Gabriele Marion Appel
Gabriele Marion Appel (born January 17, 1958 in Viersen , after marriage to Reimann ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic participant in 1984 and 1988.
She started at Viersener THC and switched to RTHC Bayer Leverkusen in 1977 . Then she moved to Hamburg and was German champion in 1979 with the Großflottbeker THGC . However, she played most of her career with the THC clipper . After she ended her Bundesliga career in the mid-1990s, she continued to play hockey and was part of the senior national team.
The striker made her debut in 1975 in the German national hockey team . Gaby Appel took part in five world championships. In 1976 and 1981 she won the title, in 1978 and 1986 she was second and only in 1983 she did not get into the medal ranks as fourth. In 1981, 1985 and 1987 she was European indoor champion. At the European Championships in 1984 she took third place with the team, in 1987 the team came fourth. In 1984 she drove with the German team to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won silver behind the team from the Netherlands. At the end of her career in the national team, she finished fifth at the 1988 Olympic Games . Gaby Appel played a total of 209 international matches from 1975 to 1988, 28 of them indoors. In 2000 she was replaced by Britta Becker as a record national player.
Gaby Appel was married to Günter Reimann, who died in 2004, the long-time chairman and chairman of the hockey department at Klipper Hamburg, and she has two children.
literature
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1988
Web links
- The 1981 World Cup - 25 years later (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appel, Gabriele Marion |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appel, Gaby; Reimann, Gaby |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viersen |