Oliver Grob
Switzerland
| Sport | Speed Skating | |
| FederationID | SSSUI10512199601 | |
| NOC | Switzerland | |
| Born | 05 Dec 1996
in  Cham | |
| Gender | Men |
| Residence | Zug, SUI | |
| Occupation | Athlete | |
| Languages | English, French, German | |
| Higher education | Business - AKAD College: Zurich, SUI |
| Personal Bests | Event | Record | Date | Location | ||
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Personal Bests | ||||||
| Event | Record | Date | Location | |||
| 500m | 35.77 | 14 Mar 2019 |  Calgary |
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| 1000m | 1:10.40 | 16 Mar 2019 | Calgary |
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| 1500m | 1:47.56 | 04 Dec 2021 |  Salt Lake City, UT |
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| 5000m | 7:22.74 | 28 Feb 2015 |  Baselga di Piné |
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| 10000m | 16:52.67 | 21 Dec 2014 |  Innsbruck |
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| Main Achievements | ||||||
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Main Achievements |
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| European Single Distances Championships | Event | |||||
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European Single Distances Championships
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| Team Sprint | 1 | |||||
Social Media
Social Media
| www.facebook.com/oliver.grob.756 | twitter.com/grob_oliver |
Sport Specific Information
Sport Specific Information
| Reason for choosing this sport | He wanted to compete at the Olympic Winter Games. "I started with inline skating but this is not an Olympic discipline. That is why I decided to go for speed skating after four years of inline skating." | |
| Club / Team | Eislauf-Club Zurich: Switzerland | |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | He began inline skating at age 11, and first tried speed skating at age 15 in Zurich, Switzerland. |
General Interest
General Interest
| Milestones | He, Christian Oberbichler and Livio Wenger won bronze in team sprint at the 2020 European Single Distances Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, which was the first European championship medal in speed skating for Switzerland. The trio previously became the first speed skaters representing Switzerland to win a World Cup medal in team sprint when they claimed bronze at the 2019 event in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. (isu.org, 11 Jan 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 19 Nov 2021) | |
| Memorable sporting achievement | Finishing in 13th place in the roller speed skating road 100m sprint at the 2019 World Roller Games in Barcelona, Spain. (Athlete, 14 Nov 2019) | |
| Most influential person in career | Coach Kalon Dobbin. (Athlete, 14 Nov 2019) | |
| Sporting philosophy / motto | "Train hard, enjoy racing." (Athlete, 14 Nov 2019) | |
| Injuries | He underwent surgery in September 2016 after fracturing his left collarbone in a training crash in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. (Athlete, 14 Nov 2019; olivergrob.ch, 29 Sep 2016; Instagram profile, 14 Sep 2016) He suffered an inflammation of his L5-S1 spinal joint in October 2015 and missed five weeks of training. (olivergrob.ch, 29 Sep 2016) |
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| Other sports | He represented Switzerland in roller speed skating at the world championships in 2018 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 02 Dec 2019) | |
| Hero / Idol | New Zealand speed skater and coach Kalon Dobbin, Slovakian cyclist Peter Sagan. (Athlete, 14 Nov 2019) | |
| Ambitions | To win a medal at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. (olivergrob.ch, 29 Sep 2016) |
| Championships results | Year | Competition | Event | Rank | ||
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Championships results
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| 2019/2020 | European Single Distances Championships | Team Sprint | 3 | |||
| 2019/2020 | World Single Distances Championships | Team Sprint | 5 | |||
| 2017/2018 | European Single Distances Championships | Mass Start 16 Laps | 15 | |||
| 2021/2022 | European Single Distances Championships | 500m | 19 | |||
| 2017/2018 | European Single Distances Championships | 1000m | 21 | |||
| 2017/2018 | European Single Distances Championships | 1500m | 22 | |||
| 2021/2022 | European Single Distances Championships | Mass Start | 24 | |||
| World Cups | Year | Competition | Event | Rank | ||
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World Cups
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| 2019/2020 | World Cup Nur-Sultan | Team Sprint | 3 | |||
| 2018/2019 | World Cup | Mass Start 16 Laps | 32 | |||