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Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Germany at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Flag of Germany.svg
IOC codeGER
NOCGerman Olympic Sports Confederation
Websitewww.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Barcelona
Competitors463 (300 men, 163 women) in 26 sports
Flag bearer Manfred Klein
Medals
Ranked 3rd
Gold
33
Silver
21
Bronze
28
Total
82
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games
Saar (1952)
United Team of Germany (1956–1964)
East Germany (1968–1988)
West Germany (1968–1988)

Germany competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first time the European nation participated after German reunification in 1990. Previously, West Germany and East Germany had sent independent teams to the Games. 463 competitors, 300 men and 163 women, took part in 237 events in 26 sports.[1]

Medalists

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics

In Germany's fifth archery competition, only one of the six archers qualified for the individual elimination rounds. He lost his first match, as did both the men's and women's teams.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Astrid Hanschen – Ranking round, 43rd place (0-0)
  • Cornelia Pfohl – Ranking round, 44th place (0-0)
  • Marion Wagner – Ranking round, 53rd place (0-0)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Frank Marzoch – Round of 32, 32nd place (0-1)
  • Marc Rosicke – Ranking round, 38th place (0-0)
  • Andreas Lippoldt – Ranking round, 43rd place (0-0)

Women's Team Competition:

  • Hanschen, Pfohl, and Wagner – Round of 16, 10th place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Marzoch, Rosicke, and Lippoldt – Round of 16, 11th place (0-1)

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's competition

Men's 400 metres

Men's 800 metres

  • Jörg Haas

Men's 1,500 metres

Men's 5,000 metres

  • Heat – 13:20.82
  • Final – 13:12.52 (→ Gold Medal)Med 1.png

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Stephane Franke
  • Heat – 28:52.83 (→ did not advance)
  • Carsten Eich
  • Heat – 29:22.19 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

  • Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Stephan Freigang – 2:14.00 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze
  • Konrad Dobler – 2:23.44 (→ 49th place)

Men's 110 metres Hurdles

Men's 400 metres Hurdles

  • Carsten Kohrbruck
  • Heat – 49.37
  • Semifinal – 49.41 (→ did not advance)
  • Olaf Hense
  • Heat – 49.97
  • Semifinal – DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase

Men's 20 km Walk

Men's 50 km Walk

Men's High Jump

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification – 7.85 m (→ did not advance)
  • Konstantin Krause
  • Qualification – 7.50 m (→ did not advance)

Men's triple jump

  • Qualification – 16.89 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Volker Hadwich
  • Qualification – 81.10 m
  • Final – 75.28 m (→ 12th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification – 74.86 m
  • Final – 76.90 m (→ 6th place)
  • Claus Dethloff
  • Qualification – 73.64 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualification – 63.46 m
  • Final – 64.94 m (→ Silver Medal)Med 2.png
  • Qualification – 59.98 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualification – 19.93 m
  • Final – 20.49 m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification – 18.47 m (→ did not advance)
  • Kalman Konya
  • Qualification – did not start (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

  • Paul Meier
  • Frank Müller
  • Thorsten Dauth

Women's competition

Women's 100 metres

Women's 200 metres

Women's 400 metres

Women's 800 metres

  • Sabine Zwiener
  • Heat – 2:00.87
  • Semifinal – 2:02.64 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 2:00.31
  • Semifinal – 2:00.91 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 2:01.39 (→ did not advance)

Women's 1,500 metres

  • Ellen Kießling

Women's 10,000 metres

  • Heat – 32:07.28
  • Final – 31:36.45 (→ 7th place)
  • Kerstin Preßler
  • Heat – 33:17.88 (→ did not advance)
  • Kathrin Ullrich
  • Heat – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

  • Katrin Dörre – 2:36.48 (→ 5th place)
  • Birgit Jerschabek – 2:42.45 (→ 15th place)

Women's 100 metres Hurdles

Women's 400 metres Hurdles

  • Heat – 55.52
  • Semifinal – 55.35 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 56.61 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – DNS (→ did not advance)

