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East Germany
Representation across the 52 published all-time lists. Counts use best-by-athlete rows only.
101
Athletes in lists
27
Lists with a GDR row
2
World records
#21
Rank by athletes listed
World records held
Current canonical records
Representation by list
East Germany athletes on each published all-time top 50
Men's 800m1/50Olaf Beyer · 1:43.84 · #161
Men's 5000m1/50Hansjörg Kunze · 13:10.40 · #402
Men's 10,000m2/50Hansjörg Kunze · 27:26.00 · #319
Men's 400mH1/50Uwe Ackermann · 48.50 · #181
Men's 3000mSC1/50Frank Baumgartl · 8:10.36 · #118
Men's High Jump4/50Gerd Wessig · 2.36 · #39
Men's Long Jump2/50Lutz Dombrowski · 8.54 · #20
Men's Triple Jump3/50Dirk Gamlin · 17.44 · #104
Men's Shot Put4/50Hartmut Briesenick · 21.67 · #71
Men's Discus4/50Armin Lemme · 68.50 · #77
Men's Hammer3/50Günther Rodehau · 82.64 · #25
Men's Decathlon2/50Uwe Freimuth · 8792 · #17
Men's 20 km Walk1/50Ralf Kowalsky · 1:20:31 · #339
Men's 50 km Walk2/50Dietmar Meisch · 3:43:14 · #91
Each cell is one rank on the list; red cells are East Germany athletes.
Athletes
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| Athlete | Sex | Best list | Rank | Mark | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marita Koch | W | Women's 400m | #1 | 47.60 | 6 Oct 1985 | Canberra |
| Ilona Slupianek | W | Women's Shot Put | #2 | 22.45 | 11 May 1980 | Potsdam |
| Diana Gansky | W | Women's Discus | #4 | 74.08 | 20 Jun 1987 | Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| Marianne Adam | W | Women's Shot Put | #6 | 21.86 | 23 Jun 1979 | Leipzig |
| Irina Meszynski | W | Women's Discus | #7 | 73.36 | 17 Aug 1984 | Praha |
| Sabine Paetz | W | Women's Heptathlon | #9 | 6946 | 6 May 1984 | Potsdam |
| Gisela Beyer | W | Women's Discus | #10 | 73.10 | 20 Jul 1984 | Berlin |
| Ramona Neubert | W | Women's Heptathlon | #11 | 6935 | 19 Jun 1983 | Moskva |
| Margitta Droese-Pufe | W | Women's Shot Put | #12 | 21.58 | 28 May 1978 | Erfurt |
| Marlies Göhr | W | Women's 200m | #16 | 21.74 | 3 Jun 1984 | Erfurt |