East Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the GDR
in Calgary
Competitors	53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Frank-Peter Roetsch (biathlon)
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 9 Silver 10 Bronze 6 Total 25
Winter Olympics appearances ( overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)   United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

East Germany ( German Democratic Republic) competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the last time at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Uwe-Jens Mey	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres	14 February
Gold	Jens Müller	Luge	Men's singles	15 February
Gold	Steffi Walter-Martin	Luge	Women's singles	18 February
Gold	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	Luge	Doubles	19 February
Gold	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Biathlon	Individual	20 February
Gold	André Hoffmann	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	20 February
Gold	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Biathlon	Sprint	23 February
Gold	Christa Rothenburger	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	26 February
Gold	Katarina Witt	Figure skating	Women's singles	27 February
Silver	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	Luge	Women's singles	18 February
Silver	Uwe-Jens Mey	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Silver	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Luge	Doubles	19 February
Silver	Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musiol	Bobsleigh	Two-man	21 February
Silver	Christa Rothenburger	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	22 February
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres	23 February
Silver	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	26 February
Silver	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	27 February
Silver	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer Bogdan Musiol Ingo Voge	Bobsleigh	Four-man	28 February
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 5000 metres	28 February
Bronze	Cerstin Schmidt	Luge	Women's singles	18 February
Bronze	Bernhard Lehmann Mario Hoyer	Bobsleigh	Two-man	21 February
Bronze	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	22 February
Bronze	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres	23 February
Bronze	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	27 February
Bronze	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	Speed skating	Women's 5000 metres	28 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Biathlon	6	–	6
Bobsleigh	10	–	10
Cross-country skiing	2	5	7
Figure skating	2	3	5
Luge	7	3	10
Nordic combined	3	–	3
Ski jumping	2	–	2
Speed skating	4	6	10
Total	36	17	53

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Frank Luck	1	25:57.6	6
	André Sehmisch	2	25:52.3	5
	Birk Anders	2	25:51.8	4
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	1	25:08.1

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Jürgen Wirth	57:25.9	3	1'00:25.9	16
	Matthias Jacob	55:20.1	3	58:20.1	9
	André Sehmisch	55:11.4	3	58:11.4	7
	Frank-Peter Roetsch	53:33.3	3	56:33.3

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Jürgen Wirth Frank-Peter Roetsch Matthias Jacob André Sehmisch	3	1'24:28.4	5

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł	Two-man	57.06	1	59.26	8	59.45	1	58.42	1	3:54.19
GDR-2	Bernhard Lehmann Mario Hoyer	Two-man	57.65	7	58.67	2	59.59	4	58.73	3	3:54.64

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer Bogdan Musioł Ingo Voge	Four-man	56.16	1	57.31	2	56.77	13	57.34	3	3:47.58
GDR-2	Detlef Richter Bodo Ferl Ludwig Jahn Alexander Szelig	Four-man	57.18	13	57.60	6	56.33	3	57.95	9	3:49.06	8

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Holger Bauroth	43:59.2	21
	Uwe Bellmann	42:17.8	5
30 km C	Holger Bauroth	1'30:03.4	22
	Uwe Bellmann	1'28:37.2	15
50 km F	Uwe Bellmann	2'08:18.6	8
	Holger Bauroth	2'07:02.4	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Susann Kuhfittig	16:41.9	37
	Silke Schwager-Braun	16:22.5	25
	Kerstin Moring	16:01.6	19
	Simone Opitz	15:41.1	13
10 km C	Kerstin Moring	32:12.8	25
	Susann Kuhfittig	32:01.5	23
	Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	31:53.0	21
	Simone Opitz	31:14.3	10
20 km F	Susann Kuhfittig	1'03:05.8	38
	Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	59:01.2	15
	Kerstin Moring	58:17.2	7
	Simone Opitz	57:54.3	5

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Kerstin Moring Simone Opitz Silke Schwager-Braun Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm	1'02:19.9	5

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Michael Huth	21	25	23	45.6	23

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Simone Koch	14	8	8	19.6	9
Katarina Witt	3	1	2	4.2

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Peggy Schwarz Alexander König	11	6	11.5	7

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michael Walter	46.578	6	46.754	6	46.838	9	46.763	3	3:06.933	5
Thomas Jacob	46.426	4	46.638	5	46.433	1	46.861	6	3:06.358	4
Jens Müller	46.301	1	46.444	1	46.436	2	46.367	1	3:05.548

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	45.786	1	46.154	2	1:31.940
Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	45.886	2	46.153	1	1:32.039

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cerstin Schmidt	46.078	3	46.020	1	46.059	2	46.024	3	3:04.181
Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	45.906	2	46.057	2	46.150	3	45.992	1	3:04.105
Steffi Walter-Martin	45.282	1	46.173	3	46.969	1	46.003	2	3:03.973

Nordic combined

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Uwe Prenzel	Individual	207.6	13	2:19.4	40:38.2	421.630	4
Marko Frank		209.4	10	2:07.4	41:15.6	416.020	8
Thomas Prenzel		215.5	5	1:26.7	41:18.1	415.640	9

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Thomas Prenzel Marko Frank Uwe Prenzel	571.6	5	4:51.0	1'23:04.5	5

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Remo Lederer	Normal hill	79.5	94.3	78.0	90.9	185.2	21
Jens Weißflog		81.5	99.5	80.0	97.1	196.6	9
Jens Weißflog	Large hill	104.5	95.7	93.5	76.3	172.0	31
Remo Lederer		105.5	98.1	97.0	83.7	181.8	22

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Peter Adeberg	38.11	28
	André Hoffmann	37.75	21
	Uwe-Jens Mey	36.45 WR
1000 m	André Hoffmann	1:14.62	15
	Peter Adeberg	1:14.19	8
	Uwe-Jens Mey	1:13.11
1500 m	Peter Adeberg	1:53.57	8
	André Hoffmann	1:52.06 WR
5000 m	Roland Freier	6:51.42	8
10,000 m	Roland Freier	14:19.16	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	40.71	10
	Angela Stahnke-Hauck	39.68	4
	Karin Enke-Kania	39.24
	Christa Rothenburger	39.12
1000 m	Angela Stahnke-Hauck	1:20.05	6
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	1:19.32	4
	Karin Enke-Kania	1:17.70
	Christa Rothenburger	1:17.65 WR
1500 m	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann	2:04.68	7
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:01.49
	Karin Enke-Kania	2:00.82
3000 m	Karin Enke-Kania	4:18.80	4
	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	4:16.92
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:12.09
5000 m	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann-Kleemann	7:34.59	7
	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	7:21.61
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	7:17.12

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com