Gabriele Reinsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gabriele Reinsch

German discus thrower

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1963

Place of Birth: Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Gabriele "Gabi" Reinsch (born 23 September 1963, in Cottbus) is a German track and field athlete.
She represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic Games in discus throw. On 9 July 1988 at the East Germany – Italy tournament in Neubrandenburg she set a new world record with a throw of 76.80 metres (252.0 ft).
This was 2.24 metres (7 ft 4 in) further than the previous record, set by the Czechoslovakian Zdenka Šilhavá, and 2.72 metres (8 ft 11 in) further than the world record for men (men discus weight is 2 kilograms while women discus weight is 1 kilogram) set by Jürgen Schult (DDR) 6 June 1986.
Reinsch's record still stands (the East German Martina Hellmann had in fact thrown 76.92 metres (252.4 ft) and 78.14 metres (256.4 ft), both on 6 September 1988, but these came in an unofficial event and could not be counted as the world record). Reinsch began competing at the age of 14 and tried at first the high jump and shot put, even placing second in the shot put at the 1981 junior European championships.
In 1982 she switched to the discus.