Gabriela Potorac
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Born | (1973-02-06) 6 February 1973 (age 51) Bacău, Romania[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 144 cm (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CS Bacău Deva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Adrian Goreac, Maria Cosma, Octavian Bellu, Adrian Stan[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | Marina and Mircea Bibire[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gabriela Potorac (born 6 February 1973) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she won three medals: a team silver, a silver on vault with a score of 19.830, and a bronze on balance beam with a score of 19.837.[1] At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.[3]
After retiring from competitions Potorac studied at the Sports University in Bucharest and coached at the club Triumf. In 1993 she moved to Japan to work as a gymnastics coach and married there. She later divorced, but stayed in Japan, working as a coach and occasional Japanese-Romanian translator.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gabriela Potorac". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ a b c "Gabriela Potorac". COSR.ro (in Romanian). Romanian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016.
- ^ "1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships" (PDF). usagym.org. USA Gymnastics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Gabriela Potorac". Gymn.ca. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010.
External links
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- Gabriela Potorac at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Gabriela Potorac at Olympics.com
- Gabriela Potorac at Olympic.org (archived)
- Gabriela Potorac at Olympedia
- Gabriela Potorac at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (English translation)
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- 1957:
Larisa Latynina (URS)
- 1959:
Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1961:
Polina Astakhova (URS)
- 1963:
Ewa Rydell (SWE)
- 1965:
Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1967:
Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1969:
Karin Büttner-Janz (GDR)
- 1971:
Tamara Lazakovich (URS)
- 1973:
Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)
- 1975:
Nadia Comăneci (ROM)
- 1977:
Elena Mukhina (URS)
- 1979:
Natalia Shaposhnikova (URS)
- 1981:
Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
- 1983:
Lavinia Agache (ROM)
- 1985:
Oksana Omelianchik (URS)
- 1987:
Daniela Silivaș (ROM)
- 1989:
Olesya Dudnik (URS)
1989Gabriela Potorac (ROM)
- 1990:
Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)
- 1992:
Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)
- 1994:
Gina Gogean (ROU)
- 1996:
Rozalia Galiyeva (RUS)
- 1998:
Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (RUS)
- 2000:
Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)
- 2002:
Ludmila Ezhova (RUS)
- 2004:
Cătălina Ponor (ROM)
- 2005:
Cătălina Ponor (ROM)
- 2006:
Cătălina Ponor (ROU)
- 2007:
Yulia Lozhechko (RUS)
- 2008:
Ksenia Semyonova (RUS)
- 2009:
Yana Demyanchuk (UKR)
- 2010:
Amelia Racea (ROU)
- 2011:
Anna Dementyeva (RUS)
- 2012:
Cătălina Ponor (ROU)
- 2013:
Larisa Iordache (ROU)
- 2014:
Maria Kharenkova (RUS)
- 2015:
Andreea Munteanu (ROU)
- 2016:
Aliya Mustafina (RUS)
- 2017:
Cătălina Ponor (ROU)
- 2018:
Sanne Wevers (NED)
- 2019:
Alice Kinsella (GBR)
- 2020:
Larisa Iordache (ROU)
- 2021:
Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA)
- 2022:
Emma Malewski (GER)
- 2023:
Sanne Wevers (NED)
- 2024:
Manila Esposito (ITA)
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