Michael Gross

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Michael Gross 2014

Personal information
Surname: Michael Gross
Nickname (s): Albatross
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle , butterfly
Birthday: June 17, 1964
Place of birth: Frankfurt am Main
Size: 2.01 m
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Medals
Michael Groß with his wife Ilona, ​​2016

Michael Groß (born June 17, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main ) is the second most successful German swimming athlete after having won a total of 21 titles at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships . He started for the EOSC , a swimming club from Offenbach am Main .

Due to his large arm span of 2.13 m with 2.01 m body length, his nickname was Albatros , which he got in 1983 from a French reporter for the sports daily L'Équipe . During the Olympic Games in 1984 , Jörg Wontorra created the catchphrase: “Fly, Albatros, fly ...!” The saying was even “immortalized” in a postage stamp from Deutsche Post in 2019.

Athletic career

As a 16-year-old he achieved second place at the German championships in 1980 in Munich over 100 m butterfly . This second place would have earned him the Olympic participation in Moscow straight away , but the West German NOK boycotted the Moscow Games. When the Swede Pär Arvidsson became Olympic champion with 54.92 seconds, Groß swam the 100 m butterfly almost at the same time in Toronto in 54.69 seconds. A year later he was the first German champion in the 100 m butterfly and 200 m freestyle .

In 1982 he finally established himself in the absolute world elite when he won the 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly at the World Championships in Guayaquil , Ecuador .

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Groß won gold over the 200 m freestyle and over 100 m butterfly (each in world record time) as well as silver over the 200 m butterfly and with the German 4 × 200 m freestyle relay . In 1985 he won six gold medals in six starts at the European Championships in Sofia (200 m freestyle, 100 m and 200 m butterfly and with all three German relay teams).

After defending his world title in the 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly in Madrid in 1986 , he won Olympic gold in the 200 m butterfly and bronze with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . In 1991 he ended his career as a swimmer after the World Championships in Perth - where he won gold again.

Groß won gold three times at the Olympic Games , was five times world champion and thirteen times European champion (seven times as an individual swimmer, six times with different relays). He set twelve world records and 24 European records , including 1985 over 400 m freestyle, a discipline that he rarely competed in. This means that he temporarily held four world records this year (only Mark Spitz achieved this before him ), which he describes in his book Everyone Can Win as his greatest sporting achievement.

Alongside Ursula Happe , Dagmar Hase and Britta Steffen, Michael Groß is the only swimming Olympic champion in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 2012). Only him and Britta Steffen managed to win a world championship title over an individual distance.

The world swimmer of 1983 and 1985 was the first German athlete to be four times (1982, 1983, 1984, 1988) athlete of the year (only Boris Becker was elected just as often). The Union of European Sports Journalists (UEPS) voted Groß as Europe's Sportsman of the Year in 1983 , and a year later the Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) press agency also voted Europe's Sportsman of the Year . In 1995 he was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame .

Michael Groß was not only a top swimmer, but also a leading figure within the German national team. In addition, he always came up with a special appearance for the last season of major competitions. In its last race for Germany, the 4 × 100 m layer relay at the 1991 World Championships in Perth, the German relay team stepped onto the starting bridge in the costumes of popular Australian animals (e.g. kangaroo and koala ).

Michael Groß was open to new ways and ideas in his training design. He was in the water no more than twice a day for 90 minutes and he pushed the weight training a lot. He also got stamina outside of the swimming pool, especially on the racing bike. His trainer, who looked after him during his sporting career, was Hartmut Oeleker.

He was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his sporting success .

Further career

Groß studied German, political science and media studies and received his PhD in philology in Frankfurt / Main in 1994 on aesthetics and the public sphere: the journalism of the Weimar Classics . In September 2011 he published the non-fiction book Everyone can win . The textbook Selbstcoaching followed in August 2013, followed by the Change Manager manual in March 2014 . Groß has been teaching at the private University of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management since 2003 .

Groß has been working as an independent management consultant in Frankfurt / Main since 2001 and in Königstein im Taunus since 2012 . In 2003 he was briefly interviewed for the position of managing director of the Leipzig Olympic bid for 2012. For the failed candidacy of the city of Berlin for the 2000 Olympic Games , he worked part-time as a consultant.

From 2001 to 2005, Groß was a member of the board of the German Sports Aid Foundation (DSH) and of the Presidium of the National Olympic Committee (NOK) for Germany. In addition, from 2003 he headed the Economic Council of the German Sports Aid. At the end of 2005 he resigned his mandate as a member of the board of directors because he did not agree with the planned changes in the management structure of DSH. As an ambassador, he has been supporting the Respekt! No place for racism .

