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Gabriela Andersen-Schiess

1945 - Today

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Gabriela "Gaby" Andersen-Schiess (born 20 May 1945 in Zürich) is a former Swiss long-distance runner who participated in the first women's Olympic marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Though living in Sun Valley, Idaho, and working as a ski instructor at the time, Andersen-Schiess represented Switzerland in the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriela Andersen-Schiess is the 187th most popular athlete (down from 61st in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 197th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess ranks 187 out of 6,025. Before her are Adhemar da Silva, Dragutin Šurbek, Miklós Németh, Stefka Kostadinova, Pietro Mennea, and Christian d'Oriola. After her are Pat McDonald, John Powell, Alexandre Tuffère, Naim Süleymanoğlu, Norair Nurikyan, and Morgan Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess ranks 243. Before her are Dimitar Penev, Eric Woolfson, Bianca Jagger, Barry Bostwick, Richard Long, and Maryla Rodowicz. After her are Steve Gadd, Joanna Cassidy, Thilo Sarrazin, Leonard Adleman, Eric Roth, and Shulamith Firestone.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess ranks 303 out of 1,015. Before her are Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Carl Meissner (1800), Flavio Cotti (1939), Vincent Perez (1964), and Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672). After her are Georges Cottier (1922), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Luigi Taveri (1929), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Felix Manz (1498), and Rodolphe Lindt (1855).

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Among ATHLETES In Switzerland

Among athletes born in Switzerland, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess ranks 3. Before her are Marina Doria (1935), and Karl Röderer (1868). After her are Hermann Barrelet (1879), Joseph Benz (1944), Konrad Stäheli (1931), Robert Alt (1927), Paul Martin (1901), Gottfried Diener (1926), Alfred Neveu (1890), Walter Graf (1937), and Georges Trombert (1874).

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