Barbara Gross Explained

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Barbara Gross
Nationality: Germany
Birth Date:20 November 1993
Country:Germany
Sport:Wheelchair basketball
Event:Wheelchair Basketball
Disability Class:4.5
Collegeteam:University of Alabama
Team:Rhine River Rhinos Wiesbaden
Paralympics:2016 Paralympics2020 Paralympics

Barbara Gross (German: Barbara Groß, born 20 November 1993) is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the German national team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf).

Biography

Barbara Gross was born in Gießen on 20 November 1993.[1] [2] She is classified as a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player.[2] She played for the Under 25 national team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in 2015,[3] and then the senior team at the European championships (Worcester).

In 2016,[4] 2017 and 2018, she played for the University of Alabama in the United States. Her 2018 team includes fellow German national players Katharina Lang and Selena Rausch,[5] and Canadian national players Arinn Young and Rosalie Lalonde.[6] The Alabama team won its fifth national collegiate championship in March 2017, with a 57–48 win over the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in a match in which Gross scored 20 points with two assists.[7] In 2018, Alabama came second, losing to UTA 65–55 in the final.[8]

Gross made her Paralympic debut at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where the German team won silver. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf) in 2016.[9] In 2018, she was part of the team that won bronze at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.[2]

In July 2020 she was one of nine paralympic athletes forced into retirement after the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation was forced to align its eligibility criteria with that of the International Paralympic Committee.[10] [11]

Gross appealed the decision of eligibility and won the right to compete in further competitions.[12] Gross was selected for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo as a member of the German Women's Team where the team finished fourth.[13]

Achievements

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Barbara Groß . Sportschau . German . 9 September 2018.
  2. Web site: Barbara Groß . Deutsche Paralympische Mannschaft . German . 9 September 2018.
  3. Team Entry List, U25 World Championship for Women. Beijing: International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 2015
  4. Web site: Archives – Women's Basketball 2016–2017 . Alabama Adapted Athletics . 9 September 2018.
  5. Rollt . Annika . Aul . 8 December 2017 . Interview mit Babara Groß, Selina Rausch und Katharina Lang: "Am liebsten würden wir dort gleich ein Bett beziehen." . German . 9 September 2018.
  6. Web site: Women's Wheelchair Basketball Roster . Alabama Adapted Athletics . 9 September 2018 . 4 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180904154737/http://alabamaadapted.com/womens-wheelchair-basketball-roster/ . dead.
  7. News: Alabama women's wheelchair basketball team wins fifth national title . Tuscaloosa News . 11 March 2017 . 9 September 2018.
  8. Web site: Alabama Women Win Second at Nationals . Alabama Adapted Athletics . 9 September 2018.
  9. Web site: Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes . Der Bundespräsident . German . 8 September 2018.
  10. News: Aggie . Bradshaw . 31 July 2020 . Paralympics: Australian wheelchair basketball star Annabelle Lindsay's disability deemed non-eligible under new rules, Tokyo 2021 . Wide World of Sports . 2 August 2020.
  11. News: Wheelchair basketball: How disabled do you have to be? . DW . 2 August 2020 . 2 August 2020.
  12. Web site: German wheelchair basketball player Groß meets IPC classification for Tokyo 2020 . Michael . Houston . 20 December 2020 . Inside the Games . 15 September 2021.
  13. Web site: Wheelchair Basketball - Gross Barbara . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . . 15 September 2021 . 15 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210915040922/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/wheelchair-basketball/athlete-profile-n1443504-gross-barbara.htm . dead .
  14. Web site: USA clinch women's basketball gold . 16 September 2016 . International Paralympic Committee . 17 September 2016.
  15. Web site: Paralympic – Wheelchair Basketball Women Germany . Rio 2016 . 17 September 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160923001746/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/team/germany-wheelchair-basketball-women . 23 September 2016.

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