Gabriele Palme
{{short description|German handball player (born 1964)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
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| name = Gabriele Palme
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = 1964-04-26
| birth_place = Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhalt
| death_date =
| height = 179 cm
| position = Left wing
| nationality = German
| youthclubs1 = SV Traktor Förderstedt
| youthyears1 = 1970-1983
| years1 = 1983-1985
| clubs1 = Pädagogische Hochschule Magdeburg
| years2 = 1985-1995
| clubs2 = SC Magdeburg
| nationalyears1 = ?-1990
| nationalteam1 = East Germany
| nationalcaps1 = 109
| nationalgoals1 =
| nationalyears2 = 1990-?
| nationalteam2 = Germany
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| medaltemplates=
{{Medal|Country|{{DDR}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}
{{MedalBronze| 1990 South Korea |}}
{{Medal|Country|{{GER}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}
{{MedalGold| 1993 Norway |}}
}}
Gabriele Palme (born 26 April 1964) is a German handball player. She won the 1993 World Championship.{{cite news|url=https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-23-25421.html|publisher=Handball-World|title=Vor 22 Jahren: Deutschlands Frauen sind Weltmeister|date=5 December 2012|access-date=31 March 2025|language=de}} She also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth.
Career
Palme started played handball at age 6. From 1970 to 1983 she played for SV Traktor Förderstedt, after which she joined the student team of the Magdeburg Pedagogical School, where she played in the second tier of East German handball.{{cite web |url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/neuss/neuss-handball-weltmeisterin-gabi-palme-unterrichtet-in-der-realschule-holzheim_aid-48889607 |publisher=Rheinische Post|title=Unterricht bei einer Weltmeisterin |access-date=2021-04-12|language=de}} In 1985 she joined SC Magdeburg in the top league. After the fall of the Berlin Wall she continued playing for the club in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen. She retired in April 1995.{{cite news|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kurz-notiert-li.58254 |title=Kurz notiert|publisher=Berliner Zeitung|date=21 April 1995|access-date=11 April 2021|language=de}}
=National team=
She debuted for the East German national team in 1986. She played 109 matches for them, including at the 1990 World Championship, where she won bronze medals.
Afterwards she represented the unified German national team. First at the 1992 Olympics, where the team finished 4th. In 1993 she won the 1993 World Championship.
Post playing career
References
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/gabriele-palme-1.html |title=Gabriele Palme |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105092043/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/gabriele-palme-1.html |archive-date=2012-11-05 |url-status=dead}}
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External links
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{{Germany Women Handball Squad 1992 Summer Olympics}}
{{Germany squad 1993 Women's World Handball Championship}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Magdeburg
Category:German female handball players
Category:Handball players from Saxony-Anhalt
Category:Olympic handball players for Germany
Category:Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century German sportswomen
Category:East German female handball players
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