East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.
East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics | |
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![]() Flag of East Germany | |
IOC code | GDR |
NOC | National Olympic Committee of the GDR |
in Lake Placid | |
Competitors | 53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports |
Flag bearer | Jan Hoffmann (figure skating) |
Medals Ranked 2nd |
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Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
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Medalists
editEast Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold medals and 23 medals overall.
Biathlon
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Misses 1 | Time | Rank |
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10 km Sprint | Mathias Jung | 4 | 35:50.36 | 21 |
Klaus Siebert | 2 | 33:32.76 | 4 | |
Frank Ullrich | 2 | 32:10.69 |
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 2 | Rank |
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20 km | Klaus Siebert | 1'07:48.71 | 6 | 1'13:48.71 | 15 |
Eberhard Rösch | 1'09:11.73 | 2 | 1'11:11.73 | ||
Frank Ullrich | 1'05:27.79 | 3 | 1'08:27.79 |
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 1 | Time | Rank | |
Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch |
3 | 1'34:56.99 |
- 1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
- 2 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
Bobsleigh
editSled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
GDR-1 | Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł |
Two-man | 1:02.39 | 3 | 1:02.88 | 4 | 1:02.86 | 3 | 1:02.95 | 4 | 4:11.08 | |
GDR-2 | Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt |
Two-man | 1:02.58 | 4 | 1:02.48 | 1 | 1:03.31 | 9 | 1:02.56 | 2 | 4:10.93 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
GDR-1 | Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt |
Four-man | 59.86 | 1 | 1:00.03 | 1 | 59.73 | 1 | 1:00.30 | 2 | 3:59.92 | |
GDR-2 | Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner |
Four-man | 1:00.24 | 2 | 1:00.35 | 2 | 1:00.04 | 3 | 1:00.34 | 3 | 4:00.97 |
Cross-country skiing
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 45:00.40 | 37 |
30 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 1'30:05.17 | 9 |
50 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 2'38:13.53 | 26 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Ute Nesstler | 15:53.38 | 16 |
Marlies Rostock | 15:36.28 | 9 | |
Veronika Hesse-Schmidt | 15:31.83 | 7 | |
Barbara Petzold | 15:23.62 | 4 | |
10 km | Carola Anding | 31:45.82 | 12 |
Veronika Hesse-Schmidt | 31:29.14 | 8 | |
Marlies Rostock | 31:28.79 | 7 | |
Barbara Petzold | 30:31.54 |
- Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold |
1'02:11.10 |
Figure skating
edit- Men
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hermann Schulz | 9 | 9 | 13 | 166.70 | 98 | 11 |
Jan Hoffmann | 1 | 2 | 2 | 189.72 | 15 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Anett Pötzsch | 1 | 4 | 3 | 189.00 | 11 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach |
6 | 6 | 136.00 | 53 | 6 |
Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff |
4 | 3 | 140.52 | 33 |
Luge
edit- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Hans Rinn | 43.802 | 6 | 1:24.301 | 26 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Bernhard Glass | 43.609 | 4 | 43.780 | 2 | 43.925 | 3 | 43.482 | 1 | 2:54.796 | |
Dettlef Günther | 43.199 | 1 | 43.555 | 1 | 46.879 | 23 | 43.530 | 2 | 2:57.163 | 4 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn |
39.303 | 1 | 40.028 | 2 | 1:19.331 | |
Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn |
39.972 | 8 | 39.942 | 1 | 1:19.914 | 4 |
- Women
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Margit Schumann | 39.611 | 7 | 39.715 | 6 | 39.567 | 4 | 39.262 | 2 | 2:38.255 | 6 |
Ilona Brand | 39.393 | 4 | 39.506 | 4 | 39.700 | 6 | 39.516 | 6 | 2:38.115 | 5 |
Melitta Sollman | 39.289 | 2 | 39.640 | 5 | 39.360 | 2 | 39.368 | 3 | 2:37.657 |
Nordic combined
editEvents:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Uwe Dotzauer | Individual | 80.5 | 81.0 | 217.6 | 4 | 49:52.4 | 200.815 | 13 | 418.415 | 5 |
Ulrich Wehling | 80.0 | 85.0 | 227.2 | 1 | 49:24.5 | 205.000 | 9 | 432.200 | ||
Gunter Schmieder | 79.0 | 80.0 | 201.7 | 11 | 49:42.0 | 202.375 | 11 | 404.075 | 8 | |
Konrad Winkler | 81.0 | 83.5 | 214.5 | 5 | 48:45.7 | 210.820 | 8 | 425.320 |
Ski jumping
editAthlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Henry Glaß | Normal hill | 81.0 | 114.8 | 81.5 | 116.6 | 231.4 | 15 |
Martin Weber | 83.0 | 118.5 | 83.5 | 118.3 | 236.8 | 11 | |
Jochen Danneberg | 83.5 | 118.8 | 77.0 | 103.9 | 222.7 | 20 | |
Manfred Deckert | 85.0 | 121.7 | 88.0 | 127.5 | 249.2 | ||
Harald Duschek | Large hill | 95.5 | 98.9 | 95.0 | 99.7 | 198.6 | 33 |
Henry Glaß | 98.5 | 105.6 | 110.5 | 126.4 | 232.0 | 11 | |
Manfred Deckert | 102.0 | 111.0 | 100.0 | 108.2 | 219.2 | 20 | |
Klaus Ostwald | 107.0 | 119.0 | 98.5 | 106.1 | 225.1 | 15 |
Speed skating
edit- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Andreas Dietel | 39.21 | 13 |
Steffen Doering | 39.06 | 11 | |
1000 m | Steffen Doering | 1:21.19 | 26 |
Andreas Dietel | 1:17.71 | 7 | |
1500 m | Andreas Ehrig | 1:59.47 | 9 |
Andreas Dietel | 1:57.14 | 4 | |
5000 m | Andreas Ehrig | 7:14.56 | 10 |
10,000 m | Andreas Dietel | 15:15.03 | 15 |
Andreas Ehrig | 14:51.94 | 8 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 43.60 | 12 |
Cornelia Jacob | 42.98 | 6 | |
Karin Kania-Enke | 41.78 OR | ||
1000 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 1:29.69 | 18 |
Karin Kania-Enke | 1:26.66 | 4 | |
Sylvia Albrecht | 1:26.46 | ||
1500 m | Sylvia Albrecht | 2:14.27 | 9 |
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich | 2:13.05 | 6 | |
Sabine Becker | 2:12.38 | ||
3000 m | Sylvia Albrecht | 4:47.76 | 14 |
Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich | 4:37.69 | 4 | |
Sabine Becker | 4:32.79 |