# 1993 German Athletics Championships

The 1993 German Athletics Championships was the 93rd edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 8–11 July at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg. It served as the selection meeting for Germany at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. A women's hammer throw was contested for the first time and the road running championship was set to the half marathon, having previously been 15 km for women and 25 km for men.

## Championships

As usual, due to time or organizational reasons, various competitions were not held as part of the main event in Duisburg. 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 | Rhede | 6 March | |
| Half marathon | Chemnitz | 21 March | |
| Marathon | Hannover | 18 April | incorporated into the Hannover Marathon |
| 10,000 metres | Trier | 15 May | |
| Relays Women's 3 × 800 m Men's 4 × 800 m Men's 4 × 1500 m | Dortmund | 4 July | incorporated into the German Youth Athletics Championships |
| Combined track and field events Women's heptathlon Men's decathlon | Vaterstetten | 19–20 June | |
| 100K run | Rheine | 4 September | |
| Mountain running | Berchtesgaden | 3 October | Held in conjunction with the Jenner-Berglaufs |
| Racewalking Men's 50 km walk Women's 10 km walk | Horrem | 23 May | |

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Marc Blume TV Wattenscheid | 10.30 s | Steffen Görmer SV Halle | 10.42 s | Christian Konieczny LG Olympia Dortmund | 10.53 s |
| 200 metres | Marc Blume TV Wattenscheid | 20.46 s | Michael Huke TV Wattenscheid | 20.62 s | Björn Sinnhuber MTG Mannheim | 20.68 s |
| 400 metres | Thomas Schönlebe LG Chemnitz | 46.28 s | Rico Lieder LG Chemnitz | 46.34 s | Ralph Pfersich LG Olympia Dortmund | 46.45 s |
| 800 metres | Nico Motchebon SCC Berlin | 1:49.69 min | Jussi Udelhoven LG Bayer Leverkusen | 1:50.11 min | Joachim Dehmel SpVgg. Feuerbach | 1:50.15 min |
| 1500 metres | Jens-Peter Herold SCC Berlin | 3:49.86 min | Rüdiger Stenzel TV Wattenscheid | 3:50.49 min | Michael Busch PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel | 3:50.71 min |
| 5000 metres | Rainer Wachenbrunner Berliner SC | 13:51.96 min | Markus Neukirch SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken | 13:52.38 min | Jens Karraß SCC Berlin | 13:53.28 min |
| 10,000 metres | Stéphane Franke SV Salamander Kornwestheim | 27:57.98 min | Rainer Wachenbrunner Berliner SC | 28:24.50 min | Carsten Eich SC DHfK Leipzig | 28:40.74 min |
| Half marathon | Stephan Freigang LC Cottbus | 1:05:34 h | Kurt Stenzel ASC Darmstadt | 1:06:15 h | Christian Husmann LG Braunschweig | 1:06:30 h |
| Half marathon Team | LG Braunschweig Christian Husmann Markus Pingpank Volker Krajenski | 3:21:48 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Klaus-Peter Nabein Dirk Nürnberger Engelbert Franz | 3:21:54 h | SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken Alfred Knickenberg Rainer Müller Michael Loth | 3:25:04 h |
| Marathon | Kurt Stenzel ASC Darmstadt | 2:13:25 h | Konrad Dobler SVO Germaringen | 2:14:44 h | Uwe Honsdorf Rot-Weiß Koblenz | 2:17:07 h |
