# East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. East German athletes had competed together with West German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Silver | Gabriele Seyfert | Figure skating | Women's singles |
| Silver | Thomas Köhler | Luge | Men's individual |
| Bronze | Klaus-Michael Bonsack | Luge | Men's individual |
| Bronze | Andreas Kunz | Nordic combined | Men's individual |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Eberhard Riedel | Downhill | | | | | DNF | – |
| Eberhard Riedel | Giant Slalom | 1:55.59 | 53 | 1:51.08 | 25 | 3:46.67 | 41 |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 2 | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Eberhard Riedel | 53.62 | 1 QF | – | – | 52.00 | 25 | 52.07 | 16 | 1:44.07 | 13 |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Heinz Kluge | 1'19:55.2 | 7 | 1'26:55.2 | 24 |
| 20 km | Hansjörg Knauthe | 1'23:04.9 | 2 | 1'25:04.9 | 21 |
| 20 km | Dieter Speer | 1'18:13.3 | 6 | 1'24:13.3 | 18 |
| 20 km | Horst Koschka | 1'18:37.7 | 3 | 1'21:37.7 | 10 |
    $^1$ 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 | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Heinz Kluge Hans-Gert Jahn Horst Koschka Dieter Speer | 4 | 2'21:54.5 | 6 |
    $^2$ A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Axel Lesser | DNF | – |
| 15 km | Peter Thiel | 52:07.8 | 37 |
| 15 km | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 51:51.6 | 33 |
| 15 km | Gerhard Grimmer | 51:22.1 | 29 |
| 30 km | Helmut Unger | 1'44:47.9 | 37 |
| 30 km | Axel Lesser | 1'44:16.2 | 36 |
| 30 km | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 1'39:30.5 | 19 |
| 30 km | Gerhard Grimmer | 1'38:46.0 | 15 |
| 50 km | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 2'36:52.5 | 25 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Gerhard Grimmer Axel Lesser Peter Thiel Gert-Dietmar Klause | 2'19:22.8 | 7 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Anni Unger | 17:30.7 | 16 |
| 5 km | Renate Fischer-Köhler | 17:25.5 | 14 |
| 5 km | Gudrun Schmidt | 17:24.3 | 13 |
| 5 km | Christine Nestler | 17:23.5 | 12 |
| 10 km | Anni Unger | 40:36.8 | 22 |
| 10 km | Renate Fischer-Köhler | 39:27.4 | 16 |
| 10 km | Gudrun Schmidt | 39:22.8 | 14 |
| 10 km | Christine Nestler | 39:07.9 | 9 |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Renate Fischer-Köhler Gudrun Schmidt Christine Nestler | 59:33.9 | 6 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Jan Hoffmann | 26 | 25 | 1437.8 | 238 | 26 |
| Günter Zöller | 10 | 14 | 1727.9 | 100 | 11 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Sonja Morgenstern | 29 | 22 | 1475.9 | 251 | 28 |
| Gabriele Seyfert | 2 | 2 | 1882.3 | 18 | |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Irine Müller Hans-Georg Dallmer | 9 | 8 | 289.4 | 82 | 9 |
| Heidemarie Steiner Heinz-Ulrich Walther | 4 | 4 | 303.1 | 37 | 4 |

## Ice hockey
### First round

East Germany - Norway 3:1 (2:1, 1:0, 0:0) Goalscorers: Joachim Ziesche, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa - Odd Syversen.

### Final Round

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 10 | 12 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 11 |
| 3 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 10 |
| 4 | Sweden | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 18 | 9 |
| 5 | Finland | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7 |
| 6 | United States | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 5 |
| 7 | West Germany | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 2 |
| 8 | East Germany | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 0 |
USSR – East Germany 9:0 (4:0, 2:0, 3:0) Goalscorers: Firsov 3, Vikulov 2, Mišakov, Staršinov, Alexandrov, Zajcev. Referees: Wycisk (POL), Johannessen (NOR)
Canada – East Germany 11:0 (4:0, 4:0, 3:0) Goalscorers: Mott 4, Huck 2, Hargreaves, O’Shea, Bourbonnais, Monteith, H. Pinder. Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)
Sweden – East Germany 5:2 (1:0, 2:1, 2:1) Goalscorers: Hedlund 2, Wickberg, Lundström, Henriksson – Plotka, Fuchs. Referees: Seglin (URS), Wycisk (POL)
Czechoslovakia – East Germany 10:3 (5:2, 1:0, 4:1) Goalscorers: Horešovský 4, Nedomanský 2, Jiřík, Suchý, Kochta, Ševčík – Karrenbauer, Novy, Peters. Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)
East Germany – Finland 2:3 (1:2, 0:1, 1:0) Goalscorers: R. Noack, Peters – Harju 2, Keinonen. Referees: Bucala (TCH), Dahlberg (SWE)
East Germany – USA 4:6 (1:3, 1:1, 2:2) Goalscorers: Fuchs 2, Karrenbauer 2 – Stordahl 2, P. Hurley 2, Volmar, Lilyholm. Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Seglin (URS)
East Germany – West Germany 2:4 (0:1, 1:2, 1:1) Goalscorers: Hiller, Fuchs – Funk, Waitl, Hanig, Lax. Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Kořínek (TCH)

### Contestants

8. EAST GERMANY Goaltenders: Dieter Pürschel, Klaus Hirche. Defence: Dieter Voigt, Manfred Buder, Helmut Novy, Dieter Kratzsch, Wolfgang Plotka, Wilfried Sock, Ulrich Noack. Forwards: Bernd Karrenbauer, Hartmut Nickel, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa, Joachim Ziesche, Bernd Poindl, Dietmar Peters, Bernd Hiller, Rüdiger Noack. Coach: Rudi Schmieder.

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Wolfgang Scheidel | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Klaus-Michael Bonsack | 57.90 | 8 | 57.63 | 2 | 57.80 | 5 | 2:53.33 | |
| Thomas Köhler | 57.68 | 5 | 57.47 | 1 | 57.51 | 1 | 2:52.66 | |
| Horst Hörnlein | 57.49 | 3 | 58.04 | 4 | 58.57 | 13 | 2:54.10 | 7 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler | 47.88 | 1 | 47.97 | 1 | 1:35.85 | |
| Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow | 48.80 | 5 | 49.01 | 6 | 1:37.81 | 5 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Ortrun Enderlein | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Anna-Maria Müller | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Angela Knösel | DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | DSQ | – |

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Roland Weißpflog | Individual | 67.0 | 66.0 | 186.3 | 29 | 48:33.5 | 238.00 | 2 | 424.30 | 9 |
| Karl-Heinz Luck | Individual | 69.5 | 71.0 | 198.8 | 20 | 50:14.7 | 215.22 | 8 | 414.02 | 11 |
| Andreas Kunz | Individual | 72.5 | 74.0 | 216.9 | 10 | 49:19.8 | 227.20 | 3 | 444.10 | |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Bernd Karwofsky | Normal hill | 72.0 | 98.5 | 67.0 (fall) | 53.0 | 151.5 | 54 |
| Wolfgang Stöhr | Normal hill | 73.5 | 101.4 | 71.0 | 97.9 | 199.3 | 20 |
| Manfred Queck | Normal hill | 75.5 | 104.1 | 72.5 | 101.3 | 205.4 | 14 |
| Dieter Neuendorf | Normal hill | 76.5 | 108.7 | 73.0 | 102.6 | 211.3 | 7 |
| Dieter Neuendorf | Large hill | 93.0 | 100.6 | 92.0 | 98.2 | 198.8 | 15 |
| Manfred Queck | Large hill | 96.5 | 104.0 | 98.5 | 108.8 | 212.8 | 4 |
| Wolfgang Stöhr | Large hill | 96.5 | 106.0 | 92.5 | 99.9 | 205.9 | 7 |

## Speed skating
### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 47.8 | 16 |
| 1000 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 1:35.6 | 12 |
| 1500 m | Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher | 2:27.1 | 8 |