1. Gabriele "Gaby" Seyfert is a German former figure skater.
11 Facts About Gabriele Seyfert
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Gabriele Seyfert is a two-time World champion, and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist.
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Gabriele Seyfert is the first lady to successfully land a triple loop jump in competition.
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Gabriele Seyfert's coach was her mother Jutta Muller, who coached 1984 and 1988 Olympic champion Katarina Witt.
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Gabriele Seyfert was a long-time rival of Peggy Fleming, but never defeated her.
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Gabriele Seyfert became the first woman to land a clean triple loop.
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Gabriele Seyfert was a Stasi informer under the codename "Perle".
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Gabriele Seyfert turned to coaching, and worked with Anett Potzsch in the early 1970s.
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The East German coach hierarchy later transferred Potzsch to Jutta Muller's group, and Gabriele Seyfert ended her coaching career.
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Gabriele Seyfert was the only child of Wolfgang Gabriele Seyfert and the former ice dancer and world famous coach, among them Katarina Witt, Jutta Muller.
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Gabriele Seyfert married ice dancer Eberhard Ruger in 1972 and they had a daughter in 1974.