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Gabriela Potorac

Gabriela Potorac
— Gymnast —
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Personal information
Country represented  Romania
Born (1973-02-06) 6 February 1973 (age 44)
Bacău, Romania
Height 144 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Club CS Bacău
Deva
Head coach(es) Adrian Goreac, Maria Cosma, Octavian Bellu, Adrian Stan
Former coach(es) Marina and Mircea Bibire

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. At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.

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.


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