(1973-02-06) 6 February 1973 (age 51) Bacău, Romania[1]
Height
144 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Discipline
Women's artistic gymnastics
Club
CS Bacău Deva
Head coach(es)
Adrian Goreac, Maria Cosma, Octavian Bellu, Adrian Stan[2]
Former coach(es)
Marina and Mircea Bibire[2]
Medal record
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul
Team
1988 Seoul
Vault
1988 Seoul
Balance Beam
World Championships
1989 Stuttgart
Team
1989 Stuttgart
Balance beam
European Championships
1989 Brussels
Balance beam
Gabriela Potorac (born 6 February 1973) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she won three medals: a team silver, a silver on vault with a score of 19.830, and a bronze on balance beam with a score of 19.837.[1] At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.[3]
After retiring from competitions Potorac studied at the Sports University in Bucharest and coached at the club Triumf. In 1993 she moved to Japan to work as a gymnastics coach and married there. She later divorced, but stayed in Japan, working as a coach and occasional Japanese-Romanian translator.[2][4]
^ abEvans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gabriela Potorac". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
^ abc"Gabriela Potorac". COSR.ro (in Romanian). Romanian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016.
^"1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships" (PDF). usagym.org. USA Gymnastics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
^"Gabriela Potorac". Gymn.ca. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010.
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