West Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics

West Germany at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Flag of Germany
IOC code	FRG
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Calgary
Competitors	90 (71 men, 19 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Peter Angerer (biathlon)
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 8
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the last time as a separate nation at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Marina Kiehl	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill	19 February
Gold	Thomas Müller Hans-Peter Pohl Hubert Schwarz	Nordic combined	Team	24 February
Silver	Georg Hackl	Luge	Men's singles	15 February
Silver	Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	24 February
Silver	Ernst Reiter Stefan Höck Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer	Biathlon	Relay	26 February
Silver	Frank Wörndl	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom	27 February
Bronze	Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	Luge	Doubles	19 February
Bronze	Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	26 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	9	8	17
Biathlon	5	–	5
Bobsleigh	8	–	8
Cross-country skiing	5	4	9
Figure skating	4	4	8
Ice hockey	23	–	23
Luge	6	1	7
Nordic combined	4	–	4
Ski jumping	5	–	5
Speed skating	3	2	5
Total	71	19	90

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Peter Dürr	Downhill			2:04.32	21
Hansjörg Tauscher				2:04.31	20
Hannes Zehentner				2:03.23	13
Markus Wasmeier				2:02.03	6
Michael Eder	Super-G			DNF	–
Markus Wasmeier				DNF	–
Peter Roth				DNF	–
Frank Wörndl				DNF	–
Peter Roth	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Armin Bittner		1:08.56	1:04.71	2:13.27	26
Markus Wasmeier		1:06.60	1:05.09	2:11.69	19
Frank Wörndl		1:06.10	1:03.12	2:09.22	8
Peter Roth	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Armin Bittner		DNF	–	DNF	–
Florian Beck		53.11	48.33	1:41.44	10
Frank Wörndl		50.99	48.54	1:39.53

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Armin Bittner	1:55.42	42.82	42.82	99.65	11
Markus Wasmeier	1:49.32	45.32	44.52	65.44	7
Hannes Zehentner	1:49.16	59.52	47.33	197.87	22
Peter Dürr	1:48.30	49.84	48.84	123.92	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Christina Meier-Höck	Downhill			1:29.30	21
Michaela Gerg-Leitner				1:27.83	13
Regine Mösenlechner				1:27.16	7
Marina Kiehl				1:25.86
Marina Kiehl	Super-G			1:21.11	13
Michaela Gerg-Leitner				1:20.98	10
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein				1:20.98	10
Regine Mösenlechner				1:20.33	4
Marina Kiehl	Giant Slalom	1:02.11	DNF	DNF	–
Michaela Gerg-Leitner		1:00.81	DNF	DNF	–
Christina Meier-Höck		1:00.43	1:07.45	2:07.88	5
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		59.98	1:07.44	2:07.42
Anette Gersch	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		49.84	48.56	1:38.40

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Points	Rank
Michaela Gerg-Leitner	DSQ	–	–	DSQ	–
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein	1:19.83	DNF	–	DNF	–
Karin Dedler	1:18.80	43.38	45.65	105.18	14
Ulrike Stanggassinger	1:17.92	42.68	43.93	71.51	9

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Stefan Höck	3	27:26.2	26
	Ernst Reiter	2	26:50.2	19
	Fritz Fischer	1	26:25.9	12
	Peter Angerer	2	26:13.2	10

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Ernst Reiter	56:54.8	5	1'01:54.8	29
	Fritz Fischer	56:04.5	5	1'01:04.5	23
	Herbert Fritzenwenger	56:27.8	4	1'00:27.8	17
	Peter Angerer	55:46.7	3	58:46.7	10

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Ernst Reiter Stefan Höck Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer	0	1'23:37.4

¹A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
²One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Anton Fischer Christoph Langen	Two-man	57.58	6	59.70	10	1:00.06	6	59.28	7	3:56.62	7
FRG-2	Michael Sperr Rolf Müller	Two-man	57.47	5	1:00.09	16	1:00.42	11	59.86	14	3:57.84	11

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Michael Sperr Olaf Hampel Florian Cruciger Rolf Müller	Four-man	57.58	19	58.04	13	56.41	4	58.14	15	3:50.17	14
FRG-2	Anton Fischer Franz Nießner Uwe Eisenreich Christoph Langen	Four-man	57.02	9	57.75	10	56.71	11	58.07	12	3:49.55	11

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Walter Kuß	44:29.0	27
	Jochen Behle	43:59.7	23
30 km C	Stefan Dotzler	1'33:06.1	40
	Jochen Behle	1'30:08.3	23
50 km F	Walter Kuß	DNF	–
	Georg Fischer	2'13:31.3	34
	Herbert Fritzenwenger	2'13:27.6	33

