Giulia Steingruber

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Giulia Steingruber
— Gymnast —
File:2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Floor - Medalists 10.jpg
Giulia Steingruber at the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented   Switzerland
Born (1994-03-24) March 24, 1994 (age 30)
Gossau, St. Gallen, Switzerland [1]
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[2]
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Club TZ Fürstenland / TV Gossau, Magglingen[2]
Head coach(es) Zoltan Jordanov[2]
Assistant coach(es) Fabien Martin, Sznezsana Jordanov[2]
Eponymous skills Balance Beam

Giulia Steingruber (born 24 March 1994) is a Swiss artistic gymnast. She competed for Switzerland at the 2012 Summer Olympics and is a European all-around (2015) and vault (2013, 2014) champion. She is the first Swiss female gymnast to win the European all-around title.

Senior career

2012

Steingruber won the bronze medal on vault in the 2012 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[3]

Competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics as the only women's gymnast from Switzerland, Steingruber finished 14th in the women's individual all-around with a score of 56.148.[4] She was a reserve for the vault final.[5]

In December 2012 she competed at the World Cup event in Stuttgart, Germany and won bronze with a total score of 55.565, which included an impressive vault score of 15.400.[6]

2013

Steingruber competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in March and placed 8th in the individual all-around, with a total score of 55.550.[7] Later that month she competed at the La Roche-sur-Yon World Cup event in France and placed first on the vault and uneven bars with scores of 13.433 and 13.600 respectively. She went on to win bronze in the vault final at the Doha World Cup, scoring a 15.225 on her first vault and a 14.100 on her second, for an average of 14.662.[8]

At the 2013 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow she qualified first into the vault final and went on to take gold with an average of 14.750. She also qualified for the individual all-around and floor finals. In the all-around final she tied for fourth with Romanian gymnast Diana Bulimar with a score of 57.065,[9] while on floor she finished 6th with a score of 14.100.[10]

At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Steingruber finished seventh in the all-around, fourth on vault, and fifth on floor exercise.[11][12][13]

2014

At the 2014 European Championships, Steingruber won a gold medal on vault with a score of 14.666.[14]

At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Steingruber qualified to the all-around final, and placed 15th with a score of 55.132. She also tied for 5th place in the vault final with Great Britain's Claudia Fragapane, with a score of 14.716.

2015

At the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Steingruber won the all-around title ahead of Maria Kharenkova of Russia and Ellie Downie of Great Britain, with a score of 57.873.[15] However, she failed to defend her vault title, and was beaten by the Olympic vault medalist Maria Paseka; Steingruber won the silver medal with a score of 15.149. She also qualified to the uneven bars final and placed 6th with a score of 13.766. Steingruber qualified first to the floor final, but ended up winning the bronze medal with a score of 14.466 behind silver medalist Claudia Fragapane of Great Britain and gold medalist Ksenia Afanasyeva of Russia. Steingruber's three medals made her the most decorated gymnast from these championships.

In June she competed at the 2015 European Games held in Baku, along with teammates Jessica Diacci and Caterina Barloggio. She won the silver medal in the all-around, with a score of 56.699.[16] In addition, she won the gold medal on vault, with a total score of 14.999 [17] and on floor, with a score of 14.266.[18] She was also the bronze medalist on the balance beam, with a 13.700.[19]

Later, she competed in the 2015 Glasgow World Championships. She qualified to the All Around Final (she finished 5th) Floor and Vault Finals. She injured her knee in vault finals (7th tied with Alexa Moreno).

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2011 European Championships 9th 6th
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly 3rd 8th
World Championships 16th 5th
2012 European Championships 3rd
Doha World Cup 1st 8th 6th
Ghent World Cup 2nd 6th
Olympic Games 14th
Swiss Cup Zurich 2nd
Stuttgart World Cup 3rd 2nd 5th 5th 3rd
2013 La Roche sur Yon World Cup 1st 1st
Doha World Cup 3rd 4th
European Championships 4th 1st 6th
Swiss National Championships 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
World Championships 7th 4th 5th
Arthur Gander Memorial 2nd
Swiss Cup Zurich 3rd
Stuttgart World Cup 4th
2014 American Cup 3rd
Osijek World Cup 2nd 5th 3rd 1st
European Championships 8th 1st 8th 3rd
Swiss National Championships 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly 3rd 2nd 3rd 6th 3rd 3rd
World Championships 15th 5th
Arthur Gander Memorial 4th
Swiss Cup Zurich 4th
2015 Austrian Team Open 2nd 1st
Doha World Cup 1st 2nd 1st
European Championships 1st 2nd 6th 3rd
European Games 6th 2nd 1st

Eponymous Skills

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to Code of Points
Balance Beam Steingruber Gainer layout salto with full twist from end of beam E 2011 World Championships

References

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  9. http://www.ueg.org/media/results/401/Results_WomSenC2.pdf[dead link]
  10. http://www.ueg.org/media/results/419/Summary_Results_WomSenC3.pdf[dead link]
  11. "All-Around Results". fedintgym.com. October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  12. "Vault Results". fedintgym.com. October 5, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  13. "Floor Exercise Results". fedintgym.com. October 6, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
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  15. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/gymnastics-european-championship-womens-individual-around-final-results-140654475--spt.html
  16. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-all-around/index.html?intcmp=sr-bysport-gridview Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  17. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-vault/index.html Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  18. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-floor-exercise/index.html Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  19. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-beam/index.html Retrieved June 29, 2015.

External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Swiss Sportswoman of the Year
2013
Succeeded by
Dominique Gisin