East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Men's Marathon

• Waldemar Cierpinski — 2:09.55 (→   Gold Medal)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

• Manfred Kokot, Jörg Pfeifer, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, and Alexander Thieme
  • Heat — 39.42
  • Semi Final — 39.43
  • Final — 38.66s (→   Silver Medal)

Men's High Jump

• Rolf Beilschmidt
  • Qualification — 2.16m
  • Final — 2.18m (→ 7th place)
• Henry Lauterbach
  • Qualification — 2.13m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• Frank Wartenberg
  • Qualification — 7.89m
  • Final — 8.02m (→   Bronze Medal)

Men's Discus Throw

• Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Qualification — 63.14m
  • Final — 66.22m (→   Silver Medal)
• Norbert Thiede
  • Qualification — 61.14m
  • Final — 64.30m (→ 4th place)
• Siegfried Pachale
  • Qualification — 60.64m
  • Final — 64.24m (→ 5th place)

Men's 20 km Race Walk

• Hans-Georg Reimann — 1:25:13 (→   Silver Medal)
• Peter Frenkel — 1:25:29 (→   Bronze Medal)
• Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller — 1:26:50 (→ 4th place)

Women's Shot Put

• Marianne Adam
  • Final — 20.55 m (→ 4th place)
• Ilona Slupianek
  • Final — 20.54 m (→ 5th place)
• Margitta Droese
  • Final — 19.79 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Dietmar Geilich
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Lost to Armando Guevara (VEN), 0:5

Eleven cyclists represented East Germany in 1976.

Individual road race

• Karl-Dietrich Diers — 4:49:01 (→ 16th place)
• Gerhard Lauke — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Hans-Joachim Hartnick — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Siegbert Schmeisser — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Team time trial

• Hans-Joachim Hartnick
• Karl-Dietrich Diers
• Gerhard Lauke
• Michael Schiffner

Sprint

• Jürgen Geschke —   Bronze Medal

1000m time trial

• Klaus-Jürgen Grünke — 1:05.927 (→   Gold Medal)

Individual pursuit

• Thomas Huschke —   Bronze Medal

Team pursuit

• Norbert Dürpisch
• Thomas Huschke
• Uwe Unterwalder
• Matthias Wiegand

One male fencer represented East Germany in 1976.

Men's foil

• Klaus Haertter

  Gold Medal

• First Round
  • Drew with   Brazil 0-0
  • Defeated   Spain 1-0
• Quarterfinals
  • Defeated   France 4-0
• Semifinals
  • Defeated   Soviet Union 2-1
• Final
  • Defeated   Poland 3-1
• Team roster
  • Jürgen Croy
  • Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin
  • Gerd Weber
  • Gert Heidler
  • Hans-Jürgen Dörner
  • Konrad Weise
  • Lothar Kurbjuweit
  • Reinhard Lauck
  • Reinhard Häfner
  • Hans-Jürgen Riediger
  • Bernd Bransch
  • Martin Hoffmann
  • Gerd Kische
  • Dieter Riedel
  • Wolfram Löwe
  • Hartmut Schade
  • Wilfried Gröbner
• Head coach: Georg Buschner

East Germany had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all fourteen rowing events in 1976. Each team received a medal.^[2]

Men's single sculls – 3rd place (  bronze medal)

• Joachim Dreifke

Men's double sculls – 3rd place (  bronze medal)

• Uli Schmied
• Jürgen Bertow

Men's coxless pair – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Jörg Landvoigt
• Bernd Landvoigt

Men's coxed pair – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Harald Jährling
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
• Georg Spohr

Men's quadruple sculls – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
• Rüdiger Reiche
• Karl-Heinz Bußert
• Michael Wolfgramm

Men's coxless four – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Siegfried Brietzke
• Andreas Decker
• Stefan Semmler
• Wolfgang Mager

Men's coxed four – 2nd place (  silver medal)

• Andreas Schulz
• Rüdiger Kunze
• Walter Dießner
• Ullrich Dießner
• Johannes Thomas

Men's eight – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Bernd Baumgart
• Gottfried Döhn
• Werner Klatt
• Hans-Joachim Lück
• Dieter Wendisch
• Roland Kostulski
• Ulrich Karnatz
• Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
• Karl-Heinz Danielowski

Women's single sculls – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Christine Scheiblich

Women's double sculls – 2nd place (  silver medal)

• Sabine Jahn
• Petra Boesler

Women's coxless pair – 2nd place (  silver medal)

• Angelika Noack
• Sabine Dähne

Women's coxed four – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Karin Metze
• Bianka Schwede
• Gabriele Lohs
• Andrea Kurth
• Sabine Heß

Women's quadruple sculls – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Anke Borchmann
• Jutta Lau
• Viola Poley
• Roswietha Zobelt
• Liane Weigelt

Women's eight – 1st place (  gold medal)

• Viola Goretzki
• Christiane Knetsch
• Ilona Richter
• Brigitte Ahrenholz
• Monika Kallies
• Henrietta Ebert
• Helma Lehmann
• Irina Müller
• Marina Wilke

Men's Competition

100 meter Backstroke

• Roland Matthes — 57.22 —   Bronze Medal

Women's Competition

100 meter Freestyle

• Kornelia Ender — 55.65 —   Gold Medal
• Petra Priemer — 56.49 —   Silver Medal

200 meter Freestyle

• Kornelia Ender — 1:59.26 —   Gold Medal

400 meter Freestyle

• Petra Thumer — 4:09.89 —   Gold Medal

800 meter Freestyle

• Petra Thumer — 8:37.14 —   Gold Medal

100 meter Backstroke

• Ulrike Richter — 1:01.83 —   Gold Medal
• Birgit Treiber — 1:03.41 —   Silver Medal

200 meter Backstroke

• Ulrike Richter — 2:13.43 —   Gold Medal
• Birgit Treiber — 2:14.97 —   Silver Medal

100 meter Breaststroke

• Hannelore Anke — 1:11.16 —   Gold Medal

100 meter Butterfly

• Kornelia Ender — 1:00.13 —   Gold Medal
• Andrea Pollack — 1:00.98 —   Silver Medal

200 meter Butterfly

• Andrea Pollack — 2:11.41 —   Gold Medal
• Ulrike Tauber — 2:12.50 —   Silver Medal
• Rosemarie Gabriel — 2:12.86—   Bronze Medal

400 meter Individual Medley

• Ulrike Tauber — 4:42.77 —   Gold Medal

4x100 meter Freestyle Relay

• Petra Priemer; Kornelia Ender; Claudia Hempel; Andrea Pollack — 3:45.50 —   Silver Medal

4x100 meter Medley Relay

• Ulrike Richter; Hannelore Anke; Kornelia Ender; Andrea Pollack — 4:07.95 —   Gold Medal

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (group B)
  • Lost to Cuba (1–3)
  • Lost to South Korea (2–3)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (2–3)
• Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Defeated Peru (3–2)
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to Cuba (0–3) → Sixth place
• Team roster
  • Karla Roffeis
  • Johanna Strotzer
  • Cornelia Rickert
  • Christina Walther
  • Ingrid Mierzwiak
  • Helga Offen
  • Barbara Czekalla
  • Jutta Balster
  • Anke Westendorf
  • Hannelor Meincke
  • Monika Meissner
  • Gudrun Gartner
• Head coach: Dieter Grund