Groß has been married since 1995. He has two children.

Sporting successes

Successes at the Olympic Games

  • 1984: Gold over 200 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly, silver over 200 m butterfly and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
  • 1988: Gold in the 200 m butterfly, bronze with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

Successes at world championships

  • 1982: Gold over 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly, silver over 100 m butterfly, bronze with the 4 × 100 m medley relay and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
  • 1986: Gold in the 200 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly, silver with the 4 × 100 m medley relay and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
  • 1991: Gold with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, silver over 100 m and 200 m butterfly, bronze with the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay

Success at European Championships

  • 1981: Gold over 200 m butterfly, silver with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, bronze with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
  • 1983: Gold in the 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, silver with the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay
  • 1985: Gold over 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay and the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay
  • 1987: Gold over 200 m butterfly and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, silver over 100 m butterfly and with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, bronze over 200 m freestyle

Awards

Other activities

Groß is Vice President of the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also has a teaching position at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on the topics of "Digital Transformation" and "Digital Leadership".

Fonts

  • Michael Groß: Anyone can win. Asking the right questions every day . Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7110-0013-2 .
  • Michael Groß: Self-coaching. Self-motivation, career planning, use change as an opportunity and go your own path to success . Verlag Springer Medizin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-38038-9 .
  • Michael Groß: Change Manager Handbook . Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-36552-1 .
  • Michael Groß: Just do it . Redline Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86881-628-0 .
  • Michael Groß: Digital Leader Gamebook . Haufe-Verlag, Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-648-12124-5 .

literature

  • Silke Bernhart: Reciprocal Effects from Sports Reporting. Empirical study of top athletes . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag / VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8350-7019-6 (plus master's thesis, University of Mainz)

Web links

Commons : Michael Groß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ With the support of the GDR compulsory doping system, Kristin Otto achieved a total of 22 titles: six at the Olympic Games, seven at the world championships and nine at the European championships. At world championships, Thomas Lurz is the most successful German swimmer of all time with ten titles won. (As of June 9, 2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint of his own website, accessed on June 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Article in the Schweriner Volkszeitung from December 9, 2005: Olympic swimming champion in Los Angeles and Seoul is today head of a PR agency in Frankfurt / Main ( Memento from December 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Appendix by Silke Bernhart: reciprocal effects through sport reporting , Springer DE, eBook 2007, p. 12 (p. 200 of the complete work) ( PDF; 104 kB ), accessed on June 9, 2013
  4. ^ ARD Sport-Geschichte ( Memento from July 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the 1984 Summer Olympics , accessed on June 9, 2013
  5. ^ Publisher: Presentation of the special stamps "For Sport" Legendary Olympic Moments - Federal Ministry of Finance - Press. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ His book Everyone Can Win, accessed on February 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ His book Self-Coaching , accessed on August 20, 2013
  8. ↑ His book Handbuch Change-Manager , accessed on August 20, 2013
  9. ↑ Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau from June 27, 2009 Herr Doktor Albatros , accessed on June 9, 2013
  10. ↑ Company portrait of Groß & Cie. GmbH, accessed on June 9, 2013
  11. ↑ Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 6, 2010: Michael Groß should bring Leipzig forward , accessed on June 9, 2013
  12. ↑ Spiegel article from October 13, 2010: fly in the ointment , accessed on June 9, 2013
  13. ↑ Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 15, 2010: Big does not come, Thärichen should go , accessed on June 9, 2013
  14. ↑ Press release of the German Sports Aid Foundation of August 31, 2001: News Michael Groß for Sports Aid in the NOK Presidium , ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  15. ↑ Press release of the German Sports Aid Foundation of February 14, 2003: Dr. Michael Gross heads the Economic Committee , ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  16. ↑ Press release of the German Sports Aid Foundation of November 28, 2005: The German Sports Aid Foundation is tightening and modernizing its management structure , ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  17. ↑ Excerpt from an interview with Michael Groß on Respekt.tv ( Memento from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Michael Groß ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at respekt.tv , accessed on June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.respekt.tv
  19. ↑ Vita ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on his homepage, accessed on June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michael-gross.net
  20. ↑ Dear persons, alphabetically "G" of the hall of fame of international swimming , accessed on June 9, 2013
  21. ↑ Five stars in the Hall of Fame sport1.de September 7, 2015
  22. ↑ DOSB: Five other members in the “Hall of Fame of German Sports” , ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 7, 2015. Online at www.dosb.de. Retrieved September 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de
  23. ^ Ulrich Caspar new President of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  24. ↑ "Albatros" Groß wants to be Vice-Chamber of Commerce. May 2, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  25. ^ Website of the University of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Great, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gross, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main