# 1991 German Athletics Championships

The 1991 German Athletics Championships was the 91st edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 26–28 July at the Niedersachsenstadion in Hannover. It served as the selection meeting for Germany at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics. It marked the resumption of an all-Germany national competition for athletes from East Germany and West Germany, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The merged competition programme followed that of the 1990 West German Athletics Championships, with the only amendment being the inclusion of a women's team aspect to the mountain running championship.

## Championships

As usual, due to time or organizational reasons, various competitions were not held as part of the main event in Hannover. The annual national championships in Germany held separately from the main track and field competition comprised the following:
| Event | Venue | Date(s) | Notes |
| Cross country running | Bad Harzburg | 2 March | |
| Road running Men's 25K run Women's 15K run | Offenbach an der Queich | 21 April | |
| Marathon | Oelde | 27 April | |
| 10,000 metres | Potsdam | 5 June | |
| Relays Women's 3 × 800 m Men's 4 × 800 m Men's 4 × 1500 m | Munich | 26 May | incorporated into the German Combined Events Championships |
| Combined track and field events Women's heptathlon Men's decathlon | Munich | 25–26 May | |
| 100K run | Scheeßel | 12 October | |
| Mountain running | Oberstdorf | 22 September | Held in conjunction with the Nebelhorn-Berglaufs |
| Racewalking Men's 50 km walk Women's 10 km walk | Naumburg | 21 April | |

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Steffen Bringmann MTG Mannheim | 10.42 s | Steffen Görmer SV Halle | 10.52 s | Volker Westhagemann LG Olympia Dortmund | 10.56 s |
| 200 metres | Michael Huke TV Wattenscheid | 20.69 s | Marcus Skupin-Alfa VfL Sindelfingen | 20.91 s | Peter Klein SV Salamander Kornwestheim | 21.01 s |
| 400 metres | Jens Carlowitz SC Chemnitz | 45.49 s | Norbert Dobeleit TV Wattenscheid | 45.97 s | Rico Lieder Chemnitzer SC | 46.38 s |
| 800 metres | Joachim Dehmel SpVgg. Feuerbach | 1:47.85 min | Mark Eplinius SCC Berlin | 1:48.29 min | Mike Kemsies SCC Berlin | 1:48.58 min |
| 1500 metres | Jens-Peter Herold SCC Berlin | 3:42.72 min | Jörg Haas LG Offenburg | 3:43.66 min | Andreas Rettig LC Rehlingen | 3:44.34 min |
| 5000 metres | Dieter Baumann LG Bayer Leverkusen | 13:40.06 min | Jens Karraß SCC Berlin | 13:56.45 min | Klaus Peter Nabein LAC Quelle Fürth | 13:56.80 min |
| 10,000 metres | Jens Karraß SCC Berlin | 28:15.28 min | Stéphane Franke SV Salamander Kornwestheim | 28:26.86 min | Carsten Eich SC DHfK Leipzig | 28:32.62 min |
| 25K run | Rainer Wachenbrunner Berliner SC | 1:17:31 h | Werner Schildhauer LG Olympia Dortmund | 1:17:31 h | Kurt Stenzel ASC Darmstadt | 1:18:00 h |
| 25K team | LC Euskirchen Heinz-Bernd Bürger Frank Kase Sven Wille | 4:01:03 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Eike Loch Udo Reeh Alexander Schatz | 4:03:43 h | LG Olympia Dortmund Werner Schildhauer Jens Wilky Jörg Valentin | 4:04:28 h |
| Marathon | Thomas Ertl TSV Burghaslach) | 2:20:30 h | Hans Pfisterer LG Frankfurt | 2:20:35 h | Stefan Paul VfL Sindelfingen | 2:21:04 h |
| Marathon team | LG Frankfurt Hans Pfisterer Wolfgang Münzel Volker Isigkeit | 7:14:24 h | LG Braunschweig Michael Sens Volker Krajenski Dieter Göhl | 7:24:10 h | TSV Burghaslach Thomas Ertl Rainer Mühlberg Alfredo Blasel | 7:29:49 h |
| 100 kilometres | Heinz Hüglin LV Ettenheim | 6:43:51 h | Volker Becker-Wirbel LTF Marpingen | 6:46:01 h | Dietmar Knies USC Leipzig | 6:49:18 h |
| 100 kilometres team | LTF Marpingen Volker Becker-Wirbel Robert Feller Hans Grandke | 21:24:32 h | DJK Elmar Kohlscheid Dietmar Veith Rainer Kleinfeld Heinz Gülpen | 22:09:57 h | Triathlon Hub/Nürnberg Hartmut Häber Karl-Heinz Neudeck Achim Heukemes | 22:54:33 h |
| 110 m hurdles | Florian Schwarthoff TV Heppenheim | 13.43 s | Dietmar Koszewski LAC Halensee Berlin | 13.61 s | Sven Göhler OSC Potsdam | 13.93 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Olaf Hense LG Olympia Dortmund | 49.73 s | Udo Schiller LG Olympia Dortmund | 50.08 s | Carsten Köhrbrück LAC Halensee Berlin | 50.14 s |
| 3000 m s'chase | Hagen Melzer Dresdner SC | 8:34.51 min | Torsten Herwig SCC Berlin | 8:34.93 min | Hubert Karl LAC Quelle Fürth | 8:35.29 min |
| 4 × 100 m relay | TV Wattenscheid Dietmar Schulte Dirk Schweisfurth Michael Huke Werner Zaske | 39.64 s | VfL Sindelfingen Joey Walz Holger Vogelsang Michael Schwab Marcus Skupin-Alfa | 39.97 s | LG Bayer Leverkusen Schu Michael Grün Johannes Wischerhoff Wolfgang Haupt | 40.02 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | ASV Köln Ulrich Schlepütz Klaus-Christian Weigeldt Alexander Adam Marc-Antonius Eggers | 3:06.26 min | LG VfB/Kickers Stuttgart Jürgen Mehl Ralph Pfersich Rolf Setzer Volker Höschele | 3:06.57 min | VfL Sindelfingen Peter Mayer Michael Schwab Bernd Koschka Jörg Vaihinger | 3:08.41 min |
| 4 × 800 m relay | SCC Berlin Mike Kemsies John-Henry May Rainer Sudau Mark Eplinius | 7:20.25 min | LG Bayer Leverkusen Harald Andrä Mirko Teichert Oliver Klaudt Jussi Udelhoven | 7:21.33 min | SpVgg. Feuerbach Arthur Klein Frank Maier Alexander Dehmel Joachim Dehmel | 7:21.35 min |
| 4 × 1500 m relay | LG Bayer Leverkusen Ernst Ludwig Imram Sillah Burkhard Wagner Dieter Baumann | 15:17.76 min | TV Wattenscheid Stephan Plätzer Michael Fietz Ingo Janich Rüdiger Stenzel | 15:18.25 min | SCC Berlin Gordon Schatz Uwe König Andreas Wagner Olaf Beyer | 15:25.03 min |
| 20 km walk | Robert Ihly LFV Schutterwald | 1:22:38 h | Ronald Weigel OSC Potsdam | 1:23:00 h | Axel Noack Berliner SC | 1:23:49 h |
| 20 km walk team | OSC Potsdam Ronald Weigel Olaf Möldner Alexander Preusche | 4:19:24 h | TSV Erfurt Hartwig Gauder Ralf Weise Torsten Trampeli | 4:21:30 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Ralf Rose Peter Zanner Wolfgang Wiedemann | 4:32:05 h |
| 50 km walk | Ronald Weigel OSC Potsdam | 3:45:57 h | Hartwig Gauder TSV Erfurt | 3:49:10 h | Torsten Trampeli TSV Erfurt | 4:01:12 h |
