GDR swimming championships in 1980

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1980

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 31st time in 1980 and took place from May 24th to 27th in Magdeburg's Elbe swimming hall. The champions were determined on 29 courses (15 men / 14 women). With seven titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and Jörg Walter from SC Turbine Erfurt , who won four titles, was the most successful athlete in this championship.

Sporting highlights of the championship were the world records of ute geweniger 100m breaststroke and Petra Schneider 200 and 400 meters individual medley and the European record of Jörg Woithe over 100 meters freestyle. Jörg Woithe over 200 meters freestyle, Rainer Strohbach over 400, 800 and 1500 meters freestyle and Jörg Walter over 200 meters chest and over 400 meters medley set new GDR records for men . Bettina Löbel set a new GDR record for women over 200 meters.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	50.55 sec	Knut Bludau SC Dynamo Berlin	53.05 s	Frank Kühne SC DHfK Leipzig	53.31 s
200 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 51.80 min	Detlev Grabs SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 52.79 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	1: 53.84 min
400 m freestyle	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	3: 56.02 min	Ralf Recke SC Empor Rostock	3: 57.84 min	Frank Pfütze SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 59.70 min
1500 m freestyle0	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	15: 28.55 min	Karsten Matthes SC DHfK Leipzig	15: 58.70 min	Karsten Drobny SC Chemie Halle	16: 04.85 min
100 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 04.87 min	Gunnar Quaas SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 06.42 min	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 06.72 min
200 m chest	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 19.91 min	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 25.07 min	Gunnar Quaas SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 27.08 min
100 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	55.32 s	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	56.56 s	Olaf Ziesche SC Dynamo Berlin	56.92 s
200 m butterfly	Roger Pyttel SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 01.39 min	Torsten Karl SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 03.65 min	Thomas Ackenhausen SC Magdeburg	2: 03.98 min
100 m back	Dietmar Göhring SC DHfK Leipzig	58.32 s	Jörg Stingl SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	58.45 s	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	58.92 s
200 m back	Jörg Stingl SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 04.07 min	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	2: 06.59 min	Michael Schmidt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 8.30 min
200 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 07.40 min	Uwe Müller SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 10.90 min	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 10.98 min
400 m layers	Jörg Walter SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 28.30 min	Uwe Müller SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 35.14 min	Andreas Peikert ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 41.22 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin I Knut Bludau Peter Schneider Detlev Grabs Jörg Woithe	3: 28.56 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Roger Pyttel Frank Kühne Schumann Torsten Wolf	3: 31.83 min	SC Dynamo Berlin II Olaf Ziesche Antonin Speer Frank Pfütze Meinus	3: 37.42 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Wiedemann Knut Bludau Frank Pfütze Detlev Grabs	7: 43.92 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Frank Kühne Roger Pyttel Schumann Jens Gregor	7: 44.82 min	ASK Forward Potsdam Jürgen Kroboth Andreas Peikert Jens-Peter Berndt Michael Schmidt	7: 55.26 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC DHfK Leipzig Dietmar Göhring Gunnar Quaas Roger Pyttel Frank Kühne	3: 53.26 min	SC Turbine Erfurt Sigurd Hanke Jörg Walter Torsten Karl Jörn Heckroth	3: 56.11 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Uwe Müller Ralf Buttgereit Antonin Speer Knut Bludau	4: 01.18 min

1. ↑ Rainer Strohbach set a new GDR record in the 800m intermediate time in 8: 10.60.
2. ↑ Jörg Walter set a new GDR record with 2: 21.66 in the run-up.

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	55.45 s	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	55.64 s	Ines Diers SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	56.18 s
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 59.14 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	2:00:08 min	Ines Diers SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 00.56 min
400 m freestyle	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 12.02 min	Ines Diers SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 12.94 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	4: 13.08 min
800 m freestyle	Ines Diers SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 37.79 min	Heike Dähne SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 43.56 min	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 46.25 min
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 10.20 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 11.37 min	Silvia Rinka ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 12.39 min
200 m chest	Bettina Löbel SC Unit Dresden	2: 33.46 min	Silvia Rinka ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 36.07 min	Grit Slaby SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 39.26 min
100 m butterfly	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 00.86 min	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	1: 01.47 min	Christiane Knacke SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 01.54 min
200 m butterfly	Andrea Pollack SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 10.57 min	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 10.95 min	Sybille Schönrock SC Chemie Halle	2: 11.24 min
100 m back	Rica Reinisch SC unit Dresden	1: 02.11 min	Petra Riedel SC Magdeburg	1: 02.60 min	Ina Kleber SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 02.96 min
200 m back	Birgit driver SC unit Dresden	2: 13.14 min	Cornelia Polit SC Chemie Halle	2: 15.24 min	Petra Riedel SC Magdeburg	2: 15.90 min
200 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 13.00 min	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 17.71 min	Grit Slaby SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 20.34 min
400 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 38.44 min	Ulrike Tauber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 50.76 min	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 52.10 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Unit Dresden Birgit Walde Rica Reinisch Daniela Beier Birgit Driver	3: 51.66 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Petra Schneider Ines Diers Wunderlich Ulrike Tauber	3: 54.05 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Barbara Krause Andrea Mathyssek Birgit Meineke Andrea Pollack	3: 55.61 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Unit Dresden Rica Reinisch Bettina Löbel Birgit Walde Birgit Driver	4: 13.34 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Petra Schneider Ute Geweniger Ines Geißler Ines Diers	4: 15.58 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Birgit Meineke Dau Andrea Pollack Barbara Krause	4: 16.60 min

Medal table

Jörg Walter won four titles (both chest and individual medley courses).

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	7th	5	7th	19th
02		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	6th	9	4th	19th
03		SC unit Dresden	5	-	1	06th
04th		SC DHfK Leipzig	4th	4th	4th	12
05		SC Turbine Erfurt	4th	3	2	09
06th		TSC Berlin	2	-	1	03
07th		SC Empor Rostock	1	2	-	03
08th		SC Magdeburg	-	3	2	05
09		SC Chemistry Hall	-	2	3	05
10		ASK forward Potsdam	-	1	5	06th
	Total		29	29	29	87

See also

• List of swimming world records over 100 meters chest
• List of swimming world records over 200 meters
• List of swimming world records over 400 meters
• List of European swimming records over 100 meters freestyle

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 273-274 .
• New Germany . No. 123-125 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Result lists men (freestyle)
• Results lists men (chest, butterfly, back and position)
• Result lists women (freestyle)
• Result lists women (chest, butterfly, back and position)