East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the Olympic Games
Flag of the German Democratic Republic IOC code  GDR NOC National Olympic Committee of the GDR
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid
Competitors	53 (36 men, 17 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Jan Hoffmann (figure skating)
Medals Rank: 2	Gold 9	Silver 7	Bronze 7	Total 23
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Winter Games
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
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East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold medals and 23 medals overall.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Frank Ullrich	Biathlon	Men's 10 km sprint
Gold	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musiol Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Gold	Barbara Petzold	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Gold	Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Gold	Anett Pötzsch	Figure skating	Women's singles
Gold	Bernhard Glass	Luge	Men's individual
Gold	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	Luge	Men's doubles
Gold	Ulrich Wehling	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Gold	Karin Kania-Enke	Speed skating	Women's 500m
Silver	Frank Ullrich	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Silver	Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Silver	Jan Hoffmann	Figure skating	Men's singles
Silver	Melitta Sollman	Luge	Women's individual
Silver	Manfred Deckert	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Sabine Becker	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Bronze	Eberhard Rösch	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Bronze	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Bronze	Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff	Figure skating	Pairs
Bronze	Konrad Winkler	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Sylvia Albrecht	Speed skating	Women's 1000m
Bronze	Sabine Becker	Speed skating	Women's 1500m

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
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
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
	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

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	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
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GDR-1	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musiol 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

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		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
		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 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold	1'02:11.10

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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
Anett Pötzsch	1	4	3	189.00	11

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach	6	6	136.00	53	6
Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff	4	3	140.52	33

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	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
	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
	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

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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
		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

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		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

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		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
		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

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com