Gabriele Reinsch

Who is Gabriele Reinsch?

Gabriele Reinsch is a German track and field athlete. She represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic Games in discus throw.

On 9 July 1988 at the East Germany – Italy tournament in Neubrandenburg she set a new world record with a throw of 76.80 metres. This was 2.24 metres further than the previous record, set by the Czechoslovakian Zdenka Šilhavá, and 2.72 metres further than the world record for men set by Jürgen Schult 6 June 1986. Reinsch's record still stands.

Reinsch began competing at the age of 14 and tried at first the high jump and shot put, even placing second in the shot put at the 1981 junior European championships. In 1982 she switched to the discus.

During the course of her world record-setting season she bettered her personal best by 9.62 metres, from 67.18 metres to the record-setting 76.80 metres which brought some suspicions about use of doping.