# East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 346 competitors, 222 men and 124 women, took part in 167 events in 17 sports.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Waldemar Cierpinski | Athletics | Men's marathon |
| Gold | Thomas Munkelt | Athletics | Men's 110m Hurdles |
| Gold | Volker Beck | Athletics | Men's 400m Hurdles |
| Gold | Hartwig Gauder | Athletics | Men's 50km Walk |
| Gold | Gerd Wessig | Athletics | Men's High Jump |
| Gold | Lutz Dombrowski | Athletics | Men's Long Jump |
| Gold | Bärbel Wöckel | Athletics | Women's 200m |
| Gold | Marita Koch | Athletics | Women's 400m |
| Gold | Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr | Athletics | Women's 4 × 100 m Relay |
| Gold | Ilona Slupianek | Athletics | Women's Shot Put |
| Gold | Evelin Jahl | Athletics | Women's Discus |
| Gold | Rudi Fink | Boxing | Men's Featherweight |
| Gold | Rüdiger Helm | Canoeing | Men's K-1 1000m |
| Gold | Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau | Canoeing | Men's K-4 1000m |
| Gold | Birgit Fischer | Canoeing | Women's K-1 500m |
| Gold | Carsta Genäuß Martina Bischof | Canoeing | Women's K-2 500m |
| Gold | Lothar Thoms | Cycling | Men's 1000m Individual Time Trial |
| Gold | Lutz Heßlich | Cycling | Men's Sprint |
| Gold | Falk Hoffmann | Diving | Men's 10m Platform |
| Gold | Martina Jäschke | Diving | Women's 10m Platform |
| Gold | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Floor |
| Gold | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Uneven Bars |
| Gold | East Germany Men's National Handball Team Hans-Georg BeyerLothar DoeringGünter DreibrodtErnst GerlachKlaus GrunerRainer HöftHans-Georg JaunichHartmut KrügerPeter RostDietmar SchmidtWieland SchmidtSiegfried VoigtFrank-Michael WahlIngolf Wiegert | Handball | Men's Tournament |
| Gold | Dietmar Lorenz | Judo | Men's Open |
| Gold | Joachim Dreifke Klaus Kröppelien | Rowing | Men's Double Sculls |
| Gold | Frank Dundr Carsten Bunk Uwe Heppner Martin Winter | Rowing | Men's Quadruple Sculls |
| Gold | Jörg Landvoigt Bernd Landvoigt | Rowing | Men's Coxless Pairs |
| Gold | Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr | Rowing | Men's Coxed Pairs |
| Gold | Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele | Rowing | Men's Coxless Fours |
| Gold | Dieter Wendisch Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Gottfried Döhn Andreas Gregor | Rowing | Men's Coxed Fours |
| Gold | Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | Rowing | Men's Eights |
| Gold | Sybille Reinhardt Jutta Ploch Jutta Lau Roswietha Zobelt Liane Buhr | Rowing | Women's Quadruple Sculls |
| Gold | Ute Steindorf Cornelia Klier | Rowing | Women's Coxless Pairs |
| Gold | Ramona Kapheim Silvia Fröhlich Angelika Noack Romy Saalfeld Kirsten Wenzel | Rowing | Women's Coxed Fours |
| Gold | Martina Boesler Kersten Neisser Christiane Köpke Birgit Schütz Gabriele Kühn Ilona Richter Marita Sandig Karin Metze Marina Wilke | Rowing | Women's Eights |
| Gold | Jörg Woithe | Swimming | Men's 100m Freestyle |
| Gold | Barbara Krause | Swimming | Women's 100m Freestyle |
| Gold | Barbara Krause | Swimming | Women's 200m Freestyle |
| Gold | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 400m Freestyle |
| Gold | Petra Schneider | Swimming | Women's 400m Individual Medley |
| Gold | Rica Reinisch | Swimming | Women's 100m Backstroke |
| Gold | Rica Reinisch | Swimming | Women's 200m Backstroke |
| Gold | Ute Geweniger | Swimming | Women's 100m Breaststroke |
| Gold | Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 100m Butterfly |
| Gold | Ines Geißler | Swimming | Women's 200m Butterfly |
| Gold | Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Ines Diers Sarina Hülsenbeck | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay |
| Gold | Rica Reinisch Ute Geweniger Andrea Pollack Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay |
| Silver | Jürgen Straub | Athletics | Men's 1500m |
| Silver | Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 m Relay |
| Silver | Frank Paschek | Athletics | Men's Long Jump |
| Silver | Marlies Göhr | Athletics | Women's 100m |
| Silver | Christiane Wartenberg | Athletics | Women's 1500m |
| Silver | Johanna Schaller-Klier | Athletics | Women's 100m Hurdles |
| Silver | Barbara Krug Gabriele Löwe Christina Lathan Marita Koch | Athletics | Women's 4 × 400 m Relay |
| Silver | Brigitte Wujak | Athletics | Women's Long Jump |
| Silver | Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja | Canoeing | Men's C-2 1000m |
| Silver | Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler | Cycling | Men's Team Pursuit |
| Silver | Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Olaf Ludwig Hans-Joachim Hartnick | Cycling | Men's Team Time Trial |
| Silver | Martina Proeber | Diving | Women's 3m Springboard |
| Silver | East Germany national football team Bodo RudwaleitArtur UllrichLothar HauseFrank UhligFrank BaumRüdiger SchnuphaseFrank TerletzkiWolfgang SteinbachJürgen BähringerWerner PeterDieter KühnNorbert TrieloffMatthias MüllerMatthias LiebersBernd JakubowskiWolf-Rüdiger Netz | Football | Men's Tournament |
| Silver | Ralf-Peter Hemmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Mack Michael Nikolay Andreas Bronst Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Team All-Around |
| Silver | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Individual All-Around |
| Silver | Steffi Kräker | Gymnastics | Women's Vault |
| Silver | Cornelia Linse Heidi Westphal | Rowing | Women's Double Sculls |
| Silver | Jörn Borowski Egbert Swensson | Sailing | 470 |
| Silver | Harald Vollmar | Shooting | Men's 50m Pistol |
| Silver | Hellfried Heilfort | Shooting | Men's 50m Rifle Prone |
| Silver | Bernd Hartstein | Shooting | Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions |
| Silver | Jürgen Wiefel | Shooting | Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol |
| Silver | Thomas Pfeffer | Shooting | Men's 50m Running Target |
| Silver | Roger Pyttel | Swimming | Men's 100m Butterfly |
| Silver | Frank Pfütze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach | Swimming | Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay |
| Silver | Caren Metschuck | Swimming | Women's 100m Freestyle |
| Silver | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 200m Freestyle |
| Silver | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 800m Freestyle |
| Silver | Petra Schneider | Swimming | Women's 400m Freestyle |
| Silver | Ina Kleber | Swimming | Women's 100m Backstroke |
| Silver | Cornelia Polit | Swimming | Women's 200m Backstroke |
| Silver | Andrea Pollack | Swimming | Women's 100m Butterfly |
| Silver | Sybille Schönrock | Swimming | Women's 200m Butterfly |
| Silver | East Germany women's national volleyball team Katharina BullinBarbara CzekallaBrigitte FetzerAndrea HeimUte KostrzewaHeike LehmannChristine MummhardtKarin PüschelKarla RoffeisMartina SchmidtAnnette SchultzAnke Westendorf | Volleyball | Women's Tournament |
| Silver | Joachim Kunz | Weightlifting | Men's 67.5 kg |
| Silver | Jürgen Heuser | Weightlifting | Men's +110 kg |
| Bronze | Frank Schaffer | Athletics | Men's 400m |
| Bronze | Roland Wieser | Athletics | Men's 20km Walk |
| Bronze | Jörg Freimuth | Athletics | Men's High Jump |
| Bronze | Udo Beyer | Athletics | Men's Shot Put |
| Bronze | Wolfgang Hanisch | Athletics | Men's Javelin |
| Bronze | Ingrid Auerswald | Athletics | Women's 100m |
| Bronze | Christina Lathan | Athletics | Women's 400m |
| Bronze | Jutta Kirst | Athletics | Women's High Jump |
| Bronze | Margitta Droese-Pufe | Athletics | Women's Shot Put |
| Bronze | Ute Hommola | Athletics | Women's Javelin |
| Bronze | Richard Nowakowski | Boxing | Men's Lightweight |
| Bronze | Karl-Heinz Krüger | Boxing | Men's Welterweight |
| Bronze | Detlef Kästner | Boxing | Men's Light Middleweight |
| Bronze | Herbert Bauch | Boxing | Men's Light Heavyweight |
| Bronze | Jürgen Fanghänel | Boxing | Men's Heavyweight |
| Bronze | Olaf Heukrodt | Canoeing | Men's C-1 500m |
| Bronze | Eckhard Leue | Canoeing | Men's C-1 1000m |
| Bronze | Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht | Canoeing | Men's K-2 500m |
| Bronze | Karin Guthke | Diving | Women's 3m Springboard |
| Bronze | Michael Nikolay | Gymnastics | Men's Pommel Horse |
| Bronze | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Vault |
| Bronze | Roland Brückner | Gymnastics | Men's Parallel Bars |
| Bronze | Maxi Gnauck Silvia Hindorff Steffi Kräker Katharina Rensch Karola Sube Birgit Süß | Gymnastics | Women's Team All-Around |
| Bronze | Steffi Kräker | Gymnastics | Women's Uneven Bars |
| Bronze | Maxi Gnauck | Gymnastics | Women's Floor |
| Bronze | East Germany Women's National Handball Team Birgit HeineckeRoswitha KrauseWaltraud KretzschmarKatrin KrügerKornelia KunischEvelyn MatzKristina RichterChristina RostSabine RötherRenate RudolphMarion TietzPetra UhligClaudia WunderlichHannelore Zober | Handball | Women's Tournament |
| Bronze | Karl-Heinz Lehmann | Judo | Men's 71 kg |
| Bronze | Harald Heinke | Judo | Men's 78 kg |
| Bronze | Detlef Ultsch | Judo | Men's 86 kg |
| Bronze | Dietmar Lorenz | Judo | Men's 95 kg |
| Bronze | Peter Kersten | Rowing | Men's Single Sculls |
| Bronze | Martina Schröter | Rowing | Women's Single Sculls |
| Bronze | Jörg Damme | Shooting | Men's Trap |
| Bronze | Roger Pyttel | Swimming | Men's 200m Butterfly |
| Bronze | Ines Diers | Swimming | Women's 100m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Carmela Schmidt | Swimming | Women's 200m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Carmela Schmidt | Swimming | Women's 400m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Heike Dähne | Swimming | Women's 800m Freestyle |
| Bronze | Petra Riedel | Swimming | Women's 100m Backstroke |
| Bronze | Birgit Treiber | Swimming | Women's 200m Backstroke |
| Bronze | Christiane Knacke | Swimming | Women's 100m Butterfly |
| Bronze | Frank Mantek | Weightlifting | Men's 90 kg |
| Bronze | Uwe Neupert | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 90kg |

## Athletics
### Men's Competition

Men's 100 metres
* Eugen Ray
** Heat — 10.38
** Quarterfinals — 10.30
** Semifinals — 10.47 (→ did not advance)
* Sören Schlegel
** Heat — 10.44
** Quarterfinals — 10.28 (→ did not advance)
* Klaus-Dieter Kurrat
** Heat — 10.53
** Quarterfinals — 10.54 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
* Andreas Busse
** Heat — 1:47.4
** Semifinals — 1:46.9
** Final — 1:46.9 (→ 5th place)
* Detlef Wagenknecht
** Heat — 1:47.5
** Semifinals — 1:46.7
** Final — 1:47.0 (→ 6th place)
* Olaf Beyer
** Heat — 1:48.9
** Semifinals — 1:47.6 (→ did not advance)
Men's 1,500 metres
* Jürgen Straub
** Heat — 3:37.0
** Semifinals — 3:39.4
** Final — 3:38.8 (→ Silver Medal)
* Andreas Busse
** Heat — 3:44.3
** Semifinals — 3:43.5
** Final — 3:40.2 (→ 4th place)
Men's 10,000 metres
* Jörg Peter
** Heat — 28:50.0
** Final — 28:05.5 (→ 6th place)
* Werner Schildhauer
** Heat — 28:32.1
** Final — 28:11.0 (→ 7th place)
Men's Marathon
* Waldemar Cierpinski
** Final — 2:11:03 (→ Gold Medal)
* Hans-Joachim Truppel
** Final — 2:14:55 (→ 11th place)
* Jürgen Eberding
** Final — 2:18:04 (→ 21st place)
Men's 4x400 metres Relay
* Klaus Thiele, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, and Volker Beck
** Heat — 3:03.4
** Final — 3:01.3 (→ Silver Medal)
Men's 110 m Hurdles
* Thomas Munkelt
** Heat — 13.55
** Semifinals — 13.49
** Final — 13.39 (→ Gold Medal)
* Thomas Dittrich
** Heat — 13.93
** Semifinals — 13.90 (→ did not advance)
* Andreas Schlißke
** Heat — 14.18
** Semifinals — 14.60 (→ did not advance)
Men's 400 m Hurdles
* Volker Beck
** Heat — 50.35
** Semifinals — 50.36
** Final — 48.70 (→ Gold Medal)
Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase
* Ralf Pönitsch
** Heat — 8:56.5 (→ did not advance)
Men's Pole Vault
* Axel Weber
** Qualification — 5.15 m (→ did not advance)
Men's Long Jump
* Lutz Dombrowski
** Qualification — 8.17 m
** Final — 8.54 m (→ Gold Medal)
* Frank Paschek
** Qualification — 8.17 m
** Final — 8.21 m (→ Silver Medal)
* Peter Rieger
** Qualification — 7.59 m (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump
* Gerd Wessig
** Qualification — 2.21 m
** Final — 2.36 m (→ Gold Medal)
* Jörg Freimuth
** Qualification — 2.21 m
** Final — 2.31 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Henry Lauterbach
** Qualification — 2.21 m
** Final — 2.29 m (→ 4th place)
Men's Discus Throw
* Wolfgang Schmidt
** Qualification — 62.46 m
** Final — 65.64 m (→ 4th place)
* Hilmar Hossfeld
** Qualification — 59.92 m
** Final — 61.14 m (→ 11th place)
* Armin Lemme
** Qualification — 59.44 m (→ did not advance, 13th place)
Men's Shot Put
* Udo Beyer
** Qualification — 19.94 m
** Final — 21.06 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Hans-Jürgen Jacobi
** Qualification — 19.92 m
** Final — 20.32 m (→ 6th place)
Men's Javelin Throw
* Wolfgang Hanisch
** Qualification — 85.82 m
** Final — 86.72 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Detlef Fuhrmann
** Qualification — 78.80 m
** Final — 83.50 m (→ 7th place)
* Detlef Michel
** Qualification — 78.34 m (→ did not advance, 13th place)
Men's Hammer Throw
* Roland Steuk
** Qualification — 73.52 m
** Final — 77.54 m (→ 4th place)
* Detlef Gerstenberg
** Qualification — 75.04 m
** Final — 74.60 m (→ 5th place)
Men's Decathlon
* Steffen Grummt
** Final — 7892 points (→ 8th place)
* Siegfried Stark
** Final — retired (→ no ranking)
* Rainer Pottel
** Final — retired (→ no ranking)
Men's 20 km Walk
* Roland Wieser
** Final — 1:25:58.2 (→ Bronze Medal)
* Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller
** Final — 1:29:21.7 (→ 8th place)
* Werner Heyer
** Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's 50 km Walk
* Hartwig Gauder
** Final — 3:49:24 (→ Gold Medal)
* Dietmar Meisch
** Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
* Uwe Dünkel
** Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

### Women's Competition

Women's 100 metres
* Marlies Göhr
** Heat — 11.41
** Quarterfinals — 11.12
** Semifinals — 11.18
** Final — 11.07 (→ Silver Medal)
* Ingrid Auerswald
** Heat — 11.32
** Quarterfinals — 11.09
** Semifinals — 11.27
** Final — 11.14 (→ Bronze Medal)
* Romy Müller
** Heat — 11.41
** Quarterfinals — 11.12
** Semifinals — 11.22
** Final — 11.16 (→ 5th place)
Women's 800 metres
* Martina Kämpfert
** Heat — 1:58.8
** Semifinals — 1:58.1
** Final — 1:56.3 (→ 4th place)
* Hildegard Ullrich
** Heat — 2:00.1
** Semifinals — 1:58.7
** Final — 1:57.2 (→ 5th place)
Women's 1,500 metres
* Christiane Wartenberg
** Heat — 4:00.4
** Final — 3:57.8 (→ Silver Medal)
* Ulrike Bruns
** Heat — 4:01.6
** Final — 4:00.7 (→ 5th place)
* Beate Liebich
** Heat — 4:06.8 (→ did not advance)
Women's 100 m Hurdles
* Johanna Schaller-Klier
** Heat — 13.03
** Semifinal — 12.77
** Final — 12.63 (→ Silver Medal)
* Kerstin Knabe
** Heat — 12.77
** Semifinal — 12.99
** Final — 12.66 (→ 4th place)
* Bettine Gärtz
** Heat — 13.06
** Semifinal — 13.04
** Final — 13.14 (→ 7th place)
Women's Long Jump
* Brigitte Wujak
** Qualification — 6.65 m
** Final — 7.04 m (→ Silver Medal)
* Siegrun Siegl
** Qualification — 6.53 m
** Final — 6.87 m (→ 5th place)
* Siegrid Heimann
** Qualification — 6.71 m
** Final — 6.71 m (→ 7th place)
Women's High Jump
* Jutta Kirst
** Qualification — 1.88 m
** Final — 1.94 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Rosemarie Ackermann
** Qualification — 1.88 m
** Final — 1.91 m (→ 4th place)
* Andrea Reichstein
** Qualification — 1.88 m
** Final — 1.91 m (→ 6th place)
Women's Discus Throw
* Evelin Jahl
** Qualification — 60.22 m
** Final — 69.96 m (→ Gold Medal)
* Gisela Beyer
** Qualification — 62.86 m
** Final — 67.08 m (→ 4th place)
* Margitta Pufe
** Qualification — 65.52 m
** Final — 66.12 m (→ 5th place)
Women's Javelin Throw
* Ute Hommola
** Qualification — 63.52 m
** Final — 66.56 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Ute Richter
** Qualification — 66.66 m
** Final — 66.54 m (→ 4th place)
* Ruth Fuchs
** Qualification — 64.26 m
** Final — 63.94 m (→ 8th place)
Women's Shot Put
* Ilona Slupianek
** Final — 22.41 m (→ Gold Medal)
* Margitta Pufe
** Final — 21.20 m (→ Bronze Medal)
* Ines Reichenbach
** Final — 19.66 m (→ 8th place)
Women's Pentathlon
* Ramona Neubert — 4698 points (→ 4th place)
** 100 metres — 13.93s
** Shot Put — 13.68m
** High Jump — 1.77m
** Long Jump — 6.63m
** 800 metres — 2:07.70
* Burglinde Pollak — 4553 points (→ 6th place)
** 100 metres — 13.74s
** Shot Put — 16.67m
** High Jump — 1.68m
** Long Jump — 5.93m
** 800 metres — 2:14.40
* Christine Laser — 1712 points (→ no ranking)
** 100 metres — 13.67s
** Shot Put — 13.39m
** High Jump — DNF

## Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
* Dietmar Geilich
** First Round — Defeated Thapa Birender Singh (India) on points (3–2)
** Second Round — Defeated Pedro Manuel Nieves (Venezuela) on points (5–0)
** Quarter Finals — Lost to Shamil Sabirov (Soviet Union) on points (1–4)
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
* Mario Behrendt
** First Round — Lost to Dumitru Cipere (Romania) on points (0–5)
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
* Rudi Fink → Gold Medal
** First Round — Defeated Hannu Kaislama (Finland) on points (5–0)
** Second Round — Defeated Esmail Mohamad (Afghanistan) after knock-out in first round
** Third Round — Defeated Carlos González (Mexico) after knock-out in first round
** Quarter Finals — Defeated Winfred Kabunda (Zambia) on points (4–1)
** Semi Finals — Defeated Viktor Rybakov (Soviet Union) on points (4–1)
** Final — Defeated Adolfo Horta (Cuba) on points (4–1)
Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
* Richard Nowakowski → Bronze Medal
** First Round — Defeated Christopher Ossai (Nigeria) on points (5–0)
** Second Round — Defeated Geofrey Nyeko (Uganda) after referee stopped contest in first round
** Quarter Finals — Defeated George Gilbody (Great Britain) on points (5–0)
** Semi Finals — Lost to Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) after referee stopped contest in first round
Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
* Dietmar Schwarz
** First Round — Defeated Teddy Makofi (Zambia) on points (5–0)
** Second Round — Lost to José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) after referee stopped contest in third round
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
* Jürgen Fanghänel → Bronze Medal
** First Round — Defeated Luis Castillo (Ecuador) on points (4–1)
** Quarter Finals — Defeated Petr Stoimenov (Bulgaria) after referee stopped contest in second round
** Semi Finals — Lost to Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (0–5)

## Canoeing

East Germany was represented by 13 canoeists, 10 men and 3 women.
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Preliminary | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Olaf Heukrodt | Men's C-1 500 m | 1:55.37 | 2 QF | — | — | 1:54.38 | |
| Eckhard Leue | Men's C-1 1000 m | 4:04.09 | 2 QF | — | — | 4:15.02 | |
| Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja | Men's C-2 1000 m | 3:47.43 | 4 QS | 3:54.99 | 1 QF | 3:49.93 | |
| Frank-Peter Bischof | Men's K-1 500 m | 1:46.13 | 1 QF | 1:46.21 | 1 QF | 1:45.97 | 5 |
| Birgit Fischer | Women's K-1 500 m | 1:56.92 | 1 QF | — | — | 1:57.96 | |
| Rüdiger Helm | Men's K-1 1000 m | 3:45.20 | 1 QF | 3:52.04 | 1 QF | 3:48.77 | |
| Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht | Men's K-2 500 m | 1:35.36 | 1 QF | 1:35.88 | 1 QF | 1:34.00 | |
| Carsta Genäuß Martina Bischof | Women's K-2 500 m | 1:46.95 | 1 QF | — | — | 1:43.88 | |
| Peter Hempel Harry Nolte | Men's K-2 1000 m | 3:25.71 | 2 QF | 3:32.77 | 1 QF | 3:31.02 | 5 |
| Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau | Men's K-4 1000 m | 3:04.86 | 1 QF | — | — | 3:13.76 | |

## Cycling

Thirteen cyclists represented East Germany in 1980.

### Individual road race

* Thomas Barth
* Andreas Petermann
* Olaf Ludwig
* Bernd Drogan

### Team time trial

* Falk Boden
* Bernd Drogan
* Olaf Ludwig
* Hans-Joachim Hartnick

### Sprint

* Lutz Heßlich

### 1000m time trial

* Lothar Thoms

### Individual pursuit

* Harald Wolf

### Team pursuit

* Gerald Mortag
* Uwe Unterwalder
* Matthias Wiegand
* Volker Winkler

## Diving

Men's Springboard
* Falk Hoffmann
** Preliminary Round — 567.78 points (→ 3rd place)
** Final — 858.510 points (→ 4th place)
* Frank Taubert
** Preliminary Round — 524.04 points (→ 9th place, did not advance)
* Dieter Waskow
** Preliminary Round — 522.87 points (→ 10th place, did not advance)
Men's Platform
* Falk Hoffmann
** Preliminary Round — 546.12 points (→ 1st place)
** Final — 835.650 points (→ Gold Medal)
* Dieter Waskow
** Preliminary Round — 515.16 points (→ 6th place)
** Final — 802.800 points (→ 5th place)
* Thomas Knuths
** Preliminary Round — 521.01 points (→ 3rd place)
** Final — 783.975 points (→ 6th place)
Women's Springboard
* Martina Proeber
** Preliminary Round — 450.99 points (→ 3rd place)
** Final — 698.895 points (→ Silver Medal)
* Karin Guthke
** Preliminary Round — 435.21 points (→ 4th place)
** Final — 685.245 points (→ Bronze Medal)
* Martina Jäschke
** Preliminary Round — 427.47 points (→ 6th place)
** Final — 668.115 points (→ 5th place)
Women's Platform
* Martina Jäschke
** Preliminary Round — 359.88 points (→ 4th place)
** Final — 596.250 points (→ Gold Medal)
* Ramona Wenzel
** Preliminary Round — 358.86 points (→ 6th place)
** Final — 542.070 points (→ 4th place)
* Kerstin Krause
** Preliminary Round — 322.68 points (→ 9th place, did not advance)

## Fencing

14 fencers, 10 men and 4 women, represented East Germany in 1980.

### Men's foil

* Hartmuth Behrens
* Klaus Kotzmann
* Klaus Haertter

### Men's team foil

* Siegmar Gutzeit, Hartmuth Behrens, Adrian Germanus, Klaus Kotzmann, Klaus Haertter

