West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Gold

Matthias Baumann, Ralf Ehrenbrink, Claus Erhorn, and Thies Kaspareit — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition

Ludger Beerbaum, Wolfgang Brinkmann, Dirk Hafemeister, and Franke Sloothaak — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition

Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Competition

Reiner Klimke, Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, Monica Theodorescu, and Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition

Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual Competition

Anja Fichtel-Mauritz — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition

Sabine Bau, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Annette Klug, and Christiane Weber — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition

Thomas Domian, Armin Eichholz, Manfred Klein, Wolfgang Maennig, Matthias Mellinghaus, Thomas Möllenkamp, Bahne Rabe, Eckhardt Schultz, and Ansgar Wessling — Rowing, Men's Eights

Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

Michael Groß — Swimming, Men's 200 m Butterfly

Steffi Graf — Tennis, Women's Singles Competition

Silver

Dieter Baumann — Athletics, Men's 5000 metres

Bernd Gröne — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race

Jutta Niehaus — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race

Matthias Behr, Thomas Endres, Matthias Gey, Ulrich Schreck, and Thorsten Weidner — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition

Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Thomas Gerull, Alexander Pusch, and Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition

Sabine Bau — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition

Frank Wieneke — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)

Marc Meiling — Judo, Men's Half Heavyweight (95 kg)

Stefan Blöcher, Dirk Brinkmann, Thomas Brinkmann, Heiner Dopp, Hans-Henning Fastrich, Carsten Fischer, Tobias Frank, Volker Fried, Horst-Ulrich Hänel, Michael Hilgers, Andreas Keller, Michael Metz, Andreas Mollandin, Thomas Reck, Christian Schliemann, and Eckhard Schmidt-Opper — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition

Peter-Michael Kolbe — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls

Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Air Rifle

Stefan Pfeiffer — Swimming, Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Manfred Nerlinger — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

Gerhard Himmel — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Bronze

Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Ralf Lübke, and Jörg Vaihinger — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

Rolf Danneberg — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw

Claudia Zaczkiewicz — Athletics, Women's 100 m Hurdles

Reiner Gies — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight

Robert Lechner — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial

Christian Henn — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race

Karsten Huck — Equestrian, Jumping Individual Competition

Zita-Eva Funkenhauser — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition

Guido Grabow, Volker Grabow, Norbert Keßlau, and Jörg Puttlitz — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours

Johann Riederer — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle

Uwe Kamps, Oliver Reck, Wolfgang Funkel, Roland Grahammer, Thomas Hörster, Gunnar Sauer, Michael Schulz, Rudolf Bommer, Holger Fach, Gerhard Kleppinger, Armin Görtz, Thomas Häßler, Olaf Janßen, Christian Schreier, Ralf Sievers, Wolfram Wuttke, Jürgen Klinsmann, Fritz Walter, Frank Mill, and Karlheinz Riedle — Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition

Thomas Fahrner, Michael Groß, Rainer Henkel, and Erik Hochstein — Swimming, Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

Steffi Graf and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch — Tennis, Women's Doubles Competition

Peter Immesberger — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)

Martin Zawieja — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

Archery

In West Germany's fourth archery competition, the six archers were not as successful as the German team had been four years earlier, but nevertheless qualified two individuals for the semifinals and ended up with 6th places in both the women's team and women's individual events.

Women's Individual Competition:

Claudia Kriz – Final (→ 6th place)

Christa Oeckl – Preliminary Round (→ 25th place)

Doris Haas – Preliminary Round (→ 32nd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Detlef Kahlert – Semifinal (→ 12th place)

Manfred Barth – Preliminary Round (→ 54th place)

B. Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 59th place)

Women's Team Competition:

Kriz, Oeckl, and Haas – Final (→ 6th place)

Men's Team Competition:

Kahlert, Barth, and Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 18th place)

Athletics

Men's 5.000 metres

Dieter Baumann

First Round — 13:58.58

Semi Final — 13:22.71

Final — 13:15.52 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's Marathon

Ralf Salzmann

Final — 2:16.54 (→ 23rd place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

Christian Haas, Fritz Heer, Peter Klein, and Dirk Schweisfurth

Heat — 39.01

Semi Final — 38.75

Final — 38.55 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

Bodo Kuhn, Mark Henrich, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Heat — 3:03.90

Norbert Dobeleit, Mark Henrich, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Semi Final — 3:00.66

Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Jörg Vaihinger, and Ralf Lübke

Final — 3:00.56 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 3.000m Steeplechase

Jens Volkmann

Heat — 8:36.37

Semi Final — 8:25.19 (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

Klaus Tafelmeier

Qualification — 80.52m

Final — 82.72m (→ 4th place)

Men's Discus Throw

Rolf Danneberg

Qualifying Heat – 65.70m

Final – 67.38m (→ Bronze Medal)

Alois Hannecker

Qualifying Heat – 61.44m

Final – 64.94m (→ 8th place)

Wulf Brunner

Qualifying Heat – 57.50m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

Heinz Weis

Qualifying Heat — 77.24m

Final — 79.16m (→ 5th place)

Christoph Sahner

Qualifying Heat — 75.84m (→ did not advance)

Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

Helga Arendt, Michaela Schabinger, Gisela Kinzel, and Gudrun Abt

Heat — 3:27.75

Ute Thimm, Helga Arendt, Andrea Thomas, and Gudrun Abt

Final — 3:22.49 (→ 4th place)

Women's Marathon

Kerstin Preßler

Final — 2"34.26 (→ 21st place)

Gabriela Wolf

Final — 2"35.11 (→ 27th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

Ingrid Thyssen

Qualification – 63.32m

Final – 60.76m (→ 8th place)

Beate Peters

Qualification – 60.20m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

Claudia Losch

Qualification – 20.39m

Final – 20.27m (→ 5th place)

Iris Plotzitzka

Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

Sabine Braun

Final Result — 6109 points (→ 14th place)

Sabine Everts

Final Result — 2513 points (→ 27th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Markus Bott

First Round — Defeated René Suetovius (GDR), RSC-3

Second Round — Lost to Nuramgomed Shanavazov (URS), 0:5

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

Andreas Schnieders

First Round — Defeated Tsibalabala Kadima (ZAI), RSC-2

Second Round — Defeated Ubola Ovvigbo (NGA), 5:0

Quarterfinals — Lost to Janusz Zarenkiewicz (POL), 2:3

Cycling

Fifteen cyclists, twelve men and three women, represented West Germany in 1988.

Men's road race

Bernd Gröne — 4:32:25 (→ Silver Medal)

Christian Henn — 4:32:46 (→ Bronze Medal)

Remig Stumpf — 4:32:56 (→ 14th place)

Men's team time trial

Ernst Christl

Bernd Gröne

Rajmund Lehnert

Remig Stumpf

Men's sprint

Frank Weber

Men's 1 km time trial

Robert Lechner

Men's individual pursuit

Thomas Dürst

Men's team pursuit

Thomas Dürst

Matthias Lange

Uwe Nepp

Michael Rich

Men's points race

Uwe Messerschmidt

Women's road race

Jutta Niehaus — 2:00:52 (→ Silver Medal)

Ines Varenkamp — 2:00:52 (→ 12th place)

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the West Germany in 1988.

Men's foil

Ulrich Schreck

Matthias Gey

Matthias Behr

Men's team foil

Matthias Gey, Thorsten Weidner, Matthias Behr, Ulrich Schreck, Thomas Endres

Men's épée

Arnd Schmitt

Alexander Pusch

Thomas Gerull

Men's team épée

Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Thomas Gerull, Alexander Pusch, Arnd Schmitt

Men's sabre

Felix Becker

Jürgen Nolte

Stephan Thönnessen

Men's team sabre

Felix Becker, Jörg Kempenich, Jürgen Nolte, Dieter Schneider, Stephan Thönnessen

Women's foil

Anja Fichtel-Mauritz

Sabine Bau

Zita-Eva Funkenhauser

Women's team foil

Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Christiane Weber, Sabine Bau, Annette Klug

Football

Preliminary Round (Group A)

West Germany – China 3-0

West Germany – Tunisia 4-1

West Germany – Sweden 1-2

Quarter Finals

West Germany – Zambia 4-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Brazil 1-1 (Brazil won 3-2 in penalty shootout)

Bronze Medal Game

West Germany – Italy 3-0 (→ Bronze Medal)

Team Roster

Uwe Kamps

Oliver Reck

Wolfgang Funkel

Roland Grahammer

Thomas Hörster

Gunnar Sauer

Michael Schulz

Rudolf Bommer

Holger Fach

Gerhard Kleppinger

Armin Görtz

Thomas Häßler

Olaf Janßen

Christian Schreier

Ralf Sievers

Wolfram Wuttke

Jürgen Klinsmann

Fritz Walter

Frank Mill

Karlheinz Riedle

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – Canada 3-1

West Germany – India 1-1

West Germany – Great Britain 2-1

West Germany – South Korea 1-0

West Germany – Soviet Union 6-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Netherlands 2-1

Final

West Germany – Great Britain 1-3 (→ Silver Medal)

Team Roster

( 1.) Christian Schliemann (gk)