Women's 4×100 metres Relay

Women's 4×400 metres Relay

Women's 10 km Walk

  • Beate Anders
  • Final – 46:31 (→ 16th place)
  • Kathrin Born-Boyde
  • Final – 50:21 (→ 33rd place)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification – 1.92 m
  • Final – 2.02 m (→ Gold Medal)Med 1.png
  • Birgit Kahler
  • Qualification – 1.92 m
  • Final – 1.88 m (→ 11th place)
  • Marion Goldkamp
  • Qualification – 1.86 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

  • Heat – 7.08 m
  • Final – 7.14 m (→ Gold Medal)Med 1.png
  • Heat – 6.74 m
  • Final – 6.60 m (→ 8th place)
  • Heat – 6.42 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

Women's Discus Throw

  • Heat – 64.26m
  • Final – 62.16m (→ 9th place)
  • Heat – 63.60m
  • Final – 60.24m (→ 12th place)
  • Heat – 60.52m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

Women's Heptathlon

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

  • First Round – Defeated Mohamed Zbir (MAR), 6:0
  • Second Round – Defeated Pramuansak Phosuwan (THA), 11:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Valentin Barbu (ROM), 15:7
  • Semifinals – Lost to Daniel Petrov (BUL), 9:15

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Seventeen cyclists, thirteen men and four women, represented Germany in 1992.

Men's road race
Men's team time trial
Men's sprint
  • Jens Fiedler
Men's 1 km time trial
  • Jens Glücklich
Men's individual pursuit
Men's team pursuit
Men's points race
  • Guido Fulst
Women's road race
Women's sprint
Women's individual pursuit

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Albin Killat
  • Preliminary Round – 392.10 points
  • Final – 556.35 points (→ 10th place)
  • Preliminary Round – 353.85 points (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 10m Platform

  • Preliminary Round – 426.27 points
  • Final – 574.17 points (→ 4th place)
  • Michael Kühne
  • Preliminary Round – 393.21 points
  • Final – 558.54 points (→ 7th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Round – 312.90 points
  • Final – 503.07 points (→ Bronze Medal)Med 3.png
  • Simona Koch
  • Preliminary Round – 281.46 points
  • Final – 468.96 points (→ 7th place)

Women's 10m Platform

  • Ute Wetzig
  • Preliminary Round – 284.13 points (→ did not advance, 14th place)
  • Monika Kühn
  • Preliminary Round – 270.51 points (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented Germany in 1992.

Men's foil
  • Udo Wagner
  • Ulrich Schreck
  • Thorsten Weidner
Men's team foil
  • Udo Wagner, Ulrich Schreck, Thorsten Weidner, Alexander Koch, Ingo Weißenborn
Men's épée
  • Elmar Borrmann
  • Robert Felisiak
  • Arnd Schmitt
Men's team épée
  • Elmar Borrmann, Robert Felisiak, Arnd Schmitt, Uwe Proske, Wladimir Reznitschenko
Men's sabre
  • Jürgen Nolte
  • Felix Becker
  • Jörg Kempenich
Men's team sabre
  • Felix Becker, Jörg Kempenich, Jürgen Nolte, Jacek Huchwajda, Steffen Wiesinger
Women's foil
  • Sabine Bau
  • Zita-Eva Funkenhauser
  • Annette Dobmeier
Women's team foil
  • Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Sabine Bau, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Monika Weber-Koszto, Annette Dobmeier

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Germany – Unified Team 25-15
  • Germany – Romania 20-20
  • Germany – France 20-23
  • Germany – Egypt 24-16
  • Germany – Spain 18-19
  • Classification Match
  • 9th/10th place: Germany – Czechoslovakia 19-20 (→ Tenth place)
  • Team roster
  • Jochen Fraatz
  • Matthias Hahn
  • Stephan Hauck
  • Jan Holpert
  • Michael Kiemm
  • Michael Krieter
  • Hendrik Ochel
  • Klaus-Dieter Petersen
  • Richard Ratka
  • Bernd Roos
  • Holger Schneider
  • Wolfgang Schwenke
  • Andreas Thiel
  • Frank-Michael Wahl
  • Holger Winselmann
  • Volker Zerbe
  • Head Coach: Horst Bredemeier

