Gabriela Potorac | |
Birth Date: | 6 February 1973 |
Birth Place: | Bacău, Romania[1] |
Height: | 144 cm |
Discipline: | WAG |
Club: | CS Bacău Deva |
Headcoach: | Adrian Goreac, Maria Cosma, Octavian Bellu, Adrian Stan |
Formercoach: | Marina and Mircea Bibire[2] |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Gabriela Potorac (born 6 February 1973) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she won three medals: a team silver, a silver on vault with a score of 19.830, and a bronze on balance beam with a score of 19.837.[1] At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.[3]
After retiring from competitions Potorac studied at the Sports University in Bucharest and coached at the club Triumf. In 1993 she moved to Japan to work as a gymnastics coach and married there. She later divorced, but stayed in Japan, working as a coach and occasional Japanese-Romanian translator.[2] [4]