# East Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics

East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

## Medalists

East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 9 gold medals and 23 medals overall.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Frank Ullrich | Biathlon | Men's 10 km sprint |
| Gold | Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musiol Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Gold | Barbara Petzold | Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km |
| Gold | Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold | Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 × 5 km relay |
| Gold | Anett Pötzsch | Figure skating | Women's singles |
| Gold | Bernhard Glass | Luge | Men's individual |
| Gold | Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Gold | Ulrich Wehling | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Gold | Karin Kania-Enke | Speed skating | Women's 500m |
| Silver | Frank Ullrich | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Silver | Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch | Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Silver | Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Silver | Jan Hoffmann | Figure skating | Men's singles |
| Silver | Melitta Sollman | Luge | Women's individual |
| Silver | Manfred Deckert | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill |
| Silver | Sabine Becker | Speed skating | Women's 3000m |
| Bronze | Eberhard Rösch | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Bronze | Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Bronze | Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Bronze | Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff | Figure skating | Pairs |
| Bronze | Konrad Winkler | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| Bronze | Sylvia Albrecht | Speed skating | Women's 1000m |
| Bronze | Sabine Becker | Speed skating | Women's 1500m |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Mathias Jung | 4 | 35:50.36 | 21 |
| 10 km Sprint | Klaus Siebert | 2 | 33:32.76 | 4 |
| 10 km Sprint | Frank Ullrich | 2 | 32:10.69 | |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Klaus Siebert | 1'07:48.71 | 6 | 1'13:48.71 | 15 |
| 20 km | Eberhard Rösch | 1'09:11.73 | 2 | 1'11:11.73 | |
| 20 km | Frank Ullrich | 1'05:27.79 | 3 | 1'08:27.79 | |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch | 3 | 1'34:56.99 | |
    $^1$ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
    $^2$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| GDR-1 | Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł | Two-man | 1:02.39 | 3 | 1:02.88 | 4 | 1:02.86 | 3 | 1:02.95 | 4 | 4:11.08 | |
| GDR-2 | Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Two-man | 1:02.58 | 4 | 1:02.48 | 1 | 1:03.31 | 9 | 1:02.56 | 2 | 4:10.93 | |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| GDR-1 | Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Four-man | 59.86 | 1 | 1:00.03 | 1 | 59.73 | 1 | 1:00.30 | 2 | 3:59.92 | |
| GDR-2 | Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner | Four-man | 1:00.24 | 2 | 1:00.35 | 2 | 1:00.04 | 3 | 1:00.34 | 3 | 4:00.97 | |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 45:00.40 | 37 |
| 30 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 1'30:05.17 | 9 |
| 50 km | Alf-Gerd Deckert | 2'38:13.53 | 26 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Ute Nesstler | 15:53.38 | 16 |
| 5 km | Marlies Rostock | 15:36.28 | 9 |
| 5 km | Veronika Hesse-Schmidt | 15:31.83 | 7 |
| 5 km | Barbara Petzold | 15:23.62 | 4 |
| 10 km | Carola Anding | 31:45.82 | 12 |
| 10 km | Veronika Hesse-Schmidt | 31:29.14 | 8 |
| 10 km | Marlies Rostock | 31:28.79 | 7 |
| 10 km | Barbara Petzold | 30:31.54 | |

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse-Schmidt Barbara Petzold | 1'02:11.10 | |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Hermann Schulz | 9 | 9 | 13 | 166.70 | 98 | 11 |
| Jan Hoffmann | 1 | 2 | 2 | 189.72 | 15 | |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Anett Pötzsch | 1 | 4 | 3 | 189.00 | 11 | |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Sabine Baeß Tassilo Thierbach | 6 | 6 | 136.00 | 53 | 6 |
| Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff | 4 | 3 | 140.52 | 33 | |

