German Olympic qualification 1964 / Summer Games

This article describes the results of the eliminations for the formation of the all-German team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .

basketball

The preliminary round between the two German basketball teams was played back and forth. The first leg took place on May 7th in Osnabrück's Schloßwallhalle and the second leg on May 10th in the (East) Berlin Central Club of Youth and Athletes . Both games were won by the East German selection with 81:53 and 77:60 respectively. She had thus qualified for a pre-Olympic basketball tournament that took place in Geneva from June 4th to 13th . There she could not qualify for the Olympic tournament.

Boxing

The elimination in boxing took place from May 28th to 31st in the (West) Berlin Sports Palace and on the Schwerin open-air stage. The final matches took place on May 30th in Schwerin and on May 31st in (West) Berlin.

Weight class	place	duel	*	in Tokyo
Flyweight	Schwerin	Otto Babiasch (TSC Berlin) - Hans Freistadt (Boxing Ring Ludwigshafen)	O	Quarter finals
Bantamweight	West Berlin	Rainer Poser (SC Dynamo Berlin) - Günter Geisler (Rünthe)	O	1st fight
Featherweight	Schwerin	Heinz Schulz (ASK Forward Berlin) - Manfred Maeß (Hertha BSC)	O	bronze
lightweight	West Berlin	Wolfgang Schmitt (BC Mainz) -Werner Kirsch(SC Cottbus)	w	1st fight
Light welterweight	Schwerin	Heiko Winter (SC construction Magdeburg) - Werner Busse (TSC Berlin)	O	1st fight
Welterweight	West Berlin	Bruno Guse (SC Traktor Schwerin) - Axel Lehmann (TSC Berlin)	O	1st fight
Light middleweight	Schwerin	Paul Hogh (PSV Stuttgart) - Raymar Reimers	O	1st fight
medium weight	West Berlin	Emil Schulz (1. FC Kaiserslautern) - Hans Arnecke (Hameln)	w	silver
Light heavyweight	Schwerin	Jürgen Schlegel (SC Traktor Schwerin) - Peter Gerber (PSV Bremen)	O	Quarter finals
Heavyweight	West Berlin	Hans Huber (Regensburg Gymnastics Association) - Jürgen Blin (HBC Heros)	w	silver

fencing

There were two elimination tournaments on 4th / 5th. July in the DHfK in Leipzig and on 18./19. July in the congress hall in Bad Dürkheim , where each team fought against each other in the individual armed forces, with rankings being drawn up for the individual fighters. In the rematch in Bad Dürkheim, the East German foil gentlemen no longer competed after it had already been determined that all Olympic places in this discipline would go to West German fencers. In the three other disciplines of women's floret, epee and saber, the West German participants also achieved the first five places that entitle them to participate in the Olympics. The Olympic participants were then selected by the West German Fencing Association at their own discretion.

In Tokyo, Helga Mees won silver in the women's floret and the team bronze.

Soccer

The preliminary round between the two German soccer teams was played back and forth. These took place on September 15, 1963 in the Karl-Marx-Städter Ernst-Thälmann Stadium and on September 22, 1959 in the Hanover Lower Saxony Stadium. The first game was won 3-0 by the eastern selection and the second by the western selection 2-1. The East selection had thus qualified for one of the Olympic qualification groups in which they could qualify for the Olympics. There she won bronze.

Weightlifting

The elimination in weightlifting took place on June 5th in the Musensaal of the Mannheim rose garden and on June 20th in the House of the Cheerful Muse in Leipzig.

Weight class	place	winner	Power [kg]	*	in Tokyo
Bantamweight	Mannheim	Hans Reck	297.5	O	not started due to injury
Featherweight	Mannheim	Martin Eberle	327.5	w	11th place
lightweight	Leipzig	Alfred Kornprobst	385.0 DR	w	8th place
medium weight	Leipzig	Werner Dittrich	402.5	O	injured retired
Lightweight	Leipzig	Karl Arnold	420.0	O	8th place
Middle heavyweight	Mannheim	Norbert Fehr	435.0	w	14th place
Heavyweight	Leipzig	Manfred Rieger	465.0	O	11th place

hockey

The elimination between the two German hockey teams was played back and forth. The first leg took place on May 31st in the (West) Berlin Olympic Stadium and the second leg on June 14th in Jena . The first leg won the West selection 4-2, while the East selection won the second leg 1-0. Since each team had won a game, two more games were scheduled, which again took place on July 1st in Jena and on July 5th in the (West) Berlin Olympic Stadium. The first game won the East Selection 4-2, while the second game ended 2-2. The East German team was thus directly qualified for the Olympics. There she finished fifth undefeated.

