Germany at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Germany competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Germany at the 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	GER
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Nagano
Competitors	125 (78 men, 47 women) in 14 sports
Flag bearer	Jochen Behle (cross-country skiing)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 12 Silver 9 Bronze 8 Total 29
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
United Team of Germany (1956–1964)  East Germany (1968–1988)  West Germany (1968–1988)

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Georg Hackl	Luge	Men's individual	9 February
Gold	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m	11 February
Gold	Silke Kraushaar	Luge	Women's individual	11 February
Gold	Nicola Thost	Snowboarding	Women's halfpipe	12 February
Gold	Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	Luge	Men's doubles	13 February
Gold	Katja Seizinger	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill	16 February
Gold	Katja Seizinger	Alpine skiing	Women's combined	17 February
Gold	Hilde Gerg	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom	19 February
Gold	Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	Biathlon	Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay	19 February
Gold	Claudia Pechstein	Speed skating	Women's 5000 m	20 February
Gold	Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	Biathlon	Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay	21 February
Gold	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	Bobsleigh	Four-man	21 February
Silver	Heidi Renoth	Snowboarding	Women's giant slalom	10 February
Silver	Tatjana Mittermayer	Freestyle skiing	Women's moguls	11 February
Silver	Claudia Pechstein	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m	11 February
Silver	Barbara Niedernhuber	Luge	Women's individual	11 February
Silver	Uschi Disl	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint	15 February
Silver	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Speed skating	Women's 1500 m	16 February
Silver	Sven Hannawald Martin Schmitt Hansjörg Jäkle Dieter Thoma	Ski jumping	Men's team large hill (K120)	17 February
Silver	Martina Ertl	Alpine skiing	Women's combined	17 February
Silver	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Speed skating	Women's 5000 m	20 February
Bronze	Uschi Disl	Biathlon	Women's 15 km	9 February
Bronze	Jens Müller	Luge	Men's individual	9 February
Bronze	Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	Figure skating	Pairs	10 February
Bronze	Anni Friesinger	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m	11 February
Bronze	Katrin Apel	Biathlon	Women's 7.5 km sprint	15 February
Bronze	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	Bobsleigh	Two-man	15 February
Bronze	Hilde Gerg	Alpine skiing	Women's combined	17 February
Bronze	Katja Seizinger	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	20 February

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Markus Eberle	Giant slalom	1:24.01	DNF	DNF	–
Markus Eberle	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Regina Häusl	Downhill			DNF	–
Hilde Gerg				1:29.96	9
Katrin Gutensohn				1:29.96	9
Katja Seizinger				1:29.89
Hilde Gerg	Super-G			1:18.59	10
Martina Ertl				1:18.46	7
Katja Seizinger				1:18.44	6
Regina Häusl				1:18.27	4
Regina Häusl	Giant slalom	1:26.37	1:38.20	3:04.57	30
Hilde Gerg		1:21.45	1:34.44	2:55.89	13
Martina Ertl		1:20.38	1:32.34	2:52.72	4
Katja Seizinger		1:20.19	1:32.42	2:52.61
Monika Bergmann	Slalom	47.78	47.21	1:34.99	9
Martina Ertl		46.22	46.69	1:32.91	4
Hilde Gerg		45.89	46.51	1:32.40

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Monika Bergmann	1:33.35	37.41	35.08	2:45.84	12
Hilde Gerg	1:29.92	36.52	35.06	2:41.50
Martina Ertl	1:29.76	36.45	34.71	2:40.92
Katja Seizinger	1:28.52	37.14	35.08	2:40.74

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Carsten Heymann	2	30:09.6	34
	Sven Fischer	2	29:47.1	29
	Ricco Groß	1	29:13.9	17
	Frank Luck	1	28:40.3	7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Jan Wüstenfeld	57:07.9	4	1'01:07.9	32
	Sven Fischer	56:26.1	3	59:26.1	16
	Peter Sendel	57:30.3	1	58:30.3	8
	Ricco Groß	57:15.4	1	58:15.4	6

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Ricco Groß Peter Sendel Sven Fischer Frank Luck	0	1'21:36.2

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Martina Zellner	2	25:09.8	30
	Petra Behle	2	24:09.9	16
	Katrin Apel	1	23:32.4
	Uschi Disl	1	23:08.7

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
15 km	Katja Beer	57:26.4	4	1'01:26.4	39
	Petra Behle	58:29.7	1	59:29.7	27
	Martina Zellner	52:46.3	4	56:46.3	10
	Uschi Disl	54:17.9	1	55:17.9

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Uschi Disl Martina Zellner Katrin Apel Petra Behle	0	1'40:13.6

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann	Two-man	54.82	7	54.62	6	54.11	1	54.34	3	3:37.89
GER-2	Dirk Wiese Marco Jakobs	Two-man	54.83	8	54.66	8	54.63	11	54.76	13	3:38.88	11