## Luge
### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Hans Rinn | 43.802 | 6 | 1:24.301 | 26 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Bernhard Glass | 43.609 | 4 | 43.780 | 2 | 43.925 | 3 | 43.482 | 1 | 2:54.796 | |
| Dettlef Günther | 43.199 | 1 | 43.555 | 1 | 46.879 | 23 | 43.530 | 2 | 2:57.163 | 4 |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn | 39.303 | 1 | 40.028 | 2 | 1:19.331 | |
| Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn | 39.972 | 8 | 39.942 | 1 | 1:19.914 | 4 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Margit Schumann | 39.611 | 7 | 39.715 | 6 | 39.567 | 4 | 39.262 | 2 | 2:38.255 | 6 |
| Ilona Brand | 39.393 | 4 | 39.506 | 4 | 39.700 | 6 | 39.516 | 6 | 2:38.115 | 5 |
| Melitta Sollman | 39.289 | 2 | 39.640 | 5 | 39.360 | 2 | 39.368 | 3 | 2:37.657 | |

## 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 |
| Uwe Dotzauer | Individual | 80.5 | 81.0 | 217.6 | 4 | 49:52.4 | 200.815 | 13 | 418.415 | 5 |
| Ulrich Wehling | Individual | 80.0 | 85.0 | 227.2 | 1 | 49:24.5 | 205.000 | 9 | 432.200 | |
| Gunter Schmieder | Individual | 79.0 | 80.0 | 201.7 | 11 | 49:42.0 | 202.375 | 11 | 404.075 | 8 |
| Konrad Winkler | Individual | 81.0 | 83.5 | 214.5 | 5 | 48:45.7 | 210.820 | 8 | 425.320 | |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Henry Glaß | Normal hill | 81.0 | 114.8 | 81.5 | 116.6 | 231.4 | 15 |
| Martin Weber | Normal hill | 83.0 | 118.5 | 83.5 | 118.3 | 236.8 | 11 |
| Jochen Danneberg | Normal hill | 83.5 | 118.8 | 77.0 | 103.9 | 222.7 | 20 |
| Manfred Deckert | Normal hill | 85.0 | 121.7 | 88.0 | 127.5 | 249.2 | |
| Harald Duschek | Large hill | 95.5 | 98.9 | 95.0 | 99.7 | 198.6 | 33 |
| Henry Glaß | Large hill | 98.5 | 105.6 | 110.5 | 126.4 | 232.0 | 11 |
| Manfred Deckert | Large hill | 102.0 | 111.0 | 100.0 | 108.2 | 219.2 | 20 |
| Klaus Ostwald | Large hill | 107.0 | 119.0 | 98.5 | 106.1 | 225.1 | 15 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Andreas Dietel | 39.21 | 13 |
| 500 m | Steffen Doering | 39.06 | 11 |
| 1000 m | Steffen Doering | 1:21.19 | 26 |
| 1000 m | Andreas Dietel | 1:17.71 | 7 |
| 1500 m | Andreas Ehrig | 1:59.47 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Andreas Dietel | 1:57.14 | 4 |
| 5000 m | Andreas Ehrig | 7:14.56 | 10 |
| 10,000 m | Andreas Dietel | 15:15.03 | 15 |
| 10,000 m | Andreas Ehrig | 14:51.94 | 8 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 43.60 | 12 |
| 500 m | Cornelia Jacob | 42.98 | 6 |
| 500 m | Karin Kania-Enke | 41.78 OR | |
| 1000 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 1:29.69 | 18 |
| 1000 m | Karin Kania-Enke | 1:26.66 | 4 |
| 1000 m | Sylvia Albrecht | 1:26.46 | |
| 1500 m | Sylvia Albrecht | 2:14.27 | 9 |
| 1500 m | Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich | 2:13.05 | 6 |
| 1500 m | Sabine Becker | 2:12.38 | |
| 3000 m | Sylvia Albrecht | 4:47.76 | 14 |
| 3000 m | Andrea Ehrig-Schöne-Mitscherlich | 4:37.69 | 4 |
| 3000 m | Sabine Becker | 4:32.79 | |