Gabriela Potorac
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Country represented | Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
- 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)
1989 Gabriela 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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