1. Perger swimming club
1. Perger swimming club is the swimming club based in the Machland bathing world in the city of Perg . The club's figurehead is the 2008 Olympian in Beijing , David Brandl .
Club history and club successes
The 1st Perger swimming club was founded in 1970 on the occasion of the construction of the Perger indoor swimming pool as the Perg swimming club. The club does not belong to any umbrella organization and is only a member of the Austrian Swimming Association. Josef Pfefferl was chairman from 1970 to 1989, and Robert Brandl has headed the association since then.
The association provides swimming lessons and swimming training from beginners to competitive swimmers in the Machland-bathing world and takes part in competitions at the state and federal level. The association can point to 70 national championship and five national championship titles, good placements at junior championships, European championships and world championships, several Austrian records and several senior championship titles (status 2009).
The 1st Perger swimming club has already organized several Upper Austrian year competitions and Upper Austrian state swimming championships in the Machland bathing world (2005, 2006, 2009). In 2009, the four Upper Austrian Olympians Jördis Steinegger , Nina Dittrich , David Brandl and Dominik Koll were among the participants at the state championship in Perg .
Successful swimmers were Petra Holzer, who was 56 times national champion and once vice national champion in the 1980s, as well as senior swimmers Johanna Brandl, Robert Brandl and Josef Brunner with several national championship titles in the 1990s.
The club's most successful swimmer is 14-time national champion David Brandl, multiple Austrian record holder (2009 Austrian records in 400 m, 2010 in 800 and 1500 m freestyle ), participant in the European Championships in 2005, 2007 and 2008 with a bronze medal in the crawl in 2008 relay team and participants at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 with a 9th place in the freestyle relay.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Moser and Gerhard Pilz: Club landscape in Perg, culture-sport-leisure, first Perger swimming club , in: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg, Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg (publisher), Linz, 2009 ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5
- ↑ Four Olympic starters swim for national championship honors in Perg , in: Perger Tips 5/2009, page 31 PDF ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on March 20, 2010
- ↑ Petra Holzer's departure cannot slow down the Perger Schwimmer , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Steyr-Extra of June 5, 1986, p. 20.