( 2.) Tobias Frank (gk)

( 3.) Ulrich Hänel

( 4.) Carsten Fischer

( 5.) Andreas Mollandin

( 6.) Eckhard Schmidt-Opper

( 7.) Dirk Brinkmann

( 8.) Heiner Dopp (captain)

( 9.) Stefan Blöcher

(10.) Andreas Keller

(11.) Thomas Reck

(12.) Thomas Brinkmann

(13.) Hans-Henning Fastrich

(14.) Michael Hilgers

(15.) Volker Fried

(16.) Michael Metz

Head Coach: Klaus Kleiter

Women's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – South Korea 1-4

West Germany – Australia 0-1

West Germany – Canada 2-1

Classification Matches

5th-8th place: West Germany – United States 2-1

5th-6th place: West Germany – Canada 4-2 (→ Fifth place)

Team Roster

( 1.) Pia Büchel (gk)

( 2.) Susanne Schmid

( 3.) Carola Hoffmann

( 4.) Heike Gehrmann

( 5.) Dagmar Breiken

( 6.) Gabriele Uhlenbruck

( 7.) Viola Grahl

( 8.) Bettina Blumenberg

( 9.) Gaby Appel

(10.) Martina Hallmen

(11.) Christine Ferneck

(12.) Silke Wehrmeister

(13.) Caren Jungjohann

(14.) Eva Hegener

(15.) Susie Wollschläger (gk)

(16.) Gabriela Schöwe

Head Coach: Wolfgang Strödter

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented West Germany in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

Marcus Marsollek – 4964 pts (→ 24th place)

Michael Zimmermann – 4782 pts (→ 41st place)

Dirk Knappheide – 4765 pts (→ 42nd place)

Men's Team Competition:

Marsollek, Zimmermann, and Knappheide – 14511 pts (→ 10th place)

Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

Frank Henter

1. Heat – 22.98
2. Final – 23.03 (→ 7th place)

Stephan Güsgen

1. Heat – 23.22
2. B-Final – 23.55 (→ 14th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Thomas Fahrner

1. Heat – 50.78
2. B-Final – 51.12 (→ 14th place)

Torsten Wiegel

1. Heat – 51.02 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Michael Groß

1. Heat – 1:48.55
2. Final – 1:48.59 (→ 5th place)

Thomas Fahrner

1. Heat – 1:49.02
2. Final – 1:49.19 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer

1. Heat – 3:49.52
2. Final – 3:49.96 (→ 6th place)

Rainer Henkel

1. Heat – 3:51.50
2. B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer

1. Heat – 15:07.85
2. Final – 15:02.69 (→ Silver Medal)

Rainer Henkel

1. Heat – 15:14.64
2. B-Final – 15:18.19 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Frank Hoffmeister

1. Heat – 56.19
2. Final – 56.19 (→ 7th place)

Jens-Peter Berndt

1. Heat – 57.08
2. Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Jens-Peter Berndt

1. Heat – 2:01.77
2. Final – 2:01.84 (→ 6th place)

Frank Hoffmeister

1. Heat – 2:03.34
2. B-Final – 2:01.65 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke

1. Heat – 1:03.56
2. B-Final – 1:03.40 (→ 11th place)

Alexander Mayer

1. Heat – 1:03.54
2. B-Final – 1:03.85 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke

1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Hartmut Wedekind

1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Michael Groß

1. Heat – 53.78
2. Final – 53.44 (→ 5th place)

Martin Herrmann

1. Heat – 55.20 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Michael Groß

1. Heat – 1:58.09
2. Final – 1:56.94 (→ Gold Medal)

Martin Herrmann

1. Heat – 2:02.61 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Peter Bermel

1. Heat – 2:04.18
2. Final – 2:03.81 (→ 5th place)

Jens-Peter Berndt

1. Heat – 2:04.80
2. B-Final – 2:06.76 (→ 15th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Jens-Peter Berndt

1. Heat – 4:20.93
2. Final – 4:21.71 (→ 6th place)

Peter Bermel

1. Heat – 4:22.78
2. Final – 4:24.02 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Björn Zikarsky, Peter Sitt, Torsten Wiegel, and Thomas Fahrner

1. Heat – 3:23.19

Michael Groß, Thomas Fahrner, Björn Zikarsky, and Peter Sitt

1. Final – 3:21.65 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

Peter Sitt, Rainer Henkel, Stefan Pfeiffer, and Erik Hochstein

1. Heat – 7:19.38

Erik Hochstein, Thomas Fahrner, Rainer Henkel, and Michael Groß

1. Final – 7:14.35 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Frank Hoffmeister, Mark Warnecke, Michael Groß, and Björn Zikarsky