Women's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Germany – Nigeria 32-17
  • Germany – United States 32-16
  • Germany – Unified Team 22-28
  • Semi Finals
  • Germany – South Korea 25-26
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Germany – Unified Team 20-24 (→ Fourth place)
  • Team Roster
  • Sabine Heidrun Adamik
  • Andrea Bölk
  • Eike Bram
  • Carola Ciszewski
  • Michaela Erler
  • Silke Fittinger
  • Sybille Gruner
  • Rita Köster
  • Anja Krüger
  • Elena Leonte
  • Kerstin Mühlner
  • Gabriele Palme
  • Silvia Schmitt
  • Andrea Stolletz
  • Bianka Urbanke
  • Birgit Wagner
  • Head Coach: Heinz Strauch

Hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Germany – India 3 – 0
  • Germany – Great Britain 2 – 0
  • Germany – Australia 1 – 1
  • Germany – Egypt 8 – 2
  • Germany – Argentina 2 – 1
  • Semi Finals
  • Germany – Pakistan 2 – 1
  • Final
  • Germany – Australia 2 – 1 (→ Gold Medal)Gold
  • Team Roster

Women's team competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Semi Finals
  • Final
  • Germany – Spain 1 – 2 (→ Silver Medal)Silver
  • Team Roster

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented Germany in 1992.

Individual
  • Dirk Knappheide
  • Ulrich Czermak
  • Pawel Olszewski
Team
  • Dirk Knappheide
  • Ulrich Czermak
  • Pawel Olszewski

Rhythmic gymnastics

Main article: Rhythmic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

  • Timm Stade
  • Final Ranking – 214.0 points (→ 18th place)

Women's 470 Class

  • Peggy Hardwiger and Christina Pinnow
  • Final Ranking – 71.7 points (→ 8th place)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's competition

Men's 50 m Freestyle

  • Nils Rudolph
  • Heat – 22.70
  • Final – 22.73 (→ 8th place)
  • Heat – 22.88
  • B-Final – 22.88 (→ 11th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 50.05
  • Final – 49.84 (→ 7th place)
  • Nils Rudolph
  • Heat – 50.29
  • B-Final – 50.62 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 1:48.12
  • Final – 1:48.84 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 1:50.07
  • B-Final – 1:50.46 (→ 14th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 3:50.73
  • Final – 3:49.06 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat – 3:49.99
  • Final – 3:49.75 (→ 7th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 15:03.95
  • Final – 15:02.29 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze
  • Heat – 15:13.71
  • Final – 15:04.28 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat – 56.03
  • Final – 56.26 (→ 8th place)
  • Tino Weber
  • Heat – 56.27
  • B-Final – 56.49 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Tino Weber
  • Heat – 1:59.40
  • Final – 1:59.78 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 2:00.94
  • B-Final – DNS (→ no ranking)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Heat – 1:02.48
  • B-Final – 1:02.73 (→ 13th place)
  • Christian Poswiat
  • Heat – 1:03.85 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Christian Poswiat
  • Heat – 2:20.80 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat – 54.47
  • B-Final – 54.30 (→ 9th place)
  • Martin Herrmann
  • Heat – 54.59
  • B-Final – 54.94 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

  • Heat – 2:00.49
  • B-Final – 1:59.93 (→ 9th place)
  • Martin Herrmann
  • Heat – 2:00.47
  • B-Final – 2:01.14 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Christian Gessner
  • Heat – 2:02.43
  • Final – 2:01.97 (→ 5th place)
  • Josef Hladký
  • Heat – 2:07.18 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Christian Gessner
  • Heat – 4:19.92
  • Final – 4:17.88 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat – 4:18.68
  • Final – 4:19.66 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat – 3:19.61
  • Final – 3:17.90 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat – 7:18.21
  • Final – 7:16.58 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat – 3:43.00
  • Final – 3:40.19 (→ 4th place)

