Olympic Summer Games 1968 / Participant (GDR)

GDR

9	9	7th

The GDR Olympic team took part in the Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 1968 for the first time as an independent team. It comprised 250 athletes. It won a total of 25 medals, making it the fifth best team in the medal table.

Team management

• Team leader: Manfred Ewald (President of the DTSB)
• Chef de Mission: Bernhard Orzechowski
• Other members: Heinz Schöbel (President of the NOC of the GDR and IOC member), Helmut Behrendt (Secretary General of the NOC of the GDR)

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Bernd Englmeier (ASK Forward Berlin)

  Light flyweight: 9th place

• Bernd Juterzenka (SC Traktor Schwerin)

  Bantamweight: 17th place

• Peter Rieger (TSC Berlin)

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Peter Tiepold (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Light welterweight: 5th place

• Manfred Wolke (ASK Forward Berlin)

  Welterweight:

• Detlef Dahn (ASK Forward Berlin)

  Light middleweight: 9th place

• Jürgen Schlegel (SC Traktor Schwerin)

  Light heavyweight: 5th place

• Bernd Anders (TSC Berlin)

  Heavyweight: 5th place

fencing

• Peter Schulze (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Epee, singles: 17th place

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Klaus Dumke (SG Dynamo Eisenach)

  Epee, singles: 17th place

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Harry Fiedler (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Bernd Uhlig (SG Dynamo Eisenach)

  Epee, team: 5th place

• Dieter Burger

  No use

Weightlifting

• Werner Dittrich (BSG Motor Zittau)

  Middleweight: 6th place

• Karl Arnold (BSG Motor Zittau)

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Manfred Rieger (BSG Motor Zittau)

  Heavyweight: 4th place

hockey

• 5th place

• Rainer Stephan (SC Motor Jena)
• Axel Thieme (SC Leipzig)
• Horst Brennecke (SC Leipzig)
• Klaus Bahner (SC Motor Jena)
• Lothar Lippert (SC Leipzig)
• Karlheinz Freiberger (SC Motor Jena)
• Dieter Ehrlich (SC Motor Jena)
• Rüdiger Kasch (SC Leipzig)
• Hans-Dietrich Sasse (SC Leipzig)
• Gerhard Krieger (SC Leipzig)
• Jürgen Müller (SC Leipzig)
• Klaus Träumer (SC Motor Jena)
• Eckhard Wallossek (SC Leipzig)
• Dieter Klauss (SC Leipzig)
• Reinhart Sasse (SC Leipzig)
• Rolf Thieme (SC Leipzig)
• Helmut Rabis (SC Motor Jena)

Canoe racing

Men Wolfgang Lange (TSC Berlin) Single kayak, 1000 m: 8th place Klaus Heinroth (SC DHfK Leipzig) Two-person kayak, 1000 m: advance Manfred Ehrhardt (SC Magdeburg) Two-person kayak, 1000 m: advance Joachim Wenzke (ASK Forward Berlin) Quad kayak, 1000 m: 6th place Klaus-Uwe Will (SC Empor Rostock) Quad kayak, 1000 m: 6th place Erhard Riedrich (TSC Berlin) Quad kayak, 1000 m: 6th place Klaus-Peter Ebeling (TSC Berlin) Quad kayak, 1000 m: 6th place Jürgen Harpke (SC Magdeburg) Two-man canoe, 1000 m: 6th place Helmut Wagner (SC Magdeburg) Two-man canoe, 1000 m: 6th place Eduard Augustin (SC Unit Dresden) No use

Women Anita Nüßner (SC DHfK Leipzig) Single kayak, 500 m: 6th place Anita Kobuss (SC Potsdam) Two-person kayak, 500 m: 5th place Karin Haftenberger (SC Potsdam) Two-person kayak, 500 m: 5th place

