West Germany at the 1984 Winter Olympics

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The German Ice Skating Union president Wolf-Dieter Montag served as the head of mission for West Germany.

West Germany at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Flag of Germany
IOC code	FRG
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 7 February 1984 (1984-02-07) – 19 February 1984 (1984-02-19)
Competitors	84 (69 men, 15 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Monika Pflug (speed skating)
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 4
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988
Other related appearances
Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–)  United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Peter Angerer	Biathlon	Individual	11 February
Gold	Hans Stanggassinger Franz Wembacher	Luge	Doubles	15 February
Silver	Peter Angerer	Biathlon	Sprint	14 February
Bronze	Ernst Reiter Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer	Biathlon	Relay	17 February

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Peter Dürr	Downhill					DNF	–
Herbert Renoth						1:48.39	22
Klaus Gattermann						1:47.12	12
Sepp Wildgruber						1:46.53	7
Egon Hirt	Giant Slalom	1:22.45	14	1:21.66	11	2:44.11	13
Egon Hirt	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Florian Beck		53.49	18	DNF	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Irene Epple	Downhill					1:15.65	23
Regine Mösenlechner						1:15.16	17
Heidi Wiesler						1:14.98	14
Marina Kiehl						1:14.30	6
Michaela Gerg-Leitner	Giant Slalom	1:12.18	32	1:14.10	24	2:26.58	24
Irene Epple		1:11.64	22	1:13.88	22	2:25.52	21
Maria Epple		1:10.40	10	1:13.25	14	2:23.65	13
Marina Kiehl		1:09.70	5	1:12.33	5	2:22.03	5
Maria Epple	Slalom	49.63	11	49.14	11	1:38.77	12

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Walter Pichler	1	32:30.2	16
	Fritz Fischer	2	32:04.7	8
	Peter Angerer	1	31:02.4

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Ernst Reiter	1'15:37.4	5	1'20:37.4	22
	Fritz Fischer	1'11:49.7	4	1'15:49.7	7
	Peter Angerer	1'09:52.7	2	1'11:52.7

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Ernst Reiter Walter Pichler Peter Angerer Fritz Fischer	1	1'39:05.1

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 1984 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 Hans Metzler	Two-man	52.29	7	52.25	7	52.18	9	52.46	11	3:29.18	8
FRG-2	Andreas Weikenstorfer Hans-Jürgen Hartmann	Two-man	52.31	8	53.05	15	52.60	15	52.45	10	3:30.41	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	Klaus Kopp Gerhard Oechsle Günter Neuburger Hans-Joachim Schumacher	Four-man	50.71	9	51.09	9	51.01	7	51.34	11	3:24.15	9
FRG-2	Anton Fischer Franz Nießner Hans Metzler Uwe Eisenreich	Four-man	51.08	14	51.39	16	51.48	14	51.36	12	3:25.31	14

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Jochen Behle	DNF	–
	Josef Schneider	45:08.7	37
	Franz Schöbel	44:11.1	33
	Stefan Dotzler	44:02.6	30
30 km	Stefan Dotzler	1'37:39.9	37
	Peter Zipfel	1'36:26.6	33
	Jochen Behle	1'32:58.7	15
50 km	Peter Zipfel	2'30:57.7	38
	Franz Schöbel	2'30:30.2	37
	Josef Schneider	2'29:29.5	35

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Jochen Behle Stefan Dotzler Franz Schöbel Peter Zipfel	1'59:30.2	6

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km	Karin Jäger	35:05.2	33
20 km	Karin Jäger	1'06:20.2	19

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Heiko Fischer	6	10	12	19.6	10
Norbert Schramm	9	7	8	16.2	9
Rudi Cerne	3	6	4	8.2	4

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Claudia Leistner	9	10	8	17.4	9
Manuela Ruben	6	11	7	15.0	7

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Claudia Massari Leonardo Azzola	11	13	18.5	13

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Petra Born Rainer Schönborn	9	9	9	18.0	9

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Group A

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	42	5	10
Sweden	5	3	1	1	34	15	7
West Germany	5	3	1	1	27	17	7
Poland	5	1	4	0	16	37	2
Italy	5	1	4	0	15	31	2
Yugoslavia	5	1	4	0	8	37	2

• West Germany 8-1 Yugoslavia
• West Germany 8-5 Poland
• Sweden 1-1 West Germany
• USSR 6-1 West Germany
• West Germany 9-4 Italy

Game for 5th Place

Team 1	Score	Team 2
West Germany	7–4	Finland

Leading scorer

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
1st	Erich Kuhnhackl	6	8	6	14

• Team roster

• Andreas Niederberger
• Bernd Englbrecht
• Dieter Hegen
• Erich Kühnhackl
• Ernst Höfner
• Franz Reindl
• Gerd Truntschka
• Harold Kreis
• Helmut Steiger
• Ignaz Berndaner
• Joachim Reil
• Karl Friesen
• Manfred Ahne
• Manfred Wolf
• Marcus Kuhl
• Michael Betz
• Peter Scharf
• Roy Roedger
• Udo Kiessling
• Uli Hiemer

• Head coach: Xaver Unsinn

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Johannes Schettel	47.318	16	47.071	15	46.947	13	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Thomas Rzeznizok	46.704	11	46.970	12	47.154	16	46.539	12	3:07.367	12

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hans Stanggassinger Franz Wembacher	41.880	2	41.740	1	1:23.620
Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	42.267	8	42.367	9	1:24.634	8

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Andrea Hatle	43.397	14	42.072	4	42.102	6	41.920	5	2:49.491	8
Constanze Zeitz	42.707	10	42.679	12	42.300	11	42.150	11	2:49.836	9

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Dirk Kramer	Individual	78.5	79.5	189.0	19	49:43.7	191.245	13	380.245	18
Thomas Müller		85.0	87.0	209.1	3	49:32.7	192.895	12	401.995	5
Hubert Schwarz		72.5	88.0	181.6	23	51:42.0	173.500	26	355.100	24
Hermann Weinbuch		83.0	85.0	201.6	10	49:13.4	195.790	10	397.390	8

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Thomas Klauser	Normal hill	77.0	83.2	73.5	76.1	159.3	47
Peter Rohwein		83.0	94.3	69.0	66.9	161.2	44
Georg Waldvogel		83.0	96.8	80.0	91.0	187.8	22
Andi Bauer		87.0	104.7	83.0	97.3	202.0	11
Peter Rohwein	Large hill	92.5	77.7	95.0	80.7	158.4	35
Georg Waldvogel		95.0	82.7	89.0	71.8	154.5	38
Andi Bauer		105.0	102.2	100.5	92.4	194.6	7

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Uwe Streb	39.78	26
	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	39.39	19
1000 m	Andreas Lemcke	1:19.39	26
	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	1:19.13	23
	Uwe Streb	1:18.65	15
1500 m	Andreas Lemcke	2:03.13	27
	Hansjörg Baltes	2:02.68	26
	Wolfgang Scharf	2:02.64	25
5000 m	Hansjörg Baltes	7:50.33	37
	Andreas Lemcke	7:41.69	29
	Wolfgang Scharf	7:40.90	28
10,000 m	Wolfgang Scharf	15:40.74	28

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Sigrid Smuda	43.74	20
	Monika Pflug	42.40	7
1000 m	Sigrid Smuda	1:27.05	15
	Monika Pflug	1:25.87	8
1500 m	Sigrid Smuda	2:10.55	10
3000 m	Sigrid Smuda	4:53.22	18

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• 1984 Olympic Winter Games 1984, full results by sports-reference.com