Women's competition

Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 25.79
  • Final – 25.74 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 25.96
  • B-Final – DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 55.40
  • Final – 54.94 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze
  • Heat – 55.98
  • Final – 55.93 (→ 7th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 1:57.90
  • Final – 1:58.00 (→ Silver Medal)Silver
  • Kerstin Kielgass
  • Heat – 2:00.55
  • Final – 1:59.67 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 4:10.92
  • Final – 4:07.18 (→ Gold Medal)Gold
  • Kerstin Kielgass
  • Heat – 4:12.50
  • Final – 4:11.52 (→ 5th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Heat – 8:35.11
  • Final – 8:30.99 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze
  • Kerstin Kielgass
  • Heat – 8:43.52 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Heat – 1:02.90
  • B-Final – 1:04.52 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat – 1:03.35
  • B-Final – 1:02.93 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Heat – 2:11.52
  • Final – 2:09.46 (→ Silver Medal)Silver
  • Marion Zoller
  • Heat – 2:14.53
  • B-Final – 2:13.77 (→ 9th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Jana Dörries
  • Heat – 1:10.00
  • Final – 1:09.77 (→ 5th place)
  • Daniela Brendel
  • Heat – 1:10.49
  • Final – 1:11.05 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Daniela Brendel
  • Heat – 2:32.09
  • B-Final – 2:32.05 (→ 10th place)
  • Jana Dörries
  • Heat – 2:34.58 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Heat – 1:00.02
  • Final – 1:00.70 (→ 7th place)
  • Bettina Ustrowski
  • Heat – 1:02.07 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Bettina Ustrowski
  • Heat – 2:21.49 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Heat – 2:15.16
  • Final – 2:13.92 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze
  • Jana Haas
  • Heat – 2:17.74
  • B-Final – 2:20.94 (→ 16th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Heat – 4:47.39
  • Final – 4:47.57 (→ 6th place)
  • Jana Haas
  • Heat – 4:49.93
  • B-Final – 4:47.74 (→ 9th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat – 3:43.58
  • Final – 3:41.60 (→ Bronze Medal)Bronze

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat – 4:10.62
  • Final – 4:05.19 (→ Silver Medal)Silver

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Two synchronized swimmers represented Germany in 1992.

Women's solo
  • Monika Müller
  • Margit Schreib
Women's duet
  • Monika Müller
  • Margit Schreib

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Singles Competition

Men's Doubles Competition

Women's Singles Competition

  • First Round – Defeated Lupita Novelo (Mexico) 6-1, 6-1
  • Second Round – Defeated Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (Netherlands) 6-1, 6-0
  • Third Round – Defeated Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-3, 6-4
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Sabine Appelmans (Belgium) 6-1, 6-0
  • Semifinals – Defeated Mary Joe Fernandez (USA) 6-3, 6-4
  • Final – Lost to Jennifer Capriati (USA) 6-3, 3-6, 4-6
  • First Round – Defeated Naoko Sawamatsu (Japan) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2
  • Second Round – Defeated Barbara Paulus (Austria) 6-4, 6-1
  • Third Round – Defeated Nicole Muns-Jagerman (Netherlands) 7-5, 7-6
  • Quarterfinals – Lost to Jennifer Capriati (USA) 3-6, 6-7

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Tied with France (7-7)
  • Lost to Unified Team (7-11)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (15-9)
  • Tied with Australia (7-7)
  • Lost to United States (2-7)
  • Classification Matches
  • Lost to Hungary (7-8)
  • Defeated Cuba (10-6) → 7th place
  • Team Roster
  • Frank Otto
  • Hagen Stamm
  • Dirk Theissmann
  • Ingo Borgmann
  • Rene Reimann
  • Uwe Sterzik
  • Piotr Bukowski
  • Raúl de la Peña
  • Jörg Dresel
  • Torsten Dresel
  • Reibel Guido
  • Carsten Kusch

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

References

  1. ^ "Germany at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-14. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
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