Gabriela Szabo

This article is about the track and field athlete Gabriela Szabo. For other people, see Gabriella Szabó .

Gabriela Szabo
Gabriela Szabo (2014)
nation	Romania
birthday	November 14, 1975
place of birth	Bistrița
size	158 cm
Weight	42 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	3: 56.97 min ( 1500 m ) 14: 31.48 min ( 5000 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 3 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 2 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 4 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Atlanta 1996 1500 m gold Sydney 2000 5000 m bronze Sydney 2000 1500 m World championships gold Athens 1997 5000 m gold Seville 1999 5000 m gold Edmonton 2001 1500 m European championships bronze Helsinki 1994 3000 m silver Budapest 1998 5000 m silver Munich 2002 1500 m Indoor world championships gold Barcelona 1995 3000 m gold Paris 1997 3000 m gold Maebashi 1999 1500 m gold Maebashi 1999 3000 m silver Lisbon 2001 3000 m European Indoor Championships gold Valencia 1998 3000 m gold Ghent 2000 3000 m Junior World Championships silver Seoul 1992 3000 m gold Lisbon 1994 3000 m

Gabriela Szabo ( Hungarian Szabó Gabriela ; born November 14, 1975 in Bistrița , Bistrița-Năsăud district ) is a former Romanian athlete and current sports official and politician. She was a middle and long distance runner and an Olympic champion . From March 5, 2014 to November 4, 2015, Gabriela Szabo was Romanian Minister for Youth and Sports in the Ponta III and Ponta IV Cabinets .

biography

Szabo's father belongs to the Hungarian minority in Romania , her mother is Romanian. Gabriela Szabo doesn't speak Hungarian herself.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 , the then 18-year-old won the bronze medal in the 3,000 meter run . After that, her career took off.

She was particularly successful at the Olympic Games. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta , she won the silver medal in the 1500-meter run behind Russian Swetlana Masterkowa and ahead of Theresia Kiesl from Austria. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , she won the gold medal in the 5000 meter run in front of the Irish rider Sonia O'Sullivan and the Ethiopian Gete Wami, as well as the bronze medal in the 1500 m rider behind the Algerian Nouria Mérah-Benida and her compatriot Violeta Szekely .

She was world champion three times: at the 1997 and 1999 world championships over 5000 meters and at the 2001 world championships over 1500 meters. In addition, she was three times indoor world champion over 3000 meters ( 1995 , 1997 and 1999 ) and held the indoor European record over 5000 meters with a time of 14: 47.35 min from 1999 to 2020.

Her last great success was winning the silver medal over 1500 meters at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 . This was her third European Championship medal after bronze over 3000 meters in 1994 and silver over 5000 meters in 1998 . In the hall she was European champion over 3000 meters in 1998 and 2000.

She has been married to her trainer Zsolt Gyöngyössy since 1999 . In 2004 she resigned from competitive sports and devoted herself to completing her sports studies. In 2010 she is Vice President of the Romanian Athletics Federation.

From March 5, 2014 to November 4, 2015, she was Minister for Youth and Sport in the Ponta IV cabinet . In 2016 she ran for the office of President of the Romanian Olympic Committee but was defeated in the vote against Mihai Covaliu .

Awards

• 1999: World Athlete of the Year
• 1999: Europe's athlete of the year
• 1999: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year (PAP)
• 1999: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year (UEPS)
• 1999: World Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )
• 1999: Romania's Sportswoman of the Year
• 2000: Order of loyalty to the rank of commander

Web links

Commons : Gabriela Szabo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English, Romanian)
• Gabriela Szabo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Gabriela Szabo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adz.ro: Prime Minister Ponta presents a new, barely slimmed-down cabinet from March 5, 2014, accessed on October 8, 2014
2. ↑ Carmen Constantin: Gabi Szabo: “La Chimie, toceam toate formulele. Dar şi astăzi ştiu tabelul lui Mendeleev! ” Adevarul.ro, March 9, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2015 (Romanian). 
3. ↑ Klosterhalfen runs indoor European record. In: sueddeutsche.de . dpa , February 28, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor, June 6, 2010 , accessed June 6, 2010 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Mihai Covaliu, ales în funcția de președinte al Comitetului Olimpic și Sportiv Român ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ DECRET No. 384 of October 10, 2000