György Grozer

György Grozer (born 27 November 1984), also known as Georg Grozer, is a German professional volleyball player of Hungarian origin who plays as an opposite spiker for Arkas İzmir and the Germany national team.

György Grozer
Personal information
Nickname	Ice Man
Nationality	German
Born	(1984-11-27) 27 November 1984 (age 39) 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	Arkas İzmir
Number	9
Career
Years Teams 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 2020–2021 2021–2023 2023– 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 Vero Volley Monza Arkas İzmir
National team
–2006 2007–  Hungary  Germany
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Germany FIVB World Championship 2014 Poland CEV European Championship 2017 Poland European League 2009 Azerbaijan

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

Club

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 held in Poland. Germany won the match for the bronze medal by defeating France.^[2]

Honours

Club

• CEV Champions League
  •   2013–14 – with Belogorie Belgorod

• FIVB Club World Championship
  •   Brazil 2014 – with Belogorie Belgorod

• CEV Cup
  •   2011–12 – with Asseco Resovia
  •   2021–22 – with Vero Volley Monza

• Domestic
  • 2008–09   German Championship, with VfB Friedrichshafen
  • 2009–10   German Championship, with VfB Friedrichshafen
  • 2011–12   Polish Championship, with Asseco Resovia
  • 2012–13   Russian Championship, with Belogorie Belgorod
  • 2016–17   Chinese Championship, with Shanghai Golden Age
  • 2016–17   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
• 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.

Statistics

• 2011–12 PlusLiga – Best scorer (553 points)
• 2011–12 PlusLiga – Best server (69 aces)

References

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

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Georg Grozer.

• Georg Grozer at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
• György Grozer at Olympics.com
• György Grozer at the European Volleyball Confederation
• Player profile at LegaVolley.it (in Italian)
• Player profile at PlusLiga.pl (in Polish)
• 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