German canoeistOlympic Games2016 Rio de JaneiroK-2 1000 m2016 Rio de JaneiroK-4 1000 mWorld Championships2013 DuisburgK-2 1000 m2015 MilanK-2 1000 m2018 Montemor-o-VelhoK-2 1000 m2009 DartmouthK-2 500 m2019 SzegedK-2 500 mEuropean Games2015 BakuK-2 1000 mEuropean Championships2010 TrasonaK-4 1000 m2013 Montemor-o-VelhoK-2 500 m2013 Montemor-o-VelhoK-2 1000 m2014 BrandenburgK-2 1000 m2015 RačiceK-2 500 m2015 RačiceK-2 1000 m2016 MoscowK-2 1000 m2017 PlovdivK-2 1000 m2011 BelgradeK-4 1000 m2018 BelgradeK-2 1000 m2009 BrandenburgK-2 500 m

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 *le 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 *le.

Having missed out on the *le 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.

References

External links

• Marcus Gross at the International Canoe Federation
• Marcus Gross at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Canoe09.ca profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-12-14)