Olympic Winter Games 1964 / Participant (Germany)

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The all-German team , the last time consisting of sportsmen and women of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic took part in the 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Austrian Innsbruck with a delegation of 96 athletes, 73 men and 23 women, in part.

Qualification battles between the East and West German athletes took place for the starting places in the all-German team. These were mostly fierce competition. In the end, 40 athletes from nine GDR performance centers and 56 athletes from clubs in the FRG took part.

Flag bearer

The combined athlete Georg Thoma carried the flag of the all-German team during the opening ceremony, the Olympic luge champion Ortrun Enderlein carried it during the closing ceremony .

• See also : List of the flag bearers of the German teams at the Olympic Games

Medals

Medal table

rank	sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Luge	2	2	1	5
2	figure skating	1	1	-	2
3	Nordic combination	-	-	1	1
5	Alpine skiing	-	-	1	1
total		3	3	3	31

Medalist

Name / s	sport	competition
gold
Thomas Koehler	Luge	Single seater
Ortrun Enderlein	Luge	Single seater
Manfred Schnelldorfer	figure skating	singles
silver
Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	figure skating	Pair skating
Klaus-Michael Bonsack	Luge	Single seater
Ilse Geisler	Luge	Single seater
bronze
Georg Thoma	Nordic combination	singles
Wolfgang Bartels	Alpine skiing	Departure
Hans Plenk	Luge	Single seater

Participants by sport

biathlon

In the only decision, only athletes from the GDR performance centers Zinnwald and Oberhof started. They had no influence on the outcome of the race.

Athletes	Competitions	time	error	rank
Men
Helmut Klöpsch	20 km individual	1: 38: 08.5 h	3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)	31
Hans-Dieter Riechel	20 km individual	1: 34: 30.9 h	3 (1 + 0 + 0 + 2)	21st
Dieter Ritter	20 km individual	1: 38: 51.4 h	8 (0 + 2 + 4 + 2)	33
Egon Schnabel	20 km individual	1: 34: 53.0 h	2 (1 + 0 + 0 + 1)	24

bob

The bobsleds from Riessersee and Ohlstadt had nothing to do with the award of the medals.

Athletes	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Men
Hans Maurer Rupert Grasegger	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 06.72 min	8th	1: 07.76 min	16	1: 06.92 min	13	1: 08.37 min	17th	4: 29.77 min	14th
Franz Wörmann Hubert Braun	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 06.87 min	10	1: 06.42 min	8th	1: 05.17 min	1	1: 06.24 min	3	4: 24.70 min	6th
Franz Schelle Ludwig Siebert Josef Sterff Otto Göbl	Four-man bobsleigh	1: 04.21 min	7th	1: 03.50 min	1	1: 04.15 min	5	1: 04.33 min	6th	4: 16.19 min	5
Franz Wörmann Anton Wackerle Rupert Grasegger Hubert Braun	Four-man bobsleigh	1: 04.47 min	10	1: 04.42 min	10	1: 05.25 min	14th	1: 04.54 min	7th	4: 18.68 min	9

ice Hockey

In the pre-Olympic domestic German qualification it was extremely close. While the two teams drew 4: 4 in Füssen, the GDR selection had to admit defeat 3: 4 in front of the home crowd in Berlin. The FRG selection represented Germany in Innsbruck. The team qualified for the final round and finished seventh among 16 participating teams in the final accounts.

competition	Men
player	Paul Ambros Bernd Herzig Michael Hobelsberger Ulli Jansen Ernst Köpf senior Albert Loibl Sepp Reif Otto Schneitberger Georg Scholz Siegfried Schubert Horst Franz Schuldes Peter Schwimmbeck Kurt Sepp Ernst Trautwein Sylvester Wackerle Leonhard Waitl Helmut Zanghellini
Preliminary round	Poland 2-1
Final round	Czechoslovakia 1:11 United States 0: 8 Canada 2: 4 Sweden 2:10 Soviet Union 0:10 Switzerland 6: 5 Finland 2: 1
placement	7th

figure skating

Both states were represented by 6 athletes each, but medals only went to West Germany.

Athletes	Competitions	Short program	Freestyle	total
		rank	rank	Points	rank
Women
Uschi Keszler	singles	25th	18th	1642.3	24
Inge Paul	singles	17th	12	1720.3	14th
Gabriele Seyfert	singles	21st	17th	1685.1	19th
Men
Ralph Borghard	singles	10	7th	1742.2	11
Manfred Schnelldorfer	Ice dance	1	1	1916.9	gold
Sepp Schönmetzler	singles	12	8th	1743.1	12
Mixed
Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	Pair skating	-		103.6	silver
Margit Senf Peter Göbel	Pair skating			87.9	13
Brigitte Wokoeck Heinz-Ulrich Walther	Pair skating			88.8	11

Speed ​​skating

In the women's category, the runners led by the 1960 Olympic champion, Helga Haase, came exclusively from the GDR performance centers TSC and Dynamo Berlin. Haase alone was able to keep up with the world's best on their competition routes, but it wasn't enough for a medal again.
In the men’s race, whose starters came from Inzell, Schweinfurt and Berlin, Gerd Zimmermann from Inzell achieved a remarkable seventh place over 10,000 meters.

