Gaby Appel

Gabriele Marion Appel ( born January 17, 1958 in Viersen, after marriage Reimann ) is a former German hockey player and Olympian in 1984 and 1988.

It began when Viersener THC, in 1977 to RTHC Bayer Leverkusen. Then she moved to Hamburg in 1979 and German champion with the Großflottbeker THGC. For most of her career, she played but when Klipper THC. After she finished the mid-1990s their Bundesliga career, she continued to play hockey and is part of the senior national team.

The striker made ​​his debut in 1975 in the German national hockey team. Gaby Appel took part in five World Cups. 1976 and 1981 they won the title in 1978 and 1986, she was second and only in 1983 they did not come in fourth in the medal ranks. 1981, 1985 and 1987, she became European Indoor champion. At the European Championships in 1984 she won with the team to third place in 1987, the team finished fourth. In 1984 she went with the German team for the Olympic Games to Los Angeles and won silver behind the team from the Netherlands. At the end of her career in the national team was fifth. Overall, participated in the 1988 Olympic Games Gaby Appel 1975-1988 in 209 international matches with, of which 28 are in the hall. In 2000 it was replaced by Britta Becker as a record national.

Gaby Appel was married to the late Günter Reimann, the longtime chairman and chairman of the hockey department Klipper Hamburg, she has two children.