East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics
East Germany at the Olympic Games | ||||||||||
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At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble | ||||||||||
Competitors | 57 (45 men, 12 women) in 9 sports | |||||||||
Flag bearer | Thomas Köhler (luge) | |||||||||
Medals Rank: 10 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 2 |
Bronze 2 |
Total 5 |
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Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||||
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Germany (1896–1936, 1992–) United Team of Germany (1956–1964) |
East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. East German athletes had competed together with West German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.
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Medalists
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler |
Luge | Men's doubles |
Silver | Gabriele Seyfert | Figure skating | Men's singles |
Silver | Thomas Köhler | Luge | Men's individual |
Bronze | Klaus-Michael Bonsack | Luge | Men's individual |
Bronze | Andreas Kunz | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
Alpine skiing
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- Men
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Eberhard Riedel | Downhill | DNF | – | ||||
Eberhard Riedel | Giant Slalom | 1:55.59 | 53 | 1:51.08 | 25 | 3:46.67 | 41 |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Final | |||||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Eberhard Riedel | 53.62 | 1 QF | – | – | 52.00 | 25 | 52.07 | 16 | 1:44.07 | 13 |
Biathlon
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- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Heinz Kluge | 1'19:55.2 | 7 | 1'26:55.2 | 24 |
Hansjörg Knauthe | 1'23:04.9 | 2 | 1'25:04.9 | 21 | |
Dieter Speer | 1'18:13.3 | 6 | 1'24:13.3 | 18 | |
Horst Koschka | 1'18:37.7 | 3 | 1'21:37.7 | 10 |
- 1 One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
- Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes | Race | ||
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Misses 2 | Time | Rank | |
Heinz Kluge Hans-Gert Jahn Horst Koschka Dieter Speer |
4 | 2'21:54.5 | 6 |
- 2 A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
Cross-country skiing
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- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Axel Lesser | DNF | – |
Peter Thiel | 52:07.8 | 37 | |
Gert-Dietmar Klause | 51:51.6 | 33 | |
Gerhard Grimmer | 51:22.1 | 29 | |
30 km | Helmut Unger | 1'44:47.9 | 37 |
Axel Lesser | 1'44:16.2 | 36 | |
Gert-Dietmar Klause | 1'39:30.5 | 19 | |
Gerhard Grimmer | 1'38:46.0 | 15 | |
50 km | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 2'36:52.5 | 25 |
- Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Gerhard Grimmer Axel Lesser Peter Thiel Gert-Dietmar Klause |
2'19:22.8 | 7 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
5 km | Anni Unger | 17:30.7 | 16 |
Renate Fischer-Köhler | 17:25.5 | 14 | |
Gudrun Schmidt | 17:24.3 | 13 | |
Christine Nestler | 17:23.5 | 12 | |
10 km | Anni Unger | 40:36.8 | 22 |
Renate Fischer-Köhler | 39:27.4 | 16 | |
Gudrun Schmidt | 39:22.8 | 14 | |
Christine Nestler | 39:07.9 | 9 |
- Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Renate Fischer-Köhler Gudrun Schmidt Christine Nestler |
59:33.9 | 6 |
Figure skating
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- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Jan Hoffmann | 26 | 25 | 1437.8 | 238 | 26 |
Günter Zöller | 10 | 14 | 1727.9 | 100 | 11 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Sonja Morgenstern | 29 | 22 | 1475.9 | 251 | 28 |
Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 2 | 1882.3 | 18 |
- Pairs
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Irine Müller Hans-Georg Dallmer |
9 | 8 | 289.4 | 82 | 9 |
Heidemarie Steiner Heinz-Ulrich Walther |
4 | 4 | 303.1 | 37 | 4 |
Ice hockey
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First Round
East Germany - Norway 3:1 (2:1, 1:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Joachim Ziesche, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa - Odd Syversen.
