Giulia Steingruber (born 24 March 1994)
is a Swiss retired
artistic gymnast
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. She is the
2016 Olympic and
2017 World bronze medalist on
vault
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. Additionally, she is the
2015 European all-around champion, a four-time European vault champion (
2013
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January
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,
2014
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,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, and
2021
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) and the 2016 European
floor exercise
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champion.
Steingruber competed for Switzerland at the
2012
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*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and
2020 Olympic Games
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. 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.
Career
Steingruber began gymnastics when she was seven years old.
2011
Steingruber competed at the
European Championships
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in
Berlin
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and finished ninth in the all-around and sixth on vault. She then competed in a friendly meet against Romania and Germany where the Swiss team finished third. She was selected to compete at the
World Championships
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, and the Swiss team finished eighteenth. Individually, she finished sixteenth in the all-around and fifth in the vault final.
2012
Steingruber finished seventh in the all-around at the Olympic Test Event and
qualified a spot for the 2012 Olympic Games. She won the bronze medal on
vault
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at the
2012 European Championships behind
Sandra Izbașa
Sandra Raluca Izbașa (; born 18 June 1990) is a retired artistic gymnast from Romania. She is a double Olympic champion, having won the floor event at the 2008 Olympics and vault at the 2012 Olympics. She is also a winner of two Olympic bronz ...
and
Oksana Chusovitina
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Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than three decades. She wo ...
. Then at the
Doha World Challenge Cup, she won the gold medal on vault. Then at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won the silver medal on vault behind
Ellie Black
Elsabeth Ann Black (born September 8, 1995) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is a four-time Olympian, having represented her country at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic games. She is the 2017 World all-around silver medallist, makin ...
, and she won gold on the balance beam and tied for gold on the floor exercise with Black. She won the silver medal on vault at the Ghent World Challenge Cup behind
Alexa Moreno
Alexa Citlali Moreno Medina (born 8 August 1994) is a Mexican artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 World bronze medalist on vault, the first Mexican female gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She represented Mexico at ...
.
Steingruber represented
Switzerland at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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. She qualified for the
all-around final where she finished fourteenth with a score of 56.148. She was also a reserve for the
vault final. After the Olympics, she competed at the Swiss Cup alongside
Claudio Capelli, and they won the silver medal behind the German team. In December, she competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won bronze in the all-around behind
Elizabeth Price and
Elisabeth Seitz
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with a total score of 55.565.
2013
Steingruber competed at the
La Roche-sur-Yon
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World Cup in
France
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and placed first on the vault and
uneven bars
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with scores of 13.433 and 13.600, respectively. Later that month, she competed at the
City of Jesolo Trophy
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in March and placed eighth in the all-around, with a total score of 55.550. She went on to win bronze in the vault final at the Doha World Challenge Cup, scoring a 15.225 on her first vault and a 14.100 on her second, for an average of 14.662.
At the
European Championships
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in
Moscow
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, Steingruber qualified first for 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
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Junior career 2010
In April, Bul ...
with a score of 57.065, while on the floor she finished sixth with a score of 14.100. Then at the
World Championships
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, she finished seventh in the all-around, fourth on vault, and fifth on floor exercise.
After the World Championships, Steingruber won the silver medal in the all-around at the Arthur Gander Memorial behind
Larisa Iordache
Larisa Andreea Iordache (; born 19 June 1996) is a Romanians, Romanian former Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She represented Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania at the 2012 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal with the team, a ...
. Then at the Swiss Cup, she competed with
Claudio Capelli, and they won the bronze medal behind Romania and Germany. She then finished fourth in the all-around at the
Stuttgart World Cup.
2014
Steingruber won the all-around bronze medal behind Americans
Elizabeth Price and
Brenna Dowell
Brenna Dowell (born March 4, 1996) is a former American artistic gymnast
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at the
American Cup
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. Then at the
Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won the gold medal on the floor exercise, the silver medal on the vault, and the bronze medal on the balance beam. At the
European Championships
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, she won a gold medal on vault with a score of 14.666. She also won the bronze medal on the floor exercise behind
Vanessa Ferrari
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and
Larisa Iordache
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.
