East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 267 competitors, 154 men and 113 women, took part in 139 events in 17 sports.

Athletics
Men's Marathon
 * Waldemar Cierpinski — 2:09.55 (→ [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
 * Manfred Kokot, Jörg Pfeifer, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, and Alexander Thieme
 * Heat — 39.42
 * Semi Final — 39.43
 * Final — 38.66s (→ [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal)

Men's High Jump
 * Rolf Beilschmidt
 * Qualification — 2.16m
 * Final — 2.18m (→ 7th place)
 * Henry Lauterbach
 * Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump
 * Frank Wartenberg
 * Qualification — 7.89m
 * Final — 8.02m (→ [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal)

Men's Discus Throw
 * Wolfgang Schmidt
 * Qualification — 63.14m
 * Final — 66.22m (→ [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal)
 * Norbert Thiede
 * Qualification — 61.14m
 * Final — 64.30m (→ 4th place)
 * Siegfried Pachale
 * Qualification — 60.64m
 * Final — 64.24m (→ 5th place)

Men's 20 km Race Walk
 * Hans-Georg Reimann — 1:25:13 (→ [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal)
 * Peter Frenkel — 1:25:29 (→ [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal)
 * Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller — 1:26:50 (→ 4th place)

Women's Shot Put
 * Marianne Adam
 * Final — 20.55 m (→ 4th place)
 * Ilona Slupianek
 * Final — 20.54 m (→ 5th place)
 * Margitta Droese
 * Final — 19.79 m (→ 6th place)

Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
 * Dietmar Geilich
 * First Round — Bye
 * Second Round — Lost to Armando Guevara (VEN), 0:5

Cycling
Eleven cyclists represented East Germany in 1976.


 * Individual road race
 * Karl-Dietrich Diers — 4:49:01 (→ 16th place)
 * Gerhard Lauke — did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Hans-Joachim Hartnick — did not finish (→ no ranking)
 * Siegbert Schmeisser — did not finish (→ no ranking)


 * Team time trial
 * Hans-Joachim Hartnick
 * Karl-Dietrich Diers
 * Gerhard Lauke
 * Michael Schiffner


 * Sprint
 * Jürgen Geschke — [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal


 * 1000m time trial
 * Klaus-Jürgen Grünke — 1:05.927 (→ [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal)


 * Individual pursuit
 * Thomas Huschke — [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal


 * Team pursuit
 * Norbert Dürpisch
 * Thomas Huschke
 * Uwe Unterwalder
 * Matthias Wiegand

Fencing
One male fencer represented East Germany in 1976.


 * Men's foil
 * Klaus Haertter

Football
Gold Medal
 * First Round
 * Drew with 0-0
 * Defeated 1-0
 * Quarterfinals
 * Defeated 4-0
 * Semifinals
 * Defeated 2-1
 * Final
 * Defeated 3-1
 * Team roster
 * Jürgen Croy
 * Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin
 * Gerd Weber
 * Gert Heidler
 * Hans-Jürgen Dörner
 * Konrad Weise
 * Lothar Kurbjuweit
 * Reinhard Lauck
 * Reinhard Häfner
 * Hans-Jürgen Riediger
 * Bernd Bransch
 * Martin Hoffmann
 * Gerd Kische
 * Dieter Riedel
 * Wolfram Löwe
 * Hartmut Schade
 * Wilfried Gröbner
 * Head coach: Georg Buschner

Rowing
East Germany had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all fourteen rowing events in 1976. Each team received a medal.


