Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Germany competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 465 competitors, 278 men and 187 women, took part in 234 events in 26 sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

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

Athletics

 * Men
 * Track and road events


 * Field events


 * Combined events – Decathlon


 * Women
 * Track and road events


 * Field events


 * Combined event – Heptathlon

Badminton

 * Men


 * Women


 * Mixed

Sprint

 * Men


 * Women

Road

 * Men


 * Women

Track

 * Sprint


 * Time trial


 * Pursuit


 * Points race

Diving

 * Men


 * Women

Fencing
15 fencers, 9 men and 6 women, represented Germany in 1996.


 * Men


 * Women

Field hockey
Key:
 * Summary
 * FT – After full time.
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Men's team competition

 * Team roster
 * Christopher Reitz (gk)
 * Jan-Peter Tewes
 * Carsten Fischer
 * Christian Blunck
 * Björn Emmerling
 * Patrick Bellenbaum
 * Sven Meinhardt
 * Christoph Bechmann
 * Oliver Domke
 * Andreas Becker
 * Michael Green
 * Klaus Michler
 * Volker Fried
 * Christian Mayerhöfer
 * Stefan Saliger
 * Michael Knauth (gk)

Head coach: Paul Lissek


 * Group play


 * Semifinal


 * Bronze medal match

Women's tournament

 * Team roster
 * (01.) Susie 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.) Franziska Hentschel
 * (10.) Tanja Dickenscheid
 * (11.) Eva Hagenbäumer
 * (12.) Britta Becker
 * (13.) Natascha Keller
 * (14.) Tina Peters
 * (15.) Heike Lätzsch
 * (16.) Katrin Kauschke


 * Group play

Summary
Key:
 * A.E.T – After extra time.
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Women's tournament
Head coach: Gero Bisanz
 * Team roster

Germany named a squad of 16 players and 4 alternates for the tournament.


 * Group play

Men

 * Team


 * Individual finals

Rhythmic

 * Group all-around


 * Individual all-around

Summary
Key:
 * A.E.T – After extra time.
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Men's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Markus Baur
 * Jan Fegter
 * Henning Fritz
 * Jan Holpert
 * Holger Löhr
 * Thomas Knorr
 * Karsten Kohlhaas
 * Stephan Kretschmar
 * Klaus-Dieter Petersen
 * Christian Scheffler
 * Martin Schmidt
 * Martin Schwalb
 * Christian Schwarzer
 * Daniel Stephan
 * Andreas Thiel
 * Volker Zerbe


 * Group play


 * 7th place match

Women's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Kathrin Blacha
 * Andrea Bölk
 * Eike Bram
 * Csilla Elekes
 * Michaela Erler
 * Franziska Heinz
 * Grit Jurack
 * Eva Kiss-Györi
 * Christine Lindemann
 * Emilia Luca
 * Heike Murrweiss
 * Miroslava Ritskiavitchius
 * Michaela Schanze
 * Melanie Schliecker
 * Bianca Urbanke
 * Marlies Waelzer


 * Group play


 * 5th place match

Judo
15 fencers, 9 men and 6 women, represented Germany in 1996.


 * Men


 * Women

Rowing

 * Men


 * Women

Sailing

 * Men


 * Women


 * Open
 * Fleet racing


 * Match racing

Shooting

 * Men


 * Women

Swimming

 * Men


 * Women

Table tennis

 * Men


 * Women

Tennis

 * Men


 * Women

Women's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Nancy Celis
 * Tanja Hart
 * Karin Horninger
 * Silvia Roll
 * Susanne Lahme
 * Grit Naumann
 * Hanka Pachale
 * Ines Pianka
 * Constanze Radfan
 * Christine Schultz
 * Ute Steppin
 * Claudia Wilke


 * Head coach: Sigfried Kohler


 * Group stage


 * Quarterfinal


 * Classification 5-8


 * 7th place match

Water polo
Key:
 * Summary
 * FT – After full time.

Men's tournament

 * Team roster
 * Ingo Borgmann
 * Piotr Bukowski
 * Oliver Dahler
 * Jörg Dresel
 * Torsten Dresel
 * Davor Erjavec
 * Michael Ilgner
 * Dirk Klingenberg
 * Raul de la Peña
 * René Reimann
 * Uwe Sterzik
 * Lars Tomanek
 * Daniel Voß


 * Group play


 * Classification round

Wrestling

 * Greco-Roman


 * Freestyle