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Gabriela Potorac

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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. Although she was overshadowed in event finals in Seoul on Balance Beam by her famous teammate Daniela Silivaș, she did end up tying USA gymnast Phoebe Mills for bronze on that apparatus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Gabriela Potorac is the 203rd most popular gymnast (down from 197th in 2024), the 709th most popular biography from Romania (down from 680th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Romanian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Gabriela Potorac ranks 203 out of 370. Before her are Yang Wei, Lori Fung, Tatiana Lysenko, Holger Behrendt, Aliya Mustafina, and Mary Lou Retton. After her are Dimosthenis Tampakos, Cristina Bontaș, Kōhei Uchimura, Sandra Izbașa, Epke Zonderland, and Kateryna Serebrianska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Gabriela Potorac ranks 753. Before her are Shinichi Shinohara, Wilson Boit Kipketer, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Mark Huizinga, Bosco Ntaganda, and Lauri Hussar. After her are Greg Rusedski, Yuka Sato, Youssef Rossi, Tomasz Sikora, Satoru Kobayashi, and Scott Stapp.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Gabriela Potorac ranks 712 out of 844. Before her are Camelia Macoviciuc-Mihalcea (1968), Dumitru Răducanu (1967), Călin Peter Netzer (1975), Doina Spîrcu (1970), Alexandru Maxim (1990), Florentin Petre (1976), Anca Tănase (1968), Nico (1970), and Iulia Bulie (1967). After her are Viorel Talapan (1972), Dorin Goian (1980), and Florin Cernat (1980).

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Among GYMNASTS In Romania

Among gymnasts born in Romania, Gabriela Potorac ranks 15. Before her are Claudia Presăcan (1979), Mihaela Stănuleț (1967), Melitta Rühn (1965), Simona Amânar (1979), and Lavinia Agache (1968). After her are Cristina Bontaș (1973), Sandra Izbașa (1990), Marius Urzică (1975), Rodica Dunca (1965), Gina Gogean (1978), Laura Cutina (1968), and Marian Drăgulescu (1980).

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