ASV sports festival

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Wilson Kipketer after his world record at the ASV-Sportfest 1997

The International Athletics Sports Festival ( ASV Sports Festival for short , later World Class in Cologne ) was an athletics event in Cologne . The meeting was organized by ASV Cologne from 1934 to 1999 in the Müngersdorfer Stadium .

The sports festival was first held in 1934. The second edition took place in 1936, the year of the Olympic Games in Berlin, with several Olympic champions. After the Second World War, the ASV hosted the German Athletics Championships in 1947 , and the first sports festival after the war took place in 1952. Over time, it became a world-class meeting, but in the 1990s, funding became increasingly difficult. Several meetings merged into a series (1993 Golden Four , 1998 Golden League ), which Cologne did not belong to, and thus attracted media and sponsor attention. As a result, the 2.4 million D-Mark budget could no longer be financed in 1998 and the sports festival was canceled, although two world records had been set in the Müngerdorfer stadium the year before. In 1999 the meeting took place for the 50th and last time. For three decades, the former world-class sprinter Manfred Germar was head of the organization.

World records set in Cologne:

date athlete discipline power
August 29, 1958 Germany
( Manfred Steinbach , Martin Lauer ,
Heinz Fütterer , Manfred Germar )		 4 times 100 meters 39.5 s
(equalization)
August 28, 1983 Pierre Quinon Pole vault 5.82 m
August 28, 1983 Sydney Maree 1500 meters 3: 31.24 min
17th August 1986 Jordanka Donkova 100 meter hurdles 12.29 s
17th August 1986 Jordanka Donkova 100 meter hurdles 12.35 s
August 20, 1989 Said Aouita 3000 meters 7: 29.45 min
17th August 1992 Moses Kiptanui 3000 meters 7: 28.96 min
August 18, 1995 Daniela Bártová Pole vault 4.20 m
August 24, 1997 Bernard Barmasai 3000 meters obstacle 7: 55.72 min
August 24, 1997 Wilson Kipketer 800 meters 1: 41.11 min

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Cologne (archive link)
  2. ^ Rösch becomes sports director at ASV , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger June 29, 2007
  3. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Farewell to the Golden League in Brussels , Der Tagesspiegel September 4, 2009
  4. ↑ No price too high , Der Spiegel 30/1998, July 20, 1998, pp. 165/166
  5. ↑ ASV Köln sports festival canceled , Rheinische Post April 3, 2000
  6. ^ Gustav Schwenk: Manfred Germar - More than just “the fast runner” , www.leichtathletik.de March 10, 2005
  7. ↑ World records , IAAF

Web links

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