Gabriele Kohlisch

Kohlisch at the GDR championship in sledding in 1989 in Altenberg

Gabriele Gabi Kohlisch (born December 7, 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German luge and bobsleigh athlete .

Career

Gabriele Kohlisch started for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal and began her international career at the end of the 1980s in the GDR national team. In 1987 she became vice world champion, but missed the qualification for the three-man Olympic squad, which took the first three places at the games. In 1990 she became world champion for the first time, which she was able to repeat in 1995. In addition to 1987, she was vice world champion in 1991 and 1993. In 1994 she won bronze and 1996 silver at the European Championships.

At the Olympic Games Kohlisch could not achieve any success. In both Albertville and Lillehammer , she only achieved the unsatisfactory sixth place, which was particularly painful in 1994, as Kohlisch won the overall World Cup that year.

In 1997, the then 34-year-old could no longer qualify for the World Cup team against Jana Bode , Susi Erdmann , Sylke Otto , Silke Kraushaar and Barbara Niedernhuber and therefore resigned. After it was announced for 2002 that bobsleigh would become Olympic for women, Kohlisch returned to the ice rink and became the first female world champion in women's bobsleigh in 2000 in Altenberg . For the Olympic Games she was unable to prevail against Sandra Prokoff and her former toboggan competitor Susi Erdmann.

Kohlisch was active spokeswoman for the International Luge Association and active spokeswoman for the German team at the Olympic Games in Nagano . Since February 2006, she has been in charge of the sports training for prospective naval officers at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg - Mürwik .

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Feb. 1, 1987	Imst	Imst toboggan run
2.	Feb. 20, 1989	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
3.	0Jan. 7, 1990	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
4th	Nov 25, 1990	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
5.	Nov 24, 1991	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
6th	Jan. 24, 1993	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink
7th	Jan. 31, 1993	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
8th.	Dec 12, 1993	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
9.	Jan. 14, 1994	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
10.	Dec 18, 1994	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
11.	Jan 15, 1995	Oberhof	Oberhof luge track
12.	Jan. 29, 1995	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
13.	0Dec 3, 1995	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

Web links

• Newspaper report at the end of your career
• Gabriele Kohlisch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )