East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Athletes from East Germany competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 346 competitors, 222 men and 124 women, took part in 167 events in 17 sports.
Medalists
Athletics
;Men's CompetitionMen's 100 metres
- Eugen Ray
- * Heat — 10.38
- * Quarterfinals — 10.30
- * Semifinals — 10.47
- Sören Schlegel
- * Heat — 10.44
- * Quarterfinals — 10.28
- Klaus-Dieter Kurrat
- * Heat — 10.53
- * Quarterfinals — 10.54
- Andreas Busse
- * Heat — 1:47.4
- * Semifinals — 1:46.9
- * Final — 1:46.9
- Detlef Wagenknecht
- * Heat — 1:47.5
- * Semifinals — 1:46.7
- * Final — 1:47.0
- Olaf Beyer
- * Heat — 1:48.9
- * Semifinals — 1:47.6
- Jürgen Straub
- * Heat — 3:37.0
- * Semifinals — 3:39.4
- * Final — 3:38.8
- Andreas Busse
- * Heat — 3:44.3
- * Semifinals — 3:43.5
- * Final — 3:40.2
- Jörg Peter
- * Heat — 28:50.0
- * Final — 28:05.5
- Werner Schildhauer
- * Heat — 28:32.1
- * Final — 28:11.0
- Waldemar Cierpinski
- * Final — 2:11:03
- Hans-Joachim Truppel
- * Final — 2:14:55
- Jürgen Eberding
- * Final — 2:18:04
- Klaus Thiele, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, and Volker Beck
- * Heat — 3:03.4
- * Final — 3:01.3
- Thomas Munkelt
- * Heat — 13.55
- * Semifinals — 13.49
- * Final — 13.39
- Thomas Dittrich
- * Heat — 13.93
- * Semifinals — 13.90
- Andreas Schlißke
- * Heat — 14.18
- * Semifinals — 14.60
- Volker Beck
- * Heat — 50.35
- * Semifinals — 50.36
- * Final — 48.70
- Ralf Pönitsch
- * Heat — 8:56.5
- Axel Weber
- * Qualification — 5.15 m
- Lutz Dombrowski
- * Qualification — 8.17 m
- * Final — 8.54 m
- Frank Paschek
- * Qualification — 8.17 m
- * Final — 8.21 m
- Peter Rieger
- * Qualification — 7.59 m
- Gerd Wessig
- * Qualification — 2.21 m
- * Final — 2.36 m
- Jörg Freimuth
- * Qualification — 2.21 m
- * Final — 2.31 m
- Henry Lauterbach
- * Qualification — 2.21 m
- * Final — 2.29 m
- Wolfgang Schmidt
- * Qualification — 62.46 m
- * Final — 65.64 m
- Hilmar Hossfeld
- * Qualification — 59.92 m
- * Final — 61.14 m
- Armin Lemme
- * Qualification — 59.44 m
- Udo Beyer
- * Qualification — 19.94 m
- * Final — 21.06 m
- Hans-Jürgen Jacobi
- * Qualification — 19.92 m
- * Final — 20.32 m
- Wolfgang Hanisch
- * Qualification — 85.82 m
- * Final — 86.72 m
- Detlef Fuhrmann
- * Qualification — 78.80 m
- * Final — 83.50 m
- Detlef Michel
- * Qualification — 78.34 m
- Roland Steuk
- * Qualification — 73.52 m
- * Final — 77.54 m
- Detlef Gerstenberg
- * Qualification — 75.04 m
- * Final — 74.60 m
- Steffen Grummt
- * Final — 7892 points
- Siegfried Stark
- * Final — retired
- Rainer Pottel
- * Final — retired
- Roland Wieser
- * Final — 1:25:58.2
- Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller
- * Final — 1:29:21.7
- Werner Heyer
- * Final — DSQ
- Hartwig Gauder
- * Final — 3:49:24
- Dietmar Meisch
- * Final — DSQ
- Uwe Dünkel
- * Final — DSQ
Women's 100 metres
- Marlies Göhr
- * Heat — 11.41
- * Quarterfinals — 11.12
- * Semifinals — 11.18
- * Final — 11.07
- Ingrid Auerswald
- * Heat — 11.32
- * Quarterfinals — 11.09
- * Semifinals — 11.27
- * Final — 11.14
- Romy Müller
- * Heat — 11.41
- * Quarterfinals — 11.12
- * Semifinals — 11.22
- * Final — 11.16
- Martina Kämpfert
- * Heat — 1:58.8
- * Semifinals — 1:58.1
- * Final — 1:56.3
- Hildegard Ullrich
- * Heat — 2:00.1
- * Semifinals — 1:58.7
- * Final — 1:57.2
- Christiane Wartenberg
- * Heat — 4:00.4
- * Final — 3:57.8
- Ulrike Bruns
- * Heat — 4:01.6