| 50 km walk team | LAC Quelle Fürth Robert Mildenberger Alfons Schwarz Manfred Kreutz | 13:16:06 h | Berliner SV 1892 Volkmar Scholz Oliver Oefelein Reiner Offel | 13:56:35 h | LG Boppard / Bad Salzig Michael Tryankowski Andreas Klose Rainer Tryankowski | 14:26:17 h |
| High jump | Carlo Thränhardt ASV Köln | 2.25 m | Dietmar Mögenburg TV Wattenscheid | 2.23 m | Karol Getek LAC Quelle Fürth | 2.23 m |
| Pole vault | Bernhard Zintl TSV 1860 München | 5.50 m | Uwe Langhammer TuS Jena | 5.40 m | Werner Holl LG Herlazhofen | 5.40 m |
| Long jump | Dietmar Haaf SV Salamander Kornwestheim | 7.97 m | André Müller SC Empor Rostock | 7.80 m | Jens Hirschberg SC Magdeburg | 7.79 m |
| Triple jump | Ralf Jaros TV Wattenscheid | 16.75 m | Volker Mai SC Neubrandenburg | 16.50 m | André Ernst SV Halle | 16.42 m |
| Shot put | Oliver-Sven Buder Chemnitzer SC | 20.20 m | Ulf Timmermann Berliner SC | 19.87 m | Kalman Konya SV Salamander Kornwestheim | 19.62 m |
| Discus throw | Wolfgang Schmidt LG VfB/Kickers Stuttgart | 64.98 m | Jürgen Schult Schweriner SC | 64.26 m | Lars Riedel USC Mainz | 64.16 m |
| Hammer throw | Heinz Weis LG Bayer Leverkusen | 79.20 m | Claus Dethloff LG Frankfurt | 74.98 m | Karsten Kobs LG Olympia Dortmund | 71.04 m |
| Javelin throw | Klaus Tafelmeier LG Bayer Leverkusen | 82.72 m | Volker Hadwich SC Magdeburg | 81.20 m | Raymond Hecht SC Magdeburg | 80.32 m |
| Decathlon | Christian Schenk USC Mainz | 8301 pts | Thorsten Dauth TG Groß-Karbern | 8108 pts | Stefan Schmid LG Karlstadt | 7819 pts |
| Decathlon team | USC Mainz Christian Schenk Peter Neumaier Christian Deick | 23.474 pts | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Norbert Demmel Bruno Chirco Stock | 22.854 pts | LG Bayer Leverkusen Günther Paul Meier Kurowski | 21.956 pts |
| Cross country short course – 4000 m | Klaus-Peter Nabein LAC Quelle Fürth | 12:22 min | Olaf Beyer SCC Berlin | 12:26 min | Michael Witt LG Nordheide | 12:28 min |
| Cross country short course, Team | LAC Quelle Fürth Klaus-Peter Nabein Hubert Karl Dieter Deininger | 16 | LG Nordheide Michael Witt Peter Hempel Rolf Helmboldt | 67 | Eintracht Frankfurt Ulrich Keil Enrique Tortell Ch. Simon | 73 |
| Cross country long course – 12.0 km | Heinz-Bernd Bürger LC Euskirchen | 38:31 min | Konrad Dobler SVO Germaringen | 38:42 min | Rüdiger Grunwald LG VfB/Kickers Stuttgart | 39:14 min |
| Cross country long course, Team | Racing-Club Berlin Steffen Dittmann Koch Stefan Seidemann | 39 | SCC Berlin Peter Könnicke Jens Karraß Matthess | 61 | SVO Germaringen Konrad Dobler Martin Sambale Xaver Stückl | 79 |
| Mountain running | Dieter Ranftl LC Buchendorf | 39:34 min | Heiko Schinkitz SG Adelsberg | 39:50 min | Kurt König TSV Oberstaufen | 39:59 min |
| Mountain running team | LG Frankfurt Wolfgang Münzel Jörg Leipner Jan-Henning Schoch | 2:04:58 h | SVO Germaringen Martin Sambale Xaver Stückl Jörg Kunstmann | 2:06:37 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Jochen Laub Theo Kiefner Gunnar Rethfeldt | 2:08:17 h |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Katrin Krabbe SC Neubrandenburg | 10.91 s | Grit Breuer SC Neubrandenburg | 11.14 s | Sabine Richter Eintracht Frankfurt | 11.45 s |
