Gabriele Palme
| Gabriele Palme | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
1964-04-26 Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhalt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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1970-1983 | SV Traktor Förderstedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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1983-1985 | Pädagogische Hochschule Magdeburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1985-1995 | SC Magdeburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | |||||||||||||||||||||
?-1990 | East Germany | 109 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1990-? | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]Palme started played handball at age 6. From 1970 to 1983 she played for SV Traktor Förderstedt, after which 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
[edit]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
[edit]After her playing days she has worked as a teacher.[2]
References
[edit]- 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.
- ^ a b "Vor 22 Jahren: Deutschlands Frauen sind Weltmeister" (in German). Handball-World. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Unterricht bei einer Weltmeisterin" (in German). Rheinische Post. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Kurz notiert" (in German). Berliner Zeitung. 21 April 1995. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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- 1964 births
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- People from Staßfurt
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Magdeburg
- German female handball players
- Handball players from Saxony-Anhalt
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- Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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- East German female handball players
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