athletics

discipline	Men	Women
100 m	Harald Eggers (SC Leipzig) lead Hartmut Schelter (ASK forward Potsdam) lead Heinz Erbstößer (SC Leipzig) lead
800 m	Dieter Fromm (SC Turbine Erfurt) 6th place	Karin Burneleit (SC Dynamo Berlin) lead Barbara Wieck (SC Empor Rostock) lead
5000 m	Bernd Dießner (ASK Forward Potsdam) forward
10,000 m	Jürgen Haase (SC Leipzig) 15th place
marathon	Jürgen Busch (AK Vorwärts Potsdam) 15th place
80 m hurdles		Karin Balzer (SC Leipzig) 5th place
400 m hurdles	Joachim Singer (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) no start due to knee injury
4 × 100 m	Heinz Erbstößer (SC Leipzig) 5th place Hartmut Schelter (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 5th place Peter Haase (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 5th place Harald Eggers (SC Leipzig) 5th place Dietmar Falgowski (SC Chemie Halle) replacement runner Wolfgang Krebs (SC Leipzig) reserve runner
4 × 400 m	Hartmut Schwabe (SC Dynamo Berlin) preliminary Dieter Fromm (SC Turbine Erfurt) lead Wolfgang Müller (ASK Forward Potsdam) forward Michael Zerbes (TSC Berlin) preliminary
20 km walk	Gerhard Sperling (TSC Berlin) 5th place Hans-Georg Reimann (SC Dynamo Berlin) 7th place Peter Frenkel (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 10th place
50 km walk	Christoph Höhne (SC Dynamo Berlin) Peter Selzer (SC Dynamo Berlin) 4th place Burkhard Leuschke (SC Dynamo Berlin) eliminated
high jump		Rita Schmidt (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place Karin Schulze (SC DHfK Leipzig) 7th place
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig (SC Motor Jena)
Long jump	Klaus Beer (SC Dynamo Berlin)	Burghild Wieczorek (SC DHfK Leipzig) 4th place Bärbel Löhnert (SC Frankfurt) 14th place
Triple jump	Heinz-Günter Schenk (SC Dynamo Berlin) 26th place Klaus Neumann (SC Dynamo Berlin) 32nd place
Shot put	Dieter Hoffmann (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 4th place Uwe Grabe (SC Cottbus) 7th place	Margitta Gummel (SC DHfK Leipzig) Marita Lange (SC Chemie Halle) Renate Boy (SC Empor Rostock) 5th place
Discus throw	Lothar Milde (SC Chemie Halle) Hartmut Losch (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 4th place Günter Schaumburg (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 10th place	Anita Otto (SC Chemie Halle) 4th place Christine Spielberg (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 7th place Karin Illgen (SC DHfK Leipzig) 10th place
Hammer throw	Reinhard Theimer (TSC Berlin) 7th place Helmuth Baumann (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 8th place
Javelin throw	Manfred Stolle (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 5th place
Pentathlon		Inge Bauer (SC Motor Jena) 7th place Gerda Uhlemann (SC Einheit Dresden) 19th place
Decathlon	Joachim Kirst (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) 5th place Manfred Tiedtke (SC DHfK Leipzig) 10th place Herbert Wessel (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) eliminated

Modern pentathlon

• Karl-Heinz Kutschke (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Singles: 4th place

  Team: 6th place

• Jörg Tscherner (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Individual: 15th place

  Team: 6th place

• Wolfgang Lüderitz (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Singles: 40th place

  Team: 6th place

• Jörg Langner (SC Chemie Halle)

  Substitute

Cycling

train

• Heinz Richter (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Sprint: 10th place

  4000 m team pursuit: advance

• Werner Otto (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Tandem: 5th place

• Hans-Jürgen Geschke (TSC Berlin)

  Tandem: 5th place

• Wolfgang Schmelzer (TSC Berlin)

  4000 m team pursuit: advance

• Rudolf Franz (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)

  4000 m team pursuit: advance

• Manfred Ulbricht (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)

  4000 m team pursuit: advance

Street

• Klaus Ampler (SC DHfK Leipzig)

  Team time trial: 13th place

• Günter Hoffmann (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Team time trial: 13th place

• Dieter Grabe (SC DHfK Leipzig)

  Team time trial: 13th place

• Axel Peschel (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Team time trial: 13th place

• Wolfgang Wesemann (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Team time trial: substitute driver

horse riding

• Horst Köhler (ASK Forward Potsdam)

