Olympic Winter Games 1984 / Participant (GDR)

GDR

9	9	6th

The GDR took part in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo with a delegation of 56 athletes (40 men and 16 women) and was the most successful nation according to the medal table. No GDR athletes took part in ice hockey or the alpine ski disciplines.

Participants by sport

biathlon

The biathletes had a difficult time against the strong teams from the FRG, Norway and the USSR. With one silver and one bronze each one could only build on the successes of Lake Placid to a limited extent.

• Matthias Jacob (ASK Forward Oberhof)

  Sprint (10 km):

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 4th place

• Frank Ullrich (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Sprint (10 km): 17th place

  Individual (20 km): 5th place

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 4th place

• Holger Wick (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Individual (20 km): 29th place

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 4th place

• Frank-Peter Roetsch (SG Dynamo Zinnwald)

  Sprint (10 km): 7th place

  Single (20 km):

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 4th place

• Jürgen Wirth (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Individual (20 km): 16th place

  Relay (4 × 7.5 km): 5th place

• Ralf Göthel (SG Dynamo Zinnwald)

  Without any effort

bob

With two double victories, the GDR athletes exercised complete dominance in the bobsleigh competitions. Wolfgang Hoppe became double Olympic champion.

Four-man bobsleigh

• GDR I

  Wolfgang Hoppe (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Roland Wetzig (ASK Forward Oberhof)

  Dietmar Schauerhammer (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Andreas Kirchner (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

• GDR II

  Bernhard Lehmann (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Bogdan Musiol (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Ingo Voge (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Eberhard Weise (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

Two-man bobsleigh

• GDR II

  Wolfgang Hoppe (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Dietmar Schauerhammer (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

• GDR I

  Bernhard Lehmann (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Bogdan Musiol (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

The following remained without competition:

• Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Henry Gerlach (ASK Forward Oberhof)

  Bernhard Germeshausen (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

  Matthias Trübner (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

figure skating

Katarina Witt celebrated her first Olympic victory in Sarajevo. The co-favorites Baess / Thierbach took the ungrateful 4th place among the couples.

Women:

• Katarina Witt (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)

  

Couples:

• Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)

  Pair skating: 4th place

• Birgit Lorenz / Knut Schubert (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Pair skating: 5th place

• Babette Preußler / Tobias Schröter (SC Dynamo Berlin)

  Pair skating: 11th place

Men

• Falko Kirsten (SC Unit Dresden)

  16th place

Speed ​​skating

The speed skaters were extremely successful and won nine of twelve medals to be awarded. All four decisions were won. The impressive dominance was shown in three double victories and one triple victory over 3000 m. With Karin Enke, the most successful GDR athlete also came out of speed skating.
In the men's race, René Schöfisch shone with two bronze medals over the long distances.

Women: Christa Rothenburger (SC Unit Dresden) 500 m: 1000 m: 5th place Andrea Schöne (SC Unit Dresden) 1000 m: 1500 m: 3000 m: Karin Enke (SC Unit Dresden) 500 m: 1000 m: 1500 m: 3000 m: Gabi Schönbrunn (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) 1500 m: 4th place 3000 m: Skadi Walter (SC Unit Dresden) 500 m: 5th place

Men's: Uwe-Jens Mey (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 8th place 1000 m: 25th place Andreas Dietel (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 20th place 1000 m: 7th place 1500 m: 6th place 10,000 m: 32nd place René Schöfisch (TSC Berlin) 5000 m: 10,000 m: Andreas Ehrig (TSC Berlin) 1500 m: 5th place 5000 m: 4th place 10,000 m: 11th place André Hoffmann (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 11th place 1000 m: 5th place 1500 m: 11th place

Sledding

The tobogganers celebrated a triple success. Michael Walter narrowly missed out on a medal in the men's category, and a bronze medal in the doubles.

Women: Steffi Martin (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) Bettina Schmidt (ASK Forward Oberhof) Ute Weiß (ASK Forward Oberhof)

Men's: Michael Walter (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 4th Place Torsten Görlitzer (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 5th place Norbert Loch (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 13th place

Two-seater Detlef Bertz / Hans-Joachim Menge (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 15th place Jörg Hoffmann / Jochen Pietzsch (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof)

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

The newly formed women's team, in which only Carola Anding was already there in Lake Placid, could not build on the successes of 1980 . Only an eighth place over 5 kilometers by Ute Noack made the otherwise gloomy balance of the cross-country skiers a little friendlier.
Uwe Bellmann was able to convince the men with the individual placements seven and ten, but for the relay it was only enough to place ninth.

