Gabre Gabric

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Gabre Gabric athletics
Full name Ljubica Gabric
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday October 17, 1914
place of birth Imotski
date of death December 16, 2015
Place of death Brescia
Career
discipline Discus throw

Ljubica "Gabre" Gabric-Calvesi (born October 17, 1914 (according to other sources on October 14, 1917) in Imotski , † December 16, 2015 in Brescia ) was an Italian athlete of Croatian origin. In 1936 she was tenth in the discus throw at the Olympic Games in Berlin .

Life

Born in the small town of Imotski, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia), Gabric moved to Chicago at a young age . A few years later she returned and lived in Zadar , which was part of Italy after the First World War. In 1934 she started throwing discus. Two years later she was already taking part in the Olympic Games, where she was tenth of 19 participants and broke the Italian record set by Vittorina Vivenza . In 1938 she took part in the European Athletics Championships in Vienna and finished sixth. Her personal best at the time (1939: 43.35 m) would have been enough for an Olympic medal in 1936, but because of the Second World War, no Olympic Games were held in her prime. She won the Italian championship four times (1937, 1939, 1940, 1942). At the Olympic Summer Games in London in 1948 , however, she was only 17th out of 21. Your last major competition was the European Athletics Championships in 1950 , where she finished seventh. But even after that, she continued to be an active athlete for many years and won several European and World Masters Athletics Championships in discus, javelin and shot put as a senior . In 2010 she appeared in the documentary Herbstgold , where she was one of five elderly athletes preparing for the next World Masters Athletics Championships.

Gabric worked as a journalist. She was married to the Italian hurdler Sandro Calvesi (1913–1980) and had two children. Her daughter Lyana is the wife of the athlete Eddy Ottoz and mother of the hurdler Laurent Ottoz . Gabric spent the last years of her life in Brescia .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabre Gabric in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  2. ^ I records di Gabre Gabric. In: atleticanet.it, July 2, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2016 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Morta a 101 anni ex azzurra Gabre Gabric - Altri sport - RaiSport. In: raisport.rai.it. Retrieved January 17, 2016 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Gabre Gabric. In: poool.at. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gabric, Gabre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabric-Calvesi, Ljubica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Imotski
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2015
Place of death Brescia