Gabriele Kohlisch

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Gabriele Kohlisch, born 7 December 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), is a German athlete who competed in luge and later in bobsleigh. She began her career for East Germany in luge during the 1980s and later represented a reunified Germany. She is one of only two people to win world championship gold medals in both luge and bobsleigh; the other is Susi Erdmann.

In luge, Kohlisch earned ten World Championship medals: six golds (women's singles in 1990 and 1995; mixed team in 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995) and four silvers (women's singles in 1987, 1991, 1993; mixed team in 1996). She also collected three European Championship medals (silver in women's singles 1996; silver in mixed team 1994; bronze in women's singles 1994). Kohlisch competed in two Winter Olympics for Germany, finishing sixth in women's singles in 1992 and 1994. She retired from luge in 1997, in part due to intense competition among German teammates such as Jana Bode, Erdmann, Silke Kraushaar, Barbara Niedernhuber, and Sylke Otto. She won the Luge World Cup overall title in women's singles in 1993-94.

Kohlisch switched to bobsleigh in 1998 and won gold in the debut two-woman event at the 2000 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg. She attempted to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City but finished third behind Erdmann and Sandra Prokoff (Sandra Kiriasis since 2004). Today she works as a spokesperson for the International Luge Federation and for the German luge team, and she is involved in physical education at the Naval Academy Mürwik (Marineschule Mürwik) in Flensburg-Mürwik, Germany.