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Sigrit Behrenz	500 m	50.9 s	25th
Rita Blankenburg	1000 m	5: 40.8 min	17th
Helga Haase	500 m	47.2 s	8th
	1000 m	1: 35.7 min	4th
	1500 m	2: 28.6 min	5
Erika Heinicke	1000 m	1: 43.2 min	23
	1500 m	2: 40.4 min	28
	3000 m	5: 56.0 min	28
Inge Lieckfeldt	1500 m	2: 36.2 min	21st
	3000 m	5: 42.7 min	21st
Brigitte Reichert	500 m	49.8 s	21st
	1000 m	1: 44.9 min	25th
Men
Herbert Höfl	500 m	42.3 s	24
	1500 m	2: 16.8 min	26th
Helmut Kuhnert	500 m	41.8 s	16
Jürgen Schmidt	1500 m	2: 20.0 min	39
	5000 m	8: 36.6 min	39
Günther Tilch	500 m	42.3 s	24
Günter Traub	500 m	43.4 s	33
	1500 m	2: 15.3 min	17th
	5000 m	7: 53.9 min	11
	10,000 m	16: 58.4 min	19th
Jürgen Traub	10,000 m	17:08.9 min	21st
Gerhard Zimmermann	1500 m	2: 17.3 min	29
	5000 m	7: 56.8 min	13
	10,000 m	16: 22.5 min	7th

Nordic combination

After the jumping it looked like the repetition of the Olympic victory of 1960 in Squaw Valley for Georg Thoma. The Hinterzartener took first place. Fourth place for Roland Weißpflog and sixth place for Rainer Dietel rounded off the good jump result. In cross-country skiing, however, with the exception of Horst Möhwald, the fourth starter, all German athletes and Georg Thoma only got the bronze rank.

Athletes	competition	Ski jumping					Cross-country skiing			total
		1. Width	2. Width	3. Width	Points	rank	time	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men
Rainer Dietel	Single normal hill	114.5 m	109.3 m	108.3 m	223.8	6th	54: 07.3 min	193.34	15th	417.14	9
Horst Möhwald	Single normal hill	97.0 m	89.4 m	92.2 m	189.2	23	52: 56.2 min	206.98	11	396.18	17th
Georg Thoma	Single normal hill	122.0 m	119.1 m	112.7 m	241.1	1	52: 31.2 min	211.78	10	452.88	bronze
Roland Weißpflog	Single normal hill	101.3 m	117.1 m	115.3 m	232.4	4th	56: 18.2 min	169.30	23	401.70	16

Sledding

At the Olympic premiere of luge the German athletes won five of nine medals to be awarded, four of which were won by athletes from the GDR performance center SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal .
In the women's category, the previously unknown Ortrun Enderlein won ahead of her club mate and world champion from 1963, Ilse Geisler.
There was a triple success for the men, with the fourth starter, co-favorite and senior in the men's team, Fritz Nachmann, crashing in the first run.
In the doubles, the Germany I sled came in thankless 4th place, while the other, already medal-adorned, duo Köhler / Bonsack fell.

athlete	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Minna Blüml	Single seater	56.87 s	16	53.80 s	8th	52.33 s	4th	53.32 s	6th	3: 36.32 min	10
Ortrun Enderlein	Single seater	51.13 s	1	51.12 s	1	50.87 s	1	51.55 s	1	3: 24.67 min	gold
Ilse Geisler	Single seater	51.28 s	2	51.48 s	2	51.20 s	2	53.46 s	7th	3: 27.42 min	silver
Men
Klaus-Michael Bonsack	Single seater	51.61 s	2	51.33 s	1	51.68 s	2	52.42 s	1	3: 27.04 min	silver
Thomas Koehler	Single seater	51.27 s	1	51.53 s	2	51.50 s	1	52.47 s	2	3: 26.77 min	gold
Fritz Nachmann	Single seater	DNF
Hans Plenk	Single seater	52.12 s	3	52.25 s	3	52.31 s	3	53.47 s	7th	3: 30.15 min	bronze
Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Koehler	Two-seater	51.27 s	3	51.81 s	4th	-				1: 43.08 min	4th
Walter Eggert Helmut Vollprecht	Two-seater	53.13 s	11	DNS						DNF

Alpine skiing

The purely West German women's team around the 1960 Olympic champion, Heidi Biebl, was unable to build on the success of Squaw Valley. However, Biebl finished fourth in two competitions.
As in 1960, the men's team, consisting of four West German and two East German athletes, was able to take back a medal, this time bronze.

