# 1988 East German Athletics Championships

The 1988 East German Athletics Championships (German: DDR-Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften 1988) was the 39th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for East Germany. It was held on 24–26 June at the Ostseestadion in Rostock. It served as the selection meeting for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
At the competition, Sven Matthes set a new European junior record of 10.18 in the men's 100 metres qualifying, Anke Schäning set a world junior record of 32:44.52 minutes in the women's 10,000 metres, and Beate Anders broke the senior German record in the women's 5000 metres race walk with 21:35.28 minutes.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Sven Matthes SC Dynamo Berlin | 10.19 s | Steffen Bringmann SC DHfK Leipzig | 10.21 s | Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg | 10.26 s |
| 200 metres | Frank Emmelmann SC Magdeburg | 20.37 s | Olaf Prenzler SC Magdeburg | 20.73 s | Torsten Heimrath SC Traktor Schwerin | 20.89 s |
| 400 metres | Thomas Schönlebe SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 45.56 s | Mathias Schersing SC Chemie Halle | 46.15 s | Jens Carlowitz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 46.20 s |
| 800 metres | Ralf Schumann SC Traktor Schwerin | 1:47.38 min | Jürgen Herms SC Einheit Dresden | 1:47.99 min | Jens Behmer SC Neubrandenburg | 1:48.21 min |
| 1500 metres | Jens-Peter Herold ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 3:46.62 min | Andreas Busse SC Einheit Dresden | 3:47.29 min | Ivo Schutte SC Cottbus | 3:47.51 min |
| 5000 metres | Axel Krippschock SC Dynamo Berlin | 13:48.63 min | Werner Schildhauer SC Chemie Halle | 13:48.87 min | Olaf Dorow SC Empor Rostock | 13:49.49 min |
| 10,000 metres | Hansjörg Kunze SC Empor Rostock | 27:55.85 min | Axel Krippschock SC Dynamo Berlin | 28:03.51 min | Rainer Wachenbrunner SC Dynamo Berlin | 28:19.94 min |
| Marathon | Rainer Wachenbrunner SC Dynamo Berlin | 2:17:19.6 | Roland Günther SC Magdeburg | 2:21:46.7 | Enrico Rösner BSG Motor Ammendorf | 2:27:18.2 |
| 110 m hurdles | Holger Pohland SC DHfK Leipzig | 13.67 s | Andreas Oschkenat SC Dynamo Berlin | 13.70 s | Jörg Rölz SC Neubrandenburg | 14.18 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Uwe Ackermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 50.15 s | Hans-Joachim Ende SC Magdeburg | 50.68 s | Volker Thiel SC Motor Jena | 51.74 s |
| 3000 m s'chase | Hagen Melzer SC Einheit Dresden | 8:19.22 min | Frank Ruhkieck SC Traktor Schwerin | 8:32.51 min | Uwe Pflügner SC Turbine Erfurt | 8:39.18 min |
| 4 × 100 m relay | SC Motor Jena Jörg Treffer Jens Heinrich Gerd Umlauft Heiko Truppel | 40.09 s | SC Dynamo Berlin Lars Olbrich Sven Matthes Svend Maly Andreas Oschkenat | 40.12 s | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Arne Rinckleb Axel Jang Jens Carlowitz Thomas Schönlebe | 40.17 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Rico Lieder Uwe Ackermann Jens Carlowitz Thomas Schönlebe | 3:06.38 min | ASK Vorwärts Potsdam Ralph Walter Lukas Guido Lieske Thomas Miethig | 3:09.13 min | SC Turbine Erfurt Michael Gerlach Andreas Tschida Hauke Fuhlbrügge Matthias Schober | 3:12.22 min |
| 20 km walk | Ronald Weigel ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 1:20:57 | Bernd Gummelt ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 1:21:45 | Dietmar Meisch TSC Berlin | 1:22:15 |
| 50 km walk | Ronald Weigel ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 3:42:33 | Dietmar Meisch TSC Berlin | 3:46:55 | Bernd Gummelt ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 4:00:10 |
| High jump | Gerd Wessig SC Traktor Schwerin | 2.26 m | Thorsten Marschner SC Einheit Dresden | 2.14 m | Carsten Siebert SC Cottbus | 2.14 m |
| Pole vault | Uwe Langhammer SC Motor Jena | 5.60 m | Christoph Pietz SC Dynamo Berlin | 5.40 m | Enrico Mann SC Cottbus | 5.40 m |
| Long jump | Ron Beer SC Dynamo Berlin | 7.92 m | Jörg Pohl SC Empor Rostock | 7.81 m | Andre Reichelt SC Einheit Dresden | 7.80 m |
| Triple jump | Volker Mai SC Neubrandenburg | 16.80 m | Dirk Gamlin SC Traktor Schwerin | 16.66 m | Thomas Rex SC Turbine Erfurt | 16.24 m |
