Marcus Gross
Marcus Gross 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 Canoeing at the [2012 Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 1000 metres|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 ICF Canoe [Sprint World Championships|2013 World Championships] and the 2013 European Championships. They defended their European title in 2014. In June 2015, he competed in the European [Games 2015|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 Canoeing at the [2016 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres|K-2 1000 metres] and Canoeing at the 2016 [Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 1000 metres|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.