East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes from East Germany competed at the Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports. The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988.
Medalists
East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals overall.Gold
- Ulf Timmermann — Athletics, men's shot put
- Jürgen Schult — Athletics, men's discus throw
- Christian Schenk — Athletics, men's decathlon
- Sigrun Wodars — Athletics, women's 800 metres
- Martina Hellmann — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Petra Felke — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Andreas Zülow — Boxing, men's lightweight
- Henry Maske — Boxing, men's middleweight
- Olaf Heukrodt — Canoeing, men's C1 500 m Canadian singles
- Birgit Fischer and Anke Nothnagel — Canoeing, women's K2 500 m kayak pairs
- Heike Singer, Birgit Fischer, Anke Nothnagel and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, women's K4 500 m kayak fours
- Lutz Heßlich — Cycling, men's 1000 m sprint
- Olaf Ludwig — Cycling, men's individual road race
- Jan Schur, Uwe Ampler, Mario Kummer and Maik Landsmann — Cycling, men's team time trial
- Holger Behrendt — Gymnastics, men's rings
- Thomas Lange — Rowing, men's single sculls
- Roland Schröder, Ralf Brudel, Olaf Förster and Thomas Greiner — Rowing, men's coxless fours
- Hendrik Reiher, Karsten Schmeling, Bernd Eichwurzel, Frank Klawonn and Bernd Niesecke — Rowing, men's coxed fours
- Jutta Behrendt — Rowing, women's single sculls
- Birgit Peter and Martina Schröter — Rowing, women's double sculls
- Jana Sorgers, Kerstin Förster, Kristina Mundt and Beate Schramm — Rowing, women's quadruple sculls
- Birte Siech, Martina Walther, Gerlinde Doberschütz, Carola Hornig and Sylvia Rose — Rowing, women's coxed fours
- Ute Stange, Ute Wild, Judith Zeidler, Daniela Neunast, Beatrix Schröer, Annegret Strauch, Ramona Balthasar, Kathrin Haacker and Anja Kluge — Rowing, women's eights
- Axel Wegner — Shooting, men's skeet shooting
- Uwe Dassler — Swimming, men's 400 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 50 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m freestyle
- Heike Friedrich — Swimming, women's 200 m freestyle
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke
- Silke Hörner — Swimming, women's 200 m breaststroke
- Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 100 m butterfly
- Kathleen Nord — Swimming, women's 200 m butterfly
- Daniela Hunger — Swimming, women's 200 m individual medley
- Manuela Stellmach, Daniela Hunger, Katrin Meissner and Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
- Birte Weigang, Silke Hörner, Katrin Meissner and Kristin Otto — Swimming, women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Joachim Kunz — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
- Thomas Flach, Bernd Jäkel and Jochen Schümann — Sailing, men's Soling
Silver
- Ronald Weigel — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
- Ronald Weigel — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
- Torsten Voss — Athletics, men's decathlon
- Petra Müller — Athletics, women's 400 metres
- Christine Wachtel — Athletics, women's 800 metres
- Gloria Siebert — Athletics, women's 100 m hurdles
- Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr and Ingrid Lange— Athletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's long jump
- Kathrin Neimke — Athletics, women's shot put
