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West Germany at the Olympic Games

Flag of Germany
IOC code   FRG
At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Competitors
Flag bearer Wilhelm Kuhweide
Medals
Rank: 3		 Gold
17		 Silver
19		 Bronze
23		 Total
59
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Winter Games
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988

*With GDR as the Unified Team of Germany
Other related appearances
Germany (1896–1936, 1992–)
Saar (1952)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. West Germany had joined the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics four years previously.

Contents

Medalists

Med 1.png Gold

  • Ulrich Eicke — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000m Canadian Singles
  • Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Gerhard Heer, Rafael Nickel, and Alexander Pusch — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
  • Sabine Bischoff, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Cornelia Hanisch, Christiane Weber, and Ute Wessel-Kirchels — Fencing, Women's Foil Team
  • Karl-Heinz Radschinsky — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)
  • Rolf Milser — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
  • Pasquale Passarelli — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Med 2.png Silver

  • Rolf Gölz — Cycling, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit
  • Cornelia Hanisch — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
  • Frank Beck, Matthias Behr, Matthias Gey, Harald Hein, and Klaus Reichert — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
  • Gaby Appel, Dagmar Breiken, Beate Deininger, Elke Drüll, Birgit Hagen, Birgit Hahn, Martina Koch, Sigrid Landgraf, Corinna Lingnau, Christina Moser, Patricia Ott, Hella Roth, Gabi Schley, Susanne Schmid, Ursula Thielemann, and Andrea Weiermann-Lietz — Field Hockey, Women's Team Competition
  • Ulrike Holmer — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
  • Ina Beyermann, Ute Hasse, Svenja Schlicht, and Karin Seick — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
  • Markus Scherer — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
  • Martin Knosp — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight (74 kg)
  • Joachim Griese and Michael Marcour — Sailing, Men's Star Competition

Med 3.png Bronze

  • Reinhard Alber, Rolf Gölz, Roland Günther, and Michael Marx — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
  • Klaus Erhorn, Dietmar Hogrefe, Bettina Overesch, and Burkhard Tesdorpf — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team
  • Regina Weber — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
  • Günter Neureuther — Judo, Men's Half Heavyweight (95 kg)
  • Arthur Schnabel — Judo, Men's Open Class
  • Ellen Becker and Iris Völkner — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs
  • Karin Seick — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
  • Ina Beyermann — Swimming, Women's 200m Butterfly
  • Petra Zindler — Swimming, Women's 400m Individual Medley
  • Susanne Schuster, Christiane Pielke, Karin Seick, and Iris Zscherpe — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Peter Rohle, Thomas Loebb, Frank Otto, Rainer Hoppe, Armando Fernandez, Thomas Huber, Jürgen Schroder, Rainer Osselmann, Hagen Stamm, Roland Freund, Dirk Theismann, Santiago Chalmovsky, and Werner Obschemikat — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition

Results and competitors by event

Archery

All five of the German archers posted solid scores in the nation's third Olympic archery competition, with none placing lower than 15th.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Manuela Dachner — 2508 points (→ 6th place)
  • Doris Haas — 2480 points (→ 11th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Harry Wittig — 2497 points (→ 9th place)
  • Armin Garnreiter — 2494 points (→ 10th place)
  • Detlef Kahlert — 2486 points (1→ 5th place)

Athletics

Men's Competition

Men's 400 metres

  • Heat — 45.94
  • Quarterfinals — 46.39 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5,000 metres

  • Heat — 13:46.35
  • Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)
  • Uwe Mönkemeyer
  • Heat — 13:48.66
  • Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Qualifying Heat — 28:30.28
  • Final — 28:08.21 (→ 5th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Final — 2:15:29 (→ 18th place)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualification — 2.24 m
  • Final — 2.35 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 2.24 m
  • Final — 2.15 m (→ 10th place)
  • Qualification — 2.18 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

  • Final — 16.77 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 82.98 m
  • Final — 82.46 m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification — 73.52 m (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualifying Round — 18.98 m
  • Final — 18.31 m (→ 12th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Final — 66.60 m (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Final — 64.72 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 75.50 m
  • Final — 77.98 m (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification — 74.68m
  • Final — 76.68 m (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification — 72.88 m
  • Final — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Decathlon

  • Final Result — 8673 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final Result — 8412 points (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Final Result — 8326 points (→ 4th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Dieter Hoffmann
  • Final — did not start (→ no ranking)

Women's Competition

Women's 1,500 metres

  • Roswitha Gerdes
  • Heat — 4:10.64
  • Final — 4:04.41 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat — did not start (→ no ranking)

Women's 3,000 metres

  • Heat — 8:57.53
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

  • Final — 2:35:56 (→ 16th place)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 2.02m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)
  • Qualification — 1.90m
  • Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Ingra Manecke
  • Qualification — 56.20m
  • Final — 58.56m (→ 6th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 60.86m
  • Final — 63.26m (→ 6th place)
  • Qualification — 61.56m
  • Final — 62.34m (→ 7th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Final — 20.48 m (→ Gold medal.svg Gold Medal)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result — 6363 points (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)
  • Final Result — 6236 points (→ 6th place)
  • Final Result — 6082 points (→ 9th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (83-96)
  • Lost to Italy (72-80)
  • Lost to Australia (66-66)
  • Defeated Egypt (85-58)
  • Defeated Brazil (78-75)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Lost to United States (67-78)
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to Italy (71-98)
  • 7th/8th place: Lost to Australia (76-83) → 8th place
  • Team Roster

Boxing

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

  • Stefan Gertel
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Lost to Louis Gomis (France), retired in the second round

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

  • Reiner Gies
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Samir Khenyab (Iraq), 4:1
    3. Third Round — Defeated John Kalbhenn (Canada), 5:0
    4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Pernell Whitaker (United States), 0:5

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

  • Helmut Gertel
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Lost to Jerry Page (United States), 0:5

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

  • Alexander Künzler
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Mohamed Ali Aldahan (Syria), 5:0
    3. Third Round — Defeated Kamel Abboud (Algeria), 4:1
    4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Luciano Bruno (Italy), 0:5

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Manfred Zielonka → Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Ambrose Mlilo (Zimbabwe), 4:1
    3. Third Round — Defeated Gustavo Ollo (Argentina), 5:0
    4. Quarterfinals — Defeated Gnohery Sery (Ivory Coast), 5:0
    5. Semifinals — Lost to Frank Tate (United States), walk-over

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

  • Peter Hussing
    1. First Round — Defeated Olaf Mayer (Austria), 5:0
    2. Quarterfinals — Lost to Aziz Salihu (Yugoslavia), 2:3

Cycling

Road Cycling

Women's Individual Road Race

Track Cycling

Men's Points Race

  • Final — 16 points (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final — 3 points (→ 19th place)

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Round — 549.39
  • Final — 569.52 (→ 7th place)
  • Dieter Dörr
  • Preliminary Round — 533.61
  • Final — 549.33 (→ 10th place)

Football (soccer)

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Quarter Finals
  • Team Roster:

Handball

Men's Team Competition

  • Team Roster

Women's Team Competition

  • Team Roster
  • Maike Becker
  • Elke Blumauer
  • Sabine Erbs
  • Astrid Huhn
  • Kerstin Jonsson
  • Sabrina Koschella
  • Corinna Kunze
  • Roswitha Mroczynski
  • Petra Platen
  • Vanadis Putzke
  • Silvia Schmitt
  • Dagmar Stelberg
  • Claudia Sturm

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Spain (3-1)
  • Defeated United States (4-0)
  • Lost to Australia (0-3)
  • Defeated Malaysia (5-0)
  • Drew with India (0-0)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated Great Britain (1-0)
  • Final
  • Lost to Pakistan (1-2) after extra time → Silver Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

Women's Team Competition

  • Round Robin
  • Drew with Australia (2-2)
  • Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • Lost to The Netherlands (2-6)
  • Defeated New Zealand (1-0)
  • Drew with United States (1-1) → Silver Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Susanne Schmid (gk)
  • Ursula Thielemann (gk)
  • Christina Moser
  • Hella Roth
  • Dagmar Breiken
  • Sigrid Landgraf
  • Elke Drüll
  • Corinna Lingnau
  • Andrea Weiermann-Lietz
  • Gaby Appel
  • Birgit Hagen
  • Birgit Hahn
  • Beate Deininger
  • Patricia Ott
  • Martina Koch
  • Gabi Schley

Swimming

Men's Competition

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Dirk Korthals
  • Heat — 51.02
  • Final — 50.93 (→ 8th place)
  • Alexander Schowtka
  • Heat — 51.78 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Heat — 1:48.03
  • Final — 1:47.44 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat — 1:50.00
  • Final — 1:49.69 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 400m Freestyle

  • Heat — 3:53.41
  • Final — 3:52.91 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat — 3:55.26
  • B-Final — 3:50.91 (→ 9th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

  • Heat — 15:21.95
  • Final — 15:12.77 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 15:23.60
  • Final — 15:20.03 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

  • Stefan Peter
  • Heat — 57.90
  • B-Final — 58.30 (→ 11th place)
  • Nicolai Klapkarek
  • Heat — 58.19
  • B-Final — 58.56 (→ 15th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

  • Nicolai Klapkarek
  • Heat — 2:04.45
  • Final — 2:03.95 (→ 6th place)
  • Stefan Peter
  • Heat — 2:05.22
  • B-Final — 2:05.66 (→ 13th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