Women: Carola Anding (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 4 × 5 km relay; 8th place 5 km; 21st place 20 km; 30th place 10 km; 24th place Ute Noack (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 4 × 5 km relay; 8th place 5 km; 8th place 20 km; 18th place 10 km; 15th place Petra Rohrmann (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis) 4 × 5 km relay; 8th place 5 km; 18th place 20 km; 20th place 10 km; 17th place Petra Voge (ASK Vorwärts Oberhof) 4 × 5 km relay; 8. space 5 km; 36th place

Men's: Karsten Brandt (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km; 41st place 30 km; 30th place 4 × 10 km relay; 9th place Uwe Bellmann (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 15 km; 7th place 30 km; 10th place 50 km; given up 4 × 10 km relay; 9th place Frank Schröder (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km; 26th place 30 km; 43rd place 4 × 10 km relay; 9th place Uwe Wünsch (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal) 15 km; 23rd place 30 km; 25th place 50 km; 43rd place 4 × 10 km relay; 9th place

Ski jumping

1984 was Jens Weißflog's year. By the turn of the year 1983/84 he had already won the Four Hills Tournament . Together with Matti Nykänen , he determined the competitions, won on the normal hill, while he let Nykänen go ahead on the large hill. In the shadow of Weißflog, Stefan Stannarius, who just missed the bronze medal on the normal hill, was particularly convincing.

• Matthias Buse (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Large hill; 21st place

• Holger Freitag (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Normal hill; 35th place

• Klaus Ostwald (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Normal hill; 13th place

  Large hill; 26th place

• Stefan Stannarius (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)

  Normal hill; 4th Place

  Large hill; 9th place

• Jens Weißflog (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)

  Normal hill;

  Large hill;

Nordic combination

After the jumping, Gunter Schmieder in particular had a good starting position in fourth place, whereby Uwe Dotzauer was also still promising with twelfth place. While Dotzauer was able to improve to a good seventh place, Schmieder fell back to 15th place with the fifth worst running time.

• Uwe Dotzauer (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km): 7th place

• Andreas Langer (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)

  Individual (normal hill 90 m / 15 km): 16th place

• Gunter Schmieder (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)

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

statistics

Medals by sports

20 out of 24 medals were won by runners. The two ski jumping medals were the last Olympic medals for the GDR in the classic Nordic ski disciplines.

Medal table (based on the decisions)
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Speed ​​skating	4th	4th	3	11
2	bob	2	2	0	4th
3	Luge	1	1	2	4th
4th	Ski jumping	1	1	0	2
5	figure skating	1	0	0	1
6th	biathlon	0	1	1	2

Medals according to sports clubs

The ASK became the sports club with the most medals, especially thanks to the extremely successful bobsleigh riders who all came from Oberhof. Measured against only five Olympic participants, the SC Einheit Dresden was the most successful. Four gold and silver were brought to the Elbe.

Medal table (based on the individual athletes)
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	ASK Oberhof	6th	7th	4th	17th
2	SC unit Dresden	4th	4th	0	8th
3	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal	2	1	0	3
4th	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	0	1	2
5	SG Dynamo Zinnwald	0	1	0	1
6th	TSC Berlin	0	0	2	2

Participants by sports clubs

The ASk Oberhof provided a good third of the Olympic participants, with 12 bobsleigh riders traveling alone. The remaining participants came from eight other sports clubs.

team	Men	Women	total
ASK Oberhof	19th	4th	23
SC tractor Oberwiesenthal	8th	2	10
SC Dynamo Berlin	5	2	7th
SC Dynamo Klingenthal	7th	0	7th
SC unit Dresden	1	4th	5
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	3	4th
SG Dynamo Zinnwald	2	0	2
SC Motor Zella-Mehlis	1	1	2
TSC Berlin	2	0	2
total	46	16	62

Web link

• Olympic team of the GDR 1984 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )