Ricco Great

Ricco Great
Full name	Ricco Great
Association	Germany
birthday	22nd August 1970
place of birth	Schlema ,  GDR
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	SG Dynamo Zinnwald SC Ruhpolding
Trainer	Fritz Fischer
Debut in the World Cup	1990
World Cup victories	33 (9 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 9 × 5 × 6 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville sprint gold 1992 Albertville Season silver 1994 Lillehammer sprint gold 1994 Lillehammer Season gold 1998 Nagano Season bronze 2002 Salt Lake City persecution silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season gold 2006 Turin Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1991 Lahti Season bronze 1995 Antholz sprint gold 1995 Antholz Season silver 1996 Ruhpolding Season gold 1997 Osrblie singles gold 1997 Osrblie Season silver 1998 Hochfilzen team silver 1999 Kontiolahti singles gold 1999 Kontiolahti persecution bronze 2000 Lahti Season gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution bronze 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk singles silver 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk sprint gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Season silver 2004 Oberhof sprint gold 2004 Oberhof Season gold 2004 Oberhof persecution bronze 2005 Hochfilzen singles bronze 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay bronze 2007 Antholz Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1997/98 ) 3. ( 2002/03 , 2003/04 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 1996/97 )
Sprint World Cup	5. ( 1998/99 )
Pursuit World Cup	2. (1997/98, 2002/03)
Mass start world cup	4th (2002/03)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 3 7th 5 sprint 1 10 7th persecution 4th 4th 8th Mass start 1 0 2 Season 24 11 8th

Ricco Groß (born August 22, 1970 in Schlema ) is a biathlon trainer and former German biathlete .

Life

Ricco Groß in the warm-up - Biathlon World Cup 2004 in Oberhof

Ricco Groß has been active in biathlon since 1983 and has been a member of the German national team since 1990. Until 1991 he trained with SG Dynamo Zinnwald , since 1991 he was, most recently with the rank of sergeant major , in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Bischofswiesen and trained at the Ski Club Ruhpolding .

At the Winter Olympics , Groß was Olympic champion three times in a row with the German biathlon relay between 1992 and 1998, and in 2006 , he won two silver and one bronze medals in individual races. Ricco Groß is next to Sven Fischer the most successful male German athlete at the Olympic Winter Games.

Furthermore, Groß was world champion nine times, five of them with German relays. His last successes at world championships were the two world championship titles at the 2004 biathlon world championships in Oberhof . In the 1997/98 season he was second and in 2002/03 and 2003/04 third in the overall World Cup.

In March 2007 Ricco Groß ended his sporting career and began training as a coach at the Cologne Trainer Academy of the DOSB , which he successfully completed in 2010. At the same time, he was an expert commentator at ARD from the 2007/08 biathlon world cup season to the end of the 2009/10 season . He mainly accompanied the men's races there, while Uschi Disl took on the same function for the women's races. Disl and Groß replaced Magdalena Forsberg in this role .

From the 2010/11 season he was in charge of the highest German women's national biathlon squad as a discipline trainer alongside the head discipline trainer Gerald Hönig . After lack of success in the Olympic season 2013/14 he was removed from that position and trained in the 2014/15 season , the IBU Cup team in Germany. Ricco Groß announced the end of its collaboration with the German Ski Association on July 22, 2015 .

In 2015 Groß became national coach of the Russian men's team. He has been working in the same position in Austria since 2018.

Groß has been married since 1994 and has three sons, including the biathletes Simon and Marco Groß .

Sporting successes

Winter Olympics:

• 1992: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (sprint)
• 1994: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × silver (sprint)
• 1998: 1 × gold (relay)
• 2002: 1 × silver (relay), 1 × bronze (pursuit)
• 2006: 1 × gold (relay)

World Championships:

• 1991: 1 × gold (relay)
• 1995: 1 × gold (relay), 1 × bronze (sprint)
• 1996: 1 × silver (relay)
• 1997: 2 × gold (single, relay)
• 1998: 1 × silver (team)
• 1999: 1 × gold (pursuit), 1 × silver (individual)
• 2000: 1 × bronze (relay)
• 2003: 2 × gold (pursuit, relay), 1 × silver (sprint), 1 × bronze (individual)
• 2004: 2 × gold (pursuit, relay), 1 × silver (sprint)
• 2005: 2 × bronze (single, mixed relay)
• 2007: 1 × bronze (relay)

Overall World Cup:

• 1 × 2nd place (1997/98)
• 2 × 3rd place (2002/03, 2003/04)

Discipline World Cup:

• 1 × winner of the individual World Cup (1996/97)

Overall World Cup balance:

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	3	1	4th	1		24	33
2nd place	7th	10	4th			11	32
3rd place	5	7th	8th	2		8th	30th
Top 10	39	53	42	20th	1	53	208
Scoring	55	107	68	32	1	54	317
Starts	65	127	74	32	1	55	354
Status : end of the 2006/07 season, career completion

Awards

• Bavarian Sports Prize 2004 Category "Personal Prize from the Bavarian Prime Minister "
• Sportsman of the year 2006 : 3rd place with the team
• Voted the 2006 Winter Star in the “Best Team” category (with the biathlon relay) from viewers of Bayerischer Rundfunk and readers of the Bild newspaper .
• Voted the 2007 winter star in the “Lifetime Achievement Award” category by viewers of Bayerischer Rundfunk and readers of the Bild newspaper.

literature

• Short biography for:  Gross, Ricco . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Ricco Wholesale  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

 Wikinews: Ricco Groß  - in the news

• Official website of Ricco Groß
• Ricco Groß in the IBU database (English)
• Ricco Groß in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Communication from ARD on the obligation of Groß as TV experts ( memento of June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on December 15, 2014
2. ↑ A legend becomes a new trainer! on krone.at, accessed on March 31, 2018
3. ↑ Sporthilfe records big son as number 47,000. In: Freie Presse , accessed on May 26, 2016.