- Diana Gansky — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Sabine John — Athletics, women's heptathlon
- Andreas Tews — Boxing, men's flyweight
- Andreas Stähle — Canoeing, men's K1 500 m kayak singles
- Jörg Schmidt — Canoeing, men's C1 1000 m Canadian singles
- Olaf Heukrodt and Ingo Spelly — Canoeing, men's C2 1000 m Canadian pairs
- Birgit Fischer — Canoeing, women's K1 500 m kayak singles
- Carsten Wolf, Steffen Blochwitz, Roland Hennig and Dirk Meier — Cycling, men's 4000 m team pursuit
- Christa Luding-Rothenburger — Cycling, women's sprint
- Udo Wagner — Fencing, men's foil individual
- Sylvio Kroll — Gymnastics, men's long horse vault
- Ralf Büchner, Holger Behrendt, Ulf Hoffmann, Sylvio Kroll, Sven Tippelt and Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, men's team combined exercises
- Dagmar Kersten — Gymnastics, women's asymmetrical bars
- Sven Loll — Judo, men's lightweight
- Henry Stöhr — Judo, men's heavyweight
- Mario Streit, Detlef Kirchhoff and René Rensch — Rowing, men's coxed pairs
- Ralf Schumann — Shooting, men's rapid-fire pistol
- Frank Baltrusch — Swimming, men's 200 m backstroke
- Patrick Kühl — Swimming, men's 200 m individual medley
- Steffen Zesner, Uwe Dassler, Thomas Flemming and Sven Lodziewski — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
- Heike Friedrich — Swimming, women's 400 m freestyle
- Astrid Strauss — Swimming, women's 800 m freestyle
- Kathrin Zimmermann — Swimming, women's 200 m backstroke
- Birte Weigang — Swimming, women's 100 m butterfly
- Birte Weigang — Swimming, women's 200 m butterfly
- Ingo Steinhöfel — Weightlifting, men's middleweight
Bronze
- Jens-Peter Herold — Athletics, men's 1.500 metres
- Hansjörg Kunze — Athletics, men's 5.000 metres
- Hartwig Gauder — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's 100 metres
- Heike Drechsler — Athletics, women's 200 metres
- Kathrin Dörre — Athletics, women's marathon
- Ellen Fiedler — Athletics, women's 400 m hurdles
- Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Sabine Busch, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller — Athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
- Beate Koch — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Anke Behmer — Athletics, women's heptathlon
- André Wohllebe — Canoeing, men's K1 1000 m kayak singles
- André Wohllebe, Hans-Jörg Bliesener, Kay Bluhm and Andreas Stähle — Canoeing, men's K4 1000 m kayak fours
- Bernd Dittert — Cycling, men's 4000 m individual pursuit
- Holger Behrendt — Gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
- Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, men's parallel bars
- Sven Tippelt — Gymnastics, men's rings
- Ulrike Klotz, Bettina Schieferdecker, Dörte Thümmler, Gabriele Fähnrich, Martina Jentsch and Dagmar Kersten — Gymnastics, women's team combined exercises
- Torsten Bréchôt — Judo, men's half middleweight
- Steffen Zühlke, Steffen Bogs, Heiko Habermann and Jens Köppen — Rowing, men's quadruple sculls
- Uwe Dassler — Swimming, men's 1500 m freestyle
- Steffen Zesner, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Dirk Richter — Swimming, men's 4 × 100 m freestyle
- Katrin Meissner — Swimming, women's 50 m freestyle
- Manuela Stellmach — Swimming, women's 200 m freestyle
- Anke Möhring — Swimming, women's 400 m freestyle
- Cornelia Sirch — Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke
- Cornelia Sirch — Swimming, women's 200 m backstroke
- Silke Hörner — Swimming, women's 100 m breaststroke