### Men's sabre

* Frank-Eberhard Höltje
* Peter Ulbrich
* Rüdiger Müller

### Men's team sabre

* Rüdiger Müller, Hendrik Jung, Peter Ulbrich, Frank-Eberhard Höltje, Gerd May

### Women's foil

* Mandy Niklaus
* Gabriele Janke
* Sabine Hertrampf

### Women's team foil

* Mandy Niklaus, Gabriele Janke, Sabine Hertrampf, Beate Schubert

## Football
### Preliminary round

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 5 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Syria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| July 27 - Moscow | July 27 - Moscow | | | |
| Soviet Union | 2 | | | |
| Soviet Union | 2 | July 29 - Moscow | July 29 - Moscow | | |
| Kuwait | 1 | July 29 - Moscow | July 29 - Moscow | |
| Kuwait | 1 | East Germany | 1 | |
| July 27 - Kyiv | July 27 - Kyiv | | East Germany | 1 | |
| July 27 - Kyiv | July 27 - Kyiv | Soviet Union | 0 | |
| East Germany | 4 | Soviet Union | 0 | |
| East Germany | 4 | | | | August 2 - Moscow | August 2 - Moscow |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | August 2 - Moscow | August 2 - Moscow |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| July 27 - Leningrad | July 27 - Leningrad | | | | | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
| July 27 - Leningrad | July 27 - Leningrad | | | | East Germany | 0 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | | | | East Germany | 0 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | July 29 - Moscow | July 29 - Moscow | | | |
| Cuba | 0 | July 29 - Moscow | July 29 - Moscow | | | |
| Cuba | 0 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| July 27 - Minsk | July 27 - Minsk | | Czechoslovakia | 2 | | | |
| July 27 - Minsk | July 27 - Minsk | Yugoslavia | 0 | |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | Yugoslavia | 0 | |
| Algeria | 0 | | | |
The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.
| GK | 1 | Bodo Rudwaleit |
| LB | 2 | Artur Ullrich |
| CB | 3 | Lothar Hause |
| LM | 5 | Frank Baum |
| RM | 6 | Rüdiger Schnuphase |
| CM | 7 | Frank Terletzki |
| CM | 8 | Wolfgang Steinbach |
| CF | 11 | Dieter Kühn |
| CB | 12 | Norbert Trieloff |
| RB | 13 | Matthias Müller |
| MF | 14 | Matthias Liebers |
| CF | 17 | Wolf-Rüdiger Netz |
| ? | ? | Jürgen Bähringer |
| ? | ? | Werner Peter |
| ? | ? | Frank Uhlig |
| ? | ? | Bernd Jakubowski |
| ? | ? | Andreas Trautmann |
| Manager: ||
| Rudolf Krause ||

## Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle
* Frank Kühne
** Heats — 52.93 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
* Frank Kühne
** Heats — 1:53.63 (→ did not advance)
* Detlev Grabs
** Heats — 1:53.38 (→ did not advance)
Women's 100 m Breaststroke
* Bettina Löbel
** Heats — 1:14.32 (→ did not advance)
* Silvia Rinka
** Heats — 1:12.88 (→ did not advance)
Women's 400 m Individual Medley
* Petra Schneider
** Heats — 4:46.53
** Final — 4:36.29 (→ Gold Medal)
* Grit Slaby
** Heats — 4:52.01
** Final — 4:48.54 (→ 4th place)
* Ulrike Tauber
** Heats — 4:51.97
** Final — 4:49.18 (→ 5th place)

## Volleyball
### Women's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
** Defeated Cuba (3–1)
** Lost to Soviet Union (1–3)
** Defeated Peru (3–2)
* Final
** Lost to Soviet Union (1–3) → Silver Medal
* Team Roster
** Ute Kostrzewa
** Andrea Heim
** Annette Schultz
** Christine Mummhardt
** Heike Lehmann
** Barbara Czekalla
** Karla Roffeis
** Martina Schmidt
** Anke Westendorf
** Karin Püschel
** Brigitte Fetzer
** Katharina Bullin

## Weightlifting

-56 kg category
* Andreas Letz
** Snatch: 115.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 150.0 kg
** Total: 265.0 kg (→ 4th place)
-67.5 kg category
* Joachim Kunz
** Snatch: 145.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 190.0 kg
** Total: 335.0 kg → Silver Medal
* Gunter Ambrass
** Total: 320.0 kg (→ 4th place)
-90 kg category
* Frank Mantek
** Snatch: 165.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 205.0 kg
** Total: 370.0 kg → Bronze Medal
-100 kg category
* Michael Hennig
** Total: 362.5 kg (→ 4th place)
* Manfred Funke
** Total: 377.5 kg (→ 6th place)
+110 kg category
* Jürgen Heuser
** Snatch: 182.5 kg, Clean and jerk: 227.5 kg
** Total: 410.0 kg → Silver Medal