György Grozer

György Grozer
György Grozer
Personal information
Nickname	Ice Man
Nationality	German
Born	27 November 1984 (age 36); Budapest, Hungary
Height	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight	102 kg (225 lb)
Spike	374 cm (147 in)
Block	345 cm (136 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Opposite
Current team	Gas Sales Piacenza
Number	9
Career
1992–1998; 1998–2000; 2000–2002; 2002–2008; 2008; 2008–2010; 2010–2012; 2012–2015; 2015; 2015–2016; 2016–2017; 2017; 2017–2018; 2018; 2018–2020; 2020–	Vasas SC; Dunaferr SC; Kométa-Kaposvár SE; Moerser SC; Pallavolo Loreto; VfB Friedrichshafen; Asseco Resovia; Belogorie Belgorod; El Jaish; Samsung Bluefangs; Shanghai Golden Age; Al Arabi Doha; Lokomotiv Novosibirsk; Belogorie Belgorod; Zenit Saint Petersburg; Gas Sales Piacenza
National team
–2006; 2007–2020	Hungary ; Germany
hide Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing Germany
FIVB World Championship
CEV European Championship
European League

György Grozer (born 27 November 1984), also known as Georg Grozer, is a German volleyball player of Hungarian origin, a member of the Germany men's national volleyball team and Italian club Gas Sales Piacenza, a bronze medalist of the 2014 World Championship, two–time German Champion (2009, 2010), Polish Champion (2012), Russian Champion (2013), Chinese Champion (2017).

Personal life[]

Grozer was born in Budapest, Hungary. His father György Grozer Senior is a former volleyball player and coach. With his first wife Violetta he has two daughters - Leana (born 2007) and Loreen (born 2010).

Career[]

Clubs[]

He was crowned national champion on two occasions, in 2009 and 2010, while playing for VfB Friedrichshafen. After moving to the Polish league he was Polish champion in his second season (2011/2012) with Asseco Resovia Rzeszów. He then moved to Belgorod where, in the early stages of the season, he played a major role in the team's success in the Russian championship and in the National Cup of Russia. This season he won the Super Cup and the National Cup in Russia, and was crowned the top club team in Europe with Belgorod.^[1] In 2017 Grozer back to Russia Super League join to Lokomotiv Novosibirsk.

National team[]

2011 Grozer could not help the German team because of an injury. In 2012 the dynamic and powerful hitter smashed the German team to the Olympics and to the 5th place in London. In 2014 played at World Championship 2014 help in Poland. Germany won the match for the bronze medal with France.^[2]

Sporting achievements[]

Clubs[]

CEV Champions League
- 2013/2014 – with Belogorie Belgorod
FIVB Club World Championship
- Brazil 2014 – with Belogorie Belgorod
CEV Cup
- 2011/2012 – with Asseco Resovia
National championships
- 2008/2009 German Championship, with VfB Friedrichshafen
- 2009/2010 German Championship, with VfB Friedrichshafen
- 2011/2012 Polish Championship, with Asseco Resovia
- 2012/2013 Russian Championship, with Belogorie Belgorod
- 2014/2015 Russian Championship, with Belogorie Belgorod
- 2016/2017 Chinese Championship, with Shanghai Golden Age
- 2016/2017 Qatari Cup, with Al Arabi Doha

Individual awards[]

2008: European League – Best Scorer
2009: European League – Best Blocker
2010: German Volleyball Player of the Year
2011: German Volleyball Player of the Year
2012: German Volleyball Player of the Year
2012: Best Player in PlusLiga
2012: Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Server
2013: German Volleyball Player of the Year
2014: German Volleyball Player of the Year
2016: Asian Club Championship – Best Opposite Spiker
2017: Asian Club Championship – Best Opposite Spiker
2017: CEV European Championship – Best Opposite Spiker

Records[]

39 points in one match – Olympic Games 2012 record^[3]
15 aces in one match in Korean League.

References[]

^ Gyorgy Grozer: Będę grał w Lokomotivie Biełgorod – siatka.org – 2012-04-22. Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Germany take home the bronze medal – fivb.org – 2014-09-21. Archived 2018-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Grozer defeated Serbia". worldofvolley.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2016-09-12.

External links[]

Georg Grozer at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
György Grozer at the International Olympic Committee
György Grozer at the European Volleyball Confederation
Player profile at PlusLiga.pl
Player profile at LegaVolley.it
Player profile at WorldofVolley.com
Player profile at Volleybox.net
György Grozer at Olympedia

Awards
Preceded by Guillermo Falasca	Best Scorer of European League 2008	Succeeded by Martin Nemec
Preceded by Tomáš Kmeť	Best Blocker of European League 2009	Succeeded by João Carlos Malveiro
Preceded by Ivan Zaytsev	Best Opposite Spiker of CEV European Championship 2017	Succeeded by Aleksandar Atanasijević

[1] Gyorgy Grozer: Będę grał w Lokomotivie Biełgorod – siatka.org – 2012-04-22. Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Germany take home the bronze medal – fivb.org – 2014-09-21. Archived 2018-11-10 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Grozer defeated Serbia". worldofvolley.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2016-09-12.

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