| Marathon team | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Dirk Nürnberger Eike Loch Hans Forster | 7:06:37 h | LG Frankfurt Ulrich Wolf Volker Isigkeit Eckart Baier | 7:17:33 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Dirk Kellner Frank Schnabel Udo Grimm | 7:18:38 h |
| 100 kilometres | Volker Becker-Wirbel LTF Marpingen | 6:46:28 h | Michael Sommer Eichenkreuz Schwaikheim | 6:50:18 h | Heinz Hüglin LV Ettenheim | 6:52:16 h |
| 100 kilometres team | LTF Marpingen Volker Becker-Wirbel Guido Joerg Franz Feller | 22:01:57 h | DJK Frankenberg Aachen Hans Waack Diethard Gansow Burkhard Ernst Weber | 22:33:02 h | LC Olympia Wiesbaden Heinz-Werner Janicke Michael Menz Rudolf Raab | 23:24:55 h |
| 110 m hurdles | Dietmar Koszewski LAC Halensee Berlin | 13.56 s | Claude Edorh ASV Köln | 13.69 s | Eric Kaiser TSV Wasserburg | 13.94 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Michael Kaul USC Mainz | 50.39 s | Edgar Itt TV Gelnhausen | 50.42 s | Michael Grün LG Bayer Leverkusen | 51.00 s |
| 3000 m s'chase | Steffen Brand TV Wattenscheid | 8:26.81 min | Martin Strege LG Baunatal/ACT Kassel | 8:31.21 min | Kim Bauermeister LG Filder | 8:37.01 min |
| 4 × 100 m relay | TV Wattenscheid Holger Blume Robert Kurnicki Michael Huke Marc Blume | 39.57 s | VfL Sindelfingen Holger Vogelsang Oliver Schmidt Michael Schwab Marcus Skupin-Alfa | 40.38 s | SV Salamander Kornwestheim Patrick Schneider Thomas Nitsch Peter Klein Daniel Leigh | 40.60 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | LG Olympia Dortmund Stefan Audehm Udo Schiller Bodo Unger Ralf Pfersich | 3:09.29 min | VfL Sindelfingen Michael Schwab Holger Vogelsang Peter Mayer Jörg Vaihinger | 3:10.46 min | LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen Heinz Hünnekes Thomas Fobbe Günther Christian Kerberg | 3:10.51 min |
| 4 × 800 m relay | LG Bayer Leverkusen Ralf Dahmen Oliver Klaudt Alexander Adam Nico Udelhoven | 7:19.55 min | MTV Ingolstadt Hans Stamm Alfred Hummel Dieter Gabriel Peter Braun | 7:20.56 min | LAV Essen Riedel Große-Rhode Frank van Thiel Thorsten Kallweit | 7:23.36 min |
| 4 × 1500 m relay | TV Wattenscheid Ingo Janich Schulze Stephan Plätzer Rüdiger Stenzel | 15:08.24 min | ESC Erfurt Fromm Thorsten Lenhardt Hauke Fuhlbrügge Dominique Löser | 15:15.55 min | SCC Berlin Gordon Schatz Andreas Wagner Olaf Beyer Stephan Kabat | 15:15.84 min |
| 20 km walk | Robert Ihly LG Offenburg | 1:23:15 h | Hartwig Gauder TSV Erfurt | 1:23:31 h | Axel Noack Berliner TSC | 1:26:41 h |
| 20 km walk team | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Peter Zanner Ralf Rose Alfons Schwarz | 4:36:04 h | TSV Erfurt Hartwig Gauder Thomas Prophet Arnold | 4:39:10 h | SV Friedrichsgabe Dan Bauer Dieter Zschiesche Schulz | 5:01:01 h |
| 50 km walk | Hartwig Gauder TSV Erfurt | 3:52:46 h | Axel Noack Berliner TSC | 3:55:44 h | Volkmar Schulz Berliner SV 1892 | 3:56:06 h |
| 50 km walk team | Berliner SV 1892 Volkmar Scholz Matthias Hütler Detlef Heitmann | 13:04:24 h | LAC Quelle Fürth Peter Zanner Alfons Schwarz Hardy Koschollek | 13:14:26 h | TV 1846 Groß-Gerau Heinrich Hänsel Rolf Fricke Uwe Rowold | 14:43:38 h |
| High jump | Wolf-Hendrik Beyer LG Bayer Leverkusen | 2.33 m | Ralf Sonn TSG Weinheim | 2.33 m | Carlo Thränhardt LG Bayer Leverkusen | 2.25 m |
