East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics | |
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IOC code | GDR |
NOC | National Olympic Committee of the GDR |
in Grenoble | |
Competitors | 57 (45 men, 12 women) in 9 sports |
Flag bearer | Thomas Köhler (luge) |
Medals Ranked 10th |
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Winter Olympics appearances ( overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 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.
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold |
Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler |
Luge | Men's doubles |
Silver | Gabriele Seyfert | Figure skating | Women'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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Gerhard Grimmer Axel Lesser Peter Thiel Gert-Dietmar Klause |
2'19:22.8 | 7 |
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 |
Athletes | Race | |
---|---|---|
Time | Rank | |
Renate Fischer-Köhler Gudrun Schmidt Christine Nestler |
59:33.9 | 6 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan Hoffmann | 26 | 25 | 1437.8 | 238 | 26 |
Günter Zöller | 10 | 14 | 1727.9 | 100 | 11 |
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sonja Morgenstern | 29 | 22 | 1475.9 | 251 | 28 |
Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 2 | 1882.3 | 18 |
Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irine Müller Hans-Georg Dallmer |
9 | 8 | 289.4 | 82 | 9 |
Heidemarie Steiner Heinz-Ulrich Walther |
4 | 4 | 303.1 | 37 | 4 |
East Germany -
Norway 3:1 (2:1, 1:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Joachim Ziesche, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa - Odd Syversen.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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)
8. EAST GERMANY
Goaltenders:
Dieter Pürschel,
Klaus Hirche.
Defence:
Dieter Voigt,
Manfred Buder,
Helmut Novy,
Dieter Kratzsch,
Wolfgang Plotka,
Wilfried Sock,
Ulrich Noack.
Forwards:
Bernd Karrenbauer,
Hartmut Nickel,
Lothar Fuchs,
Peter Prusa,
Joachim Ziesche,
Bernd Poindl,
Dietmar Peters,
Bernd Hiller,
Rüdiger Noack.
Coach: Rudi Schmieder.
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 |
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 | – |
Events:
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 |
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 |
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 |