West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

West Germany
West Germany at the Olympic Games
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	IOC code FRG
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Competitors	347 (244 men, 103 women) in 24 sports
Flag bearer	Reiner Klimke (equestrianism)
	Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
	1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
Winter Games
	1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
	Other related appearances
	Germany (1896–1936, 1952, 1992–); Saar (1952); United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of 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. 347 competitors, 244 men and 103 women, took part in 194 events in 24 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

Matthias Baumann, Ralf Ehrenbrink, Claus Erhorn, and Thies Kaspareit — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition
Ludger Beerbaum, Wolfgang Brinkmann, Dirk Hafemeister, and Franke Sloothaak — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition
Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Competition
Reiner Klimke, Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, Monica Theodorescu, and Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition
Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual Competition
Anja Fichtel-Mauritz — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Sabine Bau, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Annette Klug, and Christiane Weber — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Thomas Domian, Armin Eichholz, Manfred Klein, Wolfgang Maennig, Matthias Mellinghaus, Thomas Möllenkamp, Bahne Rabe, Eckhardt Schultz, and Ansgar Wessling — Rowing, Men's Eights
Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
Michael Groß — Swimming, Men's 200 m Butterfly
Steffi Graf — Tennis, Women's Singles Competition

Silver

Dieter Baumann — Athletics, Men's 5000 metres
Bernd Gröne — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Jutta Niehaus — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
Matthias Behr, Thomas Endres, Matthias Gey, Ulrich Schreck, and Thorsten Weidner — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition
Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Thomas Gerull, Alexander Pusch, and Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition
Sabine Bau — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Frank Wieneke — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
Marc Meiling — Judo, Men's Half Heavyweight (95 kg)
Stefan Blöcher, Dirk Brinkmann, Thomas Brinkmann, Heiner Dopp, Hans-Henning Fastrich, Carsten Fischer, Tobias Frank, Volker Fried, Horst-Ulrich Hänel, Michael Hilgers, Andreas Keller, Michael Metz, Andreas Mollandin, Thomas Reck, Christian Schliemann, and Eckhard Schmidt-Opper — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
Peter-Michael Kolbe — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Air Rifle
Stefan Pfeiffer — Swimming, Men's 1500 m Freestyle
Manfred Nerlinger — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight
Gerhard Himmel — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Bronze

Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Ralf Lübke, and Jörg Vaihinger — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
Rolf Danneberg — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
Claudia Zaczkiewicz — Athletics, Women's 100 m Hurdles
Reiner Gies — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
Robert Lechner — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial
Christian Henn — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Karsten Huck — Equestrian, Jumping Individual Competition
Zita-Eva Funkenhauser — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Guido Grabow, Volker Grabow, Norbert Keßlau, and Jörg Puttlitz — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
Johann Riederer — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle
Uwe Kamps, Oliver Reck, Wolfgang Funkel, Roland Grahammer, Thomas Hörster, Gunnar Sauer, Michael Schulz, Rudolf Bommer, Holger Fach, Gerhard Kleppinger, Armin Görtz, Thomas Häßler, Olaf Janßen, Christian Schreier, Ralf Sievers, Wolfram Wuttke, Jürgen Klinsmann, Fritz Walter, Frank Mill, and Karlheinz Riedle — Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition
Thomas Fahrner, Michael Groß, Rainer Henkel, and Erik Hochstein — Swimming, Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
Steffi Graf and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch — Tennis, Women's Doubles Competition
Peter Immesberger — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
Martin Zawieja — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

Archery

In West Germany's fourth archery competition, the six archers were not as successful as the German team had been four years earlier, but nevertheless qualified two individuals for the semifinals and ended up with 6th places in both the women's team and women's individual events.

Women's Individual Competition:

Claudia Kriz – Final (→ 6th place)
Christa Oeckl – Preliminary Round (→ 25th place)
Doris Haas – Preliminary Round (→ 32nd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Detlef Kahlert – Semifinal (→ 12th place)
Manfred Barth – Preliminary Round (→ 54th place)
B. Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 59th place)

Women's Team Competition:

Kriz, Oeckl, and Haas – Final (→ 6th place)

Men's Team Competition:

Kahlert, Barth, and Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 18th place)

Athletics

Men's 5.000 metres

Dieter Baumann

First Round — 13:58.58
Semi Final — 13:22.71
Final — 13:15.52 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's Marathon

Ralf Salzmann

Final — 2:16.54 (→ 23rd place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

Christian Haas, Fritz Heer, Peter Klein, and Dirk Schweisfurth

Heat — 39.01
Semi Final — 38.75
Final — 38.55 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

Bodo Kuhn, Mark Henrich, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Heat — 3:03.90

Norbert Dobeleit, Mark Henrich, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Semi Final — 3:00.66

Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Final — 3:00.56 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 3.000m Steeplechase

Jens Volkmann

Heat — 8:36.37
Semi Final — 8:25.19 (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

Klaus Tafelmeier

Qualification — 80.52m
Final — 82.72m (→ 4th place)

Men's Discus Throw

Rolf Danneberg

Qualifying Heat – 65.70m
Final – 67.38m (→ Bronze Medal)

Alois Hannecker

Qualifying Heat – 61.44m
Final – 64.94m (→ 8th place)

Wulf Brunner

Qualifying Heat – 57.50m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

Heinz Weis

Qualifying Heat — 77.24m
Final — 79.16m (→ 5th place)

Christoph Sahner

Qualifying Heat — 75.84m (→ did not advance)

Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

Helga Arendt, Michaela Schabinger, Gisela Kinzel, and Gudrun Abt

Heat — 3:27.75

Ute Thimm, Helga Arendt, Andrea Thomas, and Gudrun Abt

Final — 3:22.49 (→ 4th place)

Women's Marathon

Kerstin Preßler

Final — 2"34.26 (→ 21st place)

Gabriela Wolf

Final — 2"35.11 (→ 27th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

Ingrid Thyssen

Qualification – 63.32m
Final – 60.76m (→ 8th place)

Beate Peters

Qualification – 60.20m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

Claudia Losch

Qualification – 20.39m
Final – 20.27m (→ 5th place)

Iris Plotzitzka

Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

Sabine Braun

Final Result — 6109 points (→ 14th place)

Sabine Everts

Final Result — 2513 points (→ 27th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Markus Bott

First Round — Defeated René Suetovius (GDR), RSC-3
Second Round — Lost to Nuramgomed Shanavazov (URS), 0:5

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

Andreas Schnieders

First Round — Defeated Tsibalabala Kadima (ZAI), RSC-2
Second Round — Defeated Ubola Ovvigbo (NGA), 5:0
Quarterfinals — Lost to Janusz Zarenkiewicz (POL), 2:3

Canoeing

Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

Bernd Gröne — 4:32:25 (→ Silver Medal)
Christian Henn — 4:32:46 (→ Bronze Medal)
Remig Stumpf — 4:32:56 (→ 14th place)

Women's Individual Road Race

Jutta Niehaus — 2:00:52 (→ Silver Medal)
Ines Varenkamp — 2:00:52 (→ 12th place)

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the West Germany in 1988.

Men's foil

Men's team foil

Matthias Gey, Thorsten Weidner, Matthias Behr, Ulrich Schreck, Thomas Endres

Men's épée

Men's team épée

Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Thomas Gerull, Alexander Pusch, Arnd Schmitt

Men's sabre

Men's team sabre

Felix Becker, Jörg Kempenich, Jürgen Nolte, Dieter Schneider, Stephan Thönnessen

Women's foil

Women's team foil

Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Christiane Weber, Sabine Bau, Annette Klug

Football

Preliminary Round (Group A)

West Germany – China 3-0
West Germany – Tunisia 4-1
West Germany – Sweden 1-2

Quarter Finals

West Germany – Zambia 4-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Brazil 1-1 (Brazil won 3-2 in penalty shootout)

Bronze Medal Game

West Germany – Italy 3-0 (→ Bronze Medal)

Team Roster

Gymnastics

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – Canada 3-1
West Germany – India 1-1
West Germany – Great Britain 2-1
West Germany – South Korea 1-0
West Germany – Soviet Union 6-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Netherlands 2-1

Final

West Germany – Great Britain 1-3 (→ Silver Medal)

Team Roster

Head Coach: Klaus Kleiter

Women's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – South Korea 1-4
West Germany – Australia 0-1
West Germany – Canada 2-1

Classification Matches

5th-8th place: West Germany – United States 2-1
5th-6th place: West Germany – Canada 4-2 (→ Fifth place)

Team Roster

Head Coach: Wolfgang Strödter

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented West Germany in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

Marcus Marsollek – 4964 pts (→ 24th place)
Michael Zimmermann – 4782 pts (→ 41st place)
Dirk Knappheide – 4765 pts (→ 42nd place)

Men's Team Competition:

Marsollek, Zimmermann, and Knappheide – 14511 pts (→ 10th place)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

Frank Henter
1. Heat – 22.98
2. Final – 23.03 (→ 7th place)
Stephan Güsgen
1. Heat – 23.22
2. B-Final – 23.55 (→ 14th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 50.78
2. B-Final – 51.12 (→ 14th place)
Torsten Wiegel
1. Heat – 51.02 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Michael Groß
1. Heat – 1:48.55
2. Final – 1:48.59 (→ 5th place)
Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 1:49.02
2. Final – 1:49.19 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 3:49.52
2. Final – 3:49.96 (→ 6th place)
Rainer Henkel
1. Heat – 3:51.50
2. B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 15:07.85
2. Final – 15:02.69 (→ Silver Medal)
Rainer Henkel
1. Heat – 15:14.64
2. B-Final – 15:18.19 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Frank Hoffmeister
1. Heat – 56.19
2. Final – 56.19 (→ 7th place)
Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 57.08
2. Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 2:01.77
2. Final – 2:01.84 (→ 6th place)
Frank Hoffmeister
1. Heat – 2:03.34
2. B-Final – 2:01.65 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke
1. Heat – 1:03.56
2. B-Final – 1:03.40 (→ 11th place)
Alexander Mayer
1. Heat – 1:03.54
2. B-Final – 1:03.85 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke
1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)
Hartmut Wedekind
1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Michael Groß
1. Heat – 53.78
2. Final – 53.44 (→ 5th place)
Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 55.20 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Michael Groß
1. Heat – 1:58.09
2. Final – 1:56.94 (→ Gold Medal)
Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 2:02.61 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Peter Bermel
1. Heat – 2:04.18
2. Final – 2:03.81 (→ 5th place)
Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 2:04.80
2. B-Final – 2:06.76 (→ 15th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 4:20.93
2. Final – 4:21.71 (→ 6th place)
Peter Bermel
1. Heat – 4:22.78
2. Final – 4:24.02 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Björn Zikarsky, Peter Sitt, Torsten Wiegel, and Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 3:23.19
Michael Groß, Thomas Fahrner, Björn Zikarsky, and Peter Sitt
1. Final – 3:21.65 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

