East Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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 (1896–1936, 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
Gold	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Gold	Frank-Peter Roetsch	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Katarina Witt	Figure skating	Women's singles
Gold	Jens Müller	Luge	Men's individual
Gold	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	Luge	Men's doubles
Gold	Steffi Walter-Martin	Luge	Women's individual
Gold	Uwe-Jens Mey	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Gold	André Hoffmann	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Gold	Christa Rothenburger	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Silver	Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musiol	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer Bogdan Musiol Ingo Voge	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Silver	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Luge	Men's doubles
Silver	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	Luge	Women's individual
Silver	Uwe-Jens Mey	Speed skating	Men's 1000m
Silver	Christa Rothenburger	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Silver	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Silver	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 1500m
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 5000m
Bronze	Bernhard Lehmann Mario Hoyer	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Cerstin Schmidt	Luge	Women's individual
Bronze	Karin Enke-Kania	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 1500m
Bronze	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Bronze	Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn	Speed skating	Women's 5000m

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

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	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
Sled	Athletes	Event	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
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km C	Holger Bauroth	43:59.2	21
15 km C	Uwe Bellmann	42:17.8	5
30 km C	Holger Bauroth	1'30:03.4	22
30 km C	Uwe Bellmann	1'28:37.2	15
50 km F	Uwe Bellmann	2'08:18.6	8
50 km F	Holger Bauroth	2'07:02.4	5

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	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
Athlete	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
Athletes	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
Athlete	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
Athlete	Event	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
Athletes	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
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Remo Lederer	Normal hill	79.5	94.3	78.0	90.9	185.2	21
Jens Weißflog	Normal hill	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	Large hill	105.5	98.1	97.0	83.7	181.8	22

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	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
1500 m	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
Event	Athlete	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

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Nations at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada
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