Giulia Steingruber

Giulia Steingruber
Giulia Steingruber (2015)
Personal information
Nationality:	Switzerland
discipline	Gymnastics
Special device / s:	Leap
Society:	TZ Fürstenland TV Gossau
Trainer:	Zoltan Jordanov (until 2016) Fabien Martin (from 2017)
Birthday:	24th March 1994 (age 26)
Place of birth:	Gossau , Switzerland
Size:	160 cm
Weight:	56 kg
Medals
Olympic games bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Leap  World championships bronze 2017 Montreal Leap  European championships bronze 2012 Brussels Leap gold 2013 Moscow Leap gold 2014 Sofia Leap bronze 2014 Sofia ground gold 2015 Montpellier All-around silver 2015 Montpellier Leap bronze 2015 Montpellier ground gold 2016 Bern Leap gold 2016 Bern ground  European Games gold 2015 Baku Leap gold 2015 Baku ground silver 2015 Baku All-around bronze 2015 Baku Balance beam

Giulia Steingruber (born March 24, 1994 in Gossau ) is a Swiss gymnast . Her greatest success so far is winning the bronze medal jumping at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Career

Giulia Steingruber became Swiss champion in 2011 in all individual disciplines, jump , floor , balance beam and uneven bars , as well as in all-around. In her favorite jumping discipline, she won bronze at the 2012 European Championships in Brussels . At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Steingruber was the youngest Swiss participant. She qualified for the all-around final, in which she was 14th; she just missed the final because of a fall.

In 2013 she won gold at the European Championships in Moscow . This makes her the second Swiss European gymnastics champion after Ariella Kaeslin (EM gold in 2009). In Moscow she was also fourth in the all-around competition. In June 2013 she won the all-around at the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival in Biel / Bienne . At the World Championships in Antwerp , she reached the 4th place on the jump, 5 on the ground and 7 in the all-around competition. She had thus established herself in the world's elite. In December 2013 she was voted Swiss Sportswoman of the Year .

2014 was another successful year. Steingruber defended her European title on vault and won bronze on the ground. At the world championships she was fifth on the vault. She also qualified for the all-around final, which she finished in 15th place.

In 2015 she became the first Swiss woman to win the gold medal in the all- around at the European Gymnastics Championships in Montpellier . She also won the silver medal on the jump and the bronze medal on the ground. In June she took part in the European Games in Baku, where she won a total of four medals: gold on the vault and on the ground, silver in the individual all-around and bronze on the balance beam. At the World Championships in Glasgow she reached second place behind Simone Biles in the qualification for the individual all- around, in the final she was fifth against an improved competition. At the final on her paragon, the jump, she fell on the second jump and injured her knee. She was classified as seventh in the jump final, but then had to end the world championship and the season prematurely.

After a short injury break, Steingruber was able to quickly build on her previous performance in 2016. At the home European championships in Bern, she was two-time European champion (on the vault and on the ground) and reached 6th place in the uneven bars final.

2016 Summer Olympics

For the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Steingruber was selected as the flag bearer of the Swiss Olympic team. She won the bronze medal on vault at the Games. This makes her the first Swiss female gymnast to ever win an Olympic medal. She also qualified for the all-around final, which she finished in tenth, and the ground final, in which she was eighth after a fall. It was later revealed that she had probably injured her foot in a fall in the ground final. She suffered a partial tear in the outer ligament and bone splintering in the ankle .

At first she planned to still take part in the Swiss Cup in November. Since the injury hindered training too much, she finally decided to end the season. She announced that she would have an operation in January 2017. She also announced that she would not participate in the European Championships in April 2017. In November, her coach Zoltan Jordanov's engagement with the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) also ended. She had worked with him since the beginning of her career.

On September 2, 2017, she made her successful comeback at the Swiss Championships in Morges after a year-long injury break. She became Swiss champion in the all-around competition. In her eighth participation, she won the seventh title in a row, overtaking Romi Kessler , who had triumphed six times in a row between 1978 and 1983.
The first appearance on the international stage was also successful: at the World Championships in Montreal she won the bronze medal on vault. In the all-around competition she surprisingly came in seventh. She achieved the second-best result of her career after fifth place in 2015.

While preparing for the 2018 European Championships, Steingruber was injured during a three-country match in St. Etienne at the beginning of July during a floor exercise: she suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament and was out for the rest of the season. She only made her competitive comeback on September 7, 2019 at the Swiss Championships in Romont . She won the title in the all-around competition. In October she took part in the World Championships in Stuttgart . Despite little preparation time, she reached the all-around final, which she finished 18th. After three devices she was even in 9th place, but on the uneven bars she could not keep up with the world's best. She narrowly missed the jump final as 9th.

Web links

Commons : Giulia Steingruber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Giulia Steingruber in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Official website of Giulia Steingruber
• Giulia Steingruber at the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (PDF file; 52 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anja Knabenhans: Steingruber shows her latest leap: Risky and correct. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 29, 2012.
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3. ↑ Marcel Allemann: "I am very proud - that also gives me strength". In: 20 Minuten from August 4, 2016, accessed August 5, 2016.
4. ↑ sda / ste: Steingruber has to go under the knife. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). September 17, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 . 
5. ↑ cud: Steingruber ends season and misses EM 2017. In: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). October 20, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Philipp Bärtsch: Artistic gymnastics trainer Zoltan Jordanov: He came as a savior, he doesn't like to go . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 5, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 6, 2016]).
7. ↑ jäg / sda: Steingruber successful in comeback. September 2, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017 . 
8. ↑ sda / boe: Steingruber strong 7th in the all-around final . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . ( srf.ch [accessed October 7, 2017]).
9. ↑ Serious injury - As feared: Steingruber suffers cruciate ligament tear . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . July 9, 2018 ( srf.ch [accessed July 9, 2018]).