Sport Speed skating Weight 60 kg Height 1.67 m | Role Speed Skater Name Gabi Zange Club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | |
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Born 1 June 1961 (age 62) ( 1961-06-01 ) Crimmitschau, Germany Olympic medals Speed Skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics - Women's 3000m Similar People Andrea Ehrig‑Mitscherlich, Karin Enke, Yvonne van Gennip | ||
Speed Skating -Gabi Zange and Mary Docter 1988 Calgary Ladies 5,000M-2
Gabriele "Gabi" Zange (née Schönbrunn, born 1 June 1961) is a retired German speed skater who specialized in the long distances (3000 m and 5000 m), winning three Olympic bronze medals in these events in 1984 and 1988. In 1981 she won a European bronze medal in the 3000 m and later set a world record at the high-altitude rink of Medeo (3000 m, 4:21.70). In 1984, she won European championships, setting two world records, in the 5000 m (7:39.44) and allround, and finished third at the world championships. Next year she won a silver at the world championships, but then had no success until the 1987–88 season, when she set her fourth world record (4:14.76 in the 3000 m) and won two Olympics medals. She retired soon after the 1988 Olympics and worked as a physiotherapist.
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