# Germany at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Germany competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. It was the first time that the nation had competed at the Olympic Games following reunification in 1990 and for the first time as a single nation since 1936. Previously, West Germany and East Germany had sent independent teams to the Games.

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Alpine skiing | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| Biathlon | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| Bobsleigh | 12 | – | 12 |
| Cross-country skiing | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Figure skating | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Freestyle skiing | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Ice hockey | 23 | – | 23 |
| Luge | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| Nordic combined | 4 | – | 4 |
| Ski jumping | 5 | – | 5 |
| Speed skating | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| Total | 75 | 36 | 111 |

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Mark Kirchner | Biathlon | Men's 10 km sprint |
| Gold | Ricco Groß Jens Steinigen Mark Kirchner Fritz Fischer | Biathlon | Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay |
| Gold | Antje Misersky | Biathlon | Women's 15 km |
| Gold | Georg Hackl | Luge | Men's individual |
| Gold | Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Gold | Uwe-Jens Mey | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| Gold | Olaf Zinke | Speed skating | Men's 1000 m |
| Gold | Jacqueline Börner | Speed skating | Women's 1500 m |
| Gold | Gunda Niemann | Speed skating | Women's 3000 m |
| Gold | Gunda Niemann | Speed skating | Women's 5000m |
| Silver | Ricco Groß | Biathlon | Men's 10 km sprint |
| Silver | Mark Kirchner | Biathlon | Men's 20 km |
| Silver | Antje Misersky | Biathlon | Women's 7.5 km |
| Silver | Uschi Disl Antje Misersky Petra Schaaf | Biathlon | Women's 3 x 7.5 km relay |
| Silver | Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Silver | Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł Axel Kühn René Hannemann | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| Silver | Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph | Luge | Men's doubles |
| Silver | Gunda Niemann | Speed skating | Women's 1500 m |
| Silver | Heike Warnicke | Speed skating | Women's 3000 m |
| Silver | Heike Warnicke | Speed skating | Women's 5000 m |
| Bronze | Katja Seizinger | Alpine skiing | Women's super-G |
| Bronze | Christoph Langen Günther Eger | Bobsleigh | Two-man |
| Bronze | Susi Erdmann | Luge | Women's individual |
| Bronze | Christa Luding | Speed skating | Women's 500 m |
| Bronze | Monique Garbrecht | Speed skating | Women's 1000 m |
| Bronze | Claudia Pechstein | Speed skating | Women's 5000 m |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Time | Time | Rank |
| Berni Huber | Downhill | | | 1:53.38 | 19 |
| Hans-Jörg Tauscher | Downhill | | | 1:51.49 | 7 |
| Markus Wasmeier | Downhill | | | 1:50.62 | 4 |
| Berni Huber | Super-G | | | 1:16.78 | 31 |
| Hans-Jörg Tauscher | Super-G | | | 1:15.98 | 21 |
| Markus Wasmeier | Super-G | | | 1:14.58 | 9 |
| Markus Wasmeier | Giant Slalom | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Armin Bittner | Giant Slalom | 1:07.77 | DNF | DNF | – |
| Peter Roth | Giant Slalom | 1:07.68 | DSQ | DSQ | – |
| Peter Roth | Slalom | 54.07 | 54.68 | 1:48.75 | 16 |
| Armin Bittner | Slalom | 53.19 | DNF | DNF | – |
Men's combined
| Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Slalom | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank |
| Markus Wasmeier | 1:45.91 | 52.29 | 52.86 | 32.77 | 5 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Time | Time | Rank |
| Michaela Gerg-Leitner | Downhill | | | 1:54.99 | 18 |
| Miriam Vogt | Downhill | | | 1:53.89 | 9 |
| Katrin Gutensohn | Downhill | | | 1:53.71 | 6 |
| Katja Seizinger | Downhill | | | 1:52.67 | 4 |
| Miriam Vogt | Super-G | | | 1:25.40 | 18 |
| Regine Mösenlechner | Super-G | | | 1:24.85 | 14 |
| Michaela Gerg-Leitner | Super-G | | | 1:23.77 | 7 |
| Katja Seizinger | Super-G | | | 1:23.19 | |
| Michaela Gerg-Leitner | Giant Slalom | 1:08.69 | DNF | DNF | – |
| Christina Meier-Höck | Giant Slalom | 1:08.07 | 1:07.26 | 2:15.33 | 11 |
| Katja Seizinger | Giant Slalom | 1:07.40 | 1:07.56 | 2:14.96 | 8 |
| Traudl Hächer-Gavet | Giant Slalom | 1:07.26 | 1:08.87 | 2:16.13 | 14 |
| Martina Ertl-Renz | Slalom | 50.29 | 46.12 | 1:36.41 | 15 |
Women's combined
| Athlete | Downhill | Slalom | Slalom | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Time 1 | Time 2 | Points | Rank |
| Regina Häusl | 1:27.95 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Miriam Vogt | 1:27.35 | 36.61 | 36.29 | 48.52 | 9 |
| Michaela Gerg-Leitner | 1:27.26 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Katja Seizinger | 1:26.42 | 36.23 | DNF | DNF | – |

## Biathlon
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 10 km Sprint | Frank-Peter Roetsch | 2 | 26:54.1 | 9 |
| 10 km Sprint | Jens Steinigen | 0 | 26:34.8 | 6 |
| 10 km Sprint | Ricco Groß | 1 | 26:18.0 | |
| 10 km Sprint | Mark Kirchner | 0 | 26:02.3 | |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Frank-Peter Roetsch | 56:43.8 | 7 | 1'03:43.8 | 53 |
| 20 km | Jens Steinigen | 58:01.8 | 3 | 1'01:01.8 | 29 |
| 20 km | Steffen Hoos | 59:17.7 | 1 | 1'00:17.7 | 18 |
| 20 km | Mark Kirchner | 54:40.8 | 3 | 57:40.8 | |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Ricco Groß Jens Steinigen Mark Kirchner Fritz Fischer | 0 | 1'24:43.5 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Uschi Disl | 2 | 25:58.9 | 11 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Inga Kesper | 2 | 25:57.3 | 10 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Petra Schaaf | 1 | 25:10.4 | 6 |
| 7.5 km Sprint | Antje Misersky | 2 | 24:45.1 | |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 15 km | Uschi Disl | 50:40.2 | 6 | 56:40.2 | 24 |
| 15 km | Inga Kesper | 51:42.3 | 3 | 54:42.3 | 15 |
| 15 km | Petra Schaaf | 50:56.3 | 3 | 53:56.3 | 13 |
| 15 km | Antje Misersky | 50:47.2 | 1 | 51:47.2 | |

### Women's 3 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Uschi Disl Antje Misersky Petra Schaaf | 1 | 1'16:18.4 | |
    $^1$ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
    $^2$ One minute added per missed target.

## 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 |
| GER-1 | Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann | Two-man | 1:00.69 | 11 | 1:01.00 | 4 | 1:00.90 | 2 | 1:00.96 | 1 | 4:03.55 | |
| GER-2 | Christoph Langen Günther Eger | Two-man | 1:00.33 | 4 | 1:01.06 | 5 | 1:01.14 | 5 | 1:01.10 | 3 | 4:03.63 | |
| 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 |
| GER-1 | Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musioł Axel Kühn René Hannemann | Four-man | 58.00 | 3 | 58.52 | 1 | 58.68 | 7 | 58.72 | 2 | 3:53.92 | |
| GER-2 | Harald Czudaj Tino Bonk Axel Jang Alexander Szelig | Four-man | 58.54 | 9 | 58.55 | 2 | 58.62 | 5 | 58.71 | 1 | 3:54.42 | 6 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 10 km C | Janko Neuber | 30:29.8 | 32 |
| 10 km C | Johann Mühlegg | 30:29.4 | 31 |
| 10 km C | Torald Rein | 30:25.1 | 29 |
| 10 km C | Jochen Behle | 29:58.2 | 24 |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Janko Neuber | 42:10.4 | 23 |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Torald Rein | 41:48.1 | 21 |
| 15 km pursuit$^1$ F | Johann Mühlegg | 41:11.8 | 16 |
| 30 km C | Janko Neuber | 1'31:57.8 | 47 |
| 30 km C | Torald Rein | 1'29:08.5 | 30 |
| 30 km C | Holger Bauroth | 1'28:58.1 | 28 |
| 30 km C | Jochen Behle | 1'25:59.8 | 15 |
| 50 km F | Janko Neuber | 2'14:37.1 | 29 |
| 50 km F | Holger Bauroth | 2'13:49.8 | 26 |
| 50 km F | Johann Mühlegg | 2'07:45.2 | 7 |
    $^1$ Starting delay based on 10 km results.
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Holger Bauroth Jochen Behle Torald Rein Johann Mühlegg | 1'43:41.7 | 6 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km C | Manuela Oschmann | 16:01.7 | 42 |
| 5 km C | Simone Opitz | 15:24.9 | 27 |
| 5 km C | Heike Wezel | 15:04.1 | 17 |
| 5 km C | Gabriele Heß | 15:03.7 | 16 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Manuela Oschmann | 30:52.5 | 38 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Heike Wezel | 29:08.6 | 25 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Gabriele Heß | 28:19.2 | 14 |
| 10 km pursuit$^2$ F | Simone Opitz | 28:17.3 | 12 |
| 15 km C | Heike Wezel | 45:50.6 | 19 |
| 15 km C | Manuela Oschmann | 45:28.8 | 15 |
| 30 km F | Ina Kümmel | 1'36:48.2 | 46 |
| 30 km F | Heike Wezel | 1'33:34.2 | 32 |
| 30 km F | Gabriele Heß | 1'29:43.8 | 15 |
| 30 km F | Simone Opitz | 1'27:17.4 | 8 |
    $^2$ Starting delay based on 5 km results.
    C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Heike Wezel Gabriele Heß Simone Opitz Ina Kümmel | 1'02:22.6 | 8 |

## Figure skating
### Women

| Athlete | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
| Patricia Neske | 16 | 11 | 18.0 | 13 |
| Marina Kielmann | 15 | 19 | 16.5 | 10 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | SP | FS | TFP | Rank |
| Mandy Wötzel Axel Rauschenbach | 10 | 8 | 13.0 | 8 |
| Peggy Schwartz Alexander König | 8 | 7 | 11.5 | 7 |

## Freestyle skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank |
| Klaus Weese | Moguls | 33.16 | 21.63 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank |
| Yvonne Seifert | Moguls | 39.84 | 20.17 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Birgit Keppler-Stein | Moguls | 42.27 | 21.32 | 8 Q | 41.79 | 21.44 | 5 |
| Tatjana Mittermayer | Moguls | 42.57 | 21.90 | 6 Q | 40.84 | 22.33 | 4 |

## Ice hockey
### Group A

Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.
* Team advanced to the Final Round
* Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round
| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
| United States | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 9 |
| Sweden | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 8 |
| Finland | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 7 |
| Germany | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 4 |
| Italy | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 24 | -6 | 2 |
| Poland | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 30 | -26 | 0 |
| Finland | 5:1 | Germany |
| United States | 2:0 | Germany |
| Sweden | 3:1 | Germany |
| Germany | 5:2 | Italy |
| Germany | 4:0 | Poland |

### Final round

Quarter-finals
| Canada | 4:3 | Germany |
Consolation Round 5th-8th Places
| France | 4:5 | Germany |
5th Place Match
| Sweden | 4:3 | Germany 6th |
* Team Roster
** Karl Friesen
** Helmut de Raaf
** Josef Heiß
** Mike Heidt
** Udo Kiessling
** Rick Amann
** Uli Hiemer
** Mike Schmidt
** Jörg Mayr
** Ron Fischer
** Michael Rumrich
** Georg Holzmann
** Jürgen Rumrich
** Bernd Truntschka
** Gerd Truntschka
** Dieter Hegen
** Ernst Köpf
** Peter Draisaitl
** Andreas Brockmann
** Raimund Hilger
** Thomas Brandl
** Axel Kammerer
** Andreas Niederberger
* Head Coaches: Ludĕk Bukač and Franz Reindl

## 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 |
| René Friedl | 45.609 | 8 | 45.503 | 6 | 46.274 | 9 | 46.157 | 9 | 3:03.543 | 8 |
| Jens Müller | 45.435 | 4 | 45.598 | 8 | 46.028 | 2 | 46.136 | 8 | 3:03.197 | 5 |
| Georg Hackl | 45.190 | 1 | 45.351 | 3 | 46.026 | 1 | 45.796 | 1 | 3:02.363 | |
(Men's) Doubles
| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt | 46.060 | 1 | 45.993 | 1 | 1:32.053 | |
| Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph | 46.125 | 3 | 46.114 | 2 | 1:32.239 | |

