Gabriele Palme

Gabriele Palme
Personal information
Born	1964-04-26 Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhalt
Nationality	German
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Left wing
Youth career
Years	Team
1970-1983	SV Traktor Förderstedt
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1983-1985	Pädagogische Hochschule Magdeburg
1985-1995	SC Magdeburg
National team
Years	Team	Apps
?-1990	East Germany	109
1990-?	Germany
Medal record Representing   East Germany World Championship 1990 South Korea Representing   Germany World Championship 1993 Norway

Gabriele Palme (born 26 April 1964) is a German handball player. She won the 1993 World Championship. ^[1] She also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth.

Career

Palme started played handbll at age 6. From 1970 to 1983 she played for SV Traktor Förderstedt, afterwhich she joined the student team of the Magdeburg Pedagogical School, where she played in the second tier of East German handball. ^[2] In 1985 she joined SC Magdeburg in the top league. ^[2] After the fall of the Berlin Wall she continued playing for the club in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen. She retired in April 1995. ^[3]

National team

She debuted for the East German national team in 1986. She played 109 matches for them, including at the 1990 World Championship, where she won bronze medals. ^{[2] [3]}

Afterwards she represented the unified German national team. First at the 1992 Olympics, where the team finished 4th. In 1993 she won the 1993 World Championship. ^[1]

Post playing career

After her playing days she has worked as a teacher. ^[2]

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gabriele Palme". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.

1. "Vor 22 Jahren: Deutschlands Frauen sind Weltmeister" (in German). Handball-World. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
2. "Unterricht bei einer Weltmeisterin" (in German). Rheinische Post. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
3. "Kurz notiert" (in German). Berliner Zeitung. 21 April 1995. Retrieved 11 April 2021.

External links

• Gabriele Palme at Olympics.com
• Gabriele Palme at Olympedia