Ricco Groß
Ricco Groß (born August 22, 1970, in Bad Schlema) is a former German biathlete and multiple gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics and World Championships. He is married to Kathrin since 1994 and they have three sons: Marco (born 1995), Simon (b. 1998), and Gabriel (b. 2004). He is a Hauptfeldwebel (Sergeant First Class) in the German Bundeswehr.
His first club was the SG Dynamo Klingenthal until 1991. In the Biathlon World Cup of 1997/1998, he came second in the overall competition. In the biathlon competition at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics, he won gold medals as part of the men's 4×7.5 km relay team. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 4×7.5 km relay for men the German team won silver and at the 12.5 km pursuit for men, he won bronze for himself.
In the Biathlon World Championships Sprint (10 km) he won bronze in 1995, and silver in 2003 and 2004. In 1999, 2003, and 2004, he won gold in the pursuit (12.5 km). In the individual (20 km), he won gold in 1997, silver in 1999, and bronze in 2003 and 2005.
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1968: Soviet Union (Alexander Tikhonov, Nikolay Puzanov, Viktor Mamatov & Vladimir Gundartsev) · 1972: Soviet Union (Alexander Tikhonov, Rinnat Safin, Ivan Byakov & Viktor Mamatov) · 1976: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yelizarov, Ivan Byakov, Alexander Tikhonov & Nikolay Kruglov) · 1980: Soviet Union (Vladimir Alikin, Alexander Tikhonov, Vladimir Barnachov & Anatoly Alyabyev) · 1984: Soviet Union (Dmitri Vasilyev, Yuri Kashkarov, Algimantas Šalna & Sergey Bulygin) · 1988: Soviet Union (Dmitri Vasilyev, Sergey Tchepikov, Alexander Popov & Valery Medvedtsev) · 1992: Germany (Ricco Groß, Jens Steinigen, Mark Kirchner & Fritz Fischer) · 1994: Germany (Ricco Groß, Frank Luck, Mark Kirchner & Sven Fischer) · 1998: Germany (Ricco Groß, Peter Sendel, Sven Fischer & Frank Luck) · 2002: Norway (Halvard Hanevold, Frode Andresen, Egil Gjelland & Ole Einar Bjørndalen) · 2006: Germany (Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Groß & Michael Rösch) · 2010: Norway (Halvard Hanevold, Tarjei Bø, Emil Hegle Svendsen & Ole Einar Bjørndalen)
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German biathlete |
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August 22, 1970 |
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Bad Schlema, Germany |
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