Olympic Summer Games 1972 / Participant (GDR)

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GDR
Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals
20th 23 23

The German Democratic Republic took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 299 athletes (233 men and 66 women) who won 66 medals in 18 sports in 161 competitions. With the fourth largest team in these games, they finished third according to the medal table . The boxer Manfred Wolke was chosen as the standard bearer for the opening ceremony. The most successful representative was the gymnast Karin Janz , who won two gold and two silver medals as well as one bronze medal.

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Medal table

Medal table GDR
space sport Gold medal - Olympic champion Silver medal - 2nd place Bronze medal - 3rd place Medals - total
1 athletics 8th 7th 5 20th
2 canoe 4th 1 1 6th
3 do gymnastics 3 4th 2 9
4th rowing 3 1 3 7th
5 swim 2 5 2 9
6th Cycling - 2 1 3
7th Wrestling - 1 - 1
sailing - 1 - 1
volleyball - 1 - 1
10 Weightlifting - - 2 2
shoot - - 2 2
Diving - - 2 2
13 Boxing - - 1 1
Soccer - - 1 1
Judo - - 1 1
Total 20th 23 23 66

Medalist

gold gold

sport competition Name (s)
athletics 20 km walking Peter Frenkel
Pole vault Wolfgang Nordwig
100 m (women) Renate Stecher
200 m (women) Renate Stecher
400 m (women) Monika Zehren
100 m hurdles (women) Annelie Ehrhardt
4 × 400 m relay (women) Dagmar Käsling , Rita Kühne , Helga Seidler , Monika Zehrt
Javelin throw (women) Ruth Fuchs
Canoeing One kayak, slalom Siegbert Horn
Single canoe, slalom Reinhard Eiben
Two-man canoe, slalom Walter Hofmann , Rolf-Dieter Amend
Single kayak, slalom (women) Angelika Bahmann
rowing Two without a helmsman Siegfried Brietzke , Wolfgang Mager
Two with a helmsman Wolfgang Gunkel , Jörg Lucke , Klaus-Dieter Neubert
Foursome without a helmsman Frank Forberger , Frank Rühle , Dieter Grahn , Dieter Schubert
do gymnastics Leap Klaus Köste
Jump (women) Karin Janz
Uneven bars (women) Karin Janz
swim 100 m back Roland Matthes
200 m back Roland Matthes

silver silver

sport competition Name (s)
athletics high jump Stefan Junge
Triple jump Jörg Drehel
Hammer throw Jochen Sachse
1500 m (women) Gunhild Hoffmeister
4 × 100 m relay (women) Evelin Kaufer , Christina Heinich , Bärbel Struppert , Renate Stecher
Shot put (women) Margitta Gummel
Javelin throw (women) Jacqueline Todten
swim 4 × 100 m layers Roland Matthes , Klaus Katzur , Hartmut Flöckner , Lutz Unger
100 m butterfly (women) Roswitha Beier
200 m medley (women) Kornelia Ender
4 × 100 m freestyle (women) Kornelia Ender, Gabriele Wetzko , Andrea Eife , Elke Sehmisch
4 × 100 m layers (women) Christine Herbst , Renate Vogel , Roswitha Beier, Kornelia Ender
do gymnastics Team all-around competition (women) Irene Abel , Angelika Hellmann , Karin Janz , Richarda Schmeißer , Christine Schmitt , Erika Zuchold
Individual all-around (women) Karin Janz
Jump (women) Erika Zuchold
Uneven bars (women) Erika Zuchold
Cycling tandem Jürgen Geschke , Werner Otto
4000 m team pursuit Thomas Huschke , Heinz Richter , Herbert Richter , Uwe Unterwalder
Canoeing Two-person kayak (women) Ilse Kaschube , Petra Grabowsky
Wrestling Greco-Roman featherweight Heinz-Helmut Wehling
rowing Foursome with a helmsman Dietrich Zander , Reinhard Gust , Eckhard Martens , Rolf Jobst , Klaus-Dieter Ludwig
sailing Dragons Paul Borowski , Karl-Heinz Thun , Konrad Weichert
volleyball Men team Arnold Schulz , Wolfgang Webner , Siegfried Schneider , Wolfgang Weise , Rudi Schumann , Eckehard Pietzsch , Wolfgang Löwe , Wolfgang Maibohm , Rainer Tscharke , Jürgen Maune , Horst Peter , Horst Hagen

bronze bronze

sport competition Name (s)
athletics 20 km walking Hans-Georg Reimann
Shot put Hartmut Briesenick
800 m (women) Gunhild Hoffmeister
100 m hurdles (women) Karin Balzer
Pentathlon (women) Burglinde Pollak
rowing One Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Double scull Joachim Böhmer , Hans-Ulrich Schmied
Eighth Hans-Joachim Borzym , Jörg Landvoigt , Harold Dimke , Manfred Schneider , Hartmut Schreiber , Manfred Schmorde , Bernd Landvoigt , Heinrich Mederow , Dietmar Schwarz
Weightlifting Heavyweight Stefan Grützner
Super heavyweight Gerd Bonk
shoot KK three position fight Werner Lippoldt
Skeet Michael Buchheim
swim 4 × 100 m freestyle Roland Matthes , Wilfried Hartung , Peter Bruch , Lutz Unger
400 m freestyle (women) Gudrun Wegner
do gymnastics Team all-around Matthias Brehme , Wolfgang Klotz , Klaus Köste , Jürgen Paeke , Reinhard Rychly , Wolfgang Thüne
Balance beam (women) Karin Janz
Diving Jumping 3 m (women) Marina Janicke
Diving (women) Marina Janicke
Boxing Light middleweight Peter Tiepold
Soccer Men team Jürgen Croy , Lothar Kurbjuweit , Manfred Zapf , Konrad Weise , Bernd Bransch , Harald Irmscher , Jürgen Pommerenke , Ralf Schulenberg , Jürgen Sparwasser , Hans-Jürgen Kreische , Joachim Streich , Reinhard Häfner , Wolfgang Seguin , Peter Ducke , Eberhard Vogel , Axel Tyll , Siegmar Wätzlich , Frank Ganzera , Dieter Schneider
Judo Light middleweight Dietmar Hötger
Canoeing One kayak, slalom Harald Gimpel
Cycling 1000 m time trial Jürgen Schütze

Participants by sport

Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing

Fencing pictogram.svg fencing

Men

  • Horst Melzig (ASK Forward Leipzig)
    Epee, singles: 4th round
    Epee, team: 1st round
  • Bernd Uhlig (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Epee, singles: 3rd round
    Epee, team: 1st round
  • Peter Schulze (ASK Forward Leipzig)
    Epee, singles: 2nd round
    Epee, team: 1st round
  • Harry Fiedler (ASK Forward Leipzig)
    Epee, team: 1st round
  • Eckhard Mannischeff (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Epee, team: 1st round

Football pictogram.svg Soccer

  • Men's team
    bronze bronze

Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting

Olympic pictogram Handball.png Handball

  • Men's team
    4th Place

Judo pictogram.svg Judo

canoe

Canoeing (flatwater) pictogram.svg Canoe racing

Men

  • Joachim Mattern (SC Berlin-Grünau)
    Single kayak, 1000 m: Final 6th place
    Quad kayak, 1000 m: semi-finals
  • Reiner Kurth (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Two-person kayak, 1000 m: Final 4th place
  • Alexander Slatnow (SC Neubrandenburg)
    Two-person kayak, 1000 m: Final 4th place
  • Volkmar Thiede (SC Neubrandenburg)
    Quad kayak, 1000 m: semi-finals
  • Eduard Augustin (SC Unit Dresden)
    Quad kayak, 1000 m: semi-finals
  • Herbert Laabs (SC Magdeburg)
    Quad kayak, 1000 m: semi-finals
  • Dirk Weise (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Single Canoe, 1000 m: Final 4th place
    Two-man Canadians, 1000 m: Final 7th place
  • Dieter Lichtenberg (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Two-man Canadians, 1000 m: Final 7th place
  • Joachim Wenzke (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Without any effort
  • Wolfgang Kopplin (SC Magdeburg)
    Without any effort

Women

Canoeing (slalom) pictogram.svg Canoe slalom

Men

Women

Athletics pictogram.svg athletics

Men

Women

Cycling

Cycling (track) pictogram.svg train

Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Street

Equestrian pictogram.svg horse riding

  • Gerhard Brockmüller (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Dressage, individual: 13th place
    Dressage, team: 5th place
  • Wolfgang Müller (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Dressage, individual: 16th place
    Dressage, team: 5th place
  • Horst Köhler (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Dressage, individual: 17th place
    Dressage, team: 5th place
  • Rudolf Beerbohm (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Versatility, singles: 11th place
    Versatility, team: 5th place
  • Jens Niehls (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Versatility, singles: 23rd place
    Versatility, team: 5th place
  • Joachim Brohmann (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Versatility, singles: 25th place
    Versatility, team: 5th place
  • Helmut Gille (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Versatility, singles: 26th place
    Versatility, team: 5th place
  • Uwe Plank (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    No use
  • Hans-Werner Krüger (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    No use

Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Freestyle

Rowing pictogram.svg rowing

Shooting pictogram.svg shoot

Swimming pictogram.svg swim

Men

  • Peter Bruch (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    100 m freestyle: semi-finals
    200 m freestyle: preliminary
    4 × 100 m freestyle: bronze bronze
    4 × 200 m freestyle: Final 6th place
  • Wilfried Hartung (TSC Berlin)
    100 m freestyle: preliminary
    200 m freestyle: preliminary
    4 × 100 m freestyle: bronze bronze
    4 × 200 m freestyle: Final 6th place
  • Hartmut Flöckner (TSC Berlin)
    100 m freestyle: preliminary
    100 m butterfly: Final 7th place
    200 m butterfly: Final 7th place
    4 × 100 m layers: silver silver
  • Udo Poser (ASK Forward Rostock)
    200 m freestyle: preliminary
    400 m freestyle: preliminary
    4 × 100 m freestyle: bronze (was only used in the preliminary run)bronze
    4 × 200 m freestyle: Final 6th place
  • Wolfram Sperling (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    400 m freestyle: preliminary
    200 m layers: advance
    400 m medley: Final 8th place
  • Klaus Dockhorn (SC Chemie Halle)
    400 m freestyle: course
    1500 m freestyle: preliminary
  • Axel Freudenberg (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)
    1500 m freestyle: preliminary
  • Lutz Unger (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    4 × 100 m freestyle: bronze bronze
    4 × 200 m freestyle: Final 6th place
    4 × 100 m layers: silver silver
  • Roland Matthes (SC Turbine Erfurt)
    100 m back: gold gold
    200 m back: gold gold
    100 m butterfly: Final 4th place
    4 × 100 m freestyle: bronze bronze
    4 × 100 m layers: silver silver
  • Lutz Wanja (ASK Forward Rostock)
    100 m back: Final 6th place
    200 m back: forward
  • Jürgen Krüger (SC Unit Dresden)
    100 m back: Final 7th place
  • Lothar Noack (SC Unit Dresden)
    200 m back: Final 6th place
  • Klaus Katzur (ASK Forward Rostock)
    100 m chest: semi-finals
    200 m chest: Final 8th place
    4 × 100 m layers: silver silver
  • Rainer Hradetzky (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    100 m chest: semi-finals
    200 m chest: forward
  • Roger Pyttel (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    100 m butterfly: semifinals
    200 m butterfly: forward
    4 × 200 m freestyle: Final 6th place (was only used in the preliminary stages)
  • Bertram Türpe (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    200 m layers: advance
    400 m layers: advance
  • Christian Lietzmann (SC Unit Dresden)
    200 m layers: advance
    400 m layers: advance

Women

  • Gabriele Wetzko (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    Women, 100 m freestyle: Final 4th place
    Women, 4 × 100 m freestyle: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 m individual medley: silver (was only used in the run-up)silver
  • Andrea Eife (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Women, 100 m freestyle: Final 6th place
    Women, 200 m freestyle: Final 5th place
    Women, 800 m freestyle: preliminary
    Women, 4 × 100 m freestyle: silver silver
  • Sylvia Eichner (SC Unit Dresden)
    Women, 100 m freestyle: semi-finals
    Women, 4 × 100 m freestyle: silver (only used in the run-up)silver
  • Karin Tülling (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, 200 m freestyle: Final 8th place
    Women, 400 m freestyle: preliminary
    Women, 800 m freestyle: preliminary
  • Gudrun Wegner (SC Unit Dresden)
    Women, 200 m freestyle: preliminary
    Women, 400 m freestyle: bronze bronze
    Women, 800 m freestyle: Final 5th place
  • Elke Sehmisch (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    Women, 4 × 100 m freestyle: silver silver
  • Christine Herbst (SC Unit Dresden)
    Women, 100 m back: Final 7th place
    Women, 200 m back: Final 5th place
    Women, 4 × 100 m individual medley: silver silver
  • Susanne Hilger (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, 100 m back: forward
    Women, 200 m back: forward
  • Renate Vogel (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)
    Women, 100 m breaststroke: semi-finals
    Women, 4 × 100 m individual medley: silver silver
  • Sylvia Langer (ASK Forward Rostock)
    Women, 100 m breaststroke: semi-finals
    Women, 200 m chest: preliminary
  • Brigitte Schuchardt (SC Turbine Erfurt)
    Women, 100 m chest: forward
    Women, 200 m chest: preliminary
    Women, 200 m individual medley: forward
  • Hannelore Anke (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)
    Women, 200 m chest: preliminary
  • Roswitha Beier (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Women, 100 m butterfly: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 m individual medley: silver silver
  • Rosemarie Kother (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Women, 100 m butterfly: semi-finals
    Women, 200 m butterfly: Final 4th place
  • Helga Lindner (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)
    Women, 200 m butterfly: Final 6th place
  • Brigitte Mertz (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, 200 m butterfly: preliminary
  • Kornelia Ender (SC Chemie Halle)
    Women, 200 m individual medley: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 m freestyle: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 m individual medley: silver silver
  • Evelyn Stolze (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Women, 200 m medley: Final 6th place
    Women, 400 m medley: Final 5th place
  • Marlies Pohl (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, 400 m individual medley: forward
  • Angela Franke (SC Magdeburg)
    Women, 400 m individual medley: forward

