East Germany national athletics team

Marita Koch and Marlies Göhr, eighth gold medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

The East Germany national athletics team represented East Germany at the international athletics competitions such as Olympic Games or World Athletics Championships, between 1955 and 1973.[1]

History

After the defeat in World War II, Germany was invited to various events, for the first time the Olympic Games in Helsinki 1952 and for the next three editions competed with one team, while already Bern 1954, even before the construction of the Berlin Wall (1961-1989) at the European Championships competed two separate teams (East Germany and West Germany), and this continued even from the Games in Mexico City 1968, until 1990 (for last time the European Championships in Split 1990).

Medal count

East Germany has 5 participations in the Summer Olympic of 27 editions held from 1896 to 2012.[2]

Competition Medal table Part.
1st 2nd 3rd Tot.
Summer Olympics 38 36 35 109 5
World Championships 19 18 15 52 2
European Championships 91 82 65 238 9
Total 148 136 115 399

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Athletics". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Country". olympic.org. Retrieved 24 November 2012.

External links

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