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Walter Kuß Georg Fischer Jochen Behle Herbert Fritzenwenger	1'48:05.0	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Sonja Bilgeri	17:33.2	48
	Birgit Kohlrusch	17:10.3	44
	Stefanie Birkelbach	17:09.1	43
	Karin Jäger	16:28.0	28
10 km C	Sonja Bilgeri	35:07.0	44
	Karin Jäger	32:09.5	24
20 km F	Sonja Bilgeri	DNF	–
	Stefanie Birkelbach	1'04:40.5	45
	Birgit Kohlrusch	1'03:16.2	41
	Karin Jäger	1'02:34.6	35

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Stefanie Birkelbach Karin Jäger Birgit Kohlrusch Sonja Bilgeri	1'05:48.6	11

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Richard Zander	9	17	11	23.2	11
Heiko Fischer	4	11	10	16.8	9

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Marina Kielmann	12	11	10	19.6	10
Claudia Leistner	6	9	6	13.2	6

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Brigitte Groh Holger Maletz	13	11	17.5	11

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Antonia Becherer Ferdinand Becherer	9	9	9	18.0	9

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Group B

Top three teams (shaded ones) entered the medal round.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	32	10	10
West Germany	5	4	1	0	19	12	8
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	23	14	6
United States	5	2	3	0	27	27	4
Austria	5	0	4	1	12	29	1
Norway	5	0	4	1	11	32	1

• West Germany 2-1 Czechoslovakia
• West Germany 7-3 Norway
• Austria 1-3 West Germany
• West Germany 3-6 Soviet Union
• West Germany 4-1 USA

Final round

The top three teams from each group play the top three teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over.

	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	4	1	0	25	7	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	18	10	7
Sweden	5	2	1	2	15	16	6
Canada	5	2	2	1	17	14	5
West Germany 5th	5	1	4	0	8	26	2
Czechoslovakia	5	1	4	0	12	22	2

• Finland 8-0 West Germany
• Canada 8-1 West Germany
• Sweden 3-2 West Germany

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
10th	Gerd Truntschka	8	3	7	10	10

Team roster

• Ron Fischer
• Udo Kiessling
• Horst-Peter Kretschmer
• Dieter Medicus
• Andreas Niederberger
• Harold Kreis
• Manfred Schuster
• Manfred Wolf
• Christian Brittig
• Peter Draisaitl
• Georg Franz
• Dieter Hegen
• Georg Holzmann
• Peter Obresa
• Roy Roedger
• Peter Schiller
• Helmut Steiger
• Gerd Truntschka
• Bernd Truntschka
• Joachim Reil
• Helmut de Raaf
• Josef Schlickenrieder
• Karl Friesen

• Head coach: Xaver Unsinn

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Max Burghardtswieser	46.874	13	46.949	11	47.083	14	47.280	15	3:08.186	13
Johannes Schettel	46.725	9	46.928	10	46.805	7	46.913	8	3:07.371	7
Georg Hackl	46.355	2	46.553	2	46.599	4	46.409	2	3:05.916

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	46.024	4	46.250	5	1:32.274
Stefan Ilsanker Georg Hackl	46.054	5	46.244	4	1:32.298	4

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Veronika Bilgeri	46.321	4	46.375	4	46.369	4	46.605	7	3:05.670	4

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1988 Winter Olympics

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		Cross-country		Total
		Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Points	Rank
Hermann Weinbuch	Individual	179.6	39	5:26.0	44:26.4	387.390	29
Thomas Müller		190.4	31	4:14.0	44:02.7	390.945	25
Hans-Peter Pohl		204.3	15	2:41.4	44:23.9	387.775	28
Hubert Schwarz		219.2	2	1:02.0	42:35.8	403.980	13

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps per team member per round, best two rounds counted.)
• 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Total
	Points	Rank	Start at	Time	Rank
Thomas Müller Hans-Peter Pohl Hubert Schwarz	629.8	1	0:00.0	1'20:46.0

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Dieter Thoma	Normal hill	75.0	78.1	74.0	76.0	154.1	55
Josef Heumann		77.0	84.3	80.0	92.1	176.4	31
Andi Bauer		78.5	87.2	79.5	90.3	177.5	29
Thomas Klauser		80.5	94.4	71.0	70.7	165.1	47
Josef Heumann	Large hill	102.0	90.7	95.0	76.4	167.1	36
Andi Bauer		103.0	94.1	93.5	75.8	169.9	34
Peter Rohwein		106.0	96.3	96.0	81.3	177.6	25
Thomas Klauser		114.5	111.7	102.5	93.4	205.1	4

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points ^1	Rank
Andi Bauer Peter Rohwein Thomas Klauser Josef Heumann	559.0	6

¹Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Uwe Streb	38.03	27
	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	37.73	20
1000 m	Uwe Streb	DSQ	–
	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	1:16.62	32
1500 m	Hansjörg Baltes	1:57.08	30
5000 m	Hansjörg Baltes	6:59.45	24
10,000 m	Hansjörg Baltes	14:45.41	27

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	40.53	7
1500 m	Anja Mischke	2:08.52	16
3000 m	Anja Mischke	4:26.30	12

References

1. Canada at the 1988 Winter Olympics

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• 1988 Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com^{[dead link‍]}