- * Final — 4:00.7
- Beate Liebich
- * Heat — 4:06.8
- Johanna Schaller-Klier
- * Heat — 13.03
- * Semifinal — 12.77
- * Final — 12.63
- Kerstin Knabe
- * Heat — 12.77
- * Semifinal — 12.99
- * Final — 12.66
- Bettine Gärtz
- * Heat — 13.06
- * Semifinal — 13.04
- * Final — 13.14
- Brigitte Wujak
- * Qualification — 6.65 m
- * Final — 7.04 m
- Siegrun Siegl
- * Qualification — 6.53 m
- * Final — 6.87 m
- Siegrid Heimann
- * Qualification — 6.71 m
- * Final — 6.71 m
- Jutta Kirst
- * Qualification — 1.88 m
- * Final — 1.94 m
- Rosemarie Ackermann
- * Qualification — 1.88 m
- * Final — 1.91 m
- Andrea Reichstein
- * Qualification — 1.88 m
- * Final — 1.91 m
- Evelin Jahl
- * Qualification — 60.22 m
- * Final — 69.96 m
- Gisela Beyer
- * Qualification — 62.86 m
- * Final — 67.08 m
- Margitta Pufe
- * Qualification — 65.52 m
- * Final — 66.12 m
- Ute Hommola
- * Qualification — 63.52 m
- * Final — 66.56 m
- Ute Richter
- * Qualification — 66.66 m
- * Final — 66.54 m
- Ruth Fuchs
- * Qualification — 64.26 m
- * Final — 63.94 m
- Ilona Slupianek
- * Final — 22.41 m
- Margitta Pufe
- * Final — 21.20 m
- Ines Reichenbach
- * Final — 19.66 m
- Ramona Neubert — 4698 points
- # 100 metres — 13.93s
- # Shot Put — 13.68m
- # High Jump — 1.77m
- # Long Jump — 6.63m
- # 800 metres — 2:07.70
- Burglinde Pollak — 4553 points
- # 100 metres — 13.74s
- # Shot Put — 16.67m
- # High Jump — 1.68m
- # Long Jump — 5.93m
- # 800 metres — 2:14.40
- Christine Laser — 1712 points
- # 100 metres — 13.67s
- # Shot Put — 13.39m
- # High Jump — DNF
Boxing
- Dietmar Geilich
- # First Round — Defeated Thapa Birender Singh on points
- # Second Round — Defeated Pedro Manuel Nieves on points
- # Quarter Finals — Lost to Shamil Sabirov on points
- Mario Behrendt
- # First Round — Lost to Dumitru Cipere on points
- Rudi Fink → Gold Medal
- # First Round — Defeated Hannu Kaislama on points
- # Second Round — Defeated Esmail Mohamad after knock-out in first round
- # Third Round — Defeated Carlos González after knock-out in first round
- # Quarter Finals — Defeated Winfred Kabunda on points
- # Semi Finals — Defeated Viktor Rybakov on points
- # Final — Defeated Adolfo Horta on points
- Richard Nowakowski → Bronze Medal
- # First Round — Defeated Christopher Ossai on points
- # Second Round — Defeated Geofrey Nyeko after referee stopped contest in first round
- # Quarter Finals — Defeated George Gilbody on points
- # Semi Finals — Lost to Viktor Demyanenko after referee stopped contest in first round
- Dietmar Schwarz
- # First Round — Defeated Teddy Makofi on points
- # Second Round — Lost to José Angel Molina after referee stopped contest in third round
- Jürgen Fanghänel → Bronze Medal
- # First Round — Defeated Luis Castillo on points
- # Quarter Finals — Defeated Petr Stoimenov after referee stopped contest in second round
- # Semi Finals — Lost to Piotr Zaev on points
Canoeing
Cycling
Thirteen cyclists represented East Germany in 1980.;Individual road race
;Team time trial
- Falk Boden
- Bernd Drogan
- Olaf Ludwig
- Hans-Joachim Hartnick
;1000m time trial
;Individual pursuit
;Team pursuit
Men's Springboard
- Falk Hoffmann
- * Preliminary Round — 567.78 points
- * Final — 858.510 points
- Frank Taubert
- * Preliminary Round — 524.04 points
- Dieter Waskow
- * Preliminary Round — 522.87 points
- Falk Hoffmann
- * Preliminary Round — 546.12 points
- * Final — 835.650 points
- Dieter Waskow
- * Preliminary Round — 515.16 points
- * Final — 802.800 points
