Gabriele Bühlmann
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Personal information | |
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Nationality | Swiss |
Born | 27 April 1964 |
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) |
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Country | Switzerland |
Sport | Shooting |
Events | |
Coached by | Heinz Reinkemeier |
Retired | 2004 |
Gabriele "Gaby" Bühlmann (born 27 April 1964, in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss rifle shooter who competed at five Olympic Games from 1988 to 2004.
Shooting career
[edit]Bühlmann won 14 ISSF World Cup medals between 1987 and 2002, competing at four World Cup Finals.[1] She competed at three ISSF World Championships, with a best finish of fourth in the Women's 50m Three Position Rifle at the 1994 Chamhionships.[1]
She is, jointly with equestrian Markus Fuchs, the seventh Swiss sportsperson to compete at five Olympics,[1] after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg, equestrian Christine Stückelberger, and Alpine skier Paul Accola.
Coaching career
[edit]She is the coach of 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medal-winning 10m air-rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra.[2][3] She is co-author of Ways of the Rifle, a seminal coaching book on ISSF rifle disciplines.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Athlete - Gaby BUEHLMANN". International Shooting Sport Federation. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ "The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | Sports | Silent killer owes it to his coach". The Telegraph. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008.
- ^ Sharda Ugra (1 July 2016). "Abhinav Bindra's historic solo". ESPN.in. Archived from the original on 17 July 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ Gaby Bühlmann; Heinz Reinkemeier; Maik Eckhardt. Ways of the rifle. ISBN 3-98-097461-8. Archived from the original (Book) on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
External links
[edit]- Gabriele Bühlmann at ISSF
- Gabriele Bühlmann at Olympedia
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gaby Bühlmann". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt
- Swiss female sport shooters
- ISSF rifle shooters
- Olympic shooters for Switzerland
- Shooters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swiss sports coaches
- Swiss sport shooting biography stubs