German Athletics Championships 1977

77th German Athletics Championships
city	Hamburg / 7 other locations
Stadion	Volksparkstadion
Competitions	34 + 26 at other venues
opening	5th August 1977
Final day	7th August 1977
timeline
← Frankfurt am Main 1976	Cologne 1978 →

The 77th German Athletics Championships were held from August 5th to 7th, 1977 in Hamburg 's Volksparkstadion .

In the marathon , Christa Vahlensieck achieved a new world record with 2: 34: 47.5 hours.
In addition, there were the following federal German records:

• 400 m hurdles - Harald Schmid 49.04 s (record set)
• 400 m hurdles - Erika Weinstein 57.21 s (record after electronic measurement )
• Shot put - Ralf Reichenbach 20.82 m (new record)

In addition, as in previous years, further championship titles were awarded at various other locations, named in the following list in chronological order.

• Cross-country runs - Neumünster , March 5th with individual / team ratings for women and men on two route lengths each (medium / long distance)
• 25 km road race - Paderborn , April 9 as part of the Paderborn Easter run with individual ratings for women and men and a team rating for men. The road running championships were on the championship program for the first time since 1948.
• 10,000 m (men) and 3000 m and 400 m hurdles (women) - Dortmund , May 29th
• All around (women: pentathlon ) / (men: decathlon ) - Hanover , 27./28. August with individual and team ratings
• Marathon - Berlin , September 10th, with individual ratings for women and men and a team rating for men, took place there in the form of a separate start
• Long teams, women: 3 × 800 m / men: 4 × 800 m and 4 × 1500 m - Waiblingen , September 18
• 50 km walk (men) - Mühldorf , October 9th with individual and team classification

The following overview summarizes the medal winners. A more detailed overview with the first eight in each of the individual disciplines can be found under the link German Athletics Championships 1977 / Results .