### 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 |
| Gabi Kohlisch | 47.206 | 11 | 47.072 | 7 | 46.911 | 5 | 46.791 | 4 | 3:07.980 | 6 |
| Sylke Otto | 47.089 | 7 | 47.460 | 19 | 47.394 | 16 | 47.056 | 11 | 3:08.999 | 13 |
| Susi Erdmann | 47.020 | 6 | 46.866 | 3 | 46.627 | 2 | 46.602 | 1 | 3:07.115 | |

## Nordic combined

Men's individual
Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank |
| Sven Leonhardt | Individual | 197.2 | 26 | +3:28.7 | 52:28.6 | 35 |
| Thomas Dufter | Individual | 210.8 | 10 | +1:58.0 | 47:52.9 | 12 |
| Hans-Peter Pohl | Individual | 212.5 | 8 | +1:46.7 | 48:41.7 | 16 |
Men's Team
Three participants per team.
Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
* 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
| Athletes | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total |
| Athletes | Points | Rank | Start at | Time | Rank |
| Hans-Peter Pohl Jens Deimel Thomas Dufter | 609.7 | 3 | 2:57.0 | 1'28:21.9 | 5 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Jens Deimel | Normal hill | 80.0 | 92.0 | 81.5 | 94.4 | 186.4 | 34 |
| Dieter Thoma | Normal hill | 79.5 | 93.2 | 82.0 | 96.2 | 189.4 | 27 |
| Jens Weißflog | Normal hill | 84.0 | 104.9 | 83.5 | 103.6 | 208.5 | 9 |
| Heiko Hunger | Normal hill | 87.0 | 108.7 | 84.0 | 102.9 | 211.6 | 7 |
| Heiko Hunger | Large hill | 72.0 | -2.2 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Jens Weißflog | Large hill | 90.0 | 60.5 | 99.5 | 80.8 | 141.3 | 33 |
| Dieter Thoma | Large hill | 96.0 | 68.9 | 93.0 | 63.7 | 132.6 | 39 |
| Christof Duffner | Large hill | 112.0 | 98.3 | 100.0 | 78.0 | 176.3 | 11 |

### Men's team large hill

| Athletes | Result | Result |
| Athletes | Points $^1$ | Rank |
| Dieter Thoma Heiko Hunger Jens Weißflog Christof Duffner | 544.6 | 5 |
    $^1$ Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Olaf Zinke | 38.40 | 25 |
| 500 m | Peter Adeberg | 38.33 | 23 |
| 500 m | Uwe-Jens Mey | 37.14 | |
| 1000 m | Peter Adeberg | 1:15.04 | 5 |
| 1000 m | Olaf Zinke | 1:14.85 | |
| 1500 m | Peter Adeberg | 1:57.54 | 15 |
| 1500 m | Markus Tröger | 1:57.42 | 13 |
| 1500 m | Olaf Zinke | 1:56.74 | 6 |
| 5000 m | Rudi Jeklic | 7:33.15 | 34 |
| 5000 m | Markus Tröger | 7:17.62 | 15 |
| 5000 m | Frank Dittrich | 7:06.33 | 4 |
| 10,000 m | Rudi Jeklic | 14:51.89 | 23 |
| 10,000 m | Frank Dittrich | 14:50.23 | 20 |
| 10,000 m | Markus Tröger | 14:45.41 | 15 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Anke Baier | 41.30 | 10 |
| 500 m | Angela Hauck | 41.10 | 8 |
| 500 m | Monique Garbrecht | 40.63 | 4 |
| 500 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 40.57 | |
| 1000 m | Angela Hauck | 1:24.11 | 14 |
| 1000 m | Anke Baier | 1:23.31 | 9 |
| 1000 m | Christa Luding-Rothenburger | 1:23.06 | 8 |
| 1000 m | Monique Garbrecht | 1:22.10 | |
| 1500 m | Heike Warnicke | 2:08.52 | 8 |
| 1500 m | Monique Garbrecht | 2:07.24 | 5 |
| 1500 m | Gunda Niemann | 2:05.92 | |
| 1500 m | Jacqueline Börner | 2:05.87 | |
| 3000 m | Jacqueline Börner | 4:28.52 | 8 |
| 3000 m | Heike Warnicke | 4:22.88 | |
| 3000 m | Gunda Niemann | 4:19.90 | |
| 5000 m | Claudia Pechstein | 7:39.80 | |
| 5000 m | Heike Warnicke | 7:37.59 | |
| 5000 m | Gunda Niemann | 7:31.57 | |