- Thomas Knuths
- * Preliminary Round — 521.01 points
- * Final — 783.975 points
- Martina Proeber
- * Preliminary Round — 450.99 points
- * Final — 698.895 points
- Karin Guthke
- * Preliminary Round — 435.21 points
- * Final — 685.245 points
- Martina Jäschke
- * Preliminary Round — 427.47 points
- * Final — 668.115 points
- Martina Jäschke
- * Preliminary Round — 359.88 points
- * Final — 596.250 points
- Ramona Wenzel
- * Preliminary Round — 358.86 points
- * Final — 542.070 points
- Kerstin Krause
- * Preliminary Round — 322.68 points
Fencing
;Men's foil
;Men's team foil
- Siegmar Gutzeit, Hartmuth Behrens, Adrian Germanus, Klaus Kotzmann, Klaus Haertter
;Men's team sabre
- Rüdiger Müller, Hendrik Jung, Peter Ulbrich, Frank-Eberhard Höltje, Gerd May
;Women's team foil
- Mandy Niklaus, Gabriele Janke, Sabine Hertrampf, Beate Schubert
Football
Preliminary round
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Bracket
The final was played in a hard rain for the third straight Olympics. Both teams played with ten players after the 58th minute after one player from each team was red-carded.Gymnastics
Handball
;Men's Team Competition- Preliminary Round
- * Defeated Spain
- * Drew with Hungary
- * Defeated Cuba
- * Defeated Poland
- * Defeated Denmark
- Classification Match
- * Final: Defeated Soviet Union → Gold Medal
- Team Roster
- * Siegfried Voigt
- * Günter Dreibrodt
- * Peter Rost
- * Klaus Gruner
- * Hans-Georg Beyer
- * Dietmar Schmidt
- * Hartmut Krüger
- * Lothar Doering
- * Ernst Gerlach
- * Frank-Michael Wahl
- * Ingolf Wiegert
- * Wieland Schmidt
- * Rainer Höft
- * Hans-Georg Jaunich
- Results
- * Defeated Czechoslovakia
- * Drew with Yugoslavia
- * Defeated People's Rep. of Congo
- * Defeated Hungary
- * Lost again USSR
- East Germany won Bronze Medal
- Team Roster
- * Birgit Heinecke
- * Roswitha Krause
- * Waltraud Kretzschmar
- * Katrin Krüger
- * Kornelia Kunisch
- * Evelyn Matz
- * Kristina Richter
- * Christina Rost
- * Sabine Röther
- * Renate Rudolph
- * Marion Tietz
- * Petra Uhlig
- * Claudia Wunderlich
- * Hannelore Zober
Judo
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle- Frank Kühne
- * Heats — 52.93
- Frank Kühne
- * Heats — 1:53.63
- Detlev Grabs
- * Heats — 1:53.38
- Bettina Löbel
- * Heats — 1:14.32
- Silvia Rinka
- * Heats — 1:12.88
- Petra Schneider
- * Heats — 4:46.53
- * Final — 4:36.29
- Grit Slaby
- * Heats — 4:52.01
- * Final — 4:48.54
- Ulrike Tauber
- * Heats — 4:51.97
- * Final — 4:49.18
Volleyball
- Preliminary Round
- * Defeated Cuba
- * Lost to Soviet Union
- * Defeated Peru
- Final
- * Lost to Soviet Union → Silver Medal
- Team Roster
- * Ute Kostrzewa
- * Andrea Heim
- * Annette Schultz
- * Christine Mummhardt
- * Heike Lehmann
- * Barbara Czekalla
- * Karla Roffeis
- * Martina Schmidt
- * Anke Westendorf
- * Karin Püschel
- * Brigitte Fetzer
- * Katharina Bullin
Weightlifting
- Andreas Letz
- * Snatch: 115.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 150.0 kg
- * Total: 265.0 kg
- Joachim Kunz
- * Snatch: 145.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 190.0 kg
- * Total: 335.0 kg → Silver Medal
- Gunter Ambrass
- * Total: 320.0 kg
- Frank Mantek
- * Snatch: 165.0 kg, Clean and jerk: 205.0 kg
- * Total: 370.0 kg → Bronze Medal
- Michael Hennig
- * Total: 362.5 kg
- Manfred Funke
- * Total: 377.5 kg
- Jürgen Heuser
- * Snatch: 182.5 kg, Clean and jerk: 227.5 kg
- * Total: 410.0 kg → Silver Medal
Wrestling