  Dressage (individual): 5th place

  Dressage (team): 4th place

• Gerhard Brockmüller (ASK Forward Potsdam)

  Dressage (individual): 12th place

  Dressage (team): 4th place

• Wolfgang Müller (ASK Forward Potsdam)

  Dressage (individual): 16th place

  Dressage (team): 4th place

• Karl-Heinz Fuhrmann (ASK Forward Potsdam)

  Versatility (individual): 25th place

  Versatility (team): 7th place

• Uwe Plank (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Versatility (individual): 27th place

  Versatility (team): 7th place

• Helmut Hartmann (ASK Forward Potsdam)

  Versatility (individual): 28th place

  Versatility (team): 7th place

• Ulrich Vite (ASK Vorwärts Berlin) (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Versatility (Individual): Eliminated

  Versatility (team): 7th place

Wrestling

Greco-Roman Hartmut Puls (SG Dynamo Luckenwalde) Bantamweight: eliminated Lothar Schneider (SC Leipzig) Featherweight: eliminated Klaus Pohl (SG Dynamo Luckenwalde) Lightweight: eliminated Rudolf Vesper (ASK Forward Rostock) Welterweight: Lothar Metz (ASK Forward Rostock) Medium weight: Jürgen Klinge (SC Leipzig) Light Heavyweight: Eliminated

Freestyle Horst Mayer (SG Dynamo Luckenwalde) Bantamweight: eliminated Jürgen Luczak (ASK Forward Rostock) Featherweight: eliminated Martin Heinze (SC Chemie Halle) Welterweight: eliminated Peter Döring (SG Dynamo Luckenwalde) Middleweight: 6th place Gerd Bachmann (SC Leipzig) Light Heavyweight: Eliminated

rowing

• Achim Hill (BSG Motor Baumschulenweg)

  One: 5th place

• Hans-Ulrich Schmied (TSC Berlin)

  Double scull: 5th place

• Manfred Haake (TSC Berlin)

  Double scull: 5th place

• Joachim Böhmer (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Double scull: substitute

• Jörg Lucke (TSC Berlin)

  Two without a helmsman:

• Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (TSC Berlin)

  Two without a helmsman:

• Manfred Wiesner (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Two without a helmsman: substitute

• Helmut Wollmann (TSC Berlin)

  Two with a helmsman: 4th place

• Wolfgang Gunkel (TSC Berlin)

  Two with a helmsman: 4th place

• Klaus-Dieter Neubert (TSC Berlin)

  Two with a helmsman: 4th place

• Frank Forberger (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome without a helmsman:

• Dieter Grahn (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome without a helmsman:

• Frank Rühle (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome without a helmsman:

• Dieter Schubert (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome without a helmsman:

• Peter Kremtz (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome with helmsman:

• Roland Göhler (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome with helmsman:

• Manfred Gelpke (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome with helmsman:

• Klaus Jacob (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome with helmsman:

• Dieter Semetzky (SC Unit Dresden)

  Foursome with helmsman:

• Bernd Meerbach (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Four with helmsman: substitute

• Günter Bergau (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Klaus-Dieter Bähr (TSC Berlin)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Claus Wilcke (SC DHfK Leipzig)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Peter Gorny (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Reinhard Zerfowski (TSC Berlin)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Peter Hein (TSC Berlin)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Manfred Schneider (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Peter Prompe (TSC Berlin)

  Eighth: 7th place

• Karl-Heinz Danielowski (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Eighth: 7th place

shoot

• Christian Düring (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Rapid fire pistol: 4th place

• Gerhard Dommrich (SC Dynamo Hoppegarten)

  Rapid fire pistol: 6th place

• Harald Vollmar (GST Leipzig Sports Shooting Club)

  Free target gun:

• Helmut Artelt (GST Leipzig Sports Shooting Club)

  Free target pistol: 6th place

• Hartmut Sommer (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Free rifle three-position fight: 6th place

  Small caliber three-position battle: 26th place

  Lying small bore: 54th place

• Uto Wunderlich (GST Leipzig Sports Shooting Club)

  Free rifle three-position fight: 23rd place

  Small bore three-position battle: 17th place

• Werner Heyn (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Lying small bore: 56th place

• Kurt Czekalla (GST Leipzig Sports Shooting Club)

  Trap:

• Rudolf Hager (ASK Forward Leipzig)

  Trap: 23rd place

The nominated shooter Werner Lippoldt from the club for sport shooting of the GST Leipzig had to refrain from participating due to injury. ND September 18, 1968 p. 5

swim

discipline	Men	Women
100 m freestyle		Martina Grunert (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place Roswitha Krause (SC Dynamo Berlin) preliminary run Uta Schmuck (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) preliminary run
200 m freestyle		Gabriele Wetzko (SC DHfK Leipzig) 4th place
400 m freestyle	Alfred Müller (ASK forward Rostock) forward	Gabriele Wetzko (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place
800 m freestyle		Sigrid Goral (SC Empor Rostock) lead Sabine Rantzsch (SC DHfK Leipzig) lead
1500 m freestyle	Karl-Rüdiger Mann (SC Dynamo Berlin) advance
100 m back	Roland Matthes (SC Turbine Erfurt)
200 m back	Roland Matthes (SC Turbine Erfurt) Joachim Röther (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 7th place	Doris Kohardt (SC Empor Rostock) forward
100 m chest	Egon Henninger (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 8th place Klaus Katzur (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) prelim
200 m chest	Egon Henninger (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 6th place Klaus Katzur (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) prelim
100 m butterfly	Horst-Günter Gregor (SC DHfK Leipzig) preliminary	Helga Lindner (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 8th place Christine Strübing (SC DHfK Leipzig) preliminary
200 m butterfly		Helga Lindner (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) Christine Strübing (SC DHfK Leipzig) preliminary
200 m layers	Frank Wiegand (ASK Forward Rostock) forward	Sabine Steinbach (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 4th place Marianne Seydel (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 6th place
400 m layers		Sabine Steinbach (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) Marianne Seydel (SC SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 6th place Eva Wittke (SC DHfK Leipzig) preliminary
4 × 100 m freestyle	Horst-Günter Gregor (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place Udo Poser (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 5th place Lothar Gericke (TSC Berlin) 5th place Frank Wiegand (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 5th place	Gabriele Wetzko (SC DHfK Leipzig) Martina Grunert (SC DHfK Leipzig) Roswitha Krause (SC Dynamo Berlin) Uta Schmuck (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) Gabriele Perthes (SC DHfK Leipzig)
4 × 200 m freestyle	Alfred Müller (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 7th place Jochen Herbst (SC DHfK Leipzig) 7th place Horst-Günter Gregor (SC DHfK Leipzig) 7th place Frank Wiegand (ASK Vorwärts Rostock) 7th place
4 × 100 m layers	Roland Matthes (SC Turbine Erfurt) Frank Wiegand (ASK Forward Rostock) Egon Henninger (ASK Forward Rostock) Horst-Günter Gregor (SC DHfK Leipzig)	Eva Wittke (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place Helga Lindner (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 5th place Uta Schmuck (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 5th place Martina Grunert (SC DHfK Leipzig) 5th place

sailing

• Jürgen Mier (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Finn-Dinghi: 13th place

• Hartmann Bogumil (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Star: 14th place

• Udo Springsklee (ASK Forward Rostock)

  Star: 14th place

• Paul Borowski (SC Empor Rostock)

  Kite:

• Karl-Heinz Thun (SC Empor Rostock)

  Kite:

• Konrad Weichert (SC Empor Rostock)

  Kite:

• Hans-Jürgen Cochius (TSC Berlin)

  Flying Dutchman: 13th place

• Werner Christoph (TSC Berlin)

  Flying Dutchman: 13th place

• Bernd Dehmel (TSC Berlin)

  Finn-Dinghi: substitute

• Roland Schwarz (TSC Berlin)

