GDR Ski Championships 1988
The 40th GDR Ski Championships took place on March 5th and 6th, 1988 in a shortened form in Oberhof , Brotterode and Oberwiesenthal . Originally the championships were to take place from January 6th to 10th in Lauscha, Thuringia, in the Nordic ski disciplines of cross-country skiing , Nordic combined and ski jumping from the normal hill. Due to mild weather and a lack of snow, however, the DSLV canceled the championships on January 4th. Until the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary there was no more event date, so a rump program was carried out on the first weekend after the Games in early March. This included the scheduled cross-country skiing championships over the long distances in Oberwiesenthal and the ski jumping championships on the large hill in Brotterode, as Lauscha only had one normal hill. From the program in Lauscha only one team championship in the Nordic combined was held in Oberhof, so that in the end only four decisions were made.
Cross-country skiing
Men
50 km
For men, only the long-distance competition was held on the trails in Oberwiesenthal. The Olympic fifth Holger Bauroth clearly prevailed with almost two minutes.
Date: Sunday March 6, 1988
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holger Bauroth | ASK forward Oberhof | 2: 27: 47.1 |
| 2 | Holger Lischke | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2: 29: 43.7 |
| 3 | Then | ASK forward Oberhof | 2: 31: 22.9 |
| 4th | king | ASK forward Oberhof | 2: 32: 01.8 |
| 5 | Uwe Leipold | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 2: 32: 01.9 |
| 6th | Pollack | ASK forward Oberhof | 2: 32: 52.0 |
Women
20 km
In the case of women, too, only the endurance champion was determined. But unlike the men, the decision was rather tight, in the end Simone Greiner-Petter from Zella Mehliser won with a lead of a good 10 seconds over her club mate Manuela Drescher.
Date: Sunday March 6, 1988
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simone Greiner-Petter | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1: 04: 29.1 |
| 2 | Manuela Drescher | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1: 04: 39.7 |
| 3 | Heike Wezel | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 1: 05: 08.7 |
| 4th | Sylke Meyer | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 1: 05: 22.7 |
| 5 | Claudia Bonsack | ASK forward Oberhof | 1: 05: 45.0 |
| 6th | Sylke Braun | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 1: 06: 33.4 |
Nordic combination
Team competition
In the Nordic Combined only team championships were held in Oberhof. The trio from SC Dynamo Klingenthal prevailed, with Abratis and Prenzel having two Olympic starters. While the competition from Oberwiesenthal was 1:41 minutes behind, the third-placed representation from Zella-Mehlis was more than six minutes behind.
Date: Jumping competition on Saturday 5th March 1988; Running competition 3 × 10 km on Sunday March 6th, 1988
| space | team | athlete | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal |
Ralph Leonhardt Thomas Abratis Uwe Prenzel |
1:28:29 |
| 2 | ASK forward Oberhof |
Ingolf Hüther Marco Frank Toralf Jakob |
+ 1:41 min |
| 3 | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis |
Lothar Hopf Michael Pfötsch Jörg Beetz |
+ 6:12 min |
Ski jumping
Large hill
In ski jumping, the master of the large hill was chosen. This competition was held as planned in Brotterode. In the absence of the officially injured Olympian Jens Weißflog, Heiko Hunger from Klingenthal was able to defend his title, if only just barely. In the end he was only 0.7 points ahead of teammate Mike Arnold.
Date: Sunday March 6, 1988
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heiko Hunger | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 236.0 (98.0 / 105.5) |
| 2 | Mike Arnold | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 235.3 (99.5 / 101.0) |
| 3 | Guntram Kraus | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 231.9 (98.0 / 104.0) |
| 4th | Andreas Neuendorf | ASK forward Oberhof | 228.1 (93.0 / 104.5) |
| 5 | René Kummerlöw | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 223.4 (96.0 / 101.0) |
| 6th | Manfred Deckert | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 220.8 (92.0 / 101.0) |
Medal table
With the Klingenthal jump school, the SC Dynamo Klingenthal performed best. The clubs from Oberhof and Zella-Mehlis each won a complete set of medals while only a meager bronze medal remained for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal.
| Medal table (after all 4 competitions) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | team | gold | silver | bronze | total |
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | ASK Oberhof | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4th | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
literature
- Author collective, Sport 88, a yearbook of GDR sports , Sportverlag Berlin 1989, ISBN 3328003010