| Pole vault | Tim Lobinger LG Bayer Leverkusen | 5.50 m | Werner Holl LG VfB/Kickers Stuttgart | 5.40 m | Marc Osenberg LG Bayer Leverkusen | 5.40 m |
| Long jump | Georg Ackermann LG Karlsruhe | 8.00 m | Bernhard Kelm TSV Wasserburg | 7.98 m | Christian Thomas TV Heppenheim | 7.98 m |
| Triple jump | Ralf Jaros TV Wattenscheid | 17.13 m | Volker Mai SC Neubrandenburg | 16.41 m | Wolfgang Knabe TV Wattenscheid | 16.37 m |
| Shot put | Oliver-Sven Buder TV Wattenscheid | 20.15 m | Jonny Reinhardt TV Wattenscheid | 19.35 m | Michael Mertens VfL Wolfsburg | 18.74 m |
| Discus throw | Lars Riedel USC Mainz | 65.48 m | Jürgen Schult Schweriner SC | 63.28 m | Michael Möllenbeck Eintracht Frankfurt | 61.72 m |
| Hammer throw | Jörn Hübner LC Cottbus | 72.62 m | Karsten Kobs LG Olympia Dortmund | 72.50 m | Claus Dethloff LG Bayer Leverkusen | 71.26 m |
| Javelin throw | Raymond Hecht TV Wattenscheid | 81.88 m | Boris Henry TV Ludweiler | 80.48 m | Peter Blank USC Mainz | 80.04 m |
| Decathlon | Christian Schenk USC Mainz | 8109 pts | Torsten Voss LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen | 8074 pts | Thorsten Dauth TV Heppenheim | 7985 pts |
| Decathlon team | USC Mainz Christian Schenk Udo Jacobasch Christian Betzle | 22.377 pts | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Peter Neumaier Norbert Demmel Helmut Haas | 22.285 pts | TV Norden Frank Müller Robert Kleemann Gerd Zander | 21.778 pts |
| Cross country short course – 2.8 km | Ralf Dahmen LG Bayer Leverkusen | 7:51 min | Stephan Kabat SCC Berlin | 7:56 min | Rüdiger Stenzel TV Wattenscheid | 7:56 min |
| Cross country short course, Team | SCC Berlin Stephan Kabat Olaf Beyer Jens Joppich | 23 | TV Wattenscheid Rüdiger Stenzel Stephan Plätzer H. Schulze | 39 | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Hubert Karl Klaus-Peter Nabein Dieter Deininger | 51 |
| Cross country long course – 12.4 km | Stephan Freigang LC Cottbus | 37:53 min | Rainer Wachenbrunner Berliner SC | 37:56 min | Jens Wilky LG Olympia Dortmund | 38:37 min |
| Cross country long course, Team | SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken Markus Neukirch Alfred Knickenberg R. Müller | 74 | LG Wipperfürth Robert Langfeld Jörg Haarmann Olaf Kästner | 90 | LG Olympia Dortmund Jens Wilky Kasper Michael Kluwe | 113 |
| Mountain running | Guido Dold LC Breisgau | 46:40 min | Dirk Debertin LC Breisgau | 47:59 min | Philipp Kehl SVO Germaringen | 48:03 min |
| Mountain running | LC Breisgau Guido Dold Dirk Debertin Peter Fröhlich | 2:25:38 h | SVO Germaringen Philipp Kehl Martin Sambale Reinhard Mayer | 2:27:08 h | LG Frankfurt Wolfgang Münzel Jörg Leipner Oliver Majchrzak | 2:30:48 h |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Melanie Paschke LG Braunschweig | 11.23 s | Andrea Philipp Schweriner SC | 11.51 s | Bettina Zipp TV Schriesheim | 11.53 s |
| 200 metres | Silke-Beate Knoll LG Olympia Dortmund | 22.74 s | Melanie Paschke LG Braunschweig | 22.97 s | Silke Lichtenhagen LG Bayer Leverkusen | 23.33 s |
| 400 metres | Anja Rücker TuS Jena | 52.43 s | Karin Janke VfL Wolfsburg | 53.13 s | Sandra Seuser SCC Berlin | 53.31 s |
