Gabriele foot

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Gabriele "Gabi" Fuß (born November 30, 1956 in Gera ) is a German speed skating trainer . Foot played a decisive role in the development of the speed skating location Erfurt from the 1980s onwards. The athletes she supervised included the Olympic champion Gunda Niemann , the world champion Constanze Moser and the Olympic medalists Heike Warnicke and Anke Baier .

Career

During her active sports days, Fuß was a gymnast and track and field athlete at SC Motor Jena . After the end of her career, she studied at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig and started as a speed skating trainer in Erfurt in 1979 , where there was no ice rink at that time. For this reason, Fuß first trained the athletes she supervised on site with athletics exercises and drove them to ice training in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In the mid-1980s - Erfurt had meanwhile received an ice rink - Heike Schalling (later Warnicke), Constanze Scandolo (later Moser) and Gunda Kleemann (later Niemann or Niemann-Stirnemann) were part of the walking 'training group. They initially started for the SC Turbine Erfurt , from whose ice skating division the ESC Erfurt emerged in 1989 . Scandolo and Kleemann were already part of the GDR squad at the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 . As a result, after the resignation of Karin Kania's generation, the Erfurt women took on a leading role in GDR speed skating and thus also in international competitions, which were characterized by East German successes. After the Olympics, Fuß was appointed as a selection trainer and in 1989 was in charge of Moser's world championship title and Kleemann’s European title , both in all-around competitions . Moser ended her career in 1990, which meant that the Erfurt training group consisted only of Warnicke, Kleemann and Fuß.

Gunda Niemann in particular established herself among the world's best in the early 1990s and became the most successful speed skater on the medium and long distances from 1500 meters. As a national trainer in reunified Germany, Fuß initially received fixed-term contracts from the German Speed ​​Skating Association (DESG), which were extended after the medals of their athletes: At the 1992 Olympic Games , Niemann and Heike Warnicke achieved double victories over 3000 meters and 5000 meters, whereupon Niemann publicly advocated the continued employment of foot. Niemann's and Warnicke's trainer stayed on and also took over the supervision of Anke Baier , who won a silver medal at the Olympic competitions in Hamar in 1994. Niemann, meanwhile three-time world champion, was the favorite on three courses at these Olympic Games, but fell in the first race over 3000 meters and was beaten in her two other appearances - second over 5000 meters and third over 1500 meters. At the end of the season, both Niemann and Warnicke parted ways and switched to Stephan Gneupel's training group, which was also based in Erfurt . Niemann later stated that the reason for this was that she needed “new momentum” and that the results at the Olympics were decisive.

After separating from her successful runners, Fuß worked in the junior division and was the national trainer responsible for the C-Juniors in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s she looked after the youth of the ESC Erfurt.

Appreciation

In 1994, the sports journalist Ronald Reng saw in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Fuß and Niemann as jointly responsible for the "greatest [success story] in German speed skating". Fuß had turned the ambitious but technically weak athlete who came to speed skating late into a world record holder. In 1993, his colleague Birk Meinhardt described the relationship between feet and the athletes as a “sporty subordination relationship” marked by “admiration”: Niemann and Warnicke would be their supervisor and would be happy about the rare but honest praise. In her biography, published in 2000, Niemann-Stirnemann stated that Fuß had conducted the exercises with “feeling and rigor”. The trainer - a woman with a family - “sacrificed” herself for the speed skaters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Successful trainer Gabi Fuß turns 60 . In: Thuringian General . November 30, 2016. Retrieved from PressReader .
  2. ↑ a b Congratulations, Gabi Fuß on speedskatingnews.info. December 13, 2006, accessed May 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 65.
  4. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Claudia Pechstein: Of gold and blood. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2010, p. 60.
  6. ↑ 'Threat of punishment' drove Anke Baier to silver. In: New Germany. February 24, 1994.
  7. ↑ a b Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 108.
  8. ↑ Ronald Reng: In Search of Lost Laughter. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 25, 1994, p. 63. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
  9. ↑ Birk Meinhardt: The exhausting life in two worlds. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 4, 1993. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
personal data
SURNAME Foot, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foot, Gabi; Foot, Gaby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speed skating trainer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera