GDR swimming championships 1984

Venue of the GDR swimming championships in 1984

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 35th time in 1984 and took place from May 22nd to 27th in Magdeburg's Elbe Swimming Hall, where the champions were determined on 31 courses (16 men / 15 women). With eight titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and with Sven Lodziewski , who won six titles, the most successful athlete in this championship.

Sporting highlights of the championship were the world records of Jens-Peter Berndt over 400 meters medley and Kristin Otto over 200 meters freestyle, as well as the European records of Dirk Richter over 100 and 200 meters back, Thomas Dreßler over 100 meters butterfly and Astrid Strauss over 800 meters freestyle . On the final day, Dirk Richter, as the starting swimmer of the 4 × 100-meter medley relay, once again improved his best performance over 100 meters back from the individual finals. For men Sven Lodziewski over 200 meters freestyle and Ralf Buttgereit over 200 meters chest as well as women Kristin Otto over 50 meters freestyle and Ute Geweniger over 200 meters chest set new GDR records . In addition, the women's relay from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt set a new GDR record for club relay over 4 × 100 meters.

Time schedule

The prelims started daily at 10 a.m., the finals at 6 p.m. - except on Sunday at 5 p.m.

Time schedule
Day	Competitions
	Men's	Ladies
Tuesday May 22, 1984	050 m freestyle 100 m chest 200 m freestyle	100 m freestyle 400 m medley
Wednesday May 23, 1984	100 m butterfly 400 m individual medley 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	200 m freestyle 200 m chest
Thursday May 24, 1984	100 m freestyle 200 m back	400 m freestyle 100 m backstroke 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Friday May 25th 1984	400 m freestyle 200 m chest 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	100 m butterfly 100 m chest
Saturday May 26, 1984	200 m butterfly 100 m back	200 m individual medley 050 m freestyle 800 m freestyle 4 × 100 m individual medley relay
Sunday May 27th 1984	0200 m medley 1500 m freestyle 4 × 100 m medley relay	200 m butterfly 200 m back

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	23.76 s	Guido Müller ASK Forward Potsdam	24.10 s	Uwe Sofke SC Empor Rostock	24.31 s
100 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	50.84 s	Lars Hinneburg SC Empor Rostock	51.80 s	René Wanzlik SC Magdeburg	51.82 s
200 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 49.25 min	Lars Hinneburg SC Empor Rostock	1: 50.73 min	André Matzk SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 51.04 min
400 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 51.87 min	Uwe Daßler ASK Forward Potsdam	3: 53.74 min	Steffen Ließ SC Chemie Halle	3: 54.78 min
1500 m freestyle0	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	15: 28.71 min	Uwe Daßler ASK Forward Potsdam	15: 29.33 min	Steffen Ließ SC Chemie Halle	15: 43.82 min
100 m chest	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 05.34 min	Ingo Grzywotz SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 06.55 min	Hagen Beier ASK Forward Potsdam	1: 06.72 min
200 m chest	Ralf Buttgereit SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 19.64 min	Enrico Müller SG Dynamo Luckenwalde	2: 25.56 min	Hagen Beier ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 28.80 min
100 m butterfly	Thomas Dreßler SC DHfK Leipzig	53.84 sec	Tino Ott SC DHfK Leipzig	53.91 s	Karsten Drobny SC Chemie Halle	54.06 s
200 m butterfly	Karsten Drobny SC Chemie Halle	2: 03.00 min	Thomas Körber SC Chemie Halle	2: 04.15 min	Steffen Jahns SC Chemie Halle	2: 04.77 min
100 m back	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	55.45 sec	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	56.71 s	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	56.91 s
200 m back	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 59.80 min	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 00.68 min	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	2: 01.03 min
200 m layers	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 03.29 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	2: 05.67 min	Raik Hannemann SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 08.76 min
400 m layers	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 19.61 min	Raik Hannemann SC Dynamo Berlin	4: 31.88 min	Mirko Erdmann ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 36.98 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Steffen Zesner Matthias Lutze André Matzk Sven Lodziewski	3: 26.52 min	SC Magdeburg René Wanzlik Rainer Sternal Frank Baltrusch Sven Müller	3: 28.59 min	SC Empor Rostock Uwe Sofke Conrad Olaf Ahlers Lars Hinneburg	3: 29.26 min
04 × 200 m freestyle	SC Magdeburg Rainer Sternal René Wanzlik Robert Brendel Sven Müller	7: 35.26 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Raik Hannemann Steffen Zesner Heiko Krumbeck Jörn König	7: 47.48 min	SC Chemie Halle Karsten Drobny Thomas Körber Mike Ketteritzsch Steffen Jahns	7: 48.72 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Dynamo Berlin Sven Lodziewski Ingo Grzywotz Steffen Zesner Matthias Lutze	3: 54.18 min	SC Magdeburg Frank Baltrusch Rainer Sternal Sven Halling René Wanzlik	3: 54.73 min	ASK Forward Potsdam Jens-Peter Berndt Hagen Beier Per Wiegand Guido Müller	3: 55.10 min

