East Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics East Germany
games=1968 Summer
flagcaption=Flag of Germany superimposed
with the Olympic rings
competitors=
sports=
flagbearer=Karin Balzer
gold=9
silver=9
bronze=7
total=25
rank=5

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first time that West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and East Germany had sent separate teams to the Summer Olympic Games.

Medalists

Gold

* Christoph Höhne — Athletics, Men's 50km Walk
* Margitta Gummel — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
* Manfred Wolke — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
* Heinz-Jürgen Bothe and Jörg Lucke — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
* Dieter Schubert, Frank Forberger, Dieter Grahn, and Frank Rühle — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
* Roland Matthes — Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke
* Roland Matthes — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
* Rudolf Vesper — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
* Lothar Metz — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

Silver

* Klaus Beer — Athletics, Men's Long Jump
* Lothar Milde — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
* Marita Lange — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
* Erika Zuchold — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
* Karin Janz — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
* Peter Kremtz, Dieter Semetzky, Manfred Gelpke, Roland Göhler and Klaus Jacob — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
* Frank Wiegand, Horst-Günter Gregor, Eugen Henninger, and Roland Matthes — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
* Helga Lindner — Swimming, Women's 200m Butterfly
* Gabriele Wetzko, Martina Grunert, Roswitha Krause, and Uta Schmuck — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Bronze

* Wolfgang Nordwig — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
* Siegfried Fülle, Klaus Köste, Peter Weber, Günter Beier, Matthias Brehme, and Gerhard Dietrich — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises
* Magdalena Schmidt, Ute Starke, Erika Zuchold, Maritta Bauerschmidt, Karin Janz, and Marianne Noack — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
* Harald Vollmar — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
* Kurt Czekalla — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
* Sabine Steinbach — Swimming, Women's 400m Individual Medley
* Paul Borowski, Karl-Heinz Thun, and Konrad Weichert — Sailing, Men's Dragon

Results by event

=Volleyball=

Men's Team Competition

*Round Robin:* Lost to Czechoslovakia (2-3):* Lost to Japan (0-3):* Defeated Mexico (3-0):* Defeated Belgium (3-0):* Lost to Soviet Union (2-3):* Defeated United States (3-0):* Defeated Brazil (3-1):* Defeated Bulgaria (3-2):* Defeated Poland (3-0) → Fourth place
*Team Roster:*Horst Peter:*Eckhardt Tielscher :*Siegfried Schneider :*Manfred Heine:*Rainer Tscharke:*Eckhardt Pietzsch:*Arnold Schulz:*Rudi Schumann:*Jürgen Kessel:*Walter Toissant:*Jürgen Freiwald:*Wolfgang Webner

=Water Polo=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Defeated Mexico (12:4):* Tied with Yugoslavia (4:4):* Lost to Italy (4:5):* Defeated Greece (11:4):* Defeated Japan (8:0):* Defeated United Arab Republic (19:2):* Defeated Netherlands (8:3)
*Classification Matches:*5th/8th place: Defeated Cuba (8:2):*5th/6th place: Lost to United States (4:6) → Sixth place
*Team Roster:*Hans-Georg Fehn:*Hans-Ulrich Lange:*Jürgen Schiller:*Manfred Herzog:*Peter Fund:*Veit Herrmanns:*Jürgen Kluge:*Jürgen Thiel:*Klaus Schlenkrich:*Peter Schmidt :*Siegfried Ballerstedt

References

* [http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]