Gabriele Mehl (born 25 February 1967, in Hagenbach) is a former German rower. She won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1992.

Career

Mehl was Member of the rowing club "am Baldeneysee" in

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, Germany. In 1987 and 1988 she and Meike Holländer formed a coxless pair team at the German Championship and scored second. At the World Championship in 1987 the team started as part of an

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and scored fifth. In 1990, Mehl and Holländer participated as a coxless four team with

Cerstin Petersmann Cerstin Petersmann (born 27 November 1964 in Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of German ...

and Sylvia Drödelmann. After their victory at the German Championships they scored second at the World Championships in Tasmania. After the

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in 1990 the rowing clubs of western and eastern Germany united. As a newly formed coxless four team, Gabriele Mehl, Cerstin Petersmann, Judith Zeidler and Kathrin Haaker won the German Championship and scored third at the World Championship. In 1992, Gabriele Mehl was member of a coxless four with

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and

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at the Olympic Games 1992. They scored third, arriving after both the Canadian and the American team.

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Career

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