Alexander Grimm

Alexander Grimm
nation	Germany
birthday	September 6, 1986
place of birth	augsburg
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Kayak (K1)
society	Canoe Swabia Augsburg
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
OS medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 1 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 7 × 3 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2008 Beijing K1 Canoe World Championships gold 2007 Foz de Iguazu K1 team gold 2010 Tacen K1 team gold 2011 Bratislava K1 team European Canoe Championships gold 2014 Vienna K1 team silver 2005 Tacen K1 team bronze 2007 Liptovsky Mikulas K1 team silver 2009 Nottingham K1 team silver 2010 Bratislava K1 team bronze 2006 L'Argentiere-La-Bessée K1 team
last change: June 1, 2014

Alexander Grimm (born September 6, 1986 in Augsburg ) is a former German canoeist . In 2008 he was Olympic champion in canoe slalom .

Alexander Grimm was a sports soldier and started for Kanu Schwaben Augsburg (the canoeing department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg ), where he was trained by Thomas Apel. He specializes in the boat class single kayak . At national level, Grimm won the German junior championship in 2002 and 2004 . In the men's category, Grimm won the team title in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and the individual title in 2007.

Career

As a child, Alexander Grimm first played football for FC Hochzoll . In 1995 he started kayaking. From 2002 to 2004 Grimm was a member of the junior national team and since 2005 of the men's national team. In 2002 he won silver with the team at the Junior World Championships, and in 2003 at the European Junior Championships in Hohenlimburg, bronze in singles and gold for the team. At the Junior World Championships in Lofer in 2004, Grimm also won gold in singles and silver with the team. In 2005 he appeared for the first time at the Men's World Cup in Sydney . He was 13th in the individual competition. At the European Championship in the same year, Grimm won silver with the team. In 2006 he reached second place in the world rankings. At the World Championships in Prague he was tenth in the individual, at the EM he won the bronze medal with the team. Twice he reached podium placements in the World Cup. Grimm achieved his first victory in the World Cup in 2007. He won the race in Augsburg and was third in the overall World Cup standings. At the 2007 World Cup in Foz do Iguaçu he was world champion with the team and finished 28th in the individual competition. At the 2007 European Championships he finished second with the team and seventh in the individual ranking.

In the national qualification for the German Olympic team in Beijing , Grimm prevailed against Vice World Champion Fabian Dörfler and World Cup winner Erik Pfannmöller . At the 2008 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal after fighting his way from fourth to first place in the final. Grimm was the first German Olympic champion at the 2008 Summer Games.

For this he was honored with the silver laurel leaf by Federal President Köhler.

From 2008 to 2017 Grimm studied mechanical engineering (Bachelor) as well as lightweight construction and fiber composite technology (Master) at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences . Since 2017 he has been completing an MBA in industrial engineering at the University of Munich .

In 2018, Grimm announced his retirement from an active sports career.

Web links

 Wikinews: Alexander Grimm wins first gold medal for Germany in a kayak-one  - message

• Official website
• Alexander Grimm in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the website of the German Canoe Association
• Portrait on Spiegel-Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 Sports honor: Federal President Köhler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the silver laurel leaf.
2. ↑ Happy paddling out. Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 11, 2018