Sailing pictogram.svg sailing

Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg do gymnastics

Men

  • Klaus Köste (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    Individual all-around: Final 6th place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 9th place in qualification
    Floor: Final 5th place
    Leap: gold gold
    Horizontal bar: 15th place in qualification
    Rings: Final 5th place
    Pommel horse: 13th place in qualification
  • Wolfgang Thüne (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Individual all-around: Final 9th ​​place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 15th place in qualification
    Floor: 19th place in qualification
    Jump: 12th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 7th place in qualification
    Rings: 10th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 14th place in qualification
  • Matthias Brehme (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    Individual all-around: Final 10th place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 15th place in qualification
    Floor: 10th place in qualification
    Jump: 6th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 10th place in qualification
    Rings: 12th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 8th place in qualification
  • Wolfgang Klotz (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Individual all-around: Final 17th place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 17th place in qualification
    Floor: 14th place in qualification
    Jump: 16th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 20th place in qualification
    Rings: 16th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 23rd place in qualification
  • Reinhard Rychly (ASK Forward Potsdam)
    Individual all-around: Final 26th place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 29th place in qualification
    Floor: 29th place in qualification
    Jump: 23rd place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 15th place in qualification
    Rings: 31st place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 32nd place in qualification
  • Jürgen Paeke (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Individual all-around: Final 28th place
    Team all-around: bronze bronze
    Bars: 36th place in qualification
    Floor: 36th place in qualification
    Jump: 20th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 21st place in qualification
    Rings: 49th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 14th place in qualification
  • Joachim Rühle (SC DHfK Leipzig)
    No use

Women

  • Karin Janz (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Individual all-around: silver silver
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: Final 4th place
    Leap: gold gold
    Balance beam: bronze bronze
    Uneven bars: gold gold
  • Erika Zuchold (SC Leipzig)
    Individual all-around: Final 4th place
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: 7th place in qualification
    Leap: silver silver
    Balance beam: Final 6th place
    Uneven bars: silver silver
  • Angelika Hellmann (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Individual all-around: Final 6th place
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: Final 5th place
    Jump: 7th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 12th place in qualification
    Uneven bars: Final 6th place
  • Irene Abel (SC Dynamo Berlin)
    Individual all-around: Final 11th place
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: 22nd place in qualification
    Jump: 7th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 22nd place in qualification
    Uneven bars: 18th place in qualification
  • Richarda Schmeißer (SC Chemie Halle)
    Individual all-around: Final 12th place
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: 13th place in qualification
    Jump: 56th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 17th place in qualification
    Uneven bars: 8th place in qualification
  • Christine Schmitt (SC Empor Rostock)
    Individual all-around: Final 15th place
    Team all-around: silver silver
    Floor: 13th place in qualification
    Jump: 11th place in qualification
    Balance beam: 21st place in qualification
    Uneven bars: 18th place in qualification
  • Sylvia Schäfer (SC Leipzig)
    No use

Olympic pictogram volleyball (indoor) .png volleyball

  • Men's team
    silver silver

Diving pictogram.svg Diving

Men

  • Falk Hoffmann (SC Chemie Halle)
    Artistic jumping 3 m: Final 7th place
    High diving: Final 10th place
  • Helge Ziethen (SC Empor Rostock)
    Artistic jumping 3 m: Final 12th place
  • Lothar Matthes (SC Unit Dresden)
    High diving: Final 4th place
  • Wolfram Ristau (TSC Berlin)
    High diving: 23rd place in qualification

Women

  • Marina Janicke (TSC Berlin)
    Women, jumping 3 m: bronze bronze
    Women, diving: bronze bronze
  • Heidi Becker (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, jumping 3 m: Final 9th ​​place
  • Christa Koehler (SC Empor Rostock)
    Women, jumping 3 m: Final 11th place
  • Sylvia Fiedler (SC Unit Dresden)
    Women, high diving: Final 6th place

Web links

  1. ^ East Germany at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . In: sports-reference.com . Retrieved November 23, 2012.

Individual evidence

  • Presentation of the Olympic team in the Berliner Zeitung on August 10, 1972 p. 3