Judo

The judo elimination took place on April 4th in the Hansehalle in Lübeck and on April 5th in the Marienehe sports hall in Rostock .

Weight class	place	winner	*	in Tokyo
lightweight	Rostock	Matthias Schießleder	w	Preliminary round
medium weight	Lübeck	Wolfgang Hofmann	w	silver
Heavyweight	Rostock	Herbert Niemann	O	Preliminary round
Open class	Lübeck	Klaus Glahn	w	bronze

Canoe racing

The elimination was held in two regattas on September 12th on the Mittelland Canal near Magdeburg and on September 17th on the Duisburg regatta course . The boats with the lowest number of places qualified for the Olympics. The first four-kayak race was held on September 10th on the (East) Berlin regatta course in Grünau with consideration for Günter Perleberg , who fled his hometown Magdeburg to the west in 1963.

Men

Boat type	winner	Pz	*	in Tokyo
Single kayak 1000 m	Erich Suhrbier	3	w	4th Place
Two-person kayak 1000 m	Heinz Büker / Holger Zander	3	w	bronze
Quad kayak 1000 m	Günter Perleberg / Bernhard Schulze / Friedhelm Wentzke / Holger Zander	2	w	silver
One-Canadians 1000 m	Jürgen Eschert	2	O	gold
Two-man Canadians 1000 m	Klaus Böhle / Detlef Lewe	2	w	6th place

Women

Boat type	Winner	Pz	*	in Tokyo
Single kayak 500 m	Elke Felten	2	w	4th Place
Two-person kayak 500 m	Roswitha Esser / Annemarie Zimmermann	3	w	gold

athletics

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Modern pentathlon

Two modern pentathlon competitions were held from June 12th to 16th in Halle and Leipzig and from July 5th to 9th in Warendorf . The scores achieved were added up. The three best participants qualified for the Olympics, the fourth became a substitute.

*	Surname	Points	*	in Tokyo
1	Elmar Frings	9716	w	23rd place
2	Uwe Adler	9584	O	13th place
3	Wolfgang Gödicke	9534	w	12th place
4th	Eberhard Werner	9498	O	Substitute

The team finished 6th in Tokyo.

Cycling

train

There were two eliminations on August 8 or 9 in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim and on August 16 on the Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn in Leipzig . Because after that the decisions in tandem driving and in the 4,000-meter team pursuit were still open, two more eliminations took place for these two competitions on September 19 in Cologne and on September 20 in Leipzig.

1000 meter time trial

In both Ludwigshafen and Leipzig, the West German Lothar Claesges won with 1: 10.37 min and 1: 09.15 min and was thus qualified for Tokyo. There he took 6th place.

Driving 1000 meters

Three drivers each from East and West competed individually in East-West duels in Ludwigshafen and Leipzig. The West German Willi Fuggerer won with 5: 1 wins ahead of the West German Ulrich Schillinger with 4: 2 wins. Both were qualified for Tokyo, where Fuggerer was eliminated in the quarter-finals and Schillinger in the second round.

4000 meters individual pursuit

In both eliminations, this discipline was held as an individual time trial. In Ludwigshafen the West German Lothar Spiegelberg won ahead of the West German Lothar Claesges , in Leipzig the order was reversed. Spiegelberg, who was eliminated in the quarter-finals, was nominated for Tokyo.

tandem

Two tandems from east and west each competed individually in an east-west duel in Ludwigshafen and Leipzig. After the two eliminations, both the East German Hans-Jürgen Klunker / Wolfgang Tertschek and the West German Willi Fuggerer / Klaus Kobusch had 3-1 victories on their account. In the other two eliminations between these two tandems, Fuggerer / Kobusch won 2-0 runs in Cologne and, after winning the first run in Leipzig, qualified for Tokyo. There they won bronze.

4000 meters team pursuit

In the eliminations, this discipline was held as an individual time trial. In Ludwigshafen the West German foursome won in 4: 35.50 minutes, while in Leipzig the East German foursome won in 4: 33.74 minutes. In each of the two other eliminations, the West German foursome won. This always drove in the line-up of Lothar Claesges , Karl-Heinz Henrichs , Karl Link , Ernst Streng and won gold in Tokyo.

The East German four started in Ludwigsburg with Bernd Barleben , Jürgen Kißner , Siegfried Köhler and Wolfgang Schmelzer . From Leipzig Erhard Hancke then drove for Barleben. In Cologne, Kissner left his team and stayed in the west. Hartmut Scholz then drove there for Kissner. In Leipzig, instead of Scholz, Rudolf Franz drove .

