Rosemarie Gabriel

{{short description|East German swimmer}}

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{{Infobox swimmer

| name=Rosemarie Gabriel

| image=Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0605-0008, Rosemarie Gabriel (cropped).jpg

| caption=Gabriel in 1976

| birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1956|2|27}}

| birth_place=Schwerin, East Germany

| death_date=

| death_place=

| height = 1.60 m

| weight = 50 kg

| club=SC Dynamo Berlin

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| show-medals = yes

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{{MedalCountry | {{GDR}} }}

{{MedalOlympics}}

{{MedalGold|1976 Montreal | 4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalBronze|1976 Montreal | 200 m butterfly}}

{{MedalWorldChampionships}}

{{MedalGold|1973 Belgrade|200 m butterfly}}

{{MedalGold|1973 Belgrade|4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalGold|1975 Cali|200 m butterfly}}

{{MedalGold|1975 Cali|4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalSilver|1973 Belgrade|100 m butterfly}}

{{MedalSilver|1975 Cali|100 m butterfly}}

{{MedalEuropeanChampionships}}

{{MedalGold|1974 Viena|100 m butterfly}}

{{MedalGold|1974 Viena|200 m butterfly}}

{{MedalGold|1974 Viena|4×100 m medley}}

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Rosemarie Gabriel ({{née}} Kother, born 27 February 1956) is a retired German swimmer. She competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics in five events in total and won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay in 1976, swimming for the East German team in a preliminary round. Individually, she won a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly in 1976.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/rosemarie-kother-gabriel-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165814/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/rosemarie-kother-gabriel-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 11 November 2018 }}

Between 1973 and 1975 she won seven gold and two silver medals in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m medley relay at the world and European championships. She also set eleven world records:

• three in the 100 m butterfly (1974),
• five in the 200 m butterfly (1973, 1976),
• two in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (1973, 1974) and
• one in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (1976).

In 1986, she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

After being inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, team officials confessed to administering performance enhancing drugs to this swimmer, who therefore obtained an illegal and unfair advantage over other athletes.

She retired from competitions in 1976 and studied physiotherapy. In 1990 she founded her own company Praxis Gabriel in Berlin, which in 2000 was joined by her daughter Linda (born ca. 1981).