East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ==Athletics==

Men's competition '''Men's 5,000 metres''' • Hansjörg Kunze • Heat — 13:44.34 • Semifinal — 13:23.04 • Final — 13:15.73 (→ Bronze medal) '''Men's 10,000 metres''' • Hansjörg Kunze • Heat — 28:22.09 • Final — 27:39.35 (→ 6th place) '''Men's marathon''' • Jörg Peter • Final — did not start (→ no ranking) '''Men's 4 × 400 m relay''' • Jens Carlowitz, Michael Schimmer, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe • Heat — 3:08.13 • Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing and Thomas Schönlebe • Semifinal — 3:00.60 • Jens Carlowitz, Mathias Schersing, Frank Möller and Thomas Schönlebe • Final — 3:01.13 (→ 4th place) '''Men's 3.000 m steeplechase''' • Hagen Melzer :# Heat — 8:36.45 :# Semifinal — 8:16.27 :# Final — 8:19.82 (→ 10th place) '''Men's javelin throw''' • Gerald Weiss • Qualification — 79.16m • Final — 81.30 m (→ 6th place) • Silvio Warsönke • Qualification — 78.22m (→ did not advance) • Detlef Michel • Qualification — 77.70 m (→ did not advance) '''Men's discus throw''' • Jürgen Schult • Qualifying heat – 64.70 m • Final – 68.82m (→ Gold medal) '''Men's shot put''' • Ulf Timmermann • Qualifying heat – 21.27m • Final – 22.47m (→ Gold medal) • Udo Beyer • Qualifying heat – 20.97m • Final – 21.40 m (→ 4th place) '''Men's hammer throw''' • Ralf Haber • Qualifying heat — 78.16m • Final — 80.44m (→ 4th place) • Günther Rodehau • Qualifying heat — 78.12m • Final — 72.36m (→ 12th place) '''Men's decathlon''' • Christian Schenk — 8488 points (→ Gold medal)) :# 100 metres — 11.25s :# Long jump — 7.43m :# Shot put — 15.48m :# High jump — 2.27m :# 400 metres — 48.90 s :# 110 m hurdles — 15.13s :# Discus throw — 49.28m :# Pole vault — 4.70 m :# Javelin throw — 61.32m :# 1.500 metres — 4:28.95s • Torsten Voss — 8399 points (→ Silver medal)) :# 100 metres — 10.87s :# Long jump — 7.45m :# Shot put — 14.97m :# High jump — 1.97m :# 400 metres — 47.71s :# 110 m hurdles — 14.46s :# Discus throw — 44.36m :# Pole vault — 5.10 m :# Javelin throw — 61.76m :# 1.500 metres — 4:33.02s • Uwe Freimuth — 7860 points (→ 18th place) :# 100 metres — 11.57s :# Long jump — 7.00 m :# Shot put — 15.60 m :# High jump — 1.94m :# 400 metres — 49.84s :# 110 m hurdles — 15.04s :# Discus throw — 46.66m :# Pole vault — 4.90 m :# Javelin throw — 60.20 m :# 1.500 metres — 4:46.04s '''Men's 20 km walk''' • Ronald Weigel • Final — 1:20:00 (→ Silver medal) • Axel Noack • Final — 1:21:14 (→ 8th place) '''Men's 50 km walk''' • Ronald Weigel • Final — 3'38:56 (→ Silver medal) • Hartwig Gauder • Final — 3'39:45 (→ Bronze medal) • Dietmar Meisch • Final — 3'46:31 (→ 9th place) Women's competition '''Women's 4 × 100 m relay''' • Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange and Marlies Göhr • Heat — 42.92 • Semifinal — 42.23 • Final — 42.09 (→ Silver medal) '''Women's 4 × 400 m relay''' • Grit Breuer, Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann and Petra Müller • Heat — 3:27.37 • Dagmar Neubauer-Rübsam, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Petra Müller • Final — 3:18.29 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's marathon''' • Katrin Dörre – 2"26:21 (→ Bronze medal) • Birgit Stephan – did not finish (→ no ranking) '''Women's discus throw''' • Martina Hellmann • Qualification – 67.12m • Final – 72.30 m (→ Gold medal) • Diana Gansky • Qualification – 65.40 m • Final – 71.88m (→ Silver medal) • Gabriele Reinsch • Qualification – 66.88m • Final – 67.26m (→ 7th place) '''Women's javelin throw''' • Petra Felke • Qualification – 67.06m • Final – 74.68m (→ Gold medal) • Beate Koch • Qualification – 66.86m • Final – 67.30 m (→ Bronze medal) • Silke Renk • Qualification – 63.64m • Final – 66.38m (→ 5th place) '''Women's shot put''' • Kathrin Neimke • Qualification – 20.18m • Final – 21.07m (→ Silver medal) • Ines Müller • Qualification – 19.79m • Final – 20.37m (→ 4th place) • Heike Hartwig • Qualification – 20.06m • Final – 20.20 m (→ 6th place) '''Women's heptathlon''' • Sabine John • Final result — 6897 points (→ Silver medal) • Anke Behmer • Final result — 6858 points (→ Bronze medal) • Ines Schulz • Final result — 6411 points (→ 6th place) ==Boxing==