| 800 metres | Birte Bruhns ASV Köln | 2:01.73 min | Sabine Zwiener LG VfB/Kickers Stuttgart | 2:01.88 min | Christine Wachtel SC Empor Rostock | 2:01.90 min |
| 1500 metres | Simone Weidner OSC Berlin | 4:15.62 min | Antje Beggerow SC Empor Rostock | 4:16.30 min | Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim LG Offenburg | 4:17.59 min |
| 3000 metres | Claudia Lokar LG Olympia Dortmund | 9:02.62 min | Christina Mai LG Olympia Dortmund | 9:04.02 min | Dörte Köster SC Empor Rostock | 9:04.86 min |
| 10,000 metres | Kathrin Weßel OSC Berlin | 32:00.52 min | Claudia Dreher LG Olympia Dortmund | 32:24.74 min | Sonja Krolik LG Bayer Leverkusen | 33:40.50 min |
| Half marathon | Birgit Jerschabek LG Sieg | 1:14:08 h | Claudia Metzner TV Wattenscheid | 1:14:25 h | Jutta Karsch LG Olympia Dortmund | 1:14:41 h |
| Half marathon team | LG Sieg Birgit Jerschabek Manuela Veith Hildegard Mockenhaupt | 3:55:34 h | Starlight Team Essen 91 Martina Weise Anke Bauer Ayla Tosun | 4:10:41 h | SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken Bärbel Zeeb Isabelle Müller Steffi Hertel | 4:11:05 h |
| Marathon | Birgit Jerschabek LG Sieg | 2:30:34 h | Andrea Fleischer TuS Jena | 2:37:11 h | Sigrid Wulsch LG Menden | 2:43:19 h |
| Marathon team | LG Sieg Birgit Jerschabek Hildegard Mockenhaupt Josefa Matheis | 8:30:14 h | TV Geiselhöring 1862 Traudi Haselbeck Heidemarie Stalla Ilse Rühlemann | 8:47:10 h | LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen Sigrid Altmeyer Petra Sander Petra Bauer | 9:03:19 h |
| 100 kilometres | Birgit Lennartz-Lohrengel LG Sieg | 7:46:44 h | Iris Reuter TVDÄ Hanau | 7:50:57 h | Jutta Philippin SpVgg Renningen | 7:56:55 h |
| 100 kilometres team | DLC Aachen Antje Küpper Maria Theißen Irene Franken | 26:49:16 h | SCC Berlin Helga Backhaus Christl Heine Sigrid Eichner | 27:16:40 h | Only two team entrants | |
| 100 m hurdles | Kristin Patzwahl LAC Halensee Berlin | 12.98 s | Caren Jung MTG Mannheim | 13.30 s | Sabine Braun TV Wattenscheid | 13.38 s |
| 400 m hurdles | Silvia Rieger TuS Eintracht Hinte | 55.42 s | Heike Meißner Dresdner SC | 55.54 s | Linda Kisabaka LG Bayer Leverkusen | 56.17 s |
| 4 × 100 m relay | LG Bayer Leverkusen Kerstin Reuter Silke Lichtenhagen Stefanie Hütz Anke Feller | 44.76 s | LG Olympia Dortmund Tielkes Martina Kersting Mirja Knuth Silke-Beate Knoll | 45.35 s | LG Wipperfürth Katrin Blankenburg Christina Hormann Katrin Herbeck Ingeborg Leschnik | 45.47 s |
| 4 × 400 m relay | LG Olympia Dortmund Sandra Kuschmann Helga Arendt Silvia Steimle Silke-Beate Knoll | 3:33.89 min | LG Offenburg Bettina Kersten Christine Wahl Simone Geist Ulrike Heinz | 3:36.66 min | OSC Berlin Jana Schönenberger Marlies Keil Marion Zillwich-Scholz Simone Weidner | 3:41.17 min |
| 3 × 800 m relay | SCC Berlin Carmen Wüstenhagen Katje Hoffmann Kati Kovacs | 6:19.04 min | OSC Berlin Cornelia Bahls Marlies Keil Simone Weidner | 6:23.63 min | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Christine Stief Ute Haak Sabine Leist | 6:30.60 min |
| 5000 m walk | Beate Anders LAC Halensee Berlin | 20:55.75 min | Kathrin Born OSC Potsdam | 21:49.33 min | Sandy Leddin TSV Erfurt | 22:32.56 min |