Street

There were two elimination races, on July 5th around Gießen (186 km) and on July 12th around Erfurt (174 km). The winner received 30 evaluation points, the second 29 evaluation points, etc. The first five riders in the overall standings qualified for the Olympics or acquired the right to start for their respective cycling association.

*	Surname	Points	*	in Tokyo
1	Klaus Schützeberg	53	w	Instead of Schützeberg, the West German Peter Glemser was nominated, who was only used in team driving.
2	Günter Hoffmann	50	O	78th place
3	Immo Rittmeyer	49	O	54th place
4th	Burkhard Ebert	49	w	29th place
5	Heinz-Dieter Schulz	49	w	Instead of Schulz, the West German Wilfried Peffgen was nominated, who was only used in individual races. He took 6th place there.

Ebert, Glemser, Hoffmann and Rittmeyer took 14th place in the team driving.

horse riding

dressage

The East German Equestrian Association waived the scheduled elimination, so that the riders were nominated by the West German Equestrian Association. Harry Boldt won silver in Tokyo, Josef Neckermann took 5th place and Reiner Klimke took 6th place. The team won gold.

Military

Without elimination, two riders from the east and two from the west were nominated. West German Fritz Ligges won bronze in Tokyo, Horst Karsten (w) placed 6th, Gerhard Schulz (o) 20th and Karl-Heinz Fuhrmann (o) 25th. The team won bronze.

Hunting jumping

On May 31 and June 3, two laps were ridden on the cycling track in (East) Berlin-Weißensee and in the (West) Berlin Olympic Stadium . Four riders from east and west took part with two horses each, so that 16 rides were scheduled per round. For each venue, the best rider-horse combination was included in the rating.

*	Name of the rider	Names of horses	Failure points	*	in Tokyo
1	Hermann Schridde	Lecturer, Ilona	8 (4 + 4)	w	silver
2	Hans Günter Winkler	Cornelia, Fidelitas	12 (4 + 8)	w	16th place
3	Alwin Schockemöhle	Ferdl, baron, future	19 3/4 (4 + 15 3/4)	w	Schockemöhle did not ride in Tokyo because he did not have a suitable horse.
4th	Peter Schmitz	Amsella, monody	24 (16 + 8)	w	Schmitz had thus qualified as a substitute rider. For him, however, the West German Kurt Jarasinski was nominated, who could not compete in the elimination, and who then rode in Tokyo, where he finished 8th.

The German team won gold in the team competition.

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

There were two eliminations on July 1st in Zwickau and on July 4th in Hof . In each weight class there was a wrestling duel east against west in a return match. A playoff might have to be decided at the second venue.

Weight class	winner	*	in Tokyo
Flyweight	Rolf Lacour	w	4th round
Bantamweight	Fritz Stange	w	4th round
Featherweight	Lothar Schneider	O	3rd round
lightweight	Franz Schmitt	w	4th round
Welterweight	Rudolf Vesper	O	3rd round
medium weight	Lothar Metz	O	bronze
Light heavyweight	Heinz Kiehl	w	bronze
Heavyweight	Wilfried Dietrich	w	bronze

Freestyle

There were two eliminations on July 15 in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle and on July 18 in the Leipzig House of the Cheerful Muse . In each weight class there was a wrestling duel west against east in a return match. A playoff might have to be decided at the second venue.

Weight class	winner	*	in Tokyo
Flyweight	Paul Neff	w	2nd round
Bantamweight	Karl Dodrimont	w	2nd round
Featherweight	Pure shilling	w	3rd round
lightweight	Klaus Rost	w	silver
Welterweight	Martin Heinze	O	3rd round
medium weight	Günther Bauch	O	4th round
Light heavyweight	Heinz Kiehl	w	4th round
Heavyweight	Wilfried Dietrich	w	3rd round

rowing

The rowing elimination was held on August 29th on the (East) Berlin regatta course Berlin-Grünau and on August 30th on the Duisburg regatta course .

