Austrian Toboggan Association
| Austrian Toboggan Association (ÖRV) |
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| Seat | innsbruck |
| founding | January 21, 1946
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| place | innsbruck |
| president | Markus Prock |
| Vice President (s) | Gerhard Kleinhofer (natural track)
Peter Knauseder (popular sport) |
| Secretary General | Helmut Ruetz |
| Members | 23216 |
| Website | www.rodel-austria.at |
The Austrian Toboggan Association ( ÖRV ) unites all regional associations and their affiliated clubs that operate and maintain tobogganing on artificial and natural tracks , as well as in the areas of horn sledges, sport tobogganing and roller tobogganing . Popular sport is also an important concern of the ÖRV. The office is located in Innsbruck . The association is responsible for promoting and organizing national and international tobogganing competitions and providing the financial means so that competitions and training courses can take place. Markus Prock , a former successful luge athlete on artificial track, has been president of the association since 2018 . Gerhard Kleinhofer (natural track) and Peter Knauseder (popular sport) act as vice presidents.
history
Predecessor organizations until 1945
The first beginnings of tobogganing as a sport in Austria, as well as bobsleigh on natural tracks , point to Styria, where the first clubs to maintain tobogganing were established in Mürzzuschlag , Bruck an der Mur , Leoben , Eisenerz and especially on the Präbichl ( Vordernberg ) formed. The first races were soon held (e.g. Nordic Winter Games in 1904 in Mürzzuschlag). This first sledging activity of the Styrians aroused imitation in other areas as well. A number of clubs were formed in Lower Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg and Carinthia. In 1911, sledging was naturalized throughout Austria and merged to form the Association of German Sledging Clubs in Austria , which was founded on April 18, 1909 in Leoben. The seat of the association remained in Graz until 1914 .
As in every sports field, tobogganing came back to life after the First World War . The resumption of the activities of the sledging association took place in 1921 at the request of the Anninger toboggan association and the headquarters of the association was relocated to Mödling near Vienna. A fundamental redesign of the association was decided at the November 12, 1933, Bruck an der Mur meeting participants General Assembly, according to the association only as cadre of sporty and organizationally autonomous branches Austrian Luge Association and Austrian Bobsleigh Association remained. The Salzburg Conference (1934) decided to change the name “Association of German Sled Sports Associations in Austria” to “Austrian Sled Sports Association”, and the toboggan and bobsleigh sections that had existed up to that point were now considered to be independent professional associations within the Austrian Sled Sports Association. On June 5, 1938, this umbrella organization was forcibly dissolved and incorporated into the "Reich Association of German Bobsleigh and Toboggan Sports Clubs".
Austrian Toboggan Association from 1946
After the Second World War , it was mainly Tyrol that was the first federal state to begin systematic and targeted reconstruction work. Under Bert Runggaldier (Innsbruck), both the Austrian Toboggan Association and the Austrian Toboggan Association were founded on January 21, 1946, based in Innsbruck. The Tyrolean Bert Runggaldier was unanimously elected as the association chairman or president of the ÖRV. At the meeting of the Austrian Toboggan Association in Gastein in 1947, it was decided to create their own regional associations.
At the meeting of the ÖRV in Rottenmann (1948) Runggaldier could no longer be induced to take over the presidency. With the engineer Luis Schlögl, another Tyrolean followed him as President of the Austrian Toboggan Association. The following years were difficult years of reconstruction also in tobogganing. During these years, tobogganing in Austria developed strongly in terms of breadth and performance. These circumstances made an organizational change in April 1952 urgently necessary. In the meantime 56 clubs from almost all federal states belonged to the association. At the association conference in Innsbruck, Styrian Bert Isatitsch was elected as the new president of the Austrian Luge Association. He was the owner of the ÖRV and led it untiringly and successfully to the 20th Bundestag. On February 9, 1976, Isatitsch resigned from the presidency at the association conference in Innsbruck and Josef Höchtl , a member of the National Council , was elected as the new president. The Lower Austrian held the office of president of the ÖRV for 26 years, during which time he relocated the association's headquarters to Vienna and after his resignation was elected honorary president of the association. He was succeeded in 2002 by the Tyrolean Friedl Ludescher and the association's headquarters were moved back to Innsbruck. Friedl Ludescher managed the fate of the association for a further 12 years until he voluntarily retired from this position on May 17, 2014 and handed over the office of president at the international conference in Mariazell (Styria) to his successor Michael Bielowski (Tyrol). At the 2018 national conference in Semmering (Lower Austria), the former successful artificial track tobogganist Markus Prock (Tyrol) was elected President of the ÖRV.
| President of the Austrian Toboggan Association | |
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| 1946-1948 | Dr. Bert Runggaldier |
| 1948-1952 | Ing.Luis Schlögl |
| 1952-1976 | TO YOU. Bert Isatitsch |
| 1976-2002 | Dr. Josef Höchtl |
| 2002-2014 | MR. Mag. Friedl Ludescher |
| 2014 - 2018 | Dr. Michael Bielowski |
| since 2018 | Markus Prock |
Divisions
Luge on artificial track
Artificial tobogganing involves tobogganing on an artificially icy track with elevated curves, with the driver lying on his back. It is steered by pressing and shifting the upper body. The ideal way of driving is to stay as flat as possible on the toboggan. Accelerating at take-off is done with short hits with your hands on the ice, the so-called penguin or paddle hit.
Competitions take place in the disciplines singles (women and men), doubles and team relay (a team consists of 1 woman, 1 man, 1 doubles). Luge racing on artificial track has been an Olympic discipline since 1964. In addition, world championships have been held since 1955.
Luge on a natural track
Tobogganing on natural tracks is also carried out on icy tracks. However, excessive curves are prohibited. You steer by shifting your weight as well as by pushing your feet on the outer runner and pulling the steering cable. In addition, the speed must be adapted to the track conditions by braking (special shoes with spikes).
From the beginning of the 20th century to around 1965, toboggan athletes were active on both artificial and natural tracks. It was only after luge on artificial track became an Olympic discipline that the two sports went their separate ways. In 1970 the 1st European Championship and in 1979 the 1st World Championship on the natural track. There are intensive efforts to establish luge on natural track as an Olympic sport.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full members: Sport Austria , accessed on May 24, 2020
- ↑ The Nordic Winter Games of 1904 - Museum blog
- ↑ ANNO, Grazer Tagblatt, 1909-04-19, page 6
- ↑ ANNO, Allgemeine Tiroler Anzeiger, 1936-09-26, page 12
- ↑ ANNO, Allgemeine Tiroler Anzeiger, 1935-11-18, page 8
- ↑ Dr. Bert Runggaldier: The tobogganist . Ed .: Austrian Toboggan Association. No. 5 . Innsbruck March 20, 1947.
- ↑ ANNO, Die Weltpresse, 1946-12-04, page 5
- ^ Karl Wolf: Dr. Bert Runggaldier - A fifty . Ed .: Weisse Welt, Vienna, organ of the Austrian Ski and Austria. Sledging association. No. 34 , December 1949, p. 14 .
- ↑ a b Bert Isatitsch: 100 years of tobogganing . Ed .: FIL. Rottenmann 1983, p. 9 .
- ↑ Dr. Michael Bielowski new ÖRV President. Retrieved April 26, 2020 (English).