| 10 km walk | Beate Anders LAC Halensee Berlin | 43:12 min | Kathrin Born OSC Potsdam | 45:13 min | Simone Thust LAC Halensee Berlin | 46:40 min |
| 10 km walk team | LAC Halensee Berlin Beate Anders Simone Thust Sandra Priemer | 2:19:52 h | Berliner SC Doreen Sellenriek Helge Will Yvonne Anders | 2:30:22 h | LSG Aalen Brigitte Buck Christine Stegmaier Insa Franke | 2:35:35 h |
| High jump | Heike Henkel LG Bayer Leverkusen | 2.00 m | Heike Balck Schweriner SC | 1.92 m | Andrea Baumert SCC Berlin | 1.88 m |
| Pole vault | Carmen Haage LG Herlazhofen/Diepoldshofen | 3.85 m | Tanja Cors MTV Holzminden | 3.75 m | Andrea Müller LAZ Zweibrücken | 3.55 m |
| Long jump | Susen Tiedtke Berliner SC | 6.77 m | Helga Radtke SC Empor Rostock | 6.53 m | Katrin Bartschat TK Hannover | 6.40 m |
| Triple jump | Helga Radtke SC Empor Rostock | 14.05 m | Petra Laux LAG Siegen | 13.61 m | Anja Vokuhl SC Magdeburg | 13.57 m |
| Shot put | Kathrin Neimke SC Magdeburg | 19.56 m | Stephanie Storp VfL Wolfsburg | 19.53 m | Astrid Kumbernuss SC Neubrandenburg | 19.09 m |
| Discus throw | Anja Gündler OSC Berlin | 61.84 m | Franka Dietzsch SC Neubrandenburg | 60.70 m | Astrid Kumbernuss SC Neubrandenburg | 59.64 m |
| Hammer throw | Simone Mathes UAC Kulmbach | 53.36 m | Marion Große ASV Köln | 50.60 m | Angelika Lindemann LG Frankfurt | 50.22 m |
| Javelin throw | Silke Renk SV Halle | 65.46 m | Steffi Nerius LG Bayer Leverkusen | 63.88 m | Karen Forkel SV Halle | 62.84 m |
| Heptathlon | Birgit Clarius LAC Quelle Fürth | 6500 pts | Birgit Gautzsch Schweriner SC | 6181 pts | Bettina Braag LG Bayer Leverkusen | 6083 pts |
| Heptathlon team | LG Bayer Leverkusen Bettina Braag Silke Knut Anke Straschewski | 17.270 pts | LAC Quelle Fürth Birgit Clarius Sabine Schwarz Heike Blassnek | 17.182 pts | OSC Berlin Marion Scholz Micheline Borchert Sylvana Finke | 16.280 pts |
| Cross country short course – 2.8 km | Claudia Metzner TV Wattenscheid | 9:01 min | Katrin Wolf LAC Quelle Fürth | 9:05 min | Annette Hüls LG Bayer Leverkusen | 9:07 min |
| Cross country short course, Team | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Katrin Wolf Ute Haak Vera Michallek | 11 | LG Bayer Leverkusen Annette Hüls Katja Steinmetz Susanne Hüls | 21 | LG Braunschweig Doris Grossert Katrin Bröger Kratz | 47 |
| Cross country long course – 7.6 km | Claudia Dreher LG Olympia Dortmund | 25:52 min | Birgit Jerschabek LG Sieg | 26:09 min | Claudia Lokar LG Olympia Dortmund | 26:38 min |
| Cross country long course, Team | LG Olympia Dortmund Claudia Dreher Claudia Lokar Antje Pohlmann | 13 | SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken Bärbel Zeeb Nicole Frank Steffi Hertel | 53 | LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen Petra Sander Sigrid Altmeyer Petra Bauer | 53 |
| Mountain running | Birgit Lennartz-Lohrengel LG Sieg | 57:29 min | Johanna Baumgartner LAC Quelle Fürth / München | 57:48 min | Sonja Ambrosy LC Breisgau | 59:23 min |
| Mountain running | LC Breisgau Sonja Ambrosy Barbara Guerike Monika Imgraben | 3:06:08 h | LAC Quelle Fürth / München Johanna Baumgartner Silke Hennersdorf Marion Rupprich | 3:31:53 h | TSV Burghaslach Fischer Dagmar Weinländer Dölle | 3:33:01 h |