| 200 metres | Katrin Krabbe SC Neubrandenburg | 22.12 s | Grit Breuer SC Neubrandenburg | 22.55 s | Silke-Beate Knoll LG Olympia Dortmund | 23.27 s |
| 400 metres | Karin Janke VfL Wolfsburg | 51.75 s | Katrin Schreiter TSV Erfurt | 52.26 s | Annett Hesselbarth SV Halle | 52.42 s |
| 800 metres | Christine Wachtel SC Empor Rostock | 1:59.04 min | Sigrun Grau SC Neubrandenburg | 1:59.29 min | Birte Bruhns ASV Köln | 1:59.55 min |
| 1500 metres | Ellen Kießling Dresdner SC | 4:16.75 min | Steffi Kallensee Eintracht Frankfurt | 4:17.50 min | Yvonne Mai SC Empor Rostock | 4:17.67 min |
| 3000 metres | Anke Schäning ASV Köln | 8:58.62 min | Katje Hoffmann SCC Berlin | 8:59.78 min | Claudia Borgschulze LG Olympia Dortmund | 9:01.98 min |
| 10,000 metres | Kathrin Ullrich SCC Berlin | 31:46.00 min | Birgit Jerschabek LG Sieg | 32:50.85 min | Christina Mai LG Olympia Dortmund | 32:55.18 min |
| 15K run | Birgit Jerschabek LG Sieg | 50:48 min | Monika Schäfer LAC Quelle Fürth / München | 51:12 min | Claudia Borgschulze LG Olympia Dortmund | 51:51 min |
| 15K team | LG Olympia Dortmund Claudia Borgschulze Christina Mai Birgit Reefschläger | 2:40:10 h | ASV Köln Anke Schäning Sabine Mann Tanja Kalinowski | 2:45:07 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Monika Schäfer Klothilde Staab Gabriele Almannstötter | 2:45:19 h |
| Marathon | Sigrid Wulsch LG Menden | 2:48:28 h | Petra Sander LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen | 2:51:49 h | Anita Höcherl LG Regensburg | 2:53:17 h |
| Marathon team | Eichenkreuz Schwaikheim Gudrun Rüth Hannelore Nothdurft Claudia Müller | 9:25:59 h | LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen Petra Sander Sigrid Altmeyer Gislinde Redepenning | 9:31:43 h | TuS Solbad Ravensberg Maria Pautmeier Hildegard Bartelsmeier Monika Renne | 9:59:43 h |
| 100 kilometres | Birgit Lennartz ASV Sankt Augustin | 7:35:21 h | Sybille Möllensiep SuS Schalke 96 | 8:01:20 h | Sigrid Lomsky SCC Berlin | 8:18:27 h |
| 100 kilometres team | SCC Berlin Sigrid Lomsky Christel Heine Stefanie Cain | 26:26:04 h | SSC Hanau-Rodenbach Anna Dyck Franziska Lüttgen Maria Marco | 29:28:36 h | Only two teams entered | Only two teams entered |
| 100 m hurdles | Kristin Patzwahl SC DHfK Leipzig | 13.12 s | Cornelia Oschkenat Berliner SC | 13.21 s | Gloria Siebert SC Cottbus | 13.21 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Heike Meißner Dresdner SC | 55.16 s | Silvia Rieger TuS Eintracht Hinte | 55.47 s | Gudrun Abt TSV Genkingen | 55.66 s |
| 4 × 100 m relay | LG Bayer Leverkusen Anja Böhme Silke Lichtenhagen Stefanie Hütz Bettina Braag | 44.33 s | VfL Sindelfingen Margrit Schiller Ulrike Sarvari Andrea Thomas Doreen Fahrendorff | 44.52 s | Eintracht Frankfurt Sandra Löffler Simone Haja Sabine Richter Britta Schulmeyer | 44.96 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | LG Olympia Dortmund Jessica Kawohl Ruth Scheppan Helga Arendt Silke-Beate Knoll | 3:33.92 min | SCC Berlin Manuela Peters Ines Conradi Nicole Leistenschneider Sandra Seuser | 3:34.65 min | MTV Ingolstadt Petra Rappe Birgit Clarius Daniela Ott Monika Weilhammer | 3:39.89 min |