  Dragon: substitute

do gymnastics

Men Siegfried Fülle (SC DHfK Leipzig) Individual all-around: 21st place Team all-around: Bars: 26th place Floor: 18th place Jump: 10th place Horizontal bar: 11th place Rings: 23rd place Pommel horse: 71st place Matthias Brehme (SC DHfK Leipzig) Individual all-around: 12th place Team all-around: Bars: 12th place Floor: 24th place Jump: 14th place Horizontal bar: 10th place Rings: 15th place Pommel horse: 18th place Klaus Köste (SC DHfK Leipzig) Individual all-around: 16th place Team all-around: Bars: 33rd place Floor: 21st place Jump: 30th place Horizontal bar: 4th place Rings: 11th place Pommel horse: 45th place Peter Weber (ASK Forward Potsdam) Individual all-around: 26th place Team all-around: Bars: 21st place Floor: 57th place Jump: 23rd place Horizontal bar: 25th place Rings: 28th place Pommel horse: 52nd place Gerhard Dietrich (ASK Forward Potsdam) Individual all-around: 34th place Team all-around: Bars: 72nd place Floor: 44th place Jump: 68th place Horizontal bar: 23rd place Rings: 44th place Pommel horse: 20th place Günter Beier (ASK Forward Potsdam) Individual all-around: 51st place Team all-around: Bars: 51st place Floor: 37th place Jump: 15th place Horizontal bar: 33rd place Rings: 68th place Pommel horse: 85th place Peter Kunze (ASK Forward Potsdam) Replacement starter

Women Erika Zuchold (SC Leipzig) Individual all-around: 4th place Team all-around: Floor: 8th place Leap: Uneven bars: 5th place Bar: 6th place Karin Janz (SC Dynamo Berlin) Individual all-around: 6th place Team all-around: Floor: 8th place Jump: 8th place Uneven bars: Bar: 4th place Ute Starke (SC Leipzig) Individual all-around: 22nd place Team all-around: Floor: 27th place Jump: 10th place Uneven bars: 17th place Bar: 33rd place Maritta Bauerschmidt (SC Leipzig) Individual all-around: 12th place Team all-around: Floor: 17th place Jump: 17th place Uneven bars: 17th place Bar: 8th place Marianne Noack (SC Empor Rostock) Individual all-around: 27th place Team all-around: Floor: 24th place Jump: 13th place Uneven bars: 52nd place Bar: 10th place Magdalena Schmidt (SC Dynamo Berlin) Individual all-around: 29th place Team all-around: Floor: 27th place Jump: 7th place Uneven bars: 16th place Bar: 58th place Christine Schmitt (SC Empor Rostock) No use

volleyball

• Men's team

  4th Place

• Squad

  Arnold Schulz (SC Leipzig)

  Wolfgang Webner (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Siegfried Schneider (SC Leipzig)

  Rudi Schumann (SC Leipzig)

  Eckehard Pietzsch (SC Leipzig)

  Rainer Tscharke (TSC Berlin)

  Jürgen Kessel (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Horst Peter (SC Leipzig)

  Eckhard Tielscher (SC Leipzig)

  Jürgen Freiwald (SC Leipzig)

  Manfred Heine (SC Leipzig)

  Walter Toussaint (SC Leipzig)

Water polo

• Men's team of the German Democratic Republic: 6th place

• Siegfried Ballerstedt (SG Dynamo Magdeburg)
• Jürgen Kluge (SG Dynamo Magdeburg)
• Hans-Georg Fehn (SG Dynamo Magdeburg)
• Klaus Schlenkrich (SC Leipzig)
• Peter Rund (SC Dynamo Berlin)
• Hans-Jürgen Schüler (SC Magdeburg)
• Veit Herrmanns (SG Dynamo Magdeburg)
• Jürgen Thiel (SC Magdeburg)
• Manfred Herzog (SC Dynamo Berlin)
• Peter Schmidt (SC Dynamo Berlin)
• Hans-Ulrich Lange

Diving

Men Lothar Matthes (SC Unit Dresden) High diving: 6th place Rolf Sperling (SC Chemie Halle) Diving: 20th place

Women Ingrid Gulbin (SC Unit Dresden) Artistic jumping: 5th place Sylvia Fiedler (SC Unit Dresden) Diving: 19th place Claudia Reiche (SC Unit Dresden) Diving: 23rd place

swell

• List of nominated athletes in ND on September 5, 1968 p. 8

Web links

• GDR Olympic team in 1968