1. ↑ Dirk Richter improved his own European record to 55.35 on the final day as the starting swimmer of the 4 × 100 meter individual relay relay.
2. ↑ The GDR selection relay started out of competition with André Matzk , Steffen Ließ , Lars Hinneburg and Sven Lodziewski in 7: 24.42 minutes.

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	25.71 sec	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	26.08 s	Sylvia Scheller SC DHfK Leipzig	26.21 s
100 m freestyle	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	54.94 s	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	55.51 s	Heike Friedrich SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	56.60 s
200 m freestyle	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 57.75 min	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 58.75 min	Karen König TSC Berlin	2: 00.57 min
400 m freestyle	Astrid Strauss TSC Berlin	4: 09.53 min	Anke sonnenodt ASK forward Potsdam	4: 10.76 min	Katja Hartmann ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 11.62 min
800 m freestyle	Astrid Strauss TSC Berlin	8: 28.36 min	Grit Richter SC Chemie Halle	8: 33.42 min	Katja Hartmann ASK Forward Potsdam	8: 41.28 min
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 08.85 min	Sylvia Gerasch SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 09.51 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 10.50 min
200 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 29.52 min	Sylvia Gerasch SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 31.18 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 32.03 min
100 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	59.88 s	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	1: 00.97 min	Susanne Link SC Empor Rostock	1: 01.45 min
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 08.96 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	2: 11.34 min	Jacqueline Alex SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 11.82 min
100 m back	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 01.13 min	Ina Kleber SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 01.53 min	Kathrin Zimmermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 01.98 min
200 m back	Kathrin Zimmermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 10.97 min	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 11.88 min	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 13.34 min
200 m layers	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 12.94 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	2: 15.87 min	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 16.92 min
400 m layers	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	4: 43.32 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 50.16 min	Katja Hartmann ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 51.82 min
04 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Manuela Stellmach Ute Zerfass Simone Ballaschk Kerstin Kielgaß	3: 51.65 min	TSC Berlin Anette Zwingenberger Karen König Senger Astrid Strauss	3: 55.17 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Sylvia Scheller Sabine Schacke Bergmann Möller	3: 56.20 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Kathrin Zimmermann Ute Geweniger Ines Geißler Heike Friedrich	4: 08.64 min	SC Turbine Erfurt Ina Kleber Carolin Resinek Kornelia Greßler Cornelia Sirch	4: 14.84 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Beatrice Georgi Sylvia Gerasch Schmengler Birgit Meineke	4: 17.36 min

1. ↑ Out of competition, the GDR selection series started with Kristin Otto , Heike Friedrich , Susanne Link , Birgit Meineke in 3: 44.34 min.

Medal table

Jens-Peter Berndt cheers after his world record over 400 m individual medley.

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	8th	8th	4th	20th
02		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	7th	1	2	10
03		SC DHfK Leipzig	5	2	4th	11
04th		SC unit Dresden	3	-	-	03
05		SC Magdeburg	2	7th	2	11
06th		ASK forward Potsdam	2	5	8th	15th
07th		TSC Berlin	2	1	1	04th
08th		SC Chemistry Hall	1	2	5	08th
09		SC Turbine Erfurt	1	2	2	05
10		SC Empor Rostock	-	2	3	05
11		SG Dynamo Luckenwalde	-	1	-	01
	Total		31	31	31	93

See also

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport84. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1984, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 286-287 .
• New Germany . No. 117-126 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1984, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 35th 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)