Martin Grothkopp

Martin Grothkopp
nation	Germany
birthday	June 21, 1986
place of birth	Dresden ,  GDR
size	191 cm
Weight	102 kg
job	Graduate engineer
Career
position	Pusher
society	BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold Winterberg 2015 team gold Königssee 2017 four gold Whistler 2019 four  European bobsleigh championships gold La Plagne 2015 two bronze La Plagne 2015 four silver Igls 2018 four gold Königssee 2019 two bronze Königssee 2019 four  U23 European Championships bronze Debrecen 2007 4 × 400 m
last change: March 11, 2019

Martin Grothkopp (born June 21, 1986 in Dresden ) is a German bobsleigh driver. He was world champion in 2017 and Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 2018 .

athletics

Grothkopp began his athletic career as a runner at Dresdner SC . At the Junior World Championships in 2004 and at the European Youth Championships in 2005, he reached the final with the 4 x 400 meter relay . In 2007 he won the bronze medal with the relay at the U23 European Athletics Championships in 2007 . In 2009 Grothkopp won in a personal best of 45.94 s at the German Championships in Ulm, with the club relay he took second place. Grothkopp was a member of the German relay at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, which, however, was eliminated in the run-up.

Bobsleigh

In 2013 Grothkopp switched to bobsleigh. The 1.91 m tall athlete starts for the BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg and belongs to the team of the bobsleigh pilot Francesco Friedrich . In 2014 Grothkopp was German champion in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh , and in 2015 again in the two-man bobsleigh. At the 2015 European Bobsleigh Championships he and Friedrich won the title in the two-man bobsleigh, together with Candy Bauer and Thorsten Margis , Friedrich and Grothkopp received bronze in a four- man bobsleigh . In the same year, the four-man finished fourth at the 2015 Bobsleigh World Championship . In the 2015/2016 season, Grothkopp was largely out due to an injury. In 2017 he finished fifth with the four at the European Championships . At the 2017 Bobsleigh World Championship on the Königssee artificial ice rink , two German bobsleighs took first place at the same time. In the fourth run, Johannes Lochner's team was able to catch up with the leading bobsleigh with Francesco Friedrich, Candy Bauer, Martin Grothkopp and Thorsten Margis. In 2018, Grothkopp won silver at the European Championship with a four-man . At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, Friedrich, Bauer, Grothkopp and Margis won with over half a second ahead of the tied bobs of Korean Won Yun-jong and German Nico Walther .

For winning the gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, he and his bobsleigh team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 7, 2018.

Private

Grothkopp lives in Dresden and has a daughter.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society. P. 371

Web links

• Martin Grothkopp in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at the Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland, accessed on February 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of June 7, 2018: ... On June 7, 2018, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will award the German winners of the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ... with the Silver Laurel Leaf ...