Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Germany competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 465 competitors, 278 men and 187 women, took part in 234 events in 26 sports.

Medalists

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery

In Germany's sixth archery competition, the German women's team won the silver medal. Germany's highest placing individual was Barbara Mensing, who advanced to the quarterfinal before being defeated. No Germany men competed in Atlanta.

Women

Athletics

Men

Track and road events

Field events

Combined events – Decathlon

Women

Track and road events

Field events

Combined event – Heptathlon

Badminton

Men

Women

Mixed

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Canoeing

Slalom

Sprint

Men

Women

Cycling

Road

Men

Women

Track

Sprint

Time trial

Pursuit

Points race

Mountain biking

Diving

Men

Women

Equestrian

Dressage

Eventing

Jumping

Fencing

15 fencers, 9 men and 6 women, represented Germany in 1996.

Men

Women

Field hockey

Summary

Men's team competition

Team roster

*Christopher Reitz (gk)

*Jan-Peter Tewes

*Carsten Fischer

*Christian Blunck

*Björn Emmerling

*Patrick Bellenbaum

*Sven Meinhardt

*Christoph Bechmann

*Oliver Domke

*Andreas Becker

*Michael Green

*Klaus Michler

*Volker Fried

*Christian Mayerhöfer

*Stefan Saliger

*Michael Knauth (gk)

Head coach: Paul Lissek

Group play

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Semifinal

Bronze medal match

Women's tournament

Team roster

*(01.) Susie Wollschläger (gk)

*(02.) Birgit Beyer (gk)

*(03.) Vanessa van Kooperen

*(04.) Philippa Suxdorf

*(05.) Nadine Ernsting-Krienke

*(06.) Simone Thomaschinski

*(07.) Irina Kuhnt

*(08.) Melanie Cremer

*(09.) Franziska Hentschel

*(10.) Tanja Dickenscheid

*(11.) Eva Hagenbäumer

*(12.) Britta Becker

*(13.) Natascha Keller

*(14.) Tina Peters

*(15.) Heike Lätzsch

*(16.) Katrin Kauschke

Group play

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Football

Summary

Women's tournament

Team roster

Head coach: Gero Bisanz

Germany named a squad of 16 players and 4 alternates for the tournament.

Group play

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Gymnastics

Artistic

Men

Team

Individual finals

Women

Rhythmic

Group all-around

Individual all-around

Handball

Summary

Men's tournament

Team roster

• Markus Baur
• Jan Fegter
• Henning Fritz
• Jan Holpert
• Holger Löhr
• Thomas Knorr
• Karsten Kohlhaas
• Stephan Kretschmar
• Klaus-Dieter Petersen
• Christian Scheffler
• Martin Schmidt
• Martin Schwalb
• Christian Schwarzer
• Daniel Stephan
• Andreas Thiel
• Volker Zerbe

Group play

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7th place match

Women's tournament

Team roster

• Kathrin Blacha
• Andrea Bölk
• Eike Bram
• Csilla Elekes
• Michaela Erler
• Franziska Heinz
• Grit Jurack
• Eva Kiss-Györi
• Christine Lindemann
• Emilia Luca
• Heike Murrweiss
• Miroslava Ritskiavitchius
• Michaela Schanze
• Melanie Schliecker
• Bianca Urbanke
• Marlies Waelzer

Group play

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5th place match

Judo

Men

Women

Rowing

Men

Women

Sailing

Men

Women

Open

Fleet racing

Match racing

Shooting

Men

Women

Swimming

Men

Women

Table tennis

Men

Women

Tennis

Men

Women

Volleyball

Summary

Women's tournament

Team roster

*Nancy Celis

*Tanja Hart

*Karin Horninger

*Silvia Roll

*Susanne Lahme

*Grit Naumann

*Hanka Pachale

*Ines Pianka

*Constanze Radfan

*Christine Schultz

*Ute Steppin

*Claudia Wilke

• Head coach: Sigfried Kohler

Group stage

Quarterfinal

Classification 5-8

7th place match

Water polo

Summary

Men's tournament

Team roster

• Ingo Borgmann
• Piotr Bukowski
• Oliver Dahler
• Jörg Dresel
• Torsten Dresel
• Davor Erjavec
• Michael Ilgner
• Dirk Klingenberg
• Raul de la Peña
• René Reimann
• Uwe Sterzik
• Lars Tomanek
• Daniel Voß

Group play

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Classification round

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Weightlifting

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Freestyle

Notes

References