György Grozer

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

György Grozer
Personal information
NicknameIce Man
Nationality German
Born (1984-11-27) 27 November 1984
Budapest, Hungary
Height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight102 kg (225 lb)
Spike374 cm (147 in)
Block345 cm (136 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite
Current team Zenit Saint Petersburg
Number9
Career
YearsTeams
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–		 Vasas SC
Dunaferr SC
Kométa-Kaposvár SE
Moerser SC
Pallavolo Loreto
VfB Friedrichshafen
Asseco Resovia Rzeszów
Belogorie Belgorod
El Jaish
Samsung Bluefangs
Shanghai Golden Age
Al Arabi Doha
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
Belogorie Belgorod
Zenit Saint Petersburg
National team
–2006
2007–2020		 Hungary
Germany
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Germany
World Championship
2014 Poland
European Championship
2017 Poland
European League
2009 Portugal

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

Individually

Records
  • 39 points in one match – Olympic Games 2012 record[3]
  • During the match between Germany and France in the Tokyo 2020 Qualification, Gyorgy Grozer incredibly breaks a world record with his outstanding spike speed of 130.5 km/h on the opposite side of the court.
  • 15 aces in one match in Korean League.

References
  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.
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
TBD
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