Medalists, men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m (wind: +1.6)	Bernd Sattler ( LAZ Ludwigshafen )	10.53 s	Michael Gruse ( SCC Berlin )	10.53 s	Werner Bastians ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	10.55 s
200 m (wind: +1.2)	Bernd Sattler ( LAZ Ludwigshafen )	20.84 s	Thomas Schultheiß ( VT Zweibrücken )	21.25 s	Klaus-Dieter Bieler ( LG Braunschweig )	21.26 s
400 m	Bernd Herrmann ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	45.79 s	Lothar Krieg ( ASC Darmstadt )	46.29 s	Günter Karge ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	46.73 s
800 m	Willi Wülbeck ( SG Osterfeld )	1: 47.1 min	Bernd Töpfer ( LG Frankfurt )	1: 47.6 min	Heinz Maier ( TV Eggenfelden )	1: 47.9 min
1500 m	Thomas Wessinghage ( USC Mainz )	3: 37.0 min	Karl Fleschen ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	3: 37.9 min	Michael Lederer ( ASC Darmstadt )	3: 38.9 min
5000 m	Karl Fleschen ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	13: 23.4 min	Detlef Uhlemann ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	13: 29.5 min	Peter Weigt ( LAC source Fürth )	13: 39.4 min
10,000 m	Detlef Uhlemann ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	28: 03.4 min	Karl Fleschen ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	28: 09.1 min	Peter Weigt ( LAC source Fürth )	28: 24.8 min
25 km road race , in the cream. d. Paderborn. Easter run	Edmundo Warnke ( LAC source Fürth )	1:14:20 h	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann ( VfL Wehbach )	1:14:52 h	Jochen Schirmer ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	1:15:16 h
25 km road race , team competition	LAC source Fürth ( Edmundo Warnke , Anton Gorbunow , Reinhard Leibold )	3:48:44 h	LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf ( Jochen Schirmer , Winfried Hellwig , Valdur Koha )	3:50:14 h	VfL Wolfsburg ( Günter Mielke , Siefert, Falko Will )	3:53:58 h
marathon	Günter Mielke ( VfL Wolfsburg )	2: 15: 18.3 h	Winfried Hellwig ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	2: 15: 36.3 h	Paul Angenvoorth ( FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen )	2: 15: 42.0 h
Marathon , team competition	LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf ( Winfried Hellwig , Jochen Schirmer , Ludwig Haefele )	6: 54: 37.9 h	LAC source Fürth ( Reinhard Leibold , Edmundo Warnke , Clemens Schneider-Strittmatter )	6:59:09.2 h	VfL Wolfsburg ( Günter Mielke , Wolfgang Siefert , Falko Will )	7:01:30, 1 h
110 m hurdles (wind: +1.6)	Dieter Gebhard ( SV Salamander Kornwestheim )	13.98 s	Guido Kratschmer ( USC Mainz )	14.11 s	Hans-Walter Schmitt ( USC Mainz )	14.28 s
400 m hurdles	Harald Schmid ( TV Gelnhausen )	49.04 s BRe	Rolf Ziegler ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	50.77 s	Ulrich Zunker ( LBV Phönix Lübeck )	50.77 s
3000 m obstacle	Michael Karst ( USC Mainz )	8: 20.7 min	Eberhard Weyel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	8: 25.4 min	Wolf-Dieter Poschmann ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	8: 32.2 min
4 × 100 m relay	TV Wattenscheid 01 ( Werner Bastians , Klaus Ehl , Friedhelm Heckel , Bernd Goldstein )	40.39 s	SV Salamander Kornwestheim ( Wolfgang Jäger , Dieter Gebhard , Bruno Werner , Rüdiger Harksen )	40.50 s	ASV Cologne (Jansen, Robens, Jäkel, Franz-Josef Löhrer )	40.96 s
4 × 400 m relay	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Joachim Rabstein , Günter Karge , Franz-Peter Hofmeister , Bernd Herrmann )	3: 05.2 min	Youth 07 Bergheim (Schneider, Winfried Kessel , Wagner, Michael Düsing )	3: 08.3 min	VfB Stuttgart ( Falko Geiger , Karl-Heinz Bischoff , Schneider, Uwe Lenz )	3: 08.5 min
4 × 800 m relay	SV Darmstadt 98 (M. Reibold, Peter Horn , Jürgen Lorösch , Hans Reibold )	7: 26.8 min	VfL Wolfsburg (Strong, Rehse, Ulrich Parthier , Reiner Burmester )	7: 28.3 min	LG Wedel-Pinneberg ( Frerk Meyer , Alfred Pankow , Michael Krieg , Bernd Smrcka )	7: 28.5 min
4 × 1500 m relay	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Romolo / Italy , Dieter Riebe , Harald Hudak , Karl Fleschen )	15: 09.2 min	USC Mainz ( Carlo Seck , Leo Thoma , Michael Karst , Thomas Wessinghage )	15: 14.7 min	FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen (Leach, Hutchings, Grant, Crabb / all Great Britain )	15: 15.5 min