Boat type	place	winner	*	in Tokyo
One	Berlin-Grünau	Achim Hill	O	silver
Double scull	Duisburg	Helmut Lebert / Josef Steffes-Mies	w	5th place
Two without	Duisburg	Wolfgang Hottenrott / Michael Schwan	w	bronze
Two with	Berlin-Grünau	Günter Bergau / Peter Gorny / Karl-Heinz Danielowski (stm.)	O	Winner of the small final
Foursome without	Duisburg	Germania Düsseldorf	w	6th place
Foursome with	Berlin-Grünau	Berlin RC	w	gold
Eighth	Berlin-Grünau	Ratzeburg RC	w	silver

shoot

Free rifle

There were two eliminations, which were held on July 7th in Leipzig and on July 28th in Wiesbaden . The number of rings obtained was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics, with the proviso that only ten athletes from one country were allowed to participate in the six shooting disciplines.

*	Surname	Rings	*	in Tokyo
1	Klaus Zähringer	1136.5	w	14th place
2	Hans-Werner Harbeck	1134.5	w	Since only 10 German sport shooters were allowed to take part in Tokyo, the East German Harry Köcher , who was qualified in the small-caliber three-position fight anyway, was nominated for Harbeck . He finished 8th in Tokyo.

Small caliber lying

There were two elimination competitions, which were held on July 4th or 5th in Leipzig and on July 25th in Wiesbaden . The number of rings obtained was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics.

*	Surname	Rings	*	in Tokyo
1	Rudolf Bortz	591.5	w	24th place
2	Karl Wenk	590.5	w	7th place

Small caliber three-position fight

There were two elimination competitions, which were held on July 4th or 5th in Leipzig and on July 26th in Wiesbaden . The number of rings obtained was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics, with the proviso that only ten athletes from one country were allowed to participate in the six shooting disciplines.

*	Surname	Rings	*	in Tokyo
1	Harry Quiver	1138.0	O	4th Place
2	Werner Lippoldt	1134.0	O	Since only 10 German sport shooters were allowed to take part in Tokyo, the West German Klaus Zähringer , who was qualified in the free rifle anyway, was nominated for Lippoldt . He finished 22nd in Tokyo.

Free pistol

There were two elimination competitions, which were held on July 4th or 5th in Leipzig and on July 25th in Wiesbaden . The number of rings obtained was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics.

*	Surname	Rings	*	in Tokyo
1	Johann Garreis	547.5	O	4th Place
2	Hans Kaupmannsennecke	546.5	w	30th place

Rapid fire pistol

There were two elimination competitions, which were held on July 4th or 5th in Leipzig and on July 26th in Wiesbaden . The number of rings obtained was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics.

*	Surname	Rings	*	in Tokyo
1	Gerhard Feller	584.0	O	26th place
2	Lothar Jacobi	581.5	O	13th place

Throwing pigeon shooting

There were two eliminations, which took place on 4th / 5th. July in Leipzig and on 25/26. July were held in Darmstadt . The number of hits achieved was averaged. The two best shooters qualified for the Olympics.

*	Surname	Hit	*	in Tokyo
1	Heinz Rehder	192.5	O	14th place
2	Joachim Marschneider	192.0	O	8th place

swim

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sailing

The elimination of sails was carried out in two series of races from July 19 to 26 at Rostock-Warnemünde and from August 1 to 7 at Lübeck-Travemünde . The two results were added together and the boat with the highest points qualified for the Olympics.

Finn dinghy

The elimination was won by the East German Horst Herrmann , who was only taken to Tokyo as a substitute sailor. Was nominated for the Olympics by the East German Sailing Association Bernd Dehmel , who had not sailed in the elimination races to win, but had contracted on the basis of a coordinated approach of the East German sailors, West German European champion and Goldcupgewinner Wilhelm Kuhweide should receive adequate for development. Kuhweide then gave up in Travemünde after the fifth race and the other West German sailors did not compete out of solidarity with him. The West German Sailing Association did not want to accept this, and the International Sailing Association finally set an elimination between Dehmel and Kuhweide in Tokyo, to which Dehmel did not start at the behest of the East German sports management, whereupon Kuhweide received the starting authorization from the IOC . He won gold.

star

It was won by the West German Bruno Splieth with his bowman Karsten Meyer . The boat took 6th place in Tokyo.

Flying Dutchman

It was won by the East German Eberhard Reschwamm with his bowman Dietmar Gedde . The boat took 13th place in Tokyo.

5.5 m class

The East German sailors did not compete in the races in Travemünde because they no longer calculated any chances. It was won by Herbert Reich with his bowmen Fritz Kopperschmidt and Eckart Wagner . The boat took 5th place in Tokyo, with Kopperschmidt retiring after the third race and being replaced by Uwe Mares .

