East Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

East Germany at the 1976 Winter Olympics
IOC code	GDR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic
in Innsbruck
Competitors	59 (40 men, 19 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Meinhard Nehmer (bobsleigh)
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 7 Silver 5 Bronze 7 Total 19
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Gold	Meinhard Nehmer Jochen Babock Bernhard Germeshausen Bernhard Lehmann	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Gold	Dettlef Günther	Luge	Men's individual
Gold	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	Luge	Men's doubles
Gold	Margit Schumann	Luge	Women's individual
Gold	Ulrich Wehling	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Gold	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Gert-Dietmar Klause	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Romy Kermer Rolf Österreich	Figure skating	Pairs
Silver	Ute Rührold	Luge	Women's individual
Silver	Jochen Danneberg	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	Speed skating	Women's 3000m
Bronze	Karl-Heinz Menz Frank Ullrich Manfred Beer Manfred Geyer	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Bronze	Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	Cross-country skiing	Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Bronze	Christine Errath	Figure skating	Women's singles
Bronze	Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann	Figure skating	Pairs
Bronze	Hans Rinn	Luge	Men's individual
Bronze	Konrad Winkler	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Henry Glaß	Ski jumping	Men's large hill

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Manfred Beer	1'18:42.50	5	1'23:42.50	27
	Karl-Heinz Wolf	1'15:06.89	5	1'20:06.89	15
	Manfred Geyer	1'13:11.37	6	1'19:11.37	12

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 2	Time	Rank
Karl-Heinz Menz Frank Ullrich Manfred Beer Manfred Geyer	5	2'04:08.61

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1976 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	Horst Schönau Raimund Bethge	Two-man	56.89	8	56.79	8	56.74	7	56.55	4	3:46.97	7
GDR-2	Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen	Two-man	56.24	3	56.04	1	55.87	1	56.27	1	3:44.42

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 Jochen Babock Bernhard Germeshausen Bernhard Lehmann	Four-man	54.43	1	54.64	1	55.51	2	55.85	2	3:40.43
GDR-2	Horst Schönau Horst Bernhardt Harald Seifert Raimund Bethge	Four-man	55.11	6	55.12	5	55.63	4	56.58	4	3:42.44	4

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Gerhard Grimmer	48:45.04	49
	Gerd Heßler	47:08.77	28
	Jürgen Wolf	47:04.49	25
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	45:42.97	9
30 km	Dieter Meinel	1'36:37.35	33
	Axel Lesser	1'34:53.14	17
	Gerhard Grimmer	1'34:52.15	16
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1'32:00.91	6
50 km	Dieter Meinel	2'49:52.42	33
	Gerd Heßler	2'47:34.90	28
	Gerhard Grimmer	2'41:15.46	5
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	2'38:13.21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Gerd Heßler Axel Lesser Gerhard Grimmer Gert-Dietmar Klause	DNF	–

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Sigrun Krause	16:55.54	16
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	16:42.86	12
	Barbara Petzold	16:42.44	11
	Monika Debertshäuser	16:34.94	7
10 km	Monika Debertshäuser	31:50.06	14
	Sigrun Krause	31:39.76	12
	Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	31:12.33	8
	Barbara Petzold	31:12.20	7

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse-Schmidt	1'09:57.95

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Jan Hoffmann	4	9	5	187.34	34	4

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marion Weber	12	9	10	175.82	99	11
Anett Pötzsch	4	3	4	187.42	33	4
Christine Errath	5	2	3	188.16	28

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kerstin Stolfig Veit Kempe	7	6	129.57	59	6
Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann	4	3	134.57	34
Romy Kermer Rolf Österreich	2	2	136.35	21

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1976 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	52.916	6	51.968	2	51.690	2	52.000	3	3:28.574
Hans-Heinrich Winckler	52.848	5	52.328	6	52.069	4	52.209	4	3:29.454	4
Dettlef Günther	52.381	1	52.107	4	51.418	1	51.782	1	3:27.688

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	42.773	1	42.831	1	1:25.604
Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn	43.291	6	46.566	24	1:29.847	16

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eva-Maria Wernicke	43.007	5	42.646	2	42.711	7	42.898	4	2:51.262	4
Ute Rührold	42.926	3	42.708	3	42.439	3	42.773	2	2:50.846
Margit Schumann	42.854	1	42.830	7	42.285	1	42.652	1	2:50.621

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1976 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
Konrad Winkler	Individual	74.5	77.0	213.9	4	49:51.11	203.57	7	417.47
Günter Deckert		71.0	74.0	194.2	18	49:51.00	203.58	6	397.78	13
Claus Tuchscherer		78.5	79.0	218.7	3	51:16.12	190.81	20	409.51	5
Ulrich Wehling		80.0	80.5	225.5	1	50:28.95	197.89	13	423.39

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Henry Glaß	Normal hill	80.0	118.3	79.5 (fall)	85.5	203.8	44
Bernd Eckstein		80.5	118.6	81.5 (fall)	90.7	209.3	32
Jochen Danneberg		83.5	124.4	82.5	121.8	246.2
Hans-Georg Aschenbach		84.5	128.0	82.0	124.0	252.0
Henry Glaß	Large hill	91.0	104.4	97.0	117.3	221.7
Hans-Georg Aschenbach		92.5	109.5	89.0	102.6	212.1	8
Bernd Eckstein		94.0	109.6	91.5	106.6	216.2	7
Jochen Danneberg		102.0	118.8	89.5	102.8	221.6	4

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Harald Oehme	41.54	24
1000 m	Harald Oehme	1:23.88	20
	Klaus Wunderlich	1:21.67	10
1500 m	Klaus Wunderlich	2:03.41	9
5000 m	Manfred Winter	7:58.28	18
	Klaus Wunderlich	7:33.82	5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Ute Dix	45.60	20
	Ines Bautzmann	44.87	15
	Heike Lange	44.21	10
1000 m	Ute Dix	1:34.14	21
	Monika Zernicek	1:31.68	12
	Heike Lange	1:30.55	8
1500 m	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	2:20.05	10
	Ines Bautzmann	2:19.63	7
	Karin Kessow	2:19.05	5
3000 m	Ines Bautzmann	4:46.67	5
	Karin Kessow	4:45.60	4
	Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich	4:45.23

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com