  • Gerald Mörken
  • Heat — 1:03.53
  • Final — 1:03.95 (→ 7th place)
  • Peter Lang
  • Heat — 1:04.40
  • B-Final — 1:04.43 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

  • Gerald Mörken
  • Heat — 2:22.99 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
  • Peter Lang
  • Heat — 2:24.60 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

  • Heat — 54.02
  • Final — 53.08 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Andreas Behrend
  • Heat — 55.22
  • Final — 54.95 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

  • Heat — 1:58.72
  • Final — 1:57.40 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Andreas Behrend
  • Heat — 2:06.06 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

  • Nicolai Klapkarek
  • Heat — 2:06.07
  • Final — 2:05.88 (→ 7th place)
  • Ralf Diegel
  • Heat — 2:06.41
  • Final — 2:06.66 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

  • Ralf Diegel
  • Heat — 4:28.10
  • B-Final — 4:28.94 (→ 12th place)

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

  • Dirk Korthals, Alexander Schowtka, Nicolai Klapkarek, and Andreas Schmidt
  • Heat — 3:24.69
  • Dirk Korthals, Andreas Schmidt, Alexander Schowtka, and Michael Gross
  • Final — 3:22.98 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

  • Heat — 7:25.29
  • Final — 7:15.73 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

  • Stefan Peter, Gerald Mörken, Andreas Behrend, and Alexander Schowtka
  • Heat — 3:49.75
  • Final — 3:44.26 (→ 4th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 100m Freestyle

  • Susanne Schuster
  • Heat — 56.85
  • Final — 56.90 (→ 6th place)
  • Iris Zscherpe
  • Heat — 57.31
  • B-Final — 57.19 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

  • Ina Beyermann
  • Heat — 2:02.42
  • Final — 2:01.89 (→ 7th place)
  • Iris Zscherpe
  • Heat — 2:03.95
  • B-Final — 2:03.42 (→ 10th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

  • Birgit Kowalczik
  • Heat — 4:17.92
  • Final — 4:16.33 (→ 7th place)
  • Ina Beyermann
  • Heat — 4:18.94
  • B-Final — scratched (→ 17th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

  • Birgit Kowalczik
  • Heat — 8:53.34 (→ did not advance, 11th place)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

  • Iris Zscherpe, Susanne Schuster, Christiane Pielke, and Karin Seick
  • Heat — 3:46.49
  • Final — 3:45.56 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

  • Svenja Schlicht, Ute Hasse, Ina Beyermann, and Karin Seick
  • Heat — 4:13.58
  • Final — 4:11.97 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Women's 100m Backstroke

  • Svenja Schlicht
  • Heat — 1:04.02
  • Final — 1:03.46 (→ 6th place)
  • Sandra Dahlmann
  • Heat — 1:05.27 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

  • Svenja Schlicht
  • Heat — 2:15.69
  • Final — 2:15.93 (→ 6th place)
  • Sandra Dahlmann
  • Heat — 2:19.59
  • B-Final — 2:16.93 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

  • Ina Beyermann
  • Heat — 2:13.26
  • Final — 2:11.91 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Petra Zindler
  • Heat — 2:15.20
  • B-Final — 2:16.50 (→ 14th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

  • Christiane Pielke
  • Heat — 2:19.17
  • Final — 2:17.82 (→ 5th place)
  • Petra Zindler
  • Heat — 2:20.05
  • Final — 2:19.86 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

  • Petra Zindler
  • Heat — 4:52.49
  • Final — 4:48.57 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Volleyball

Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Lost to United States (0-3)
  • Lost to China (0-3)
  • Defeated Brazil (3-0)
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Defeated Canada (3-0)
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to South Korea (0-3) → Sixth place
  • Team Roster
  • Ruth Holzhausen
  • Birgitta Rühmer
  • Gudrun Witte
  • Beate Bühler
  • Regina Vossen
  • Sigrid Terstegge
  • Andrea Sauvigny
  • Renate Riek
  • Marina Staden
  • Almut Kemperdick
  • Terry Place-Brandel
  • Ute Hankers

Water Polo

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Australia (10-6)
  • Defeated Japan (15-8)
  • Defeated Italy (10-4)
  • Final Round (Group D)
  • Drew with Spain (8-8)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (9-10)
  • Lost to United States (7-8)
  • Defeated Netherlands (15-2) → Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Peter Röhle
  • Thomas Loebb
  • Frank Otto
  • Rainer Hoppe
  • Armando Fernández
  • Thomas Huber
  • Jürgen Schroder
  • Rainer Osselmann
  • Hagen Stamm
  • Roland Freund
  • Dirk Theismann
  • Werner Obschemikat







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