Gabriele Mehl
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's rowing | ||
Representing  West Germany
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| World Rowing Championships | ||
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1990 Tasmania | W4- |
| Representing Germany
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1992 Barcelona | Coxless fours |
| World Rowing Championships | ||
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1991 Vienna | W4- |
Gabriele Mehl (born 25 February 1967, in Hagenbach) is a former German rower. She won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1992.[1]
Career
[edit]Mehl was Member of the rowing club "am Baldeneysee" in Essen, Germany. In 1987 and 1988 she and Meike Holländer formed a coxless pair team at the German Championship and scored second. At the World Championship in 1987 the team started as part of an Eight and scored fifth.
In 1990, Mehl and Holländer participated as a coxless four team with Cerstin Petersmann and Sylvia Drödelmann. After their victory at the German Championships they scored second at the World Championships in Tasmania. After the German reunification in 1990 the rowing clubs of western and eastern Germany united. As a newly formed coxless four team, Gabriele Mehl, Cerstin Petersmann, Judith Zeidler and Kathrin Haaker won the German Championship and scored third at the World Championship.[2][3]
In 1992, Gabriele Mehl was member of a coxless four with Antje Frank, Birte Siech and Annette Hohn at the Olympic Games 1992. They scored third, arriving after both the Canadian and the American team.[4]
Further reading
[edit]- Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland: Barcelona 1992. Die deutsche Olympiamannschaft. Frankfurt am Main 1992 (German)
References
[edit]- ^ "Gabriele MEHL - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "RRK 08 Rudern – Deutsche Erfolge bei Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften". www.rrk-online.de. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Sports 123: Rowing: World Championships: Women: Coxless Fours". sports123.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Gabriele MEHL - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
External links
[edit]- Gabriele Mehl (database of Sports-Reference)
- German coxless four championships Archived 23 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- Gabriele Mehl at World Rowing
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Olympic rowers for West Germany
- Olympic rowers for Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- West German female rowers
- World Rowing Championships medalists for West Germany
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate