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East Germany at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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IOC code	GDR
Medals	Gold 17 Silver 13 Bronze 29 Total 59

East Germany first competed as its own team at the World Championships in 1958 where the men's and women's teams both placed ninth. The men would win their first team medal, a bronze, in 1966. The women would win their first team medal, a silver, at the following iteration of the World Championships in 1970. In 1989 East and West Germany were reunified; therefore in 1991 they began competing as a unified German team.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Bronze	Matthias Brehme, Gerhard Dietrich, Werner Dolling, Erwin Koppe, Siegfried Fulle, Peter Weber	1966 Dortmund	Men's team
Silver	Erika Zuchold		Women's vault
Bronze	Matthias Brehme, Klaus Köste, Wolfgang Thüne, Gerhard Dietrich, Peter Kunze, Bernd Schiller	1970 Ljubljana	Men's team
Silver	Angelika Hellmann, Karin Janz, Marianne Noack, Richarda Schmeißer, Christine Schmitt, Erika Zuchold		Women's team
Silver	Erika Zuchold		Women's all-around
Gold	Erika Zuchold		Women's vault
Silver	Karin Janz
Gold	Karin Janz		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Erika Zuchold		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Christine Schmitt
Bronze	Klaus Köste		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Wolfgang Thüne, Bernd Jäger, Wolfgang Klotz, Rainer Hanschke, Lutz Mack, Olaf Grosse	1974 Varna	Men's team
Silver	Angelika Hellmann, Annelore Zinke, Richarda Schmeißer, Bärbel Röhrich, Heike Gerisch, Irene Abel		Women's team
Bronze	Angelika Hellmann		Women's all-around
Gold	Annelore Zinke		Women's uneven bars
Silver	Wolfgang Thüne		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Ralph Bärthel, Roland Brückner, Ralf-Peter Hemmann, Lutz Mack, Michael Nikolay, Reinhard Rückriem	1978 Strasbourg	Men's team
Bronze	Steffi Kräker, Silvia Hindorff, Birgit Süß, Heike Kuhardt, Karola Sube, Ute Wittwer		Women's team
Bronze	Steffi Kräker		Women's vault
Bronze	Ralph Bärthel		Men's vault
Bronze	Maxi Gnauck, Regina Grabolle, Silvia Hindorff, Steffi Kräker, Katharina Rensch, Karola Sube	1979 Fort Worth	Women's team
Silver	Maxi Gnauck		Women's all-around
Gold	Roland Brückner		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Steffi Kräker		Women's vault
Gold	Maxi Gnauck		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Ralph Bärthel		Men's vault
Bronze	Regina Grabolle		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Steffi Kräker, Annett Lindner, Birgit Senff, Kerstin Jacobs, Franka Voigt, Maxi Gnauck	1981 Moscow	Women's team
Gold	Maxi Gnauck		Women's vault
Bronze	Steffi Kräker
Gold	Michael Nikolay		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Maxi Gnauck		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Ralf-Peter Hemman		Men's vault
Gold	Maxi Gnauck		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Maxi Gnauck, Gabriele Fähnrich, Astrid Heese, Diana Morawe, Silvia Rau, Bettina Schieferdecker	1983 Budapest	Women's team
Gold	Maxi Gnauck		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Bernd Jensch		Men's vault
Bronze	Sylvio Kroll, Holger Behrendt, Ulf Hoffmann, Jorg Hasse, Sven Tippelt, Holger Zeig	1985 Montreal	Men's team
Bronze	Gabriele Fähnrich, Jana Fuhrmann, Martina Jentsch, Dagmar Kersten, Ulrike Klotz, Jana Vogel		Women's team
Bronze	Sylvio Kroll		Men's all-around
Bronze	Dagmar Kersten		Women's all-around
Bronze	Dagmar Kersten		Women's vault
Gold	Gabriele Fähnrich		Women's uneven bars
Silver	Dagmar Kersten
Gold	Sylvio Kroll		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Ulrike Klotz		Women's floor exercise
Silver	Sylvio Kroll		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Sylvio Kroll, Sven Tippelt, Holger Behrendt, Ulf Hoffmann, Maik Belle, Mario Reichert	1987 Rotterdam	Men's team
Bronze	Dörte Thümmler, Ulrike Klotz, Martina Jentsch, Klaudia Rapp, Astrid Heese, Gabriele Fähnrich		Women's team
Gold	Dörte Thümmler		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Sylvio Kroll		Men's vault
Bronze	Sven Tippelt		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Holger Behrendt		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Andreas Wecker, Sven Tippelt, Sylvio Kroll, Jörg Behrend, Jens Milbradt, Enrico Ambros	1989 Stuttgart	Men's team
Silver	Andreas Wecker		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Andreas Wecker		Men's rings
Gold	Jörg Behrend		Men's vault
Silver	Sylvio Kroll
Bronze	Andreas Wecker		Men's parallel bars

Medal tables

By gender

By event

See also

• East Germany women's national artistic gymnastics team
• Germany at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

1. Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 88.
2. "1970: The Women's Competition at the World Championships". Gymnastics History. October 13, 2022.
3. "GYMNASTICS; Soviets Triumph; Americans Place 5th". New York Times. September 11, 1991.

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