Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Germany at the Olympic Games
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IOC code:	GER
NOC:	German Olympic Sports Confederation external link (German)
1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Flag bearer	Manfred Klein
Medals Rank: 3	Gold 33	Silver 21	Bronze 28	Total 82
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 1992 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006
Other related appearances
• United Team of Germany (1956-1964) • West Germany (1952, 1968-1988) • East Germany (1968-1988)

Germany competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first time the European nation participated after German reunification in 1990. Previously, West Germany and East Germany had sent independent teams to the Games.

1 Medals
2 Results by event

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

Dieter Baumann — Athletics, Men's 5000 metres
Heike Henkel — Athletics, Women's High Jump
Heike Drechsler — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
Silke Renk — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
Andreas Tews — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
Torsten May — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
Torsten Gutsche and Kay Bluhm — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
Torsten Gutsche and Kay Bluhm — Canoeing, Men's K2 1000 m Kayak Pairs
Oliver Kegel, Thomas Reineck, Mario von Appen, and André Wohllebe — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours
Ulrich Papke and Ingo Spelly — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs
Elisabeth Micheler — Canoeing, Women's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
Birgit Fischer — Canoeing, Women's K1 500 m Kayak Singles
Anke Nothnagel-Von Seck and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, Women's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
Jens Fiedler — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)
Guido Fulst, Michael Glöckner, Jens Lehmann, Stefan Steinweg, and Andreas Walzer — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit
Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer, Uwe Peschel, and Michael Rich — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
Petra Roßner — Cycling, Women's 3000 m Individual Pursuit
Ludger Beerbaum — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
Klaus Balkenhol, Monica Theodorescu, Nicole Uphoff, and Isabell Werth — Equestrian, Dressage Team
Alexander Koch, Ulrich Schreck, Udo Wagner, Thorsten Weidner, and Ingo Weissenborn — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
Elmar Borrmann, Robert Felisiak, Uwe Proske, Vladimir Resnitschenko, and Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
Michael Knauth, Christopher Reitz, Carsten Fischer, Jan-Peter Tewes, Volker Fried, Klaus Michler, Andreas Keller, Michael Metz, Christian Blunck, Sven Meinhardt, Michael Hilgers, Andreas Becker, Stefan Saliger, Stefan Tewes, Christian Mayerhöfer, and Oliver Kurtz — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
Thomas Lange — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
Andreas Hajek, Michael Steinbach, Stephan Volkert, and André Willms — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls
Kathrin Boron and Kerstin Köppen — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls
Kerstin Müller, Kristina Mundt, Birgit Peter, and Sybille Schmidt — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls
Ralf Schumann — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol
Michael Jakosits — Shooting, Men's Running Game Target
Dagmar Hase — Swimming, Women's 400 m Freestyle
Boris Becker and Michael Stich — Tennis, Men's Doubles
Ronny Weller — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (110 kg)
Maik Bullmann — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight

[edit] Silver

Jürgen Schult — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
Marco Rudolph — Boxing, Men's Lightweight
Ulrich Papke and Ingo Spelly — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs
Katrin Borchert, Birgit Fischer, Anke Nothnagel-Von Seck and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, Women's K4 500 m Kayak Fours
Jens Lehmann — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Individual Pursuit
Annett Neumann — Cycling, Women's Sprint
Herbert Blöcker — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual
Isabell Werth — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
Sabine Bau, Annette Dobmeier, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, and Monika Weber — Fencing, Women's Foil Team
Britta Becker, Tanja Dickenscheid, Nadine Ernsting-Krienke, Christine Ferneck, Eva Hagenbäumer, Franziska Hentschel, Caren Jungjohann, Katrin Kauschke, Irina Kuhnt, Heike Lätzsch, Susanne Müller, Tina Peters, Simone Thomaschinski, Bianca Weiß, Anke Wild, and Susie Wollschläger — Field Hockey, Women's Team Competition
Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
Peter Höltzenbein and Colin von Ettingshausen — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
Ralf Brudel, Karsten Finger, Uwe Kellner, Thoralf Peters, and Hendrik Reiher — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
Ingeborg Schwerzmann and Stefani Werremeier — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs
Franziska van Almsick — Swimming, Women's 200 m Freestyle
Dagmar Hase — Swimming, Women's 200 m Backstroke
Jana Dörries, Dagmar Hase, Daniela Hunger, and Franziska van Almsick — Swimming, Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay
Steffen Fetzner and Jörg Roßkopf — Table tennis, Men's Doubles
Steffi Graf — Tennis, Women's Singles
Rifat Yildiz — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
Heiko Balz — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (100 kg)

[edit] Bronze

Stephan Freigang — Athletics, Men's Marathon
Ronald Weigel — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
Kathrin Neimke — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
Karen Forkel — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
Sabine Everts-Braun — Athletics, Women's Heptathlon
Jan Quast — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight
Olaf Heukrodt — Canoeing, Men's C1 500 m Canadian Singles
Jochen Lettmann — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
Brita Baldus — Diving, Women's Springboard Diving
Herbert Blöcker, Ralf Ehrenbrink, and Cord Mysegaes — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team
Klaus Balkenhol — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
Richard Trautmann — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)
Udo Quellmalz — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (65 kg)
Roland Baar, Armin Eichholz, Detlef Kirchhoff, Manfred Klein, Bahne Rabe, Frank Richter, Hans Sennewald, Thorsten Streppelhoff, and Ansgar Wessling — Rowing, Men's Eights
Antje Frank, Annette Hohn, Gabriele Mehl and Birte Siech — Rowing, Women's Coxless Fours
Sylvia Dördelmann, Kathrin Haacker, Christiane Harzendorf, Daniela Neunast, Cerstin Petersmann, Dana Pyritz, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wagner-Stange, and Judith Zeidler — Rowing, Women's Eights
Johann Riederer — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle
Jörg Hoffmann — Swimming, Men's 1500 m Freestyle
Mark Pinger, Dirk Richter, Christian Tröger, and Steffen Zesner — Swimming, Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
Franziska van Almsick — Swimming, Women's 100 m Freestyle
Kerstin Kielgaß — Swimming, Women's 200 m Freestyle
Jana Henke — Swimming, Women's 800 m Freestyle
Daniela Hunger — Swimming, Women's 200 m Individual Medley
Daniela Hunger, Simone Osygus, Manuela Stellmach, and Franziska van Almsick — Swimming, Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay
Andreas Behm — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight (67½ kg)
Manfred Nerlinger — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In Germany's fifth archery competition, only one of the six archers qualified for the individual elimination rounds. He lost his first match, as did both the men's and women's teams.

Women's Individual Competition:

Astrid Hanschen — Ranking round, 43rd place (0-0)
Cornelia Pfohl — Ranking round, 44th place (0-0)
Marion Wagner — Ranking round, 53rd place (0-0)

Men's Individual Competition:

Frank Marzoch — Round of 32, 32nd place (0-1)
Marc Rosicke — Ranking round, 38th place (0-0)
Andreas Lippoldt — Ranking round, 43rd place (0-0)

Women's Team Competition:

Hanschen, Pfohl, and Wagner — Round of 16, 10th place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

Marzoch, Rosicke, and Lippoldt — Round of 16, 11th place (0-1)

[edit] Athletics

Men's Marathon

Stephan Freigang → Bronze Medal (2:14.00)
Konrad Dobler → 49th place (2:23.44)

Men's Marathon

Katrin Dörre → 5th place (2:36.48)
Birgit Jerschabek → 15th place (2:42.45)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Jan Quast → Bronze Medal

First Round – Defeated Mohamed Zbir (MAR), 6:0
Second Round – Defeated Pramuansak Phosuwan (THA), 11:2
Quarterfinals – Defeated Valentin Barbu (ROM), 15:7
Semifinals – Lost to Daniel Petrov (BUL), 9:15

[edit] Handball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

Germany – Unified Team 25-15
Germany – Romania 20-20
Germany – France 20-23
Germany – Egypt 24-16
Germany – Spain 18-19

Classification Match

9th/10th place: Germany – Czechoslovakia 19-20 (→ Tenth place)

[edit] Women's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Germany – Nigeria 32-17
Germany – United States 32-16
Germany – Unified Team 22-28

Semi Finals

Germany – South Korea 25-26

Bronze Medal Match

Germany – Unified Team 20-24 (→ Fourth place)

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Germany – India 3 – 0
Germany – Great Britain 2 – 0
Germany – Australia 1 – 1
Germany – Egypt 8 – 2
Germany – Argentina 2 – 1

Semi Finals

Germany – Pakistan 2 – 1

Final

Germany – Australia 2 – 1 (→ Gold Medal)

Team Roster

Michael Knauth (gk)
Christopher Reitz (gk)
Carsten Fischer
Jan-Peter Tewes
Volker Fried
Klaus Michler
Andreas Keller
Michael Metz
Christian Blunck
Sven Meinhardt
Michael Hilgers
Andreas Becker
Stefan Saliger
Stefan Tewes
Christian Mayerhöfer
Oliver Kurtz

[edit] Women's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Germany – Spain 2 – 2
Germany – Australia 0 – 1
Germany – Canada 4 – 0

Semi Finals

Germany – Great Britain 2 – 1

Final

Germany – Spain 1 – 2 (→ Silver Medal)

Team Roster

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 50 m Freestyle

Nils Rudolph
1. Heat – 22.70
2. Final – 22.73 (→ 8th place)

Mark Pinger
1. Heat – 22.88
2. B-Final – 22.88 (→ 11th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Christian Tröger
1. Heat – 50.05
2. Final – 49.84 (→ 7th place)

Nils Rudolph
1. Heat – 50.29
2. B-Final – 50.62 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Steffen Zesner
1. Heat – 1:48.12
2. Final – 1:48.84 (→ 7th place)

Christian Keller
1. Heat – 1:50.07
2. B-Final – 1:50.46 (→ 14th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Sebastian Wiese
1. Heat – 3:50.73
2. Final – 3:49.06 (→ 6th place)

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 3:49.99
2. Final – 3:49.75 (→ 7th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Jörg Hoffmann
1. Heat – 15:03.95
2. Final – 15:02.29 (→ Bronze Medal)

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 15:13.71
2. Final – 15:04.28 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Dirk Richter
1. Heat – 56.03
2. Final – 56.26 (→ 8th place)

Tino Weber
1. Heat – 56.27
2. B-Final – 56.49 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Tino Weber
1. Heat – 1:59.40
2. Final – 1:59.78 (→ 7th place)

Dirk Richter
1. Heat – 2:00.94
2. B-Final – DNS (→ no ranking)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke
1. Heat – 1:02.48
2. B-Final – 1:02.73 (→ 13th place)

Christian Poswiat
1. Heat – 1:03.85 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

Christian Poswiat
1. Heat – 2:20.80 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Christian Keller
1. Heat – 54.47
2. B-Final – 54.30 (→ 9th place)

Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 54.59
2. B-Final – 54.94 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Chris-Carol Bremer
1. Heat – 2:00.49
2. B-Final – 1:59.93 (→ 9th place)

Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 2:00.47
2. B-Final – 2:01.14 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Christian Gessner
1. Heat – 2:02.43
2. Final – 2:01.97 (→ 5th place)

Josef Hladky
1. Heat – 2:07.18 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Christian Gessner
1. Heat – 4:19.92
2. Final – 4:17.88 (→ 5th place)

Patrick Kühl
1. Heat – 4:18.68
2. Final – 4:19.66 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Andreas Szigat, Christian Tröger, Bengt Zikarsky, and Dirk Richter
1. Heat – 3:19.61
Mark Pinger, Dirk Richter, Christian Tröger, and Steffen Zesner
1. Final – 3:17.90 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Peter Sitt, Christian Tröger, Andreas Szigat, and Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 7:18.21
Andreas Szigat, Peter Sitt, Stefan Zesner, and Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Final – 7:16.58 (→ 4th place)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

Tino Weber, Mark Warnecke, Christian Keller, and Bengt Zikarsky
1. Heat – 3:43.00
Tino Weber, Mark Warnecke, Christian Keller, and Mark Pinger
1. Final – 3:40.19 (→ 4th place)

[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 50 m Freestyle

Simone Osygus
1. Heat – 25.79
2. Final – 25.74 (→ 7th place)

Franziska van Almsick
1. Heat – 25.96
2. B-Final – DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

Franziska van Almsick
1. Heat – 55.40
2. Final – 54.94 (→ Bronze Medal)

Simone Osygus
1. Heat – 55.98
2. Final – 55.93 (→ 7th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Franziska van Almsick
1. Heat – 1:57.90
2. Final – 1:58.00 (→ Silver Medal)

Kerstin Kielgass
1. Heat – 2:00.55
2. Final – 1:59.67 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase
1. Heat – 4:10.92
2. Final – 4:07.18 (→ Gold Medal)

Kerstin Kielgass
1. Heat – 4:12.50
2. Final – 4:11.52 (→ 5th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

Jana Henke
1. Heat – 8:35.11
2. Final – 8:30.99 (→ Bronze Medal)