'''Men's bantamweight (54 kg)''' • René Breitbarth • First round — defeated Magare Tshekiso (BTS), 5–0 • Second round — defeated Vedat Tutuk (TUR), 5–0 • Third round — lost to Jorge Julio Rocha (COL), 1–4 ==Canoeing==

Seventeen cyclists, fourteen men and three women, represented East Germany in 1988. ;Men's road race • Olaf Ludwig — 4:32:22 (→ Gold medal) • Uwe Raab • Uwe Ampler ;Men's team time trial • Uwe Ampler • Mario Kummer • Maik Landsmann • Jan Schur ;Men's sprint • Lutz Heßlich ;Men's 1 km time trial • Maic Malchow ;Men's individual pursuit • Bernd Dittert ;Men's team pursuit • Steffen Blochwitz • Roland Hennig • Carsten Wolf • Dirk Meier • Uwe Preißler ;Men's points race • Olaf Ludwig ;Women's road race • Angela Ranft — 2:00:52 (→ 25th place) • Petra Rossner — DNF (→ no ranking) ;Women's sprint • Christa Rothenburger-Luding ==Diving==

Seven fencers, all men, represented East Germany in 1988. Udo Wagner won a silver medal in the individual foil event. ;Men's foil • Udo Wagner • Jens Howe • Aris Enkelmann ;Men's team foil • Aris Enkelmann, Adrian Germanus, Jens Gusek, Jens Howe, Udo Wagner ;Men's épée • Torsten Kühnemund • Uwe Proske ==Gymnastics==

Men: • 10 metre air pistol - Gernot Eder (9th place); Jens Potteck (10th place) • 25 metre rapid fire pistol - Ralf Schumann (2nd place) Silver medal ::Roland Müller (=18th place) • 50 metre pistol - Gernot Eder (5th place); Uwe Potteck (9th place) • 10 metre air rifle - Andreas Wolfram (8th place) • 50 metre rifle three positions - Andreas Wolfram (10th place); Olaf Heß otherwise Olaf Hess (=18th place) • 50 metre rifle prone - Olaf Heß otherwise Olaf Hess (=15th place); Andreas Wolfram (=15th place) • 50 metre running target - Thomas Pfeffer (7th place); Mike Herrmann (=15th place) Open: • Trap - Jörg Damme (=15th place) • Skeet - Axel Wegner - (1st place) Gold medal ::Jürgen Raabe (6th place); Bernhard Hochwald (=11th place) Women: • 10 metre air pistol - Anke Völker (5th place) • 25 metre pistol - Anke Völker (=24th place) • 10 metre air rifle - Katja Klepp (37th place) • 50 metre rifle three positions - Katja Klepp (4th place) ==Swimming==

