Gabriela Potorac

Gabriela Potorac (born 6 February 1973) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she won three medals: a team silver, a silver on vault with a score of 19.830, and a bronze on balance beam with a score of 19.837.^[1] At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.^[3]

Gabriela Potorac
Personal information
Born	(1973-02-06) 6 February 1973 (age 52) Bacău, Romania[1]
Height	144 cm (4 ft 9 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Romania
Club	CS Bacău Deva
Head coach(es)	Adrian Goreac, Maria Cosma, Octavian Bellu, Adrian Stan[2]
Former coach(es)	Marina and Mircea Bibire[2]
Medal record Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team 1988 Seoul Vault 1988 Seoul Balance Beam World Championships 1989 Stuttgart Team 1989 Stuttgart Balance beam European Championships 1989 Brussels Balance beam

After retiring from competitions Potorac studied at the Sports University in Bucharest and coached at the club Triumf. In 1993 she moved to Japan to work as a gymnastics coach and married there. She later divorced, but stayed in Japan, working as a coach and occasional Japanese-Romanian translator.^[2][4]