János Gróz (30 June 1971 – 14 November 2020) was a Hungarian

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coach. He was one of the most successful trainers in Hungary in the beach version of the sport.

Biography

János Gróz was one of the founding fathers and was considered the dominant personality in Hungarian beach handball. From 2007 he was the head coach of the Hungarian youth and junior national teams. With these he won the titles at the European Championships in 2008 and 2011 to 2015. In 2013, he also took over the

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from József Farkas, where he was previously assistant coach from 2009 to 2012. His assistant coach was his former player Mariann Rovnyai, with whom he had been married since 2007. With the team he won the titles at the European Beach Handball Championships in

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. He also won the silver medals with the Hungarians at the

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and the

2014 Beach Handball World Championships The 2014 Beach Handball World Championships were a twelve-team tournament in both men's and women's beach handball, held at Recife, Brazil from 22–27 July, 2014. It was the sixth edition of the event. Just like two years prior, Brazil again won t ...

and was fourth in the

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. From 2017, Bakó Botond held the head coach position. In addition, Gróz was the coach of the indoor second division team Szentendrei NKE and its beach handball team. With the team that he built up to become the top Hungarian team, he won the Hungarian beach handball championship four times in a row in 2012 and from 2015 to 2018 and again in 2020. Within nine years he won with the team, including Bozsana Fekete, his daughter

Kitti Gróz Kitti Gróz (born 5 April 1994 in Budapest) is a retired Hungarian team handball and beach handball player. Team handball career Gróz started to play handball at the age of six and her first club was Szentendrei NKE. She rose through the rank ...

, Ágnes Győri, Fruzsina Kretz, Mariann Rovnyai, Emese Tóth, Nóra Leila Bozsó, Renáta Csiki, Fanni Friebesz, Viktória Vígh, Adrienn Zsigmond, Ágnes Kókai, Rebeka Benzsay, Csenge Braun, Sára Léránt and Ramóna Vártok. With the team, Gróz also achieved international success. In 2015, 2016 and 2018 he won the

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with Szentendrei NKE, in 2015 and 2018 the Champions Cup. At the Champions Cup he was second with Szentendrei in 2016 and 2019 and third in 2017. Gróz died from complications from

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in November 2020, at the age of 49. He lived in Szentendre.

External links

Rest in Peace János Gróz

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Groz, Janos 1971 births 2020 deaths Hungarian handball coaches Place of death missing Handball coaches of international teams Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary