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Place of Birth: Görlitz, Saxony, Germany
About Marcus Gross
- Marcus Gross (born 28 September 1989) is a German canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s.
- He won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth.
- At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's K-4 1000 metres, finishing in 4th place with the team in the final.
- Gross teamed up with Max Rendschmidt to win the K-2 1000m at the 2013 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships.
- They defended their European title in 2014.
- In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Germany in canoe sprint, more specifically, Men's K-2 1000m with Max Rendschmidt.
- He earned a silver medal.
- The team also won the K2 500 m at the 2015 European Championships.
- At the 2015 World Championships, Gross and Rendschmidt won the men's K-2 1000m.
- Gross marked the occasion by proposing to his girlfriend.He represented his country also at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won two gold medals, in K-2 1000 metres and K-4 1000 m events.
- In the K-2 1000 metres he competed with Max Rendschmidt, while the K-4 team consisted of Gross, Rendschmidt, Tom Liebscher and Max Hoff.
- That year Gross and Hoff also won the European K2 1000 m event.
- In 2017, they retained the European title.Having missed out on the title at the 2017 World Championships, Gross and Hoff won the K2 1000 m at the 2018 World Championships.
- At the 2018 European Championships, Gross and Hoff won a silver medal in the K2 1000 m.
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