After finishing 15th in the all-round final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the bronze medalist from the 2016 Rio Games retires.
When G. Steingruber won the bronze medal in the vault competition at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, she made history as the first Swiss gymnast to ever win an Olympic medal.
It was Switzerland’s 49th gymnastics medal overall, and their first ever in women’s competition, which is quite the feat. The following year, at the World Championships in Montreal, G. Steingruber won bronze on the same apparatus.
The 27-year-old has won six European titles, the most recent of which she won on the vault in April at the European Championships in Basel while suffering from a thigh ailment.
In 2015, G. Steingruber won the European all-around title in Montpellier and two gold medals at the European Games in Baku. G. Steingruber summed up her career as “a blast” and “great time” on social media.
G. Steingruber said that she will “miss everything about” gymnastics.
G. Steingruber’s retirement decision comes only weeks after the whole coaching staff of the Swiss gymnastics women’s team quit in the wake of a damning study that found that they had mentally tortured players.
A Brief History of G. Steingruber Olympic Games
Former Swiss artistic gymnast G. Steingruber was born on March 24, 1994. She has already competed in three Olympic Games, in London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and Tokyo in 2020.
She has won three European Vault titles (2013, 2014, 2016), two European Floor Exercise titles (2014, 2015), one European All-Around title (2015), one European Games Vault and Floor Exercise title (2015), one European Vault silver medal (2015), one European Vault bronze medal (2012), and one European Floor Exercise bronze medal (2015).
She has won the Swiss All-Around title a total of four times (in 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2019), in addition to silver and bronze medals in the 2015 European Games. Vaulting and floor exercise are her strongest events.
Final Words
At the beginning of the fourth division, Steingruber took part in the uneven bars competition. She qualified for the finals in the all-around after finishing 30th in qualifications, and she ended up finishing 15th.
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