Steingruber won the all-around title at the Swiss Championships, and she won gold in every event final except for balance beam where she won silver behind
. In September, she competed at the Switzerland-Germany-Romania Tri-Friendly meet in
Obersiggenthal, Switzerland where the Swiss team finished third, and Steingruber finished second in the all-around behind
Larisa Iordache
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. At the
World Championships
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, Steingruber qualified for the all-around final and placed fifteenth with a total score of 55.132. She also tied for fifth place in the vault final with Great Britain's
Claudia Fragapane
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, with an average score of 14.716. After the World Championships, she finished fourth in the all-around at the Arthur Gander Memorial. Then at the Swiss Cup, she finished fourth with teammate
Claudio Capelli after injuring her foot on her vault.
2015

Steingruber was able to return to competition in February at the Austrian Team Open where she won the gold medal in the all-around, and Switzerland won the team silver medal behind China. Then at the
Doha World Cup, she won the gold medals on vault and floor and the silver medal on balance beam. At the
European Championships
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, she won the all-around title ahead of
Maria Kharenkova
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Gymnastics career 2011
In April, Kharenkova competed at the Russian Championships i ...
of Russia and
Ellie Downie
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...
of Great Britain, with a score of 57.873, becoming the first Swiss gymnast ever to win the European all-around title. However, she failed to defend her vault title, and was beaten by the 2012 Olympic vault bronze medalist
Maria Paseka
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. She also qualified for the uneven bars final and placed sixth with a score of 13.766. She won the bronze medal on the floor with a score of 14.466 behind
Claudia Fragapane
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of Great Britain and
Ksenia Afanasyeva
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of Russia.
Steingruber won bronze medals on both the vault and the uneven bars at the Varna World Cup. In June, she competed at the
2015 European Games
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held in
Baku
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, along with teammates
Jessica Diacci and
Caterina Barloggio, and they finished sixth in the team competition. She won the silver medal in the all-around behind
Aliya Mustafina
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She was the 2010 all-around world champion, the 2013 European all around champion, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic uneven bars champion and a seven-time ...
, with a score of 56.699. In addition, she won the gold medal on the vault, with a total score of 14.999, and on the floor, with a score of 14.266. She was also the bronze medalist on the balance beam, with a 13.700. Then at the Swiss Championships, she swept the gold medals except for balance beam where she won the bronze. She helped the Swiss team finish third behind Brazil and Germany at the Länderkampf Kunstturnen. At the
World Championships
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in
Glasgow
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, she finished second in the all-around behind
Simone Biles
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during the qualification round. In the final, she finished fifth after falling off the balance beam. She was awarded the
Longines Prize for Elegance
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after the all-around final. She injured her knee during the vault final and had to withdraw from the floor final.
2016
Steingruber returned to competition at the Austrian Team Open, helping her team win the gold medal and winning silver in the all-around behind Hungarian
Zsófia Kovács. Then at the DTB Team Challenge, she helped the Swiss team win bronze behind Russia and Germany. She won gold medals on both vault and floor exercise at the
Doha World Challenge Cup. She competed with the Swiss team at the
Olympic Test Event. Although the Swiss team did not qualify, Steingruber won the all-around gold medal and
qualified an individual spot for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Steingruber won the gold medals on vault and floor exercise and the bronze medal on the uneven bars at the Varna World Challenge Cup. At the
European Championships
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, she helped the Swiss team qualify for the team final in third place, behind only Great Britain and Russia. She also qualified first for the vault final with an average score of 15.433, eighth for the uneven bars final with a score of 14.033, and second for the floor final with a score of 14.966. In the team final, she contributed an all-around score of 57.657 to 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 0.050 ahead of
Ellie Downie
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...
. 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 score of 15.200, finishing 0.634 ahead of Downie, the silver medalist. She then swept the gold medals at the Swiss Championships. Then at the Chemnitz Friendly, she helped the Swiss team finish fourth, and she won the gold medal in the all-around.
At the
Olympic Games
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Steingruber was chosen to be the flag bearer for Switzerland at the opening ceremony. During the
qualification round
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, she qualified in fourteenth place for the all-around final with a score of 56.899. She also qualified third for the vault final with an average of 15.266, and fourth for the floor final with a score of 14.666. In the
all-around final, Steingruber finished in tenth place with a score of 57.565, the highest finish by a Swiss gymnast in non-boycotted Olympic games. In the
vault final, she won the bronze medal with an average of 15.216, 0.037 behind the silver medalist
Maria Paseka
Maria Valeryevna Paseka (; born 19 July 1995) is a Russian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast and member of the Russia women's national gymnastics team. During her decade-long career, she has primarily been successful as a vault specialist. O ...
of Russia. Steingruber's bronze is the first-ever Olympic medal of any color for Switzerland in women's gymnastics. Steingruber went on to finish eighth 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. She injured her foot during this routine, and she had surgery in January 2017.
2017
Steingruber returned to competition at the Swiss Championships and won the all-around gold medal by nearly three points. She won gold in the vault final and silver in the uneven bars final. She then competed at the
World Championships
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in
Montreal
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. She finished in seventh place in the all-around final with a total score of 53.666. During the event finals, she won her first World medal with the bronze on vault by finishing behind
Maria Paseka
Maria Valeryevna Paseka (; born 19 July 1995) is a Russian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast and member of the Russia women's national gymnastics team. During her decade-long career, she has primarily been successful as a vault specialist. O ...
and
Jade Carey
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. At the Swiss Cup, she won the gold medal with teammate
Pablo Brägger
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.
2018
Steingruber began the season at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge, and the Swiss team won the silver medal behind Belgium, and she won bronze in the all-around behind
Nina Derwael
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and
Hitomi Hatakeda
is a Japanese former artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2019 Summer Universiade champion in the team, all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam. She is also the 2020 American Cup all-around bronze medalist.
Ea ...
. Then at the
Koper World Cup in
Slovenia
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, she won gold medals on vault and floor, and a silver medal on the balance beam behind
Céline van Gerner
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. At the Sainté Gym Cup in early July, she injured herself during her floor routine and fractured her
Tibia
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, as well as
tearing her ACL and
meniscus
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, and she missed the rest of the season.
2019
Steingruber made her comeback at the Swiss Championships in September, over a year after sustaining her injury, where she won the all-around with a score of 53.100. Afterwards, she was named to the team to compete at the
World Championships
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in
Stuttgart
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,
Germany
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, alongside
,
Stenfanie Siegenthaler,
Anny Wu, and
Caterina Barloggio. The following week, she competed at the Second
Heerenveen
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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
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Visser was bo ...
of the Netherlands. At the
World Championships
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Steingruber qualified for the all-around final and as a result
qualified as an individual to the
2020 Olympic Games
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in
Tokyo
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. She was also the first reserve for the vault final and the third reserve for the floor exercise final. During the all-around final, she finished in eighteenth place with a total score of 53.866.
2020–21
As a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, Steingruber did not participate in any competitions during 2020 as most competitions were canceled or postponed. She competed at the
2021 European Championships held in
Basel
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. Although she qualified for the all-around final, she withdrew in order to focus on the event finals. She won gold on vault ahead of
Jessica Gadirova
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and
Angelina Melnikova
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. She then withdrew from the floor final due to a left thigh injury. Then at the Swiss Championships, she won the gold medal in the all-around. Steingruber represented
Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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. She was the first reserve for the vault final, and she qualified for the
all-around final where she finished fifteenth.
On 1 October 2021, Steingruber announced her retirement from gymnastics. She began coaching at the Swiss national team training center in
Magglingen
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The village is known for being the ...
.
Eponymous skill
Steingruber has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.
Competitive history
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
Swiss female artistic gymnasts
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Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
European Games medalists in gymnastics
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Olympic medalists in gymnastics
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