Germany At The 1996 Summer Olympics

Germany competed at the ''' 1996 Summer Olympics ''' in Atlanta, Georgia under the IOC Country Code GER. It was the second time the Europe an nation participated after reunification, and the twentieth time that German athletes had contested the Games.

MEDALS

Germany finished in third position in the final medal rankings

Gold

Lars Riedel — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw

Astrid Kumbernuss — Athletics, Women's Shot Put

Ilke Wyludda — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw

Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche — Canoeing, Men's K2 500m Kayak Pairs

Detlef Hofmann , Thomas Reineck , Olaf Winter and Mark Zabel — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000m Kayak Fours

Andreas Dittmer and Gunar Kirchbach — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs

Oliver Fix — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles

Birgit Fischer , Manuela Mucke , Anett Schuck and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, Women's K4 500m Kayak Fours

Jens Fiedler — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)

Ulrich Kirchhoff — Equestrian, Jumping Individual

Ludger Beerbaum , Ulrich Kirchhoff , Lars Nieberg , and Franke Sloothaak — Equestrian, Jumping Team

Isabell Werth — Equestrian, Dressage Individual

Klaus Balkenhol , Martin Schaudt , Monica Theodorescu , and Isabell Werth — Equestrian, Dressage Team

Andreas Wecker — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar

Udo Quellmalz — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (65 kg)

Andreas Hajek , André Steiner , Stephan Volkert , and André Willms — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls

Kathrin Boron , Kerstin Köppen , Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski , and Jana Sorgers — Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls

Thomas Flach , Bernd Jäkel , and Jochen Schümann — Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition

Ralf Schumann — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol

Christian Klees — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone

Silver

Barbara Mensing , Sandra Wagner , and Cornelia Pfohl — Archery, Women's Team Competition

Frank Busemann — Athletics, Men's Decathlon

Oktay Urkal — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche — Canoeing, Men's K2 1000m Kayak Pairs

Birgit Fischer and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs

Jan Hempel — Diving, Men's Platform

Annika Walter — Diving, Women's Platform

Roland Baar , Wolfram Huhn , Detlef Kirchhoff , Mark Kleinschmidt , Frank Richter , Thorsten Streppelhoff , Peter Thiede , Ulrich Viefers , and Marc Weber — Rowing, Men's Eights

Petra Horneber — Shooting, Women's Air Rifle

Susanne Kiermayer — Shooting, Women's Double Trap

Sandra Völker — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle

Franziska Van Almsick — Swimming, Women's 200m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase — Swimming, Women's 400m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase — Swimming, Women's 800m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase , Kerstin Kielgass , Franziska Van Almsick , and Sandra Völker — Swimming, Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Marc Huster — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight (83 kg)

Ronny Weller — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight (> 108 kg)

Thomas Zander — Wrestling , Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (82 kg)

Bronze

Florian Schwarthoff — Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles

Andrej Tiwontschik — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault

Grit Breuer , Linda Kisabaka , Uta Rohländer , and Anja Rücker — Athletics, Women's 4x400m Relay

Zoltan Lunka — Boxing, Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

Thomas Ulrich — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Luan Krasniqi — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

Thomas Becker — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles

André Ehrenberg and Michael Senft — Canoeing, Men's C2 Canadian Slalom Pairs

Judith Arndt — Cycling, Women's Individual Pursuit

Sabine Bau , Anja Fichtel-Mauritz , and Monika Weber — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition

Richard Trautmann — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)

Marko Spittka — Judo, Men's Middleweight (86 kg)

Frank Möller — Judo, Men's Heavyweight

Johanna Hagn — Judo, Women's Heavyweight

Thomas Lange — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls

Mark Warnecke — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke

Mark Pinger , Christian Tröger , Bengt Zikarsky , and Björn Zikarsky — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Aimo Heilmann , Christian Keller , Christian Tröger , and Steffen Zesner — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Sandra Völker — Swimming, Women's 50m Freestyle

Cathleen Rund — Swimming, Women's 200m Backstroke

Antje Buschschulte , Simone Osygus , Franziska Van Almsick , and Sandra Völker — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Jörg Rosskopf — Table Tennis, Men's Singles

Marc-Kevin Goellner and David Prinosil — Tennis, Men's Doubles

Oliver Caruso — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (91 kg)

Maik Bullmann — Wrestling , Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

Arawat Sabejew — Wrestling , Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (100 kg)

RESULTS BY EVENT

Archery

In Germany's sixth archery competition, the German women's team won the Silver Medal . Germany's highest placing individual was Barbara Mensing , who advanced to the quarterfinal before being defeated. No Germany men competed in Atlanta.

Women's Individual Competition:

Barbara Mensing → Quarterfinal, 8th place (3-1)

Sandra Wagner → Round of 64, 34th place (0-1)

Cornelia Pfohl → Round of 64, 40th place (0-1)

Women's Team Competition:

Mensing, Wagner, and Pfohl → Final, Silver Medal (3-1)

Athletics

Men's Marathon

Konrad Dobler → 48th place (2:21.12)

Stephan Freigang → Did not finish

Women's Marathon

Katrin Dörre → 4th place (2:28.45)

Sonja Krolik → 8th place (2:31.16)

Uta Pippig → Did not finish

Hockey

Women's Team Competition

The German women's hockey team finished sixth in Atlanta. The squad was formed by the following players (with their jersey numbers): [01.] Susi Wollschläger (gk), [02.] Birgit Beyer (gk), [03.] Vanessa Van Kooperen , [04.] Philippa Suxdorf , [05.] Nadine Ernsting-Krienke , [06.] Simone Thomaschinski , [07.] Irina Kuhnt , [08.] Melanie Cremer , [09.] Frantziska Hentschel , [10.] Tanja Dickenscheid , [11.] Eva Hagenbäumer , [12.] Britta Becker , [13.] Natascha Keller , [14.] Tina Peters , [15.] Heike Lätzsch , and [16.] Katrin Kauschke .

Swimming

Men's Competition

Men's 50m Freestyle

Bengt Zikarsky

# Heat – 22.68

# Swim-off – DSQ

# B-Final – 22.73 (→ 10th place)

Alexander Lüderitz

# Heat – 23.06 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

Christian Tröger

# Heat – 50.06

# B-Final – 49.90 (→ 10th place)

Björn Zikarsky

# Heat – 50.38

# B-Final – 49.91 (→ 11th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

Aimo Heilmann

# Heat – 1:49.57

# B-Final – 1:48.81 (→ 9th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

Jörg Hoffmann

# Heat – 3:51.26

# Final – 3:52.15 (→ 7th place)

Sebastian Wiese

# Heat – 3:53.65

# B-Final – 3:52.37 (→ 10th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

Jörg Hoffmann

# Heat – 15:18.61

# Final – 15:18.86 (→ 7th place)

Steffen Zesner

# Heat – 15:21.65 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

Ralf Braun

# Heat – 55.73

# Final – 55.56 (→ 7th place)

Stev Theloke

# Heat – 56.26

# B-Final – 56.63 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

Ralf Braun

# Heat – 2:01.50

# B-Final – scratched

Men's 100m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke

# Heat – 1:01.79

# Final – 1:01.33 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 100m Butterfly

Oliver Lampe

# Heat – 54.56 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

Oliver Lampe

# Heat – 1:59.87

# B-Final – 2:00.08 (→ 12th place)

Chris-Carol Bremer

# Heat – 2:00.48

# B-Final – 2:01.62 (→ 16th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

Christian Keller

# Heat – 2:03.82

# B-Final – 2:02.90 (→ 9th place)

Stev Theloke

# Heat – 2:04.23

# B-Final – 2:03.94 (→ 12th place)

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Mark Pinger , Alexander Lüderitz , Bengt Zikarsky , and Björn Zikarsky

# Heat – 3:19.27

Christian Tröger , Bengt Zikarsky , Björn Zikarsky , and Mark Pinger

# Final – 3:17.20 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Konstantin Dubrovin , Christian Keller , Oliver Lampe , and Steffen Zesner

# Heat – 7:22.17

Aimo Heilmann , Christian Keller , Christian Tröger , and Steffen Zesner

# Final – 7:17.71 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

Stev Theloke , Mark Warnecke , Oliver Lampe , and Bengt Zikarsky

# Heat – 3:41.30

Ralf Braun , Mark Warnecke , Christian Keller , and Björn Zikarsky

# Final – 3:39.64 (→ 4th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 50m Freestyle

Sandra Völker

# Heat – 25.45

# Final – 25.14 (→ Bronze Medal)

Simone Osygus

# Heat – 26.00

# B-Final – 26.16 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

Sandra Völker

# Heat – 55.55

# Final – 54.88 (→ Silver Medal)

Franziska Van Almsick

# Heat – 55.80

# Final – 55.59 (→ 5th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

Franziska Van Almsick

# Heat – 1:59.40

# Final – 1:58.57 (→ Silver Medal)

Dagmar Hase

# Heat – 2:00.38

# Final – 1:59.56 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 400m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase

# Heat – 4:11.17

# Final – 4:08.30 (→ Silver Medal)

Kerstin Kielgass

# Heat – 4:08.99

# Final – 4:09.83 (→ 4th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

Dagmar Hase

# Heat – 8:33.55

# Final – 8:29.91 (→ Silver Medal)

Kerstin Kielgass

# Heat – 8:36.33

# Final – 8:31.06 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke

Antje Buschschulte

# Heat – 1:02.68

# Final – 1:02.52 (→ 6th place)

Anke Scholz

# Heat – 1:03.05

# B-Final – 1:02.85 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

Cathleen Rund

# Heat – 2:13.58

# Final – 2:12.06 (→ Bronze Medal)

Anke Scholz

# Heat – 2:12.73

# B-Final – 2:12.90 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

Kathrin Dumitru

# Heat – 1:11.92 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

Kathrin Dumitru

# Heat – 2:37.07 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

Julia Voitowitsch

# Heat – 1:01.47

# B-Final – 1:01.14 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

Sabine Herbst

# Heat – 2:16.66 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

Sabine Herbst

# Heat – 2:18.00

# B-Final – 2:16.68 (→ 11th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

Sabine Herbst

# Heat – 4:45.36

# Final – 4:43.78 (→ 4th place)

Cathleen Rund

# Heat – 4:55.30 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Simone Osygus , Antje Buschschulte , Meike Freitag , and Franziska Van Almsick

# Heat – 3:44.17

Sandra Völker , Simone Osygus , Antje Buschschulte , and Franziska Van Almsick

# Final – 3:41.48 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Simone Osygus , Meike Freitag , Anke Scholz , and Franziska Van Almsick

# Heat – 8:08.58

Franziska Van Almsick , Kerstin Kielgass , Anke Scholz , and Dagmar Hase

# Final – 8:01.55 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Antje Buschschulte , Kathrin Dumitru , Franziska Van Almsick , and Sandra Völker

# Heat – 4:08.95

Antje Buschschulte , Kathrin Dumitru , Franziska Van Almsick , and Sandra Völker

# Final – 4:09.22 (→ 6th place)

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