Gabriele Kohlisch

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

Gabriele Kohlisch competed for the SC tractor Oberwiesenthal and started her international career at the end of the 1980s was still in the national team of the GDR. In 1987 she became vice world champion, but failed to qualify for the three-member Olympic squad that finished the first three places at the Games. In 1990 it was the first time world champion, she could repeat in 1995. Vice world champion, she was next to 1987, in 1991 and 1993. 1994 came a bronze medal and 1996 silver medal at the European Championships added.

At the Olympic Games Kohlisch could achieve no success. Both in Albertville and Lillehammer she reached only the unsatisfying for her sixth places, mainly in 1994 particularly pained because Kohlisch this year won the overall World Cup.

In 1997, the then 34 -year-old no longer against Jana Bode, Susi Erdmann, Sylke Otto, Silke Kraushaar and Barbara Huber Lower qualify for the World Cup team and resigned because of it. After it was announced in 2002 that would be olympic bobsledding for women, Kohlisch returned to the rink again and in 2000 first in Altenberg World Champion in Frauenzweierbob. For the Olympic Games could not prevail against Sandra Prokoff and their former Rodelkonkurrentin Susi Erdmann.

Gabriele Kohlisch was active spokeswoman for the International Luge Federation and at the Olympics in Nagano active spokeswoman for the German team. Since February 2006, she leads the sports training of naval cadets at the Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg.