Gabriele Mehl

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Gabriele Mehl
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
World Rowing Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1990 Tasmania W4-
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1992 Barcelona Coxless fours
World Rowing Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1991 Vienna W4-

Gabriele Mehl (born 25 February 1967, in Hagenbach) is a former German rower. She won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1992. [1]

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Career

Mehl was Member of the rowing club "am Baldeneysee" in Essen, Germany. In 1987 and 1988 she and Meike Holländer formed a coxless pair team at the German Championship and scored second. At the World Championship in 1987 the team started as part of an Eight and scored fifth.

In 1990, Mehl and Holländer participated as a coxless four team with Cerstin Petersmann and Sylvia Drödelmann. After their victory at the German Championships they scored second at the World Championships in Tasmania. After the German reunification in 1990 the rowing clubs of western and eastern Germany united. As a newly formed coxless four team, Gabriele Mehl, Cerstin Petersmann, Judith Zeidler and Kathrin Haaker won the German Championship and scored third at the World Championship. [2] [3]

In 1992, Gabriele Mehl was member of a coxless four with Antje Frank, Birte Siech and Annette Hohn at the Olympic Games 1992. They scored third, arriving after both the Canadian and the American team. [4]

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References

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  2. "RRK 08 Rudern – Deutsche Erfolge bei Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften". www.rrk-online.de. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
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