1. Gabriele Kohlisch was born on 7 December 1963 and is a German luger and bobsledder who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997 in luge, then from 1998 to the early 2000s in bobsleigh.
10 Facts About Gabriele Kohlisch
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Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge, the other being fellow German Susi Erdmann.
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Gabriele Kohlisch was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt and initially competed for East Germany.
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Gabriele Kohlisch won three medals at the FIL European Luge Championships, including two silvers and one bronze.
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Gabriele Kohlisch competed in two Winter Olympics for the reunified Germany in the women's singles event, finishing sixth in both 1992 and 1994.
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Gabriele Kohlisch switched to bobsleigh in 1998, competing at the FIBT World Championships.
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Gabriele Kohlisch won the gold medal in the debut two-woman event at the 2000 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg, Germany.
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Gabriele Kohlisch tried out for the German bobsleigh team to compete at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but finished third behind Erdmann and Sandra Prokoff.
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Gabriele Kohlisch now serves as a spokesperson for the International Luge Federation and has served as a spokesperson for the German luge team since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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Gabriele Kohlisch is responsible for physical education at Naval Academy Murwik, the German Naval Academy in Flensburg-Murwik, Germany.