Gabriela szabo biography

Gabriela Szabo

Romanian runner

This article is about Romanian field and track athlete. For the Hungarian sprint canoer, see Gabriella Szabó.

Gabriela Szabo in May 2014

NicknameGabi[1]
Born14 November 1975 (1975-11-14) (age 49)
Bistriţa, Romania
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight42 kg (93 lb)
SportRunning

Gabriela Szabo (Romanian pronunciation:[ɡabriˈelaˈsabo], Hungarian: Szabó Gabriella;[2] born 14 November 1975)[3] is a retired Romanian runner. She competed in the 1500 m and 5000 m events at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

Szabo is a three-time world champion. Throughout her entire career she was coached by Zsolt Gyöngyössy, whom she eventually married. In May 2005 she retired from competitions due to exhaustion. She held the European record in the 3000 m between 2002 and 2019.

Early life

Szabo was born to a Romanian mother and a Hungarian father.[4][5] As a child, Szabo used to speak Hungarian wi

Gabriela Szabo

ATHLETE

1975 - Today

Gabriela Szabo

Gabriela Szabo (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡabriˈela ˈsabo], Hungarian: Szabó Gabriella; born 14 November 1975) is a retired Romanian runner. She competed in the 1500 m and 5000 m events at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. Szabo is a three-time world champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriela Szabo has received more than 249,265 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriela Szabo is the 1,757th most popular athlete (down from 1,344th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Romania (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Romanian Athlete.

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Among athletes, Gabriela Szabo ranks 1,757 out of 6,025. Before her are Dean Smith, Uwe Hohn, Henri Dulieux, George

Gabriella Szabó

Hungarian canoeist

This article is about the Hungarian sprint canoer. For the Romanian track and field athlete, see Gabriela Szabo.

The native form of this personal name is Szabó Gabriella. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.

Career

She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007).

Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak Four (K4) 500m team event with Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács and Krisztina Fazekas for Hungary[1]

In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games, for Hungary in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with Anna Kárász, Danuta Kozák, and Ninetta Vad. She earned a gold medal.

In August 2016, she also won two gold medal

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