 * Men's single sculls – 3rd place ([[File:Med 3.png]] bronze medal)
 * Joachim Dreifke


 * Men's double sculls – 3rd place ([[File:Med 3.png]] bronze medal)
 * Uli Schmied
 * Jürgen Bertow


 * Men's coxless pair – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Jörg Landvoigt
 * Bernd Landvoigt


 * Men's coxed pair – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Harald Jährling
 * Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
 * Georg Spohr


 * Men's quadruple sculls – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
 * Rüdiger Reiche
 * Karl-Heinz Bußert
 * Michael Wolfgramm


 * Men's coxless four – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Siegfried Brietzke
 * Andreas Decker
 * Stefan Semmler
 * Wolfgang Mager


 * Men's coxed four – 2nd place ([[File:Med 2.png]] silver medal)
 * Andreas Schulz
 * Rüdiger Kunze
 * Walter Dießner
 * Ullrich Dießner
 * Johannes Thomas


 * Men's eight – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Bernd Baumgart
 * Gottfried Döhn
 * Werner Klatt
 * Hans-Joachim Lück
 * Dieter Wendisch
 * Roland Kostulski
 * Ulrich Karnatz
 * Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
 * Karl-Heinz Danielowski


 * Women's single sculls – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Christine Scheiblich


 * Women's double sculls – 2nd place ([[File:Med 2.png]] silver medal)
 * Sabine Jahn
 * Petra Boesler


 * Women's coxless pair – 2nd place ([[File:Med 2.png]] silver medal)
 * Angelika Noack
 * Sabine Dähne


 * Women's coxed four – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Karin Metze
 * Bianka Schwede
 * Gabriele Lohs
 * Andrea Kurth
 * Sabine Heß


 * Women's quadruple sculls – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Anke Borchmann
 * Jutta Lau
 * Viola Poley
 * Roswietha Zobelt
 * Liane Weigelt


 * Women's eight – 1st place ([[File:Med 1.png]] gold medal)
 * Viola Goretzki
 * Christiane Knetsch
 * Ilona Richter
 * Brigitte Ahrenholz
 * Monika Kallies
 * Henrietta Ebert
 * Helma Lehmann
 * Irina Müller
 * Marina Wilke

Swimming
100 meter Backstroke
 * Men's Competition
 * Roland Matthes — 57.22 — [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal

100 meter Freestyle 200 meter Freestyle 400 meter Freestyle 800 meter Freestyle 100 meter Backstroke 200 meter Backstroke 100 meter Breaststroke 100 meter Butterfly 200 meter Butterfly 400 meter Individual Medley 4x100 meter Freestyle Relay 4x100 meter Medley Relay
 * Women's Competition
 * Kornelia Ender — 55.65 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Petra Priemer — 56.49 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Kornelia Ender — 1:59.26 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Petra Thumer — 4:09.89 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Petra Thumer — 8:37.14 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Ulrike Richter — 1:01.83 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Birgit Treiber — 1:03.41 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Ulrike Richter — 2:13.43 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Birgit Treiber — 2:14.97 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Hannelore Anke — 1:11.16 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Kornelia Ender — 1:00.13 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Andrea Pollack — 1:00.98 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Andrea Pollack — 2:11.41 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Ulrike Tauber — 2:12.50 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Rosemarie Gabriel — 2:12.86— [[Image:Bronze medal.svg|16x16px]] Bronze Medal
 * Ulrike Tauber — 4:42.77 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal
 * Petra Priemer; Kornelia Ender; Claudia Hempel; Andrea Pollack — 3:45.50 — [[Image:Silver medal.svg|16x16px]] Silver Medal
 * Ulrike Richter; Hannelore Anke; Kornelia Ender; Andrea Pollack — 4:07.95 — [[Image:Gold medal.svg|16x16px]] Gold Medal

Volleyball

 * Women's team competition
 * Preliminary round (group B)
 * Lost to Cuba (1–3)
 * Lost to South Korea (2–3)
 * Lost to Soviet Union (2–3)
 * Classification Matches
 * 5th/8th place: Defeated Peru (3–2)
 * 5th/6th place: Lost to Cuba (0–3) → Sixth place
 * Team roster
 * Karla Roffeis
 * Johanna Strotzer
 * Cornelia Rickert
 * Christina Walther
 * Ingrid Mierzwiak
 * Helga Offen
 * Barbara Czekalla
 * Jutta Balster
 * Anke Westendorf
 * Hannelor Meincke
 * Monika Meissner
 * Gudrun Gartner
 * Head coach: Dieter Grund