1. Heat – 3:44.72

Frank Hoffmeister, Alexander Mayer, Michael Groß, and Björn Zikarsky

1. Final – 3:42.98 (→ 4th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

Marion Aizpors

1. Heat – 26.20
2. B-Final – 26.17 (→ 9th place)

Christiane Pielke

1. Heat – 26.33
2. B-Final – 26.22 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

Christiane Pielke

1. Heat – 57.47 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Katja Ziliox

1. Heat – 58.39 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig

1. Heat – 2:00.66
2. Final – 2:00.73 (→ 7th place)

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz

1. Heat – 2:02.77
2. B-Final – 2:02.32 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig

1. Heat – 4:12.18
2. Final – 4:13.05 (→ 7th place)

Alexandra Russ

1. Heat – 4:18.67 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig

1. Heat – 8:41.95 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Alexandra Russ

1. Heat – 8:49.31 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Marion Aizpors

1. Heat – 1:03.27
2. Final – 1:04.19 (→ 8th place)

Svenja Schlicht

1. Heat – 1:03.72
2. B-Final – 1:03.68 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Svenja Schlicht

1. Heat – 2:16.81
2. Final – 2:15.94 (→ 8th place)

Katja Zisiox

1. Heat – 2:26.25 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm

1. Heat – 1:12.98 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm

1. Heat – 2:35.06 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Heike Esser

1. Heat – 2:41.34 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Gabi Rehaa

1. Heat – 1:02.27
2. B-Final – 1:02.63 (→ 15th place)

Ina Beyermann

1. Heat – 1:02.85 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

Ina Beyermann

1. Heat – 2:13.56
2. B-Final – 2:13.74 (→ 10th place)

Gabi Rehaa

1. Heat – 2:13.09
2. B-Final – 2:14.20 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz

1. Heat – 2:17.46
2. B-Final – 2:17.85 (→ 10th place)

Svenja Schlicht

1. Heat – 2:20.31 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Karin Seick, Christiane Pielke, Katja Ziliox, and Marion Aizpors

1. Heat – 3:48.03

Stephanie Ortwig, Marion Aizpors, Christiane Pielke, and Karin Seick

1. Final – 3:46.90 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz

1. Heat – 4:52.05
2. B-Final – 4:50.54 (→ 10th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Svenja Schlicht, Britta Dahm, Gabi Rehaa, and Marion Aizpors

1. Heat – 4:13.19
2. Final – 4:12.89 (→ 7th place)

Synchronized swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented West Germany in 1988.

Women's solo

Gerlind Scheller

Doris Eisenhofer

Heike Friedrich

Women's duet

Gerlind Scheller

Heike Friedrich

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Carl-Uwe Steeb

1. First round — Defeated Alexander Volkov (Soviet Union) 7-5 6-4 6-3
2. Second round — Defeated Wally Masur (Australia) 6-3 5-7 6-3 1-6 7-5
3. Third round — Defeated Anders Järryd (Sweden) 2-6 7-5 6-3 7-5
4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Tim Mayotte (United States) 6-7 5-7 3-6

Eric Jelen

1. First round — Lost to Miloslav Mečíř (Czechoslovakia) 7-5 1-6 2-6 6-7

Women's Singles Competition

Steffi Graf → Gold Medal

1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Defeated Leila Meskhi (Soviet Union) 7-5 6-1
3. Third Round – Defeated Catherine Suire (France) 6-3 6-0
4. Quarterfinals – Defeated Larisa Neiland (Soviet Union) 6-2 4-6 6-3
5. Semifinals – Defeated Zina Garrison (USA) 6-2 6-0
6. Final – Defeated Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-3 6-3

Sylvia Hanika

1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Defeated Julia Muir (Zimbabwe) 6-1 6-1
3. Third Round – Lost to Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-1 4-6 2-6

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

1. First Round – Bye
2. Second Round – Lost to Raffaella Reggi (Italy) 6-4 6-7 3-6

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Defeated Australia (13-11)

Defeated France (10-9)

Defeated South Korea (18-2)

Defeated Italy (10-7)

Defeated Soviet Union (9-8)

Semi Finals

Lost to Yugoslavia (10-14)

Bronze Medal Match

Lost to Soviet Union (13-14) → 4th place

Team Roster

Peter Röhle

Dirk Jacoby

Frank Otto

Uwe Sterzik

Armando Fernández

Andreas Ehrl

Ingo Borgmann

Rainer Osselmann

Hagen Stamm

Thomas Huber

Dirk Theismann

René Reimann

Werner Obschernikat

Head Coach: Nicola Firuio