GDR swimming championships 1983

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1983

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 34th time in 1983 and took place from June 15 to 19 in the Gera swimming pool at the Stadium of Friendship (today's Hofwiesenbad ), on 31 courses (16 men / 15 women) the Masters were determined. The competition also served as a qualifying competition for the 1983 European Championships in Rome . With eleven titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and with Sven Lodziewski , who won five titles, the most successful athlete in this championship.

Sporting highlights of the championship were the five European records of Jörg Woithe over 100 meters freestyle as the starting swimmer of the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay, Sven Lodziewski over 200 meters freestyle, Astrid Strauss over 400 and 800 meters freestyle and Ines Geißler over 200 meters butterfly. Lodziewski managed a new GDR record over 400 meters freestyle and Frank Baltrusch equalized his own national record over 200 meters back. Furthermore, new GDR records for club relays were set in all relay competitions.

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	23.10 s	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	23.79 s	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	23.96 s
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	50.00 s	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	51.02 s	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	51.23 s
200 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 49.30 min	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 49.60 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	1: 51.88 min
400 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 49.27 min	Steffen Ließ SC Chemie Halle	3: 55.91 min	Sven Müller SC Magdeburg	3: 58.12 min
1500 m freestyle0	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	15: 27.10 min	Steffen Ließ SC Chemie Halle	15: 28.47 min	Sven Müller SC Magdeburg	15: 36.80 min
100 m chest	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 04.80 min	Ingo Grzywotz SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 05.79 min	Jens Schulz SC unit Dresden	1: 06.13 min
200 m chest	Ralf Buttgereit SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 21.72 min	Ingo Grzywotz SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 21.77 min	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 22.98 min
100 m butterfly	Tino Ott SC DHfK Leipzig	55.92 s	Thomas Dreßler SC DHfK Leipzig	55.98 s	Torsten Karl SC Turbine Erfurt	56.76 s
200 m butterfly	Torsten Karl SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 02.55 min	Michael Rode SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 05.21 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	2: 05.30 min
100 m back	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	56.56 s	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	57.08 s	Frank Embacher TSC Berlin	58.32 s
200 m back	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	2: 01.47 min	Frank Embacher TSC Berlin	2: 03.54 min	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 05.05 min
200 m layers	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 06.83 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	2: 07.18 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	2: 09.01 min
400 m layers	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 27.75 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	4: 28.65 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	4: 31.79 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Jörg Woithe Matthias Lutze Kiewel Sven Lodziewski	3: 25.12 min	SC Empor Rostock	3: 31.86 min	SC Magdeburg	3: 32.28 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin André Matzk Bernd Geyer Sven Lodziewski Jörg Woithe	7: 32.00 min	SC Magdeburg	7: 38.70 min	SC Chemistry Hall	7: 44.20 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Turbine Erfurt Frank Hoffmeister Sigurd Hanke Torsten Karl Barth	3: 52.41 min	SC unit Dresden	3: 52.65 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 55.34 min

1. ↑ Frank Baltrusch equalized his own GDR record with 2: 01.47.
2. ↑ Jörg Woithe set a new European record as a starting swimmer with 49.58.

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	26.54 s	Susanne Link SC Empor Rostock	26.87 s	Grit Matthes SC DHfK Leipzig	27.37 s
100 m freestyle	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	55.76 s	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	56.16 s	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	57.07 s
200 m freestyle	Astrid Strauss TSC Berlin	1: 59.80 min	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	2:00:07 min	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 01.01 min
400 m freestyle	Astrid Strauss TSC Berlin	4: 08.25 min	Anke sonnenodt ASK forward Potsdam	4: 10.94 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 14.28 min
800 m freestyle	Astrid Strauss TSC Berlin	8: 29.61 min	Manuela Göpfert SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 39.05 min	Anke sonnenodt ASK forward Potsdam	8: 41.11 min
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 08.83 min	Sylvia Gerasch SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 11.75 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 12.87 min
200 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 30.13 min	Sylvia Gerasch SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 34.03 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 35.03 min
100 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 00.19 min	Cornelia Polit SC Chemie Halle	1: 00.83 min	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 01.01 min
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 08.03 min	Cornelia Polit SC Chemie Halle	2: 09.29 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	2: 10.90 min
100 m back	Ina Kleber SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 01.32 min	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 01.48 min	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 02.17 min
200 m back	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 10.92 min	Kathrin Zimmermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 12.76 min	Ina Kleber SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 14.23 min
200 m layers	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 12.68 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	2: 14.25 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 15.68 min
400 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 39.54 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	4: 44.99 min	Sabine Schacke SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 55.66 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Matthes Ute Mückel Ute Zerfass Birgit Meineke	3: 48.11 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	3: 51.16 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3: 55.63 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Kathrin Zimmermann Ute Geweniger Ines Geißler Daniela Uebel	4: 10.48 min	SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 13.57 min	SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 16.76 min

Medal table

Astrid Strauss swam the 400 and 800 m freestyle European records.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	110	8th	2	21st
02		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	7th	2	4th	13
03		SC Turbine Erfurt	5	1	4th	10
04th		TSC Berlin	3	1	1	05
05		ASK forward Potsdam	2	1	1	04th
06th		SC Magdeburg	1	5	6th	12
07th		SC DHfK Leipzig	1	4th	7th	12
08th		SC unit Dresden	1	3	5	09
09		SC Chemistry Hall	-	4th	1	05
10		SC Empor Rostock	-	2	-	02
	Total		31	31	31	93

See also

• List of European swimming records over 100 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 400 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 800 meters freestyle
• List of European swimming records over 200 meters butterfly

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport83. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1983, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 281-282 .
• New Germany . No. 139-146 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1983, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 34th 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)