| 3 × 800 m relay | SCC Berlin Katje Hoffmann Carmen Wüstenhagen Nicole Leistenschneider | 6:23.06 min | TV Gelnhausen Amona Schneeweis Ute Lix Karin Lix | 6:29.73 min | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Astrid Jahn Ute Haak Hildegard Körner | 6:31.05 min |
| 5000 m walk | Beate Anders LAC Halensee Berlin | 21:03.14 min | Kathrin Born Berliner SC | 21:20.63 min | Andrea Brückmann LAZ Lahn-Aar-Diez | 22:11.86 min |
| 10 km walk | Beate Anders LAC Halensee Berlin | 44:18 min | Kathrin Born Berliner SC | 45:10 min | Simone Thust LAC Halensee Berlin | 46:36 min |
| 10 km walk team | LAC Halensee Berlin Beate Anders Simone Thust Sandra Priemer | 2:25:29 h | SC DHfK Leipzig Uta Klaedtke Annett Amberg Esther Lange | 2:30:20 h | FV Ostercappeln Brandenburg Luttmann Krahn | 2:34:26 h |
| High jump | Heike Henkel LG Bayer Leverkusen | 2.00 m | Heike Balck Schweriner SC | 1.94 m | Birgit Kähler LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen | 1.90 m |
| Long jump | Heike Drechsler TuS Jena | 7.07 m | Susen Tiedtke SCC Berlin | 6.70 m | Anke Behmer SC Neubrandenburg | 6.58 m |
| Shot put | Claudia Losch LAC Quelle Fürth | 19.65 m | Stephanie Storp VfL Wolfsburg | 18.98 m | Vera Schmidt MTV Ingolstadt | 18.72 m |
| Discus throw | Ilke Wyludda SV Halle | 68.78 m | Martina Hellmann SC DHfK Leipzig | 65.30 m | Franka Dietzsch SC Neubrandenburg | 60.62 m |
| Javelin throw | Karen Forkel SV Halle | 66.70 m | Silke Renk SV Halle | 65.22 m | Petra Meier TuS Jena | 63.96 m |
| Heptathlon | Peggy Beer Berliner SC | 6318 pts | Anke Behmer SC Neubrandenburg | 6300 pts | Ines Krause Chemnitzer SC | 6035 pts |
| Heptathlon team | LG Bayer Leverkusen Anke Straschewski Bettina Braag Dagmar Federwisch | 16.650 pts | OSC Berlin Marion Zillwich Micheline Borchert Sylvana Finke | 16.144 pts | LG Nordwest Hamburg Ute Niendorf Claudia Liedtke Birgit Maschler | 15.986 pts |
| Cross country short course – 2000 m | Steffi Kallensee Eintracht Frankfurt | 6:43 min | Claudia Metzner BV Teutonia Lanstrop | 6:49 min | Petra Wassiluk ASC Darmstadt | 6:59 min |
| Cross country short course, Team | LG Wedel Pinneberg Meike Wirdemann Astrid Bartels Nicole Theophil | 29 | SCC Berlin Nicole Leistenschneider Barth Gipp | 36 | Eintracht Frankfurt Steffi Kallensee Gabriele Huber Martina Franke | 47 |
| Cross country long course – 6000 m | Christina Mai LG Olympia Dortmund | 21:16 min | Kerstin Preßler Neuköllner Sportfreunde | 21:29 min | Claudia Borgschulze LG Olympia Dortmund | 21:33 min |
| Cross country long course, Team | LG Olympia Dortmund Christina Mai Claudia Borgschulze Jutta Karsch | 14 | ASV Köln Tanja Kalinowski Annabel Holtkamp Ute Jenke | 25 | LBV Phönix Lübeck Kerstin Herzberg Stefanie Hormann Beate Burmester | 51 |
| Mountain running | Barbara Guerike Freiburger FC | 47:52 min | Silke Welt LC Offenbach | 48:19 min | Sabine Forner TV 1846 Isny | 50:14 min |
| Mountain running team | TV 1846 Isny Sabine Forner Sylvia Prior Bolsinger | 2:37:56 h | LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen Petra Sander Sigrid Altmeyer Redepenning | 2:43:21 h | TSV Bad Nenndorf Elisabeth Nenninger Bauer Weichselbaumer | 2:51:19 h |