- Daniela Hunger — Swimming, women's 400 m individual medley
- Ronny Weller — Weightlifting, men's heavyweight
- Andreas Schröder — Wrestling, men's freestyle super heavyweight
Athletics
Men's competition
Men's 5,000 metres- Hansjörg Kunze
- # Heat — 13:44.34
- # Semifinal — 13:23.04
- # Final — 13:15.73
- Hansjörg Kunze
- # Heat — 28:22.09
- # Final — 27:39.35
- Jörg Peter
- * Final — did not start
- Jens Carlowitz, Michael Schimmer, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
- * Heat — 3:08.13
- Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe
- * Semifinal — 3:00.60
- Jens Carlowitz, Mathias Schersing, Frank Möller and Thomas Schönlebe
- * Final — 3:01.13
Men's javelin throw
- Gerald Weiss
- * Qualification — 79.16m
- * Final — 81.30 m
- Silvio Warsönke
- * Qualification — 78.22m
- Detlef Michel
- * Qualification — 77.70 m
- Jürgen Schult
- * Qualifying heat - 64.70 m
- * Final - 68.82m
- Ulf Timmermann
- * Qualifying heat - 21.27m
- * Final - 22.47m
- Udo Beyer
- * Qualifying heat - 20.97m
- * Final - 21.40 m
- Ralf Haber
- * Qualifying heat — 78.16m
- * Final — 80.44m
- Günther Rodehau
- * Qualifying heat — 78.12m
- * Final — 72.36m
- Christian Schenk — 8488 points )
- Torsten Voss — 8399 points )
- Uwe Freimuth — 7860 points
- Ronald Weigel
- * Final — 1:20:00
- Axel Noack
- * Final — 1:21:14
- Ronald Weigel
- * Final — 3'38:56
- Hartwig Gauder
- * Final — 3'39:45
- Dietmar Meisch
- * Final — 3'46:31
Women's competition
- Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange and Marlies Göhr
- * Heat — 42.92
- * Semifinal — 42.23
- * Final — 42.09
- Grit Breuer, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller
- * Heat — 3:27.37
- Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Petra Müller
- * Final — 3:18.29
- Katrin Dörre - 2"26:21
- Birgit Stephan - did not finish
- Martina Hellmann
- * Qualification - 67.12m
- * Final - 72.30 m
- Diana Gansky
- * Qualification - 65.40 m
- * Final - 71.88m
- Gabriele Reinsch
- * Qualification - 66.88m
- * Final - 67.26m
- Petra Felke
- * Qualification - 67.06m
- * Final - 74.68m
- Beate Koch
- * Qualification - 66.86m
- * Final - 67.30 m
- Silke Renk
- * Qualification - 63.64m
- * Final - 66.38m
- Kathrin Neimke
- * Qualification - 20.18m
- * Final - 21.07m
- Ines Müller
- * Qualification - 19.79m
- * Final - 20.37m
- Heike Hartwig
- * Qualification - 20.06m
- * Final - 20.20 m
- Sabine John
- * Final result — 6897 points
- Anke Behmer
- * Final result — 6858 points
- Ines Schulz
- * Final result — 6411 points
Boxing
- René Breitbarth
- # First round — defeated Magare Tshekiso, 5–0
- # Second round — defeated Vedat Tutuk, 5–0
- # Third round — lost to Jorge Julio Rocha, 1–4
Canoeing
Cycling
Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988.;Men's road race
- Olaf Ludwig — 4:32:22
- Uwe Raab
- Uwe Ampler
- Uwe Ampler
- Mario Kummer
- Maik Landsmann
- Jan Schur
- Lutz Heßlich
;Men's individual pursuit
- Bernd Dittert
- Steffen Blochwitz
- Roland Hennig
- Carsten Wolf
- Dirk Meier
- Uwe Preißler
- Olaf Ludwig
- Angela Ranft — 2:00:52
- Petra Rossner — DNF
Fencing
Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event.;Men's foil
- Udo Wagner
- Jens Howe
- Aris Enkelmann
- Aris Enkelmann, Adrian Germanus, Jens Gusek, Jens Howe, Udo Wagner
- Torsten Kühnemund
- Uwe Proske
Gymnastics
Handball
Judo
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 100 m freestyle- Steffen Zesner
- # Heat - 50.73
- # Final - scratched
- Sven Lodziewski
- # Heat - 50.77
- # B-Final - 51.00
- Steffen Zesner
- # Heat - 1:49.13
- # Final - 1:48.77
- Thomas Flemming
- # Heat - 1:49.52
- # B-Final - 1:50.18
- Uwe Dassler
- # Heat - 3:49.90
- # Final - 3:46.95
- Jörg Hoffmann
- # Heat - 3:53.78
- # B-Final - 3:52.13
- Uwe Dassler
- # Heat - 15:08.91
- # Final - 15:06.15
- Jörg Hoffmann
- # Heat - 15:14.13
- Frank Baltrusch
- # Heat - 56.45
- # Final - 56.10
- Dirk Richter
- # Heat - 56.52
- # B-Final - 56.66
- Frank Baltrusch
- # Heat - 2:01.49
- # Final - 1:59.60
- Dirk Richter
- # Heat - 2:01.54
- # Final - 2:01.67
- Christian Poswiat
- # Heat - 1:02.99
- # Final - 1:03.43
- Raik Hannemann
- # Heat - 1:04.46
- Christian Poswiat
- # Heat - 2:20.99
- Patrick Kühl
- # Heat - 2:03.77
- # Final - 2:01.61
- Raik Hannemann
- # Heat - 2:04.03
- # Final - 2:04.82
- Patrick Kühl
- # Heat - 4:18.60
- # Final - 4:18.44
- Raik Hannemann
- # Heat - 2:04.03
- # Final - 2:04.82
- Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Steffen Zesner
- # Heat - 3:20.47
- # Final - 3:19.82
- Uwe Dassler, Lars Hinneburg, Sven Lodziewski and Thomas Flemming
- # Heat - 7:16.61
- Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner
- # Final - 7:13.68
- Kristin Otto
- # Heat - 25.85
- # B-Final - 25.49
- Katrin Meissner
- # Heat - 25.77
- # Final - 25.71
- Kristin Otto
- # Heat - 55.80
- # B-Final - 54.93
- Manuela Stellmach
- # Heat - 56.14
- # Final - 55.52
- Heike Friedrich
- # Heat - 1:59.02
- # B-Final - 1:57.65
- Manuela Stellmach
- # Heat - 2:00.30
- # Final - 1:59.01
- Heike Friedrich
- # Heat - 4:11.30
- # B-Final - 4:05.94
- Anke Möhring
- # Heat - 4:10.64
- # Final - 4:06.62
- Astrid Strauss
- # Heat - 8:28.07
- # B-Final - 8:22.09
- Anke Möhring
- # Heat - 8:30.95
- # Final - 8:23.09
- Kristin Otto
- # Heat - 1:01.45
- # Final - 1:00.89
- Cornelia Sirch
- # Heat - 1:01.63
- # Final - 1:01.57
- Kathrin Zimmermann
- # Heat - 2:12.81
- # Final - 2:10.61
- Cornelia Sirch
- # Heat - 2:10.46
- # Final - 2:11.45
- Silke Hörner
- # Heat - 1:08.35
- # Final - 1:08.83
- Annett Rex
- # Heat - 1:10.61
- # Final - 1:10.67
- Silke Hörner
- # Heat - 2:27.63
- # Final - 2:26.71
- Susanne Boernike
- # Heat - 2:30.71
- # B-Final - 2:28.55
- Kristin Otto
- # Heat - 1:00.40
- # Final - 59.00
- Birte Weigang
- # Heat - 59.97
- # Final - 59.45
- Kathleen Nord
- # Heat - 2:11.81
- # Final - 2:09.51
- Birte Weigang
- # Heat - 2:11.97
- # Final - 2:09.91
- Daniela Hunger
- # Heat - 2:16.23
- # Final - 2:12.59
- Daniela Hunger
- # Heat - 4:44.85
- # Final - 4:39.76
- Kathleen Nord
- # Heat - 4:42.92
- # Final - 4:41.64
- Katrin Meissner, Sabina Schulze, Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger
- # Heat - 3:43.13
- Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach
- # Final - 3:40.63
- Cornelia Sirch, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Manuela Stellmach
- # Heat - 4:08.53
- Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Katrin Meissner
- # Final - 4:03.74
Volleyball
Women's tournament
- Preliminary round
- * Lost to South Korea
- * Defeated Japan
- * Lost to Soviet Union
- Classification matches
- * 5th/8th place: defeated United States
- * 5th/6th place: defeated Brazil → Fifth place
- Team roster
- *Steffi Schmidt
- *Susanne Lahme
- *Monika Beu
- *Ariane Radfan
- *Kathrin Langschwager
- *Maike Arlt
- *Brit Wiedemann
- *Ute Steppin
- *Grit Jensen
- *Dörte Stüdemann
- *Heike Jensen
- *Ute Langenau
- Head coach: Siegfried Köhler
Weightlifting