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
GER-1	Harald Czudaj Torsten Voss Steffen Görmer Alexander Szelig	Four-man	53.12	7	53.50	7	53.70	2	2:40.32	8
GER-2	Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Marco Jakobs Olaf Hampel	Four-man	52.70	1	52.90	1	53.81	8	2:39.41

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Jochen Behle	29:55.9	40
	René Sommerfeldt	29:52.5	38
	Johann Mühlegg	29:12.3	27
	Andreas Schlütter	28:48.0	16
15 km pursuit^1 F	René Sommerfeldt	43:49.5	29
	Johann Mühlegg	41:48.3	17
	Andreas Schlütter	41:08.3	12
30 km C	Jochen Behle	DNF	–
	Torald Rein	1'49:06.7	57
	Andreas Schlütter	1'40:27.1	21
50 km F	Andreas Schlütter	2'17:52.1	36
	René Sommerfeldt	2'16:19.9	26
	Johann Mühlegg	2'07:25.3	7

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Andreas Schlütter Jochen Behle René Sommerfeldt Johann Mühlegg	1'43:16.1	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Sigrid Wille	19:15.6	38
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	19:14.7	37
	Constanze Blum	19:02.4	30
	Kati Wilhelm	18:56.9	26
10 km pursuit^2 F	Sigrid Wille	34:15.1	54
	Kati Wilhelm	31:54.0	32
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	31:53.4	31
	Constanze Blum	31:28.5	26
15 km C	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	51:54.0	38
	Manuela Henkel	51:53.4	36
	Sigrid Wille	51:19.3	28
	Constanze Blum	50:30.3	21
30 km F	Manuela Henkel	DNF	–
	Constanze Blum	1'31:52.9	31
	Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	1'30:54.6	26
	Kati Wilhelm	1'28:27.7	16

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Kati Wilhelm Manuela Henkel Constanze Blum Anke Reschwamm-Schulze	56:55.4	5

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Mike Harris	6	1
Norway	Eigil Ramsfjell	5	2
Switzerland	Patrick Hürlimann	5	2
United States	Tim Somerville	3	4
Japan	Makoto Tsuruga	3	4
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	3	4
Great Britain	Douglas Dryburgh	2	5
Germany 8th	Andy Kapp	1	6

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Germany	4–7	Switzerland
Germany	5–7	Norway
Germany	6–7	Sweden
Germany	6–10	Canada
United States	8–5	Germany
United Kingdom	4–7	Germany
Japan	7–5	Germany

Contestants

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
Andy Kapp	Uli Kapp	Michael Schäffer	Holger Höhne	Oliver Axnick

Women's tournament

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Sandra Schmirler	6	1
Sweden	Elisabet Gustafson	6	1
Denmark	Helena Blach Lavrsen	5	2
Great Britain	Kirsty Hay	4	3
Japan	Mayumi Ohkutsu	2	5
Norway	Dordi Nordby	2	5
United States	Lisa Schoeneberg	2	5
Germany 8th	Andrea Schöpp	1	6

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Germany	5–6	Denmark
Germany	2–9	Japan
Germany	5–8	United States
Norway	6–7	Germany
Germany	3–8	Sweden
United Kingdom	6–5	Germany
Canada	8–5	Germany

Contestants

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
Andrea Schöpp	Monika Wagner	Natalie Nessler	Heike Wieländer	Carina Meidele

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Peggy Schwarz Mirko Mueller	9	8	12.5	9
Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	2	3	4.0

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Kati Winkler René Lohse	11	11	9	10	19.8	10

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Gabriele Rauscher	Moguls	35.20	22.11	12 Q	34.13	23.59	11
Sandra Schmitt		33.92	22.63	6 Q	33.50	23.67	9
Tatjana Mittermayer		34.69	23.07	3 Q	33.50	24.62

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's tournament

Preliminary round

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	3	2	0	1	14	4	+10	5
Germany	3	2	1	0	7	9	-2	4
France	3	1	2	0	5	8	-3	2
Japan	3	0	2	1	5	10	-5	1

All times are local (UTC-7).

7 February 1998

Germany

3 – 1 (0-0, 1-0, 2-1)

Japan

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 9,861

9 February 1998

Germany

2 – 8 (0-2, 2-3, 0-3)

Belarus

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 8,063

10 February 1998

France

0 – 2 (0-0, 0-1, 0-1)

Germany

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 3,916

Consolation round

All times are local (UTC-7).

12 February 1998

Germany   9th

4 – 2 (0-1, 1-1, 3-0)

Slovakia

The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan Attendance: 8,670

• Team roster

• Olaf Kölzig
• Josef Heiß
• Klaus Merk
• Mirko Lüdemann
• Erich Goldmann
• Uwe Krupp
• Markus Wieland
• Daniel Kunce
• Brad Bergen
• Jochen Molling
• Lars Brüggemann
• Peter Draisaitl
• Jan Benda
• Mark MacKay
• Reemt Pyka
• Jochen Hecht
• Benoît Doucet
• Stefan Ustorf
• Thomas Brandl
• Andreas Lupzig
• Dieter Hegen
• Jürgen Rumrich
• Marco Sturm

• Head coach: George Kingston

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karsten Albert	50.353	12	50.172	13	50.080	11	50.499	17	3:21.104	12
Jens Müller	49.954	4	49.700	3	49.729	2	49.710	2	3:19.093
Georg Hackl	49.619	1	49.573	1	49.614	1	49.630	1	3:18.436

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	50.592	1	50.513	3	1:41.105
Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	51.408	10	50.816	6	1:42.224	8

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Susi Erdmann	51.475	4	51.348	5	50.895	3	50.731	5	3:24.449	4
Barbara Niedernhuber	51.216	2	51.103	1	50.837	2	50.625	3	3:23.781
Silke Kraushaar	51.197	1	51.178	2	50.787	1	50.617	2	3:23.779

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
		Points	Rank
Matthias Looß	Individual	187.0	41	46:54.2	32
Josef Buchner		203.0	26	DNF	–
Ronny Ackermann		209.5	18	43:52.9	12
Jens Deimel		221.0	10	43:56.3	13

Men's team

Four participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 5 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)

Athletes	Ski jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Matthias Looß Ronny Ackermann Thorsten Schmitt Jens Deimel	861.0	7	56:22.0	6

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Arian Nachbar	500 m	44.882	3	did not advance
Arian Nachbar	1000 m	1:32.493	3	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Yvonne Kunze	500 m	46.887	3	did not advance
Susanne Busch		1:30.607	4	did not advance
Susanne Busch	1000 m	1:38.379	3	did not advance
Yvonne Kunze		1:44.870	3	did not advance
Susanne Busch Anne Eckner Yvonne Kunze Katrin Weber	3000 m relay					4:38.776	4 QB	4:37.110	8

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hansjörg Jäkle	Normal hill	82.0	99.5	19 Q	82.5	101.0	200.5	17
Martin Schmitt		82.0	100.0	18 Q	82.0	99.5	199.5	19
Sven Hannawald		83.5	103.0	13 Q	84.0	104.5	207.5	14
Dieter Thoma		84.5	106.0	12 Q	83.0	102.5	208.5	13
Hansjörg Jäkle	Large hill	92.0	61.1	57	did not advance
Sven Hannawald		100.0	78.0	48	did not advance
Dieter Thoma		114.0	105.2	22 Q	128.0	130.4	235.6	12
Martin Schmitt		118.5	112.3	11 Q	123.0	121.4	233.7	14

Men's team large hill

Athletes	Result
	Points ^1	Rank
Sven Hannawald Martin Schmitt Hansjörg Jäkle Dieter Thoma	897.4

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Bernd Kroschewski	1:03.53	DSQ	DSQ	–
Dieter Moherndl	1:03.03	1:07.00	2:10.03	14

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Xaver Hoffmann	28.3	32	38.2	9	did not advance

Women's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Burgl Heckmair	DNF	–	DNF	–
Sandra Farmand	1:14.39	1:08.71	2:23.10	9
Heidi Renoth	1:11.92	1:07.25	2:19.17

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sandra Farmand	22.1	25	DNF	–	did not advance
Sabine Wehr-Hasler	29.5	15	30.5	11	did not advance
Nicola Thost	30.6	13	37.4	1 QF	74.6

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Peter Adeberg	36.92	31	DNF	–	DNF	–
	Christian Breuer	36.78	26	36.41	15	73.19	19
	Michael Künzel	36.56	15	36.19	8	72.75	11
1000 m	Christian Breuer					1:12.33	16
	Peter Adeberg					1:11.90	9
1500 m	René Taubenrauch					1:54.91	38
	Frank Dittrich					1:53.64	33
	Peter Adeberg					1:51.50	13
	Christian Breuer					1:50.96	9
5000 m	Alexander Baumgärtel					6:39.44	13
	René Taubenrauch					6:35.21	6
	Frank Dittrich					6:32.17	5
10,000 m	René Taubenrauch					13:52.10	11
	Alexander Baumgärtel					13:48.44	10
	Frank Dittrich					13:36.58	6

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Anke Baier-Loef	39.73	16	39.75	16	79.48	15
	Sabine Völker	39.19	10	39.00	6	78.19	7
	Monique Garbrecht	39.11	7	39.34	10	78.45	8
	Franziska Schenk	38.88	5	38.57	4	77.45	4
1000 m	Franziska Schenk					DNF	–
	Anke Baier-Loef					1:19.42	16
	Monique Garbrecht					1:18.76	10
	Sabine Völker					1:17.54	4
1500 m	Claudia Pechstein					1:59.46	7
	Anni Friesinger					1:59.20	5
	Gunda Niemann					1:58.66
3000 m	Anni Friesinger					4:09.44
	Claudia Pechstein					4:08.47
	Gunda Niemann					4:07.29 OR
5000 m	Heike Warnicke					7:30.83	14
	Gunda Niemann					6:59.65
	Claudia Pechstein					6:59.61 WR

References

• International Olympic Committee results database