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Sport in East Germany

East Germany only existed as a separate country between May 1949 and 3 October 1990. Below are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to East Germany. See also about sport in the previous nations of Saarland and West Germany, and also Germany.

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Popular sports of East Germany

Football (Soccer), Cycling, Gymnastics, Swimming, Track and Field

East Germany Sporting Success

Great athletes from East Germany

Christa Luding-Rothenburger - she is one of four athletes to have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games, though she is the only one to have won the medals in the same year. She had won the women's 1000 meter speed skating event at the Winter Olympics in Calgary 1988, and seven months later won a silver medal in track cycling in the Seoul Summer Olympic Games.
Waldemar Cierpinski - two time winner of the Olympic Games men's marathon (1976, 1980)

East Germany Sports trivia

At the Grenoble Winter Olympics in 1968, East German luge competitors Ortrun Enderlein and Anna-Maria Muller - in contention for a clean-sweep - were disqualified when it was discovered their toboggan runners had been heated.