'''Men's 100 m freestyle''' • Steffen Zesner • Heat – 50.73 • Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking) • Sven Lodziewski • Heat – 50.77 • B-Final – 51.00 (→ 12th place) '''Men's 200 m freestyle''' • Steffen Zesner • Heat – 1:49.13 • Final – 1:48.77 (→ 6th place) • Thomas Flemming • Heat – 1:49.52 • B-Final – 1:50.18 (→ 10th place) '''Men's 400 m freestyle''' • Uwe Dassler • Heat – 3:49.90 • Final – 3:46.95 (→ Gold medal) • Jörg Hoffmann • Heat – 3:53.78 • B-Final – 3:52.13 (→ 9th place) '''Men's 1500 m freestyle''' • Uwe Dassler • Heat – 15:08.91 • Final – 15:06.15 (→ Bronze medal) • Jörg Hoffmann • Heat – 15:14.13 (→ did not advance, 6th place) '''Men's 100 m backstroke''' • Frank Baltrusch • Heat – 56.45 • Final – 56.10 (→ 6th place) • Dirk Richter • Heat – 56.52 • B-Final – 56.66 (→ 9th place) '''Men's 200 m backstroke''' • Frank Baltrusch • Heat – 2:01.49 • Final – 1:59.60 (→ Silver medal) • Dirk Richter • Heat – 2:01.54 • Final – 2:01.67 (→ 5th place) '''Men's 100 m breaststroke''' • Christian Poswiat • Heat – 1:02.99 • Final – 1:03.43 (→ 8th place) • Raik Hannemann • Heat – 1:04.46 (→ did not advance, 20th place) '''Men's 200 m breaststroke''' • Christian Poswiat • Heat – 2:20.99 (→ did not advance, 27th place) '''Men's 200 m individual medley''' • Patrick Kühl • Heat – 2:03.77 • Final – 2:01.61 (→ Silver medal) • Raik Hannemann • Heat – 2:04.03 • Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place) '''Men's 400 m individual medley''' • Patrick Kühl • Heat – 4:18.60 • Final – 4:18.44 (→ 5th place) • Raik Hannemann • Heat – 2:04.03 • Final – 2:04.82 (→ 7th place) '''Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay''' • Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Steffen Zesner • Heat – 3:20.47 • Final – 3:19.82 (→ Bronze medal) '''Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay''' • Uwe Dassler, Lars Hinneburg, Sven Lodziewski and Thomas Flemming • Heat – 7:16.61 • Uwe Dassler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner • Final – 7:13.68 (→ Silver medal) '''Women's 50 m freestyle''' • Kristin Otto • Heat – 25.85 • B-Final – 25.49 (→ Gold medal) • Katrin Meissner • Heat – 25.77 • Final – 25.71 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's 100 m freestyle''' • Kristin Otto • Heat – 55.80 • B-Final – 54.93 (→ Gold medal) • Manuela Stellmach • Heat – 56.14 • Final – 55.52 (→ 4th place) '''Women's 200 m freestyle''' • Heike Friedrich • Heat – 1:59.02 • B-Final – 1:57.65 (→ Gold medal) • Manuela Stellmach • Heat – 2:00.30 • Final – 1:59.01 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's 400 m freestyle''' • Heike Friedrich • Heat – 4:11.30 • B-Final – 4:05.94 (→ Silver medal) • Anke Möhring • Heat – 4:10.64 • Final – 4:06.62 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's 800 m freestyle''' • Astrid Strauss • Heat – 8:28.07 • B-Final – 8:22.09 (→ Silver medal) • Anke Möhring • Heat – 8:30.95 • Final – 8:23.09 (→ 4th place) '''Women's 100 m backstroke''' • Kristin Otto • Heat – 1:01.45 • Final – 1:00.89 (→ Gold medal) • Cornelia Sirch • Heat – 1:01.63 • Final – 1:01.57 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's 200 m backstroke''' • Kathrin Zimmermann • Heat – 2:12.81 • Final – 2:10.61 (→ Silver medal) • Cornelia Sirch • Heat – 2:10.46 • Final – 2:11.45 (→ Bronze medal) '''Women's 100 m breaststroke''' • Silke Hörner • Heat – 1:08.35 • Final – 1:08.83 (→ Bronze medal) • Annett Rex • Heat – 1:10.61 • Final – 1:10.67 (→ 8th place) '''Women's 200 m breaststroke''' • Silke Hörner • Heat – 2:27.63 • Final – 2:26.71 (→ Gold medal) • Susanne Boernike • Heat – 2:30.71 • B-Final – 2:28.55 (→ 9th place) '''Women's 100 m butterfly''' • Kristin Otto • Heat – 1:00.40 • Final – 59.00 (→ Gold medal) • Birte Weigang • Heat – 59.97 • Final – 59.45 (→ Silver medal) '''Women's 200 m butterfly''' • Kathleen Nord • Heat – 2:11.81 • Final – 2:09.51 (→ Gold medal) • Birte Weigang • Heat – 2:11.97 • Final – 2:09.91 (→ Silver medal) '''Women's 200 m individual medley''' • Daniela Hunger • Heat – 2:16.23 • Final – 2:12.59 (→ Gold medal) '''Women's 400 m individual medley''' • Daniela Hunger • Heat – 4:44.85 • Final – 4:39.76 (→ Bronze medal) • Kathleen Nord • Heat – 4:42.92 • Final – 4:41.64 (→ 5th place) '''Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay''' • Katrin Meissner, Sabina Schulze, Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger • Heat – 3:43.13 • Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger and Manuela Stellmach • Final – 3:40.63 (→ Gold medal) '''Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay''' • Cornelia Sirch, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Manuela Stellmach • Heat – 4:08.53 • Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang and Katrin Meissner • Final – 4:03.74 (→ Gold medal) ==Volleyball==

Women's tournament • Preliminary round (Group A) • Lost to South Korea (1–3) • Defeated Japan (3–2) • Lost to Soviet Union (0–3) • Classification matches • 5th/8th place: defeated United States (3–1) • 5th/6th place: defeated Brazil (3–0) → Fifth place • Team roster • Steffi Schmidt • Susanne Lahme • Monika Beu • Ariane Radfan • Kathrin Langschwager • Maike Arlt • Brit Wiedemann • Ute Steppin • Grit Jensen • Dörte Stüdemann • Heike Jensen • Ute Langenau • Head coach: Siegfried Köhler ==Weightlifting==