| Shot put | Ulf Timmermann TSC Berlin | 21.88 m | Udo Beyer ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 20.92 m | Klaus Görmer SC DHfK Leipzig | 19.50 m |
| Discus throw | Jürgen Schult SC Traktor Schwerin | 66.92 m | Andreas Becker SC Empor Rostock | 62.60 m | Lutz Friedrich SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 60.96 m |
| Hammer throw | Ralf Haber SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 80.30 m | Günther Rodehau SC Einheit Dresden | 79.04 m | Jörn Hübner SC Cottbus | 74.38 m |
| Javelin throw | Silvio Warsönke SC Cottbus | 82.64 m | Gerald Weiß SC Traktor Schwerin | 81.92 m | Steffen Kauerauf SC DHfK Leipzig | 76.64 m |
| Decathlon | Uwe Freimuth ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 8290 pts | Thomas Fahner ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 8276 pts | Christian Schenk SC Empor Rostock | 8225 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Marlies Göhr SC Motor Jena | 11.07 s | Silke Möller SC Empor Rostock | 11.07 s | Ingrid Lange SC Motor Jena | 11.39 s |
| 200 metres | Heike Drechsler SC Motor Jena | 21.84 s | Silke Möller SC Empor Rostock | 22.30 s | Heike Morgenstern ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 22.81 s |
| 400 metres | Petra Müller SC Chemie Halle | 50.26 s | Kirsten Emmelmann SC Magdeburg | 50.99 s | Dagmar Neubauer SC Turbine Erfurt | 51.20 s |
| 800 metres | Christine Wachtel SC Neubrandenburg | 1:58.29 min | Sigrun Wodars SC Neubrandenburg | 1:58.65 min | Martina Steuk TSC Berlin | 1:59.95 min |
| 1500 metres | Birgit Barth SC Dynamo Berlin | 4:09.33 min | Andrea Hahmann ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 4:09.77 min | Ellen Kiessling SC Einheit Dresden | 4:09.93 min |
| 3000 metres | Kathrin Ullrich SC Dynamo Berlin | 8:48.80 min | Ellen Kiessling SC Einheit Dresden | 9:05.87 min | Gabriele Meinel SC Cottbus | 9:07.13 min |
| 10,000 metres | Kathrin Ullrich SC Dynamo Berlin | 31:26.79 min | Anke Schäning SC Empor Rostock | 32:44.52 min WJR | Birgit Jerschabek SC Traktor Schwerin | 33:29.33 min |
| Marathon | Andrea Fleischer SC Motor Jena | 2:49:50.1 | Kristina Garlipp SC Motor Jena | 2:52:00.1 | Kerstin Herzberg SC Motor Jena | 2:53:34.5 |
| 100 m hurdles | Cornelia Oschkenat SC Dynamo Berlin | 12.52 s | Kerstin Knabe SC DHfK Leipzig | 12.80 s | Kristin Patzwahl SC DHfK Leipzig | 12.95 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Sabine Busch SC Turbine Erfurt | 54.11 s | Ellen Fiedler SC Dynamo Berlin | 54.74 s | Susanne Losch SC Turbine Erfurt | 54.89 s |
| 4 × 100 m relay | SC Motor Jena Karina Knuhr Sabine Günther Ingrid Lange Marlies Göhr | 43.40 s | SC Magdeburg Annette Kersten Manuela Braun Diana Dietz Heike Theele | 44.04 s | SC Neubrandenburg Doreen Fahrendorff Katrin Krabbe Manuela Derr Grit Breuer | 44.12 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | SC Turbine Erfurt Katrin Schreiter Dagmar Neubauer Daniela Steinecke Susanne Losch | 3:29.12 min | SC Magdeburg Stefanie Fabert Cornelia Ullrich Heike Tillack Kati Bohmeier | 3:38.99 min | SC Dynamo Berlin Constanze Taube Andrea Dittner Beate Kuhls Ulrike Schmiedel | 3:49.06 min |
| 5000 m walk | Beate Anders TSC Berlin | 21:35.28 min NR | Dagmar Grimmenstein SC Turbine Erfurt | 22:58.61 min | Simone Thust SC DHfK Leipzig | 23:05 min |
| 10 km walk | Beate Anders TSC Berlin | 46:28 min | Claudia Barthel BSG Lokomotive Magdeburg | 58:35 min | Antje Kahr BSG Lokomotive Wittenberge | 1:00:33 |
| High jump | Gabriele Günz SC DHfK Leipzig | 1.91 m | Susanne Beyer SC Dynamo Berlin | 1.91 m | Kerstin Brandt SC Empor Rostock | 1.91 m |
| Long jump | Heike Drechsler SC Motor Jena | 7.20 m | Heike Grabe SC Magdeburg | 6.50 m | Gaby Ehlert SC DHfK Leipzig | 6.49 m |
| Shot put | Kathrin Neimke SC Magdeburg | 21.06 m | Ines Müller SC Empor Rostock | 20.96 m | Heike Hartwig SC Dynamo Berlin | 20.62 m |
| Discus throw | Diana Gansky ASK Vorwärts Potsdam | 72.54 m | Gabriele Reinsch SC Cottbus | 71.88 m | Silvia Madetzky SC Chemie Halle | 67.00 m |
| Javelin throw | Petra Felke SC Motor Jena | 73.86 m | Silke Renk SC Chemie Halle | 71.00 m | Beate Koch SC Motor Jena | 68.32 m |
| Heptathlon | Heike Tischler SC Motor Jena | 6404 pts | Ines Schulz SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 6396 pts | Birgit Gautzsch SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 6146 pts |