Kerstin Kielgass
1. Heat – 8:43.52 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Sandra Völker
1. Heat – 1:02.90
2. B-Final – 1:04.52 (→ 16th place)

Dagmar Hase
1. Heat – 1:03.35
2. B-Final – 1:02.93 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Dagmar Hase
1. Heat – 2:11.52
2. Final – 2:09.46 (→ Silver Medal)

Marion Zoller
1. Heat – 2:14.53
2. B-Final – 2:13.77 (→ 9th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Jana Dörries
1. Heat – 1:10.00
2. Final – 1:09.77 (→ 5th place)

Daniela Brendel
1. Heat – 1:10.49
2. Final – 1:11.05 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Daniela Brendel
1. Heat – 2:32.09
2. B-Final – 2:32.05 (→ 10th place)

Jana Dörries
1. Heat – 2:34.58 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Franziska van Almsick
1. Heat – 1:00.02
2. Final – 1:00.70 (→ 7th place)

Bettina Ustrowski
1. Heat – 1:02.07 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

Bettina Ustrowski
1. Heat – 2:21.49 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Daniela Hunger
1. Heat – 2:15.16
2. Final – 2:13.92 (→ Bronze Medal)

Jana Haas
1. Heat – 2:17.74
2. B-Final – 2:20.94 (→ 16th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Daniela Hunger
1. Heat – 4:47.39
2. Final – 4:47.57 (→ 6th place)

Jana Haas
1. Heat – 4:49.93
2. B-Final – 4:47.74 (→ 9th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Annette Hadding, Simone Osygus, Kerstin Kielgass, and Manuela Stellmach
1. Heat – 3:43.58
Franziska van Almsick, Simone Osygus, Daniela Hunger, and Manuela Stellmach
1. Final – 3:41.60 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

Dagmar Hase, Daniele Brendel, Bettina Ustrowski, and Simone Osygus
1. Heat – 4:10.62
Dagmar Hase, Jana Dörries, Franziska van Almsick, and Daniela Hunger
1. Final – 4:05.19 (→ Silver Medal)

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Boris Becker
1. First round — Defeated Christian Ruud (Norway) 3-6, 7-6, 5-7, 7-6, 6-3
2. Second round — Defeated Younes El Aynaoui (Morocco) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
3. Third round — Lost to Fabrice Santoro (France) 1-6, 6-3, 1-6, 3-6

Michael Stich
1. First round — Defeated Richard Fromberg (Australia) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
2. Second round — Lost to Carl-Uwe Steeb (Germany) 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6

Carl-Uwe Steeb
1. First round — Defeated Richard Fromberg (Australia) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
2. Second round — Defeated Michael Stich (Germany) 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
3. Third round — Lost to Leonardo Lavalle (Mexico) 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 2-6

Men's Doubles Competition

Boris Becker and Michael Stich → Gold Medal
1. First round — Defeated Karim Alami and Younes El Aynaoui (Morocco) walk over
2. Second round — Defeated Anastasios Bavelas and Konstantinos Efraimoglou (Greece) 6-3, 6-1, 6-4
3. Quarterfinals — Defeated Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez (Spain) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6, 5-7, 6-3
4. Semifinals — Defeated Javier Frana and Christian Miniussi (Argentina) 7-6, 6-2, 6-7, 2-6, 6-4
5. Final — Defeated Wayne Ferreira and Piet Norval (South Africa) 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3

Women's Singles Competition

Steffi Graf → Silver Medal
1. First Round — Defeated Lupita Novelo (Mexico) 6-1, 6-1
2. Second Round — Defeated Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (Netherlands) 6-1, 6-0
3. Third Round — Defeated Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-3, 6-4
4. Quarterfinals — Defeated Sabine Appelmans (Belgium) 6-1, 6-0
5. Semifinals — Defeated Mary Joe Fernandez (USA) 6-3, 6-4
6. Final — Lost to Jennifer Capriati (USA) 6-3, 3-6, 4-6

Anke Huber
1. First Round — Defeated Naoko Sawamatsu (Japan) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2
2. Second Round — Defeated Barbara Paulus (Austria) 6-4, 6-1
3. Third Round — Defeated Nicole Muns-Jagerman (Netherlands) 7-5, 7-6
4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Jennifer Capriati (USA) 3-6, 6-7

Barbara Rittner
1. First Round — Defeated Florencia Labat (Argentina) 6-3, 6-3
2. Second Round — Defeated Nathalie Tauziat (France) 6-3, 6-2
3. Third Round — Lost to Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spain) 6-4, 3-6, 1-6