from SC Dynamo Berlin set a new GDR record for club relays in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	51.67 s	Knut Bludau SC Dynamo Berlin	53.02 s	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	53.04 s
200 m freestyle	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 54.06 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	1: 54.57 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 55.14 min
400 m freestyle	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 57.09 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	3: 58.47 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 59.83 min
1500 m freestyle0	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	15: 32.57 min	Ralf Recke SC Empor Rostock	15: 59.77 min	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	16:09:15 min
100 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 05.86 min	Gunnar Quaas SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 07.13 min	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 07.24 min
200 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 21.98 min	Erich Reschke SC Chemie Halle	2: 25.38 min	Gunnar Quaas SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 27.41 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	55.39 s	Olaf Ziesche SC Dynamo Berlin	57.12 s	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	57.19 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 00.45 min	Torsten Karl SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 04.72 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 06.23 min
100 m back	Dietmar Göhring SC DHfK Leipzig	58.27 s	Jörg Stingl SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	59.74 s	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg Gerald Stern SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 00.07 min
200 m back	Jörg Stingl SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 06.08 min	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	2: 07.50 min	Matthias Krija ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 08.35 min
200 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 08.34 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	2: 09.08 min	Jürgen Kroboth ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 11.00 min
400 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 31.95 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	4: 34.66 min	Andreas Peikert ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 36.40 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Antonin Speer Knut Bludau Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs	3: 31.81 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Torsten Wolf Roger Pyttel Tino Ott Frank Kühne	3: 34.54 min	SC Turbine Erfurt Jörn Heckroth Torsten Karl Jörg Walter Lange	3: 40.66 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Jörg Woithe Knut Bludau Detlev Grabs Frank Pfütze	7: 45.56 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	7: 54.64 min	TSC Berlin	7: 57.45 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC DHfK Leipzig Dietmar Göhring Gunnar Quaas Roger Pyttel Frank Kühne	3: 56.00 min	SC Turbine Erfurt	3: 57.88 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4:00:05 min

1. ↑ Rainer Strohbach set a new GDR record in the 800 m intermediate time in 8: 12.65.

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	55.71 s	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	56.28 s	Anett Kalatz TSC Berlin	56.86 s
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 00.68 min	Anett Kalatz TSC Berlin	2: 01.25 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	2: 01.56 min
400 m freestyle	Anett Kalatz TSC Berlin	4: 13.69 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	4: 15.64 min	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 16.54 min
800 m freestyle	Heike Dähne SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 42.18 min	Anett Kalatz TSC Berlin	8: 44.09 min	Petra Thümer SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 45.33 min
100 m chest	Silvia Rinka ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 12.40 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 13.23 min	Bettina Löbel SC Unit Dresden	1: 13.28 min
200 m chest	Bettina Löbel SC Unit Dresden	2: 36.42 min	Silvia Rinka ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 37.07 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 37.97 min
100 m butterfly	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.75 min	Heike Dähne SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 02.07 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 02.09 min
200 m butterfly	Heike Dähne SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 10.68 min	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 13.87 min	Sybille Schönrock SC Chemie Halle	2: 14.08 min
100 m back	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	1: 04.41 min	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	1: 04.83 min	Rica Reinisch SC unit Dresden	1: 04.84 min
200 m back	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 16.30 min	Antje Stille SC Magdeburg	2: 17.82 min	Cornelia Polit SC Chemie Halle	2: 18.62 min
200 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 14.51 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 17.16 min	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	2: 18.44 min
400 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 43.92 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 49.19 min	Antje Klaan SC Chemie Halle	4: 54.59 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Heike Witt Kerstin Schut Bartz Barbara Krause	3: 54.06 min	SC Empor Rostock	3: 55.52 min	SC unit Dresden	3: 56.71 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Dynamo Berlin Birgit Matz Carola Nitschke Andrea Pollack Barbara Krause	4: 15.83 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 18.80 min	SC unit Dresden	4: 19.93 min

Medal table

Barbara Krause and Jörg Woithe, the fastest over 100 m freestyle.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	100	3	6th	19th
02		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	5	6th	4th	15th
03		SC DHfK Leipzig	4th	3	1	08th
04th		SC Turbine Erfurt	4th	2	3	09
05		SC unit Dresden	3	3	4th	10
06th		TSC Berlin	2	3	2	07th
07th		ASK forward Potsdam	1	1	3	05
08th		SC Empor Rostock	-	4th	1	05
09		SC Chemistry Hall	-	2	4th	06th
10		SC Magdeburg	-	2	2	04th
	Total		29	29	30th	88

See also

• List of European swimming records over 200 meters

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 213 .
• New Germany . No. 181-183 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1979, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 30th 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)