Athletes	Competitions	qualification				final
		1st run		2nd run		1st run		2nd run		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Heidi Biebl	Departure	-								1: 57.87 min	4th
	Giant slalom									DSQ
	slalom	-				44.61 s	4th	49.43 s	7th	1: 34.04 min	4th
Barbara Henneberger	Departure	-								1: 58.03 min	5
	Giant slalom									1: 54.26 min	7th
	slalom	-				47.17 s	14th	50.38 s	10	1: 37.55 min	10
Burgl Färberinger	Departure	-								2: 01.23 min	12
	Giant slalom									1: 58.84 min	18th
	slalom	-				DSQ
Heidi Mittermaier	Departure	-								2: 03.05 min	23
	Giant slalom									2: 00.77 min	22nd
	slalom	-				47.41 s	16	50.14 s	9	1: 37.55 min	10
Men
Willy Bogner	Departure	-								2: 20.72 min	9
	Giant slalom									DNF
Wolfgang Bartels	Departure									2: 19.48 min	bronze
	Giant slalom									DNF
	slalom	57.91 s	40	55.84 s	8th	1: 13.83 min	14th	1: 02.09 min	7th	2: 15.92 min	9
Eberhard Riedel	Giant slalom	-								1: 54.17 min	15th
	slalom	55.88 s	30th	54.44 s	3	1: 13.57 min	11	1: 05.28 min	21st	2: 18.85 min	18th
Ernst Scherzer	slalom	54.77 s	19th	-		1: 14.67 min	21st	1: 03.43 min	14th	2: 18.10 min	13
Fritz Wagnerberger	Departure	-								2: 21.03 min	12
Ludwig Leitner	Departure									2: 19.67 min	5
	Giant slalom									1: 50.04 min	8th
	slalom	51.45 s	2	-		1: 11.19 min	8th	1: 01.75 min	4th	2: 12.94 min	5

Cross-country skiing

Of the 13-person cross-country skiing team, seven athletes came from East and six from West Germany. In the individual decisions, only Walter Demel was able to draw attention to himself over 30 km with tenth place. This made him the best Central European on this route. In the relay decisions, the women took a good fourth place, the men seventh place.

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Rita Czech-Blasel	5 km	19:09.1 min	12
	10 km	44: 07.8 min	15th
Renate Dannhauer	5 km	19: 17.0 min	15th
	10 km	43: 52.7 min	14th
Christine Nestler	5 km	19: 21.4 min	17th
	10 km	43: 38.2 min	13
Elfriede Spiegelhauer	5 km	19: 52.3 min	19th
	10 km	44: 08.8 min	16
Rita Czech-Blasel Renate Dannhauer Christine Nestler	3 × 5 km relay	1: 04: 29.9 h	4th
Men
Karl Buhl	15 km	57: 10.2 min	44
Helmut Weidlich	15 km	56: 04.6 min	36
Enno Roeder	15 km	54: 52.8 min	24
Walter Demel	15 km	54: 37.0 min	22nd
	30 km	1: 33: 10.2 h	10
Heinz Seidel	30 km	1: 40: 01.0 h	29
Alfons Dorner	30 km	1: 41: 09.5 h	34
Rudolf Dannhauer	30 km	1: 40: 35.7 h	32
	50 km	DNF
Herbert Loewe	50 km	3:06:52 h	30th
Siegfried Weiss	50 km	3: 00: 43.0 h	24
Heinz Seidel Helmut Weidlich Enno Röder Walter Demel	4 × 10 km relay	2: 26: 34.4 h	7th

Ski jumping

With the three-time Four Hills Tournament winner and Olympic champion from 1960, Helmut Recknagel and Max Bolkart, also Four Hills Tournament winners, no medal jumped out for the jumping team in the end. Dieter Neuendorf was still bronze after the first round on the normal hill, but slipped to fifth place. German jumpers were also placed promisingly on the large hill, but it was only enough for fourth place, which Dieter Bokeloh took.

Athletes	competition	1st round		2nd round		total
		Expanse	Points	Expanse	Points	Points	rank
Men
Max Bolkart	Normal hill	72.5 m	98.1	70.0 m	93.4	191.5	37
Karl-Heinz Munk	Normal hill	77.0 m	104.9	75.0 m	102.1	207.0	9
	Large hill	87.0 m	104.5	80.0 m	96.1	200.6	21st
Dieter Neuendorf	Normal hill	78.5 m	109.3	77.0 m	105.4	214.7	5
	Large hill	92.5 m	109.8	84.5 m	102.8	212.6	8th
Helmut Recknagel	Normal hill	77.0 m	105.4	75.5 m	105.0	210.4	6th
	Large hill	89.0 m	107.0	86.5 m	105.8	212.8	7th
Dieter Bokeloh	Large hill	92.0 m	108.1	83.5 m	106.5	214.6	4th

Web links

• Team list at www.sports-reference.com