20 km walk	Gerhard Weidner ( TSV Salzgitter )	1: 32: 07.3 h	Hans Michalski ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 34: 15.7 h	Heinrich Schubert ( LAC source Fürth )	1: 34: 33.2 h
20 km walk , team competition	TSV Salzgitter ( Gerhard Weidner , Karl Degener , Hans-Joachim Kloppe )	4: 49: 10.3 h	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Hans Michalski , Horst-Rüdiger Magnor , Walter Drössler )	4: 51: 05.4 h	TuS Ricklingen (Meyer, Michael Ritter , Lüdtke)	4: 59: 44.1 h
50 km walk	Gerhard Weidner ( TSV Salzgitter )	4:09:40 h	Heinrich Schubert ( LAC source Fürth )	4: 10: 22.7 h	Hans Binder ( Post-SV Mühldorf )	4: 10: 58.0 h
50 km walk , team competition	LAC source Fürth ( Heinrich Schubert , Alfons Schwarz , Wolfgang Werner )	12:46: 11.2 h	TSV Salzgitter ( Gerhard Weidner , Karl Degener , Hans-Joachim Kloppe )	13: 00: 24.4 h	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Horst-Rüdiger Magnor , Walter Drössler , Hans Michalski )	13: 32: 53.2 h
high jump	Andre Schneider ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	2.19 m	Paul Frommeyer ( DJK Arminia Ibbenbüren )	2.19 m	Carlo Thränhardt ( ASV Cologne )	2.16 m
Pole vault	Günther Lohre ( SV Salamander Kornwestheim )	5.40 m	Robert Pullard / USA ( USC Mainz )	5.25 m	Hans Gedrat ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	5.10 m
Long jump	Jochen Versch ( VfB Stuttgart )	7.96 m	Joachim Busse ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7.93 m	Hans Baumgartner ( ASC Darmstadt )	7.85 m
Triple jump	Klaus Kübler ( LG Rems-Murr )	16.39 m	Wolfgang Kolmsee ( VfB Stuttgart )	16.18 m	Ludwig Franz ( LAC source Fürth )	15.77 m
Shot put	Ralf Reichenbach ( OSC Berlin )	20.82 m BR	Mac Wilkins / USA ( LAC source Fürth )	19.44 m	Gerhard Steines ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	18.96 m
Discus throw	Mac Wilkins / USA ( LAC source Fürth )	64.86 m	Hein-Direck New ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	62.54 m	Alwin Wagner ( USC Mainz )	61.12 m
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	74.70 m	Manfred Hüning ( LAZ Rhede )	72.70 m	Roland Klein ( USC Mainz )	70.22 m
Javelin throw	Michael Wessing ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	85.94 m	Klaus Tafelmeier ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	81.42 m	Helmut Schreiber ( LG Staufen )	78.98 m
Decathlon , 1965 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Guido Kratschmer ( USC Mainz )	7972 P (7928 P)	Claus Marek ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7875 P (7793 P)	Herbert Böck ( LAC source Fürth )	7619 P (7571 P)
Decathlon , team competition	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Claus Marek , Wolfgang Muders , Norbert Hoischen )	23,268 P	USC Mainz ( Guido Kratschmer , Alexander Wernsdorfer , Frank Hensel )	22,220 P	LAC source Fürth ( Herbert Böck , Herbert Peter , Rudolf Hausner )	22,107 P
Cross country middle distance - 5750 m	Günter Zahn ( LAC source Fürth )	16: 41.8 min	Manfred Schoeneberg ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	16: 45.6 min	Eberhard Weyel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	16: 49.2 min
Cross-country middle distance, team competition	LAC source Fürth ( Günter Zahn , Oswald Engel , Alfred Rupp )	Pl.-Ziff. 39	LG DJK boullo Andernach-Neuwied ( Edmund Kaul , Schäfer, Michael Nagel )	Pl.-Ziff. 41	TSV Meitingen ( Josef Lechner , Emmerich Huber , Bernhard Geiger)	Pl.-Ziff. 48
Cross country long distance - 11,500 m	Edmundo Warnke ( LAC source Fürth )	33: 35.8 min	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann ( VfL Wehbach )	33: 36.8 min	Detlef Uhlemann ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	33: 38.8 min
Cross - country long distance, team competition	LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf ( Detlef Uhlemann , Jochen Schirmer , Winfried Hellwig )	Pl.-Ziff. 20th	ASC Darmstadt ( Michael Lederer , Karl Mann , Friedrich Kreth )	Pl.-Ziff. 23	LAC source Fürth ( Edmundo Warnke , Anton Gorbunow , Reinhard Leibold )	Pl.-Ziff. 51

