Giulia Steingruber

Giulia Steingruber (born 24 March 1994) is a Swiss artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist on vault and a European champion in all-around (2015), vault (2013, 2014, 2016) and floor (2016).

Giulia Steingruber
Steingruber at the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented  Switzerland
Born (1994-03-24) 24 March 1994
Gossau, St. Gallen, Switzerland[1]
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[2]
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
ClubTZ Fürstenland / TV Gossau, Magglingen[2]
Head coach(es)Zoltan Jordanov[2]
Assistant coach(es)Fabien Martin, Sznezsana Jordanov[2]
Eponymous skillsBeam
AwardsLongines Prize for Elegance (2015)

Steingruber also competed for Switzerland at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the first Swiss female gymnast to win the European all-around title and the first Swiss female gymnast ever to win an Olympic gymnastics medal of any color.

Senior career

2011

At the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Steingruber finished 16th in the all-around and 5th on vault.

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, becoming the first Swiss gymnast to ever win the European All-Around title.[15] However, she failed to defend her vault title, and was beaten by the 2012 Olympic vault bronze 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 and 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 with a score of 57.333), floor, and vault finals. She injured her knee in the vault final (7th tied with Alexa Moreno with a score of 14.533) and withdrew from the floor final.

2016

At the 2016 European Championships, Steingruber helped the Swiss team qualify to the team final in third place behind only Great Britain and Russia. She also qualified first to the vault final with an average score of 15.433, eighth to the bars final with a score of 14.033, and second to the floor final with a score of 14.966. In the team final, she contributed an all-around score of 57.657 to help lead the Swiss team to a fourth place finish. In event finals, Steingruber won her third European vault title with an average score of 14.983, just 0.05 ahead of Ellie Downie, becoming the first gymnast in history to win three European championship titles on vault. She then placed sixth in the uneven bars final with a score of 14.166, and won the floor final for her first European title on the event with a massive score of 15.200, finishing 0.634 ahead of Downie, the silver medalist.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she was the sole female gymnast for Switzerland, Steingruber was chosen to be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony, becoming the second gymnast to ever receive this honor since Daniel Giubellini in 1992, and the first female gymnast to do so. She delivered an excellent performance in the qualification round (minus a fall on the balance beam) and qualified in 14th place to the all-around final with a score of 56.899. She also qualified 3rd to the vault final with an average of 15.266, and 4th to the floor final with a score of 14.666.

In the individual all-around final, Steingruber finished in a respectable 10th place with a score of 57.565, the highest finish by a Swiss gymnast in a non-boycotted Olympic games. Her scores on both vault (15.366) and floor (14.733) were among the top four of all the gymnasts that competed in the all-around. In the vault final, she performed a clean layout Rudi (scoring 15.533) and a double twisting Yurchenko (scoring 14.900) to win the bronze medal with an average of 15.216, 0.037 behind silver medalist Maria Paseka of Russia (15.253). American Simone Biles won the vault title with an average of 15.966. Steingruber's bronze is the first ever Olympic medal of any color for Switzerland in women's gymnastics, and the first Olympic medal for a gymnast native to Switzerland since 1952 (a Chinese-born Li Donghua won a gold medal for Switzerland on the pommel horse in 1996). Steingruber went on to finish 8th in the floor exercise with a score of 11.800 after falling on her double-double mount and springing out of bounds and later falling on her tucked full-in dismount. Despite her finish, she is the first female Swiss gymnast to make the floor exercise final.

2017

In late 2017 Steingruber attended the World Championships in Montreal. She competed in the all-around final where she finished in seventh place, with a total score of 53.666. Her score of 14.700 on vault was the highest on the apparatus during the final.[20] During event finals Steingruber won the bronze on vault, scoring an average of 14.466, finishing behind defending world vault champion Maria Paseka of Russia (14.850) and Jade Carey of the USA (14.766).[21] It was her first World Championship Medal.

2018

Steingruber showcased her full difficulty sets in June at the Koper World Cup in Slovenia, winning gold medals on vault and floor, and a silver medal on balance beam. At a competition in France in early July, she injured herself during a routine on floor exercise and fractured her Tibia, as well as tearing her ACL and meniscus, ending her bid for the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Championships in Doha, Qatar.[22]

2019

Steingruber made her comeback at the 2019 Swiss Championships in September, over a year after sustaining her injury, where she won the all-around with a score of 53.100.[23] Afterwards she was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Ilaria Käslin, Stenfanie Siegenthaler, Anny Wu, and Caterina Barloggio.[24] The following week she competed at the Second Heerenveen Friendly where she helped the Switzerland finish in third behind the Netherlands and Spain. Individually she placed second in the all-around behind Naomi Visser of the Netherlands.[25]

At the World Championships Steingruber qualified to the all-around final and as a result qualified as an individual to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She was also the first reserve for the vault final and third reserve for the floor exercise final. During the all-around final she finished in 18th place.

Competitive history

Steingruber about to vault at the 2015 European Championships.
Steingruber (right) with Claudia Fragapane (left) and Ksenia Afanasyeva (centre) on the floor exercise podium at the 2015 European Championships.
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2011
European Championships96
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly8
World Championships165
2012
European Championships
Doha World Cup86
Olympic Test Event5
Ghent World Cup6
Olympic Games14
Swiss Open Zurich
Stuttgart World Cup55
2013La Roche sur Yon World Cup
Doha World Cup4
European Championships46
Swiss National Championships
World Championships745
Arthur Gander Memorial
Swiss Cup Zurich
Stuttgart World Cup4
2014American Cup
Osijek World Cup5
European Championships88
Swiss National Championships
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly6
World Championships155
Arthur Gander Memorial4
Swiss Cup Zurich4
2015Austrian Team Open
Doha World Cup
European Championships6
Varna World Cup
European Games6
World Championships57
2016Stuttgart World Cup
Doha World Cup7
Olympic Test Event6
Varna World Cup
European Championships46
Chemnitz Friendly4
Olympic Games108
2017Swiss Championships
World Championships7
Swiss Cup
2018DTB Pokal Team Challenge
Koper Challenge Cup5
2019Swiss Championships
Second Heerenveen Friendly
World Championships18
Swiss Cup

Eponymous skills

ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficultyAdded to Code of Points
Balance BeamSteingruberGainer layout salto with full twist from end of beamD2011 World Championships

References

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  2. "Giulia Steingruber". Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
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  4. "LONDON 2012 ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS,ALL AROUND WOMEN". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  5. "LONDON 2012 ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS,VAULT WOMEN". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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  7. "2013 City of Jesolo Trophy". Gymnastics Results. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  8. Turner, Amanda (28 March 2013). "Five Take Titles at Doha World Challenge Cup". International Gymnast Magazine Online. International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  9. http://www.ueg.org/media/results/401/Results_WomSenC2.pdf%5B%5D
  10. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2013-04-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "All-Around Results" Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. fedintgym.com. October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  12. "Vault Results" Archived 2013-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. fedintgym.com. October 5, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  13. "Floor Exercise Results" Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. fedintgym.com. October 6, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  14. "30th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team Championships Seniors Apparatus Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. UEG. 18 May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  15. https://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 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  17. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-vault/index.html%5B%5D Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  18. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-floor-exercise/index.html Archived 2018-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  19. http://www.baku2015.com/gymnastics-artistic/event/women-beam/index.html Archived 2018-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  20. https://mtl2017gymcan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/C73H_Results_WomSenC2.pdf Archived 2017-11-11 at the Wayback Machine>
  21. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. "Giulia Steingruber will miss the season because of a knee injury". Gymnovosti. July 10, 2018.
  23. "Steingruber meldet sich mit Sieg zurück". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (in German). September 7, 2019.
  24. @swissgymnastics (September 10, 2019). "Das Schweizer Kader für die Kunstturn-WM in #Stuttgart2019 steht fest!" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  25. "2019 2nd Heerenveen Friendly Results". The Gymternet. September 14, 2019.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Nicola Spirig
Swiss Sportswoman of the Year
2013
Succeeded by
Dominique Gisin
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Stanislas Wawrinka
Flagbearer for   Switzerland
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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