Stéphanie Groß

Stéphanie Groß medal table
Wrestler
Germany
World Championship
bronze	1996 Sofia	up to 61 kg
silver	1997 Clermont-Ferrand	up to 62 kg
silver	1998 Poznań	up to 68 kg
bronze	2000 Sofia	up to 62 kg
silver	2007 Baku	up to 59 kg
European Championship
silver	1998 Bratislava	up to 62 kg
silver	2004 Haparanda	up to 63 kg

Stéphanie "Stéphie" Mary Groß (born October 12, 1974 in Basel , Switzerland ) is a former German wrestler and judoka . Sei was three times vice world champion in wrestling.

Career

Career as a judoka

Stephanie Groß started her athletic career as a judoka in 1981 at JC Bad Krozingen-Hausen . Between 1993 and 1996 she started for JC Ettlingen and in 1997 moved to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Stéphanie Groß has been fighting for the JC Schwarze Panther Cologne since 2003 . From 1989 to 1995 she was a member of the German national judo team . In 1990 she was awarded the 1st Dan . Her greatest successes as judoka were winning the German championship title in 1992 in the junior category U 19 to 61 kg, after she had become German runner-up in the same age group in the weight category up to 44 kg in 1989.

At the German women's championships in 1994, she came in 5th in the weight class up to 61 kg. In 1997 and 1998 she took 3rd place in the weight classes up to 66 kg and 63 kg, respectively, and in 1999 she was German runner-up in the weight class up to 63 kg. However, she did not appear at international judoka championships.

Career as a wrestler

When wrestling became established among women in Germany and around the world, Stephanie Groß, whose father Walter Groß was an active wrestler himself for the Bundesliga club AV Freiburg-St.Georgen and who had therefore always been interested in this sport, began her career in 1989 as Wrestler at AV Freiburg-St.Georgen in South Baden and has been wrestling for AC Ückerath in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1997 , where she also worked as a junior coach. In the course of her career as a wrestler, she mainly worked with the following coaches: Walter Groß, Bernd Fleig , Jörg Helmdach , Heinz Schmitz and Jürgen Scheibe .

She achieved her first success as a wrestler in 1992 when she became the international German youth champion in the weight class up to 56 kg. In 1994 she became the first German female champion in the weight class up to 61 kg in Würzburg. She also won this title in various weight classes in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

At the German Women's Championships in Haslach in the Kinzigtal , Stéphanie Groß ended her wrestling career on March 1st, 2008. Between 1992 and 2008 she was German champion fifteen times in all age groups.

Her international career as a wrestler began in September 1995 with participation in the World Championships in Moscow, where she finished 10th in the weight class up to 61 kg. At the European Championships in Oslo in June 1996, she came in 6th place in the same weight class. Two months later she won her first international medal, a bronze, in the same weight class in Sofia with third place.

At the 1997 European Championships in Warsaw, Stephanie Groß just missed a medal with a 4th place in the weight class up to 62 kg. At the World Championships this year in Clermont-Ferrand fought her way up to the final battle in the weight class up to 62 kg, in which she lost just under points (0: 1 technical points) against the local Lise Golliot-Legrand.

1998 was the most successful year in her wrestling career. She was first runner-up in the weight class up to 62 kg in Bratislava and vice-world champion again in October this year in Poznań in the weight class up to 68 kg. In Bratislava she lost in the final against Nikola Hartmann-Dünser from Austria and in Poznań against Christine Nordhagen from Canada.

In 1999 she came in 5th place at the European Championships in Götzis in the weight class up to 62 kg. In the same year she suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament and had to take many months off.

After her recovery, she continued her successes in Sofia in 2000 by winning another bronze medal in the weight class up to 62 kg.

In the following years she did not get into the medal ranks at the international championships. It was mainly Lene Aanes from Norway and Nikola Hartmann-Dünser, to whom she mostly lost at the international championships from 2001 to 2003 and thus blocked her medal wins. When women's wrestling in three weight classes was on the program for the first time at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, Stephnie Groß managed to qualify for these games at the tournament in Madrid in the weight class up to 63 kg. In the decisive fight, she defeated the multiple world champion Nikola Hartmann-Dünser , who had become her friend in the meantime, and thus blocked her start in Athens.

Before the Olympic Games in Athens, the European Championships took place in April 2004 in Haparanda, where Stephanie Groß won a silver medal in the weight class up to 63 kg. At the Olympic Games in Athens, Stephanie Groß lost in her first fight against Stawroula Zygouri from Greece. After a victory over Sara Eriksson from Sweden and another defeat against Viola Yanik from Canada, she finally finished 7th.

In 2005 and 2006, Stephanie Groß was only at the start at the World Championships, but could no longer achieve top positions there. In 2007, however, she really surprised the professional world when she started at the World Championships in Baku in the weight class up to 59 kg, where she won over Sona Ahmadi , Azerbaijan, Brittanee Laverdure, Canada and Narmandach Dorj, Mongolia, and lost in the final against Audrey Prieto from France to win a silver medal again.

successes

Judo

• 1989 - German Vice-Champion U19 (44 kg)
• 1992 - German Champion U19 (56 kg)
• 1994 - 3rd place German University Championships (61 kg)
• 1994 - 5th place German championships (61 kg)
• 1995 - Vice-champion at the German university championships (61 kg)
• 1995 - German Champion Group South (61 kg)
• 1997 - 3rd place German Championships Group South (66 kg)
• 1997 - 3rd place German championships (66 kg)
• 1998 - 3rd place German University Championships (63 kg)
• 1998 - South German Champion (63 kg)
• 1998 - German Champion Group South (63 kg)
• 1998 - 3rd place German Championships (63 kg)
• 1999 - South German Champion (63 kg)
• 1999 - German Champion Group South (63 kg)
• 1999 - German runner-up (63 kg)

Wrestling

• 1992 - International German Youth Champion (56 kg)
• 1994 - German champion and runner-up at the International German Championships (61 kg)
• 1995 - German Champion (61 kg) and International German Champion (61 kg)
• 1996 - German Champion (63 kg) and 3rd place at the World Championships in Sofia (61 kg)
• 1997 - German Champion (63 kg) and Vice World Champion in Clermont-Ferrand (62 kg)
• 1998 - German Champion (63 kg) and Vice European Champion in Bratislava (62 kg), and Vice World Champion in Poznan (68 kg)
• 1999 - German Champion (63 kg)
• 2000 - 3rd place at the World Championships in Sofia (62 kg)
• 2001 - German Champion (63 kg)
• 2002 - German Champion (63 kg)
• 2003 - German Champion (63 kg)
• 2004 - German Champion (63 kg) and Vice European Champion in Haparanda (63 kg), Olympic Summer Games in Athens (7th place)
• 2005 - German Champion (63 kg)
• 2006 - German Champion (67 kg)
• 2007 - Vice World Champion in Baku (59 kg)
• 2008 - German Champion (63 kg)

Web links

• Profile of Stéphanie Groß at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Stéphanie Groß in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Homepage of Stéphanie Groß