Medalists, women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m (wind: +1.2)	Elvira Possekel ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	11.54 s	Dagmar Schenten ( LG Frankfurt )	11.64 s	Ulrike Sommer ( LG Fichtelgebirge )	11.66 s
200 m (wind: +0.8)	Dagmar Schenten ( LG Frankfurt )	23.19 s	Gaby Bußmann ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	23.54 s	Elvira Possekel ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	23.55 s
400 m	Dagmar Fuhrmann b. Jost ( LG Frankfurt )	51.89 s	Erika Weinstein born Götz ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	52.96 s	Marlies Kühn ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	53.44 s
800 m	Ursula Hook ( Blue-Yellow Marburg )	2: 01.7 min	Elisabeth Schacht ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	2: 01.7 min	Janice Merrill / USA ( USC Mainz )	2: 02.8 min
1500 m	Janice Merrill / USA ( USC Mainz )	4: 06.5 min	Brigitte Kraus ( ASV Cologne )	4: 08.7 min	Angelika Kullmann ( Mettmanner TV )	4: 17.9 min
3000 m	Brigitte Kraus ( ASV Cologne )	9: 14.1 min	Charlotte Teske b. Bernhard ( ASC Darmstadt )	9: 22.3 min	Päivi Roppo / Finland ( LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf )	9: 27.8 min
25 km road race , in the cream. d. Paderborn. Easter run	Christa Vahlensieck b. Luggage racket ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	1:30:12 h	Charlotte Teske b. Bernhard ( ASC Darmstadt )	1:30:52 h	Manuela Angenvoorth b. Preuss ( FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen )	1:32:56 h
marathon	Christa Vahlensieck b. Luggage racket ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	2: 34: 47.5 h WBL	Manuela Angenvoorth b. Preuss ( FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen )	2: 38: 09.4 h	Gisela Schneider ( TuS Iserlohn )	2: 55: 09.5 h
100 m hurdles (wind: +0.3)	Silvia Kempin born Käwel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	13.38 s	Ursula Schalück ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	13.43 s	Elke Geist born Kiel ( LG Kappelberg )	13.74 s
400 m hurdles	Erika Weinstein born Götz ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	57.21 s BRel	Silvia Hollmann ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	58.24 s	Heike Neumann ( Student Schalke 96 )	59.05 s
4 × 100 m relay	OSC Thier Dortmund ( Sabine Klösters , Ina Wallburg , Gaby Bußmann , Annegret Richter née Irrgang )	45.08 s	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Liesel Bömelburg , Erika Weinstein née Götz , Elvira Possekel , Sabine Wecke )	45.19 s	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Elke Decker , Rita Meurer , Silvia Kempin née Käwel , Rita Wilden née Jahn )	45.46 s
4 × 400 m relay	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Gisela Klein née Ellenberger , Brigitte Koczelnik , Elke Decker , Rita Wilden née Jahn )	3: 37.9 min	LG Ostsaar ( Susanne Anlauf , Margarete Schöndorf , Karin Schneider , Margit Weller )	3: 41.6 min	OSC Thier Dortmund (Rademacher, Wuttig, Bechthold, Elisabeth Schacht )	3: 42.3 min
3 × 800 m relay	ASV Cologne ( Rita Windbrake , Ulla Meyer , Brigitte Kraus )	6: 26.3 min	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Gisela Klein née Ellenberger , Petra Kleinbrahm , Brigitte Koczelnik )	6: 30.8 min	VfL Sindelfingen ( Elke Zimmermann , Silvia Erlenmaier , Margit Klier )	6: 39.7 min
high jump	Marlis Wilken ( LG Wilhelmshaven )	1.86 m	Karin Geese born Wagner ( Prussia Krefeld )	1.86 m	Gabriele Hahn ( TK Hanover )	1.83 m
Long jump	Christa Striezel b. Herzog ( Hamburger SV )	6.45 m	Cilly Lemkamp ( LAZ Rhede )	6.41 m	Sabine Wecke ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	6.32 m
Shot put	Eva Wilms ( LAC source Fürth )	19.86 m	Beatrix Philipp ( LAC source Fürth )	16.55 m	Marion Gröger ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	15.49 m
Discus throw	Ingra Manecke ( TK Hannover )	55.86 m	Eva Wilms ( LAC source Fürth )	55.70 m	Marion Gröger ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	50.58 m
Javelin throw	Marion Becker b. Steiner ( USC Munich )	61.22 m	Eva Helmschmidt ( LG Kappelberg )	60.28 m	Heidi Repser ( LAG Lauf / Eschenau )	58.74 m
Pentathlon , 1977 W. i. Klamm .: 1981 value.	Eva Wilms ( LAC source Fürth )	4465 P (4486 P)	Liesel Albert born Krauhs ( TV 1895 Elm )	4304 P (4261 P)	Christa Köhler ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	4150 P (4137 P)
Pentathlon , team competition	LAC Quelle Fürth ( Eva Wilms , Beatrix Philipp , Ulrike Jacob )	12,566 P	LAV co op Dortmund ( Uta Walter , Elke Walter , Holtmeier)	10,941 P	only 2 teams in the rating
Cross country middle distance - 2950 m	Monika Greschner ( ASV Cologne )	9: 25.0 min	Maria Mödl ( MTV Ingolstadt )	9: 41.6 min	Sabine Greiner ( TK Hanover )	9: 52.0 min
Cross-country middle distance, team competition	TK Hannover ( Sabine Greiner , Gabriele Klinger , Gerding)	Pl.-Ziff. 19th	Hamburger SV ( Petra Jürgensen , Susanne Gärtner , Remling)	Pl.-Ziff. 25th	Bielefelder TG ( Rita Seggewiß , Koslowski, Gerlinde Püttmann )	Pl.-Ziff. 50
Cross country long distance - 5750 m	Charlotte Teske b. Bernhard ( ASC Darmstadt )	19: 26.1 min	Vera Kemper ( TuS 1889 Neuenkamp )	19: 35.4 min	Renate Kieninger ( LG Offenburg )	19: 50.2 min
Cross - country long distance, team competition	ASC Darmstadt ( Charlotte Teske née Bernhard , Barbara Will , Döge)	Pl.-Ziff. 22nd	LG Jägermeister Bonn-Troisdorf ( Päivi Roppo / Finland , Heide Brenner , Ulrike Heinz )	Pl.-Ziff. 23	TuS Neuenkamp ( Vera Kemper , Lonny Hoffmann , Dieckmann)	Pl.-Ziff. 41

literature

• Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships. Volume 2: 1973-1981. Waldfischbach 1982.

Web links

• Athletics champion of the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1990) on gbrathletics.com
• German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
• 1500 m final men from the TV broadcast on August 13 and August 6, 1977 on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Records in Sports , website
2. ↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB)
3. ↑ Results of the German Marathon Championships in Berlin on September 10th on the Marathonspiegel website