Dragons

It was won by the East German Peter Ahrendt with his foreshifters Wilfried Lorenz and Ulrich Mense . The boat won silver in Tokyo.

do gymnastics

Men

On 4th / 5th July in the Essen Grugahalle and on 25/26. In July one did a twelve-fight in the Hermann-Gieseler-Halle in Magdeburg . The points obtained were added together. The top six gymnasts qualified for Tokyo. The seventh place became a substitute gymnast.

*	Surname	Points	*	in Tokyo
1	Siegfried Abundance	226.80	O	15th place
2	Philipp Prince	226.20	w	24th place
3	Günter Lyhs	225.05	w	29th place
4th	Erwin Koppe	224.70	O	19th place
5	Klaus Köste	223.70	O	18th place
6th	Peter Weber	223.60	O	21st place
7th	Willi Jaschek	223.60	w	Substitute gymnast

The squad won bronze in Tokyo. There were no finals for the individual devices.

Women

On 27./28. June in the Wolfsburg town hall and on 18./19. July in the Schwerin sports and congress hall an eight-round gymnastics. The points obtained were added together. The best six gymnasts qualified for Tokyo. The seventh place became a substitute gymnast.

*	Surname	Points	*	in Tokyo
1	Erika Barth	156.20	O	could not compete due to injury
2	Birgit Radochla	156.15	O	4th Place
3	Ingrid Föst	155.40	O	12th place
4th	Ute Starke	155.10	O	10th place
5	Christel Felgner	154.30	O	35th place
6th	Karin Mannewitz	154.25	O	31st place
7th	Barbara proud	153.95	O	44th place. She first qualified as a substitute gymnast and then moved up for the injured Erika Barth.
8th	Rosemarie Heritz	153.25	O	moved up as a substitute gymnast

The squad took 4th place. Birgit Radochla won silver in the horse jump and Ute Starke took 6th place. On the floor, Birgit Radochla and Ingrid Föst took 4th and 5th place.

volleyball

Since no German volleyball team met the criteria of the International Volleyball Association for participation in the Olympic Games, neither for men nor for women , there was no reason for an internal German volleyball elimination.

Water polo

There were two qualifying matches that on May 16 in the same swimming pool in Magdeburg on 24 May in the Schwimmoper in Wuppertal took place. The first game won the East selection 3-1, while the second game ended 1-1. The East German water polo team was thus directly qualified for Tokyo, where they took 6th place.

Diving

There were two eliminations that took place on 19./20. August in Agrippabad in Cologne and on 26/27. August were held in the Neptun swimming pool in Rostock . The three jumpers with the best rankings qualified for the Olympics.

Men

Jumping

*	Surname	Pz	*	in Tokyo
1	Hans-Dieter Pophal	3	O	4th Place
2	Rolf Sperling	3	O	Pre-fight
3	Horst Rosenfeldt	7th	w	Pre-fight

Diving

*	Surname	Pz	*	in Tokyo
1	Rolf Sperling	3	O	7th place
2	Klaus Konzorr	3	w	Pre-fight
3	Gerd Völker	7th	O	Pre-fight

Women

Jumping

*	Surname	Pz	*	in Tokyo
1	Ingrid Engel-Krämer	2	O	gold
2	Angelika Hilbert	5	w	8th place
3	Delia Reinhardt	7th	O	For them, the East German Christiane Lanzke jumped , who was eliminated in the preliminary fight.

Diving

*	Surname	Pz	*	in Tokyo
1	Ingrid Engel-Krämer	2	O	silver
2	Delia Reinhardt	4th	O	10th place
3	Christiane Lanzke	6th	O	5th place

See also

• Olympic Summer Games 1964 / Participant (Germany)
• German Olympic qualification 1960 / Summer Games

swell

Issues of the Hamburger Abendblatt and the New Germany from 1964.

Remarks

1. ↑ After a play-off against the East German Siegfried Roßberg , who came to Tokyo as a substitute.
2. ^ After a jump-off against the East German Dieter Krause / Wolfgang Lange .
3. ↑ According to the Hamburger Abendblatt, he was classified with 50 points and occupied places 9 and 2, which would result in 51 points.
4. ↑ Total time: 9:39, 36 h
5. ↑ Total time: 9: 39.43 h Best individual placement: 5th place.
6. ↑ Total time: 9: 39.43 h Best individual placement: 6th place.
7. ↑ Ferdl could only take part in the 1st round in Weissensee.
8. ↑ Zukunft took part in the Olympic Stadium for the injured Ferdl.
9. ↑ after stinging
10. ↑ or Hermann ?
11. ↑ ^{a b} Weber achieved the better mandatory result compared to Jaschek.