Olympic Winter Games 1980 / Participant (GDR)

GDR

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The GDR took part in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid with a delegation of 53 (36 men, 17 women) athletes and took second place in the medal ranking behind the USSR . The biathlete Frank Ullrich became the most successful athlete in the GDR team with three medals. Figure skater Jan Hoffmann was chosen as the flag bearer of the GDR team for the opening ceremony.

Participants by sport

biathlon

With Frank Ullrich, a biathlete became the most successful GDR participant. He won a medal in every competition and was Olympic champion over the sprint distance . Eberhard Rösch won another individual medal. The other two biathletes did not go away empty-handed because of the relay silver.

Men's:

• Eberhard Rösch (SG Dynamo Zinnwald)

  Single (20 km):

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km):

• Frank Ullrich (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Sprint (10 km):

  Single (20 km):

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km):

• Mathias Jung (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Sprint (10 km): 21st place

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km):

• Klaus Siebert (SG Dynamo Zinnwald)

  Sprint (10 km): 4th place

  Individual (20 km): 15th place

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km):

• Manfred Beer (SG Dynamo Zinnwald)

  Replacement starter

bob

The bobsleigh riders made the competitions extremely successful and won four of six possible medals, including the Olympic victory in the four-man bobsleigh. The victorious four-man bobsleigh consisted of the two starting two-man bobsleigh teams.

Four-man bobsleigh

• Meinhard Nehmer / Bogdan Musiol / Bernhard Germeshausen / Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) (GDR I)

  

• Horst Schönau / Roland Wetzig / Detlef Richter / Andreas Kirchner (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) (GDR II)

  

Two-man bobsleigh

• Bernhard Germeshausen / Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) (GDR II)

  

• Meinhard Nehmer / Bogdan Musiol (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) (GDR I)

  

figure skating

The figure skaters won a full set of medals, making them the second best nation after the USSR to win one more medal.

Women: Anett Pötzsch (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)

Men Jan Hoffmann (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) Hermann Schulz (SC Unit Dresden) 11th place

Couples: Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf (SC Unit Dresden) Pair skating: Sabine Baess / Tassilo Thierbach (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) Pair skating: 6th place

Speed ​​skating

The GDR athletes returned as the most successful speed skating team with four medals. Karin Enke started her great career with the Olympic victory over 500 m. Andrea Mitscherlich, who won silver in 1976 , was left empty-handed at Lake Placid.
The men's decisions were overshadowed by the outshining five-time Olympic champion Eric Heiden . However, Andreas Dietel was able to achieve a remarkable 4th place over 1500 m.

Women: Sabine Becker (SC Dynamo Berlin) 1500 m: 3000 m: Andrea Mitscherlich (SC Unit Dresden) 1500 m: 6th place 3000 m: 4th place Cornelia Jacob (TSC Berlin) 500 m: 6th place Karin Enke (SC Unit Dresden) 500 m: 1000 m: 4th place Christa Rothenburger (SC Unit Dresden) 500 m: 12th place 1000 m: 18th place Sylvia Albrecht (SC Dynamo Berlin) 1000 m: 1500 m: 9th place 3000 m: 14th place

Men's: Andreas Dietel (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 13th place 1000 m: 7th place 1500 m: 4th place 10,000 m: 15th place Steffen Döring (TSC Berlin) 500 m: 11th place 1000 m: 26th place 1500 m: 8th place Andreas Ehrig (TSC Berlin) 1500 m: 9th place 5000 m: 10th place 10,000 m: 8th place

Sledding

The luge riders finished the competitions as the most successful nation. They were able to win medals in all three competitions, with the men's and doubles competition being able to be won. The 1976 Olympic champion , Margit Schumann, ended her career with a 6th place.

Women: Melitta Sollmann (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) Ilona Brand (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 5th place Margit Schumann (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 6th place

Men's: Bernhard Glass (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) Dettlef Günther (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 4th Place

Two-seater Hans Rinn / Norbert Hahn (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) Bernd Hahn / Ulrich Hahn (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 4th Place

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

The cross-country skiers crowned their good performances at previous world championships with two Olympic victories in three decisions, with Barbara Petzold standing out as a double Olympic champion.
With Alf-Gerd Deckert, who achieved a respectable 9th place over 30 km, there was only one athlete in the men’s race.

Women: Barbara Petzold (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 4 × 5 km relay; 5 km; 4th Place 10 km; Carola Anding (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 4 × 5 km relay; 10 km; 12th place Veronika Hesse (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis) 4 × 5 km relay; 5 km; 7th place 10 km; 8th place Marlies Rostock (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 4 × 5 km relay; 5 km; 9th place 10 km; 7th place Ute Nestler (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 5 km; 16th place

Men's: Alf-Gerd Deckert (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km; 37th place 30 km; 9th place 50 km; 26th place

Ski jumping

Ironically, the 18-year-old youngster Manfred Deckert won the only medal, silver on the small hill. Apart from him, no other jumper made it into the top ten.

• Manfred Deckert (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Normal hill;

  Large hill; 20th place

• Jochen Danneberg (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Normal hill; 20th place

• Harald Duschk (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)

  Large hill; 33rd place

• Henry Glaß (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Normal hill; 15th place

  Large hill; 11th place

• Klaus Ostwald (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Large hill; 15th place

• Martin Weber (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Normal hill; 11th place

Nordic combination

The combiners around the two-time Olympic champion Wehling were able to repeat the result from Innsbruck and again won two medals. The newcomers Dotzauer and Schmieder also fitted in brilliantly and secured an outstanding team result with places 5 and 8.

• Ulrich Wehling (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km):

• Konrad Winkler (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km):

• Uwe Dotzauer (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km): 5th place

• Gunter Schmieder (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km): 8th place

statistics

Medals by sports

Medal table (based on the decisions)
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Luge	2	1	0	3
2	Cross-country skiing	2	0	0	2
3	biathlon	1	2	1	4th
4th	bob	1	1	2	4th
	Speed ​​skating	1	1	2	4th
6th	figure skating	1	1	1	3
7th	Nordic combination	1	0	1	2
8th	Ski jumping	0	1	0	1

Medals according to sports clubs

Medal table (based on the individual athletes)
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	ASK Oberhof	8th	6th	6th	20th
2	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal	3	0	1	4th
3	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	1	0	2
	SC Dynamo Klingenthal	1	1	0	2
5	SC unit Dresden	1	0	2	3
6th	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis	1	0	0	1
7th	SG Dynamo Zinnwald	0	2	1	3
8th	SC Dynamo Berlin	0	1	2	3

Participants by sports clubs

team	Men	Women	total
ASK Oberhof	15th	4th	19th
SC tractor Oberwiesenthal	6th	2	8th
SC unit Dresden	2	4th	6th
SC Dynamo Klingenthal	5	1	6th
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	2	4th
SC Dynamo Berlin	1	2	3
SG Dynamo Zinnwald	3	0	3
TSC Berlin	2	0	2
SC Motor Zella-Mehlis	1	1	2
total	37	16	53

Web link

• Olympic team of the GDR 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )