Maxi Gnauck (born 10 October 1964) is a German former artistic gymnast who represented East Germany.

[1] Her parents were expecting a boy and they planned to name him Max so, when the baby turned out to be a girl, they simply added an 'i', creating an uncommon name for Germany.

[3] In April 1986, Maxi officially announced her retirement and began a four-year course in sports coaching at the University of Leipzig.

[2] In 1988 she was severely injured while sliding down a waterslide while working as an aide at a children's summer camp by the Baltic Sea.

Since 2005 she has worked at the Artistic and Apparatus Gymnastics Center (Kunst- und Gerätturnzentrum) at Liestal in Switzerland.