Final Round
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 10 | 12 |
2 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 11 |
3 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 10 |
4 | Sweden | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 9 |
5 | Finland | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7 |
6 | United States | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 5 |
7 | West Germany | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 2 |
8 | East Germany | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 0 |
USSR – East Germany 9:0 (4:0, 2:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Firsov 3, Vikulov 2, Mišakov, Staršinov, Alexandrov, Zajcev.
Referees: Wycisk (POL), Johannessen (NOR)
Canada – East Germany 11:0 (4:0, 4:0, 3:0)
Goalscorers: Mott 4, Huck 2, Hargreaves, O’Shea, Bourbonnais, Monteith, H. Pinder.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)
Sweden – East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs.
Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)
Czechoslovakia – East Germany 10:3 (5:2, 1:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Horešovský 4, Nedomanský 2, Jiřík, Suchý, Kochta, Ševčík – Karrenbauer, Novy, Peters.
Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)
East Germany – Finland 2:3 (1:2, 0:1, 1:0)
Goalscorers: R. Noack, Peters – Harju 2, Keinonen.
Referees: Bucala (TCH), Dahlberg (SWE)
East Germany – USA 4:6 (1:3, 1:1, 2:2)
Goalscorers: Fuchs 2, Karrenbauer 2 – Stordahl 2, P. Hurley 2, Volmar, Lilyholm.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Seglin (URS)
East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1)
Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)
Contestants
8. EAST GERMANY
Goaltenders: Dieter Pürschel, Klaus Hirche.
Defence: Dieter Voigt, Manfred Buder, Helmut Novy, Dieter Kratzch, Wolfgang Plotka, Wilfried, Sock, Ulrich Noack.
Forwards: Bernd Karenbauer, Hartmut Nickel, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa, Joachim Ziesche, Bernd Poindl, Dietmar Peters, Bernd Hiler, Rüdiger Noack.
Coach: Rudi Schmieder.
Luge
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- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Wolfgang Scheidel | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Klaus-Michael Bonsack | 57.90 | 8 | 57.63 | 2 | 57.80 | 5 | 2:53.33 | |
Thomas Köhler | 57.68 | 5 | 57.47 | 1 | 57.51 | 1 | 2:52.66 | |
Horst Hörnlein | 57.49 | 3 | 58.04 | 4 | 58.57 | 13 | 2:54.10 | 7 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler |
47.88 | 1 | 47.97 | 1 | 1:35.85 | |
Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow |
48.80 | 5 | 49.01 | 6 | 1:37.81 | 5 |
- Women
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Ortrun Enderlein | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Anna-Maria Müller | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Angela Knösel | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Nordic combined
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Events:
- 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 | ||
Roland Weißpflog | Individual | 67.0 | 66.0 | 186.3 | 29 | 48:33.5 | 238.00 | 2 | 424.30 | 9 |
Karl-Heinz Luck | 69.5 | 71.0 | 198.8 | 20 | 50:14.7 | 215.22 | 8 | 414.02 | 11 | |
Andreas Kunz | 72.5 | 74.0 | 216.9 | 10 | 49:19.8 | 227.20 | 3 | 444.10 |
Ski jumping
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Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
Bernd Karwofsky | Normal hill | 72.0 | 98.5 | 67.0 (fall) | 53.0 | 151.5 | 54 |
Wolfgang Stöhr | 73.5 | 101.4 | 71.0 | 97.9 | 199.3 | 20 | |
Manfred Queck | 75.5 | 104.1 | 72.5 | 101.3 | 205.4 | 14 | |
Dieter Neuendorf | 76.5 | 108.7 | 73.0 | 102.6 | 211.3 | 7 | |
Dieter Neuendorf | Large hill | 93.0 | 100.6 | 92.0 | 98.2 | 198.8 | 15 |
Manfred Queck | 96.5 | 104.0 | 98.5 | 108.8 | 212.8 | 4 | |
Wolfgang Stöhr | 96.5 | 106.0 | 92.5 | 99.9 | 205.9 | 7 |
Speed skating
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- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 47.8 | 16 |
1000 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 1:35.6 | 12 |
1500 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 2:27.1 | 8 |