Giulia Steingruber

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Giulia Steingruber
2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships - Floor - Medalists 10.jpg
Steingruber at the 2015 European Championships
Personal information
Country represented  Switzerland
Born (1994-03-24) 24 March 1994 (age 27)
Gossau, St. Gallen, Switzerland[1]
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[2]
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2010–present (SUI)
ClubTZ Fürstenland / TV Gossau, Magglingen[2]
Head coach(es)Zoltan Jordanov[2]
Assistant coach(es)Fabien Martin, Sznezsana Jordanov[2]
Eponymous skillsBeam
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Medal record
Representing   Switzerland
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Vault
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Montreal Vault
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Vault
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Floor Exercise
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku All-Around
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Balance Beam
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow Vault
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sofia Vault
Gold medal – first place 2015 Montpellier All-Around
Gold medal – first place 2016 Bern Vault
Gold medal – first place 2016 Bern Floor Exercise
Gold medal – first place 2021 Basel Vault
Silver medal – second place 2015 Montpellier Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Brussels Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sofia Floor Exercise
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Montpellier Floor Exercise
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
All-Around World Cup 0 0 3
Apparatus World Cup 5 2 1
World Challenge Cup 5 2 2
Total 10 4 6
AwardsLongines Prize for Elegance (2015)

Giulia Steingruber (born 24 March 1994) is a Swiss artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic and 2017 World bronze medalist on vault. Additionally she is the 2015 European all-around champion, a four-time European vault champion (2013, 2014, 2016, and 2021) and the 2016 European floor exercise champion.

Steingruber also competed for Switzerland at the 2012 and 2020 Olympic Games. 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, , , 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.

2020[]

As a result of a covid-19 pandemic, Giulia Steingruber did not participate in any competitions during the year.

2021[]

Gymnast Giulia Steingruber, in April 2021, he participated in the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, winning Gold in vaulting.[26] At the Tokyo Olympics she was the first alternate in the vault and qualified for the General Individual Final ending her participation in 15th 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 Championships 9 6
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8
World Championships 16 5
2012
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 6
Olympic Test Event 5
Ghent World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
Olympic Games 14
Swiss Open Zurich 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Stuttgart World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2013 La Roche sur Yon World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
European Championships 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
Swiss National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 7 4 5
Arthur Gander Memorial 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Swiss Cup Zurich 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Stuttgart World Cup 4
2014 American Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Osijek World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 8 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Swiss National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
SUI-GER-ROU Friendly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 15 5
Arthur Gander Memorial 4
Swiss Cup Zurich 4
2015 Austrian Team Open 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Varna World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Games 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 5 7
2016 Stuttgart World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Doha World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Test Event 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Varna World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Chemnitz Friendly 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 10 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8
2017 Swiss Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Swiss Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 DTB Pokal Team Challenge 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Koper Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Swiss Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Second Heerenveen Friendly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 18
Swiss Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2021
European Championships WD 1st place, gold medalist(s) WD
Olympic Games 15 WD

Eponymous skills[]

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

References[]

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  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.
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  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.
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  26. ^ https://www.srf.ch/sport/tokyo-2020/einzel-mehrkampffinal-in-tokio-steingruber-und-ihr-wohl-letztes-hurra-bei-olympia[permanent dead link]

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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
Mujinga Kambundji
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