Peter Sitt, Rainer Henkel, Stefan Pfeiffer, and Erik Hochstein
1. Heat – 7:19.38
Erik Hochstein, Thomas Fahrner, Rainer Henkel, and Michael Groß
1. Final – 7:14.35 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Frank Hoffmeister, Mark Warnecke, Michael Groß, and Björn Zikarsky
1. Heat – 3:44.72
Frank Hoffmeister, Alexander Mayer, Michael Groß, and Björn Zikarsky
1. Final – 3:42.98 (→ 4th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 26.20
2. B-Final – 26.17 (→ 9th place)
Christiane Pielke
1. Heat – 26.33
2. B-Final – 26.22 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

Christiane Pielke
1. Heat – 57.47 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
Katja Ziliox
1. Heat – 58.39 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 2:00.66
2. Final – 2:00.73 (→ 7th place)
Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 2:02.77
2. B-Final – 2:02.32 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 4:12.18
2. Final – 4:13.05 (→ 7th place)
Alexandra Russ
1. Heat – 4:18.67 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 8:41.95 (→ did not advance, 16th place)
Alexandra Russ
1. Heat – 8:49.31 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 1:03.27
2. Final – 1:04.19 (→ 8th place)
Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 1:03.72
2. B-Final – 1:03.68 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 2:16.81
2. Final – 2:15.94 (→ 8th place)
Katja Zisiox
1. Heat – 2:26.25 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm
1. Heat – 1:12.98 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm
1. Heat – 2:35.06 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Heike Esser
1. Heat – 2:41.34 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Gabi Rehaa
1. Heat – 1:02.27
2. B-Final – 1:02.63 (→ 15th place)
Ina Beyermann
1. Heat – 1:02.85 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

Ina Beyermann
1. Heat – 2:13.56
2. B-Final – 2:13.74 (→ 10th place)
Gabi Rehaa
1. Heat – 2:13.09
2. B-Final – 2:14.20 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 2:17.46
2. B-Final – 2:17.85 (→ 10th place)
Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 2:20.31 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Karin Seick, Christiane Pielke, Katja Ziliox, and Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 3:48.03
Stephanie Ortwig, Marion Aizpors, Christiane Pielke, and Karin Seick
1. Final – 3:46.90 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 4:52.05
2. B-Final – 4:50.54 (→ 10th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Svenja Schlicht, Britta Dahm, Gabi Rehaa, and Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 4:13.19
2. Final – 4:12.89 (→ 7th place)

Synchronized swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented West Germany in 1988.

Women's solo

Women's duet

Table tennis

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Carl-Uwe Steeb
1. First round — Defeated Alexander Volkov (Soviet Union) 7-5 6-4 6-3
2. Second round — Defeated Wally Masur (Australia) 6-3 5-7 6-3 1-6 7-5
3. Third round — Defeated Anders Järryd (Sweden) 2-6 7-5 6-3 7-5
4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Tim Mayotte (United States) 6-7 5-7 3-6
Eric Jelen
1. First round — Lost to Miloslav Mečíř (Czechoslovakia) 7-5 1-6 2-6 6-7

Women's Singles Competition

Steffi Graf → Gold Medal
1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Defeated Leila Meskhi (Soviet Union) 7-5 6-1
3. Third Round – Defeated Catherine Suire (France) 6-3 6-0
4. Quarterfinals – Defeated Larisa Neiland (Soviet Union) 6-2 4-6 6-3
5. Semifinals – Defeated Zina Garrison (USA) 6-2 6-0
6. Final – Defeated Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-3 6-3
Sylvia Hanika
1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Defeated Julia Muir (Zimbabwe) 6-1 6-1
3. Third Round – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-1 4-6 2-6
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Lost to Raffaella Reggi (Italy) 6-4 6-7 3-6

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Defeated Australia (13-11)
Defeated France (10-9)
Defeated South Korea (18-2)
Defeated Italy (10-7)
Defeated Soviet Union (9-8)

Semi Finals

Lost to Yugoslavia (10-14)

Bronze Medal Match

Lost to Soviet Union (13-14) → 4th place

Team Roster

Head Coach: Nicola Firuio

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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