AV 03 Speyer
| Surname | Athlete Association 1903 Speyer eV |
|---|---|
| Club colors | Blue White |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Association headquarters | Speyer |
| Members | 839 |
| Departments | 6th |
| Chairman | Jörg Schanninger |
| Homepage | www.av03-speyer.de |
The AV 03 Speyer is a sports club from the city of Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Historical
The AV 03 Speyer emerged in 1903 from a spin-off of 21 athletes from the Germania Speier association founded around 1900 .
With the establishment of the Athletengesellschaft Rheinland Speier in 1907, there were a total of three clubs at that time in which the sport of weightlifting could be practiced. Since Karl Berg had not yet invented the disc dumbbell at that time, the focus was less on athletic competition than on the pure presentation of the sport at folk festivals.
As the "competition aspect" prevailed more and more in weightlifting, the dissolved athletes Gesellschaft Rheinland Speier and Germania Speier on, probably just before and after the First World War , while among others, the participation of the AV 03-athlete Willi OSCHE at the Workers' Olympics for the first small headlines and the continued existence of the club contributed.
In the 1950s, the AV 03 Speyer with the team Georg Häussler, Willi and Kurt Reinhardt, August Scherer, Josef Kaiser and Karl Hauck won the title of Palatinate and Southwest Champion.
Between 1973 and 1976 you belonged to the 1st Bundesliga for the first time. The return to the Bundesliga was celebrated in 2004. At the end of the 2006/07 season they were relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga.
In the 2009/10 season they qualified again for the highest class of German team sport weightlifting and were able to win the title of German team champions in weightlifting for the first time in the club's history in the 2010/11 season, having previously won the Bundesliga season middle in front of SV Germania Obrigheim had become. In 2015 Speyer became German champion for the second time and in 2016 for the third time.
On April 21, 2018, the winner of the 2nd Bundesliga Group A, the second team of AV 03 Speyer, managed the final of the 2nd Bundesliga 2017/2018 in their home hall with 623.2kp against KSV Grünstadt with 588.2kp and KSV Regensburg 493.0kp and thus laid the "foundation stone" for the "historic double", which the first team completed by winning the title in the 1st Bundesliga the following week.
Departments
Weightlifting
The weightlifting department of the club has been active since it was founded and is currently lifting in the middle of the 1st Bundesliga of the Federal Association of German Weightlifters . In the 2010/11 season, to which they had strengthened themselves with several lifters, the German championship title was fought for the first time in the club's history on May 7, 2011.
Due to the spatial restrictions - the sports hall at AV 03 Speyer only takes about 350 visitors - the final was held in a 1200-man tent specially built for this purpose. This accommodated around 1000 visitors to the event (including the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate , Kurt Beck ).
The team line-up that evening was: Lars Blanke , Jürgen Spieß , Almir Velagic , Artyom Shaloyan , Hovhannes Amreyan and Gevorg Davtyan . Marcel Schwarz and Alexander Moskwitin had been nominated as replacements . Tom Goegebuer could not be used because he was not fit again after the 2011 European Championships in Kazan. Thus, the AV 03 Speyer had five participants in the 2008 Olympic Games in its ranks.
On May 9, 2015, the second title was fought against SV Germania Obrigheim in the Obrigheim Neckarhalle with 891.3 to 843.3 points. The final team consisted of Julia Schwarzbach , Tom Goegebuer , Tom Schwarzbach , Marcel Schwarz , Jürgen Spieß , Alexej Prochorow and Almir Velagic , replacement was Christina Spindler. In the semi-finals, the outward and rematch, they prevailed against the Chemnitz AC around Robby Behm and Adrian Zieliński , this time the home match was relocated to "Hall 101", a disused aircraft construction hall in Speyer , in order to meet the expected higher number of spectators can.
In Chemnitz, in the "Haus des Gastes Reichenbrand", the team successfully defended their title on March 20, 2016. The Speyer season, which was made up of Julia Schwarzbach , Tom Goegebuer , Max Platzer , Tom Schwarzbach, Jürgen Spieß and Almir Velagic , decided the final against the host Chemnitz AC around Max Lang with 807.0 to 898.0 for themselves and celebrated the third championship title in the club's history.
On March 11, 2017, a club record with 1000.2 kilopoints was set against the Chemnitz AC in the downward battle of the semi-finals of the German team championship 2017. On April 22, 2017, the AV squadron around Captain Jürgen Spieß won the third title in a row with a duel of 995.6 kp, ahead of the Berlin TSC with 811.8 kp and SV Germania Obrigheim with 802.8 kp. The short-term injury-related loss of Almir Velagic was compensated for. Speyer competed with Josué Brachi Garcia, David Sánchez López, Björn Günther, Tom Schwarzbach, Jürgen Spieß and Alexej Prochorow, completed by substitute athletes Christina Spindler and Max Platzer.
On April 28, 2018, the AV squadron around Captain Jürgen Spieß, away from home in Samswegeen, won the fourth title in a row with a duel of 905.0 kp, ahead of SV Germania Obrigheim with 890.0 kp and SSV Samswegen with 831, 7 kp. Speyer competed with Josué Brachi Garcia, David Sánchez López, Björn Günther, André Winter, Jürgen Spieß and Almir Velagicw, completed by substitute athletes Christina Spindler and Max Platzer.
Achievements weightlifting
- German champion: 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- German runner-up:
- Finals: 2011 (German champions), 2012 (third place), 2013 (third place), 2015 (German champions), 2016 (German champions), 2017 (German champions), 2018 (German champions)
Wrestling
The wrestling department is one of the founding departments of the athletes' club from 1903.
Other departments
Sports facilities
The AV 03 Speyer clubhouse is located at Raiffeisenstr. 14, between the "Eselsdamm" and the Rhine. The building is completely owned by the association. It includes a bowling alley with four lanes, a restaurant including a conference room, a training room for the weightlifting department, the "great hall" in which the events are held and boxing and gymnastics are practiced during the week. The wrestlers train in a specially built wrestling hall in 2004, which was named "Friedel Hinderberger Halle" in honor of the honorary chairman.