Askina sports festival

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The international Askina Sports Festival , later also called the Askina Meeting, was an annual athletics event in the Auestadion in Kassel . The event, which took place from 1998 to 2011, replaced the sports festivals previously organized by PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel . It was named after the sponsor B. Braun Melsungen with its bandage brand.

The event was organized by Heinz Hüsselmann as meeting director and his Bochum agency Performance Promotion GmbH, with whom he started his own business in 1997 as a sports manager. Hüsselmann was previously manager and head coach at TV Wattenscheid as well as a former national sprint coach.

At the 1st Askina Sports Festival, u. a. Merlene Ottey . The importance of the competitions was so high that the moderation was held by Dieter Adler (ARD) and Wolf-Dieter Poschmann (ZDF) - who then moderated the event for many years.

Event overview

For remodeling the Kassel Auestadions the ASKINA Sports Festival in 2009 and 2010 took place in Baunataler Park Stadium held, and called there "world class in Baunatal".

ASKINA sports festivals
No. year date Stadion documentation
01. 1998 3rd of June Auestadion Kassel
02. 1999 23rd June Auestadion Kassel
03. 2000 0June 7th Auestadion Kassel Overall results
04th 2001 June 13th Auestadion Kassel Overall results
05. 2002 14th June Auestadion Kassel Overall results
06th 2003 June 13th Auestadion Kassel Overall results
07th 2004 June 11th Auestadion Kassel Overall results
08th. 2005 June 10th Auestadion Kassel Overall results
09. 2006 08th June Auestadion Kassel Overall results (PDF; 50 kB)
10. 2007 06th of June Auestadion Kassel Overall results (PDF; 65 kB)
11. 2008 06th of June Auestadion Kassel Overall results
12. 2009 0June 5th Baunatal Park Stadium Overall results
13. 2010 02th of June Baunatal Park Stadium Overall results (PDF; 113 kB)
14th 2011 08th June Auestadion Kassel Overall results (PDF; 109 kB)

The meeting, which was constantly attended by top German athletes and world-class athletes, was also used as a qualification for international season highlights. Within a few years, the sports festival had developed into a meeting of national and international top athletes and finally belonged to the permit meetings of the European Athletics Association (EAA) .

End of event

In October 2010 there was a fuss about the sports festival because the Hessian Athletics Association (HLV) Heinz Hüsselmann had terminated the cooperation because there had been delays in fee payments to athletes. The approval for Askina 2011 was also tied to the condition that all outstanding payments to athletes had to be settled by January 31, 2011. The final end came in 2012. The DLV did not issue a permit and the city of Kassel had also terminated its cooperation with Hüsselmann and his agency. Payment difficulties also led to the suspension of the other sports festivals organized by Hüsselmann in Biberach and Cuxhaven .

New beginning

On August 23, 2013, PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel again organized a sports festival in order to continue the tradition of the previous sports festival.

Web links

Peter Fritschler: The history of the Auestadions: Heinz Hüsselmann, organizer and gravedigger of the Askina meeting , on: hlv.de, from June 3, 2016, accessed June 7, 2016

Footnotes

  1. ^ Peter Fritschler: Retrospect Kassel. Highlights in the north of Hesse. Leichtathletik.de , June 17, 2011, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  2. ↑ News. (No longer available online.) Bbraun.de , June 2, 2006, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved October 22, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbraun.de
  3. ^ Sports manager Hüsselmann. cycling4fans.de, accessed on October 22, 2013 .
  4. ↑ When there were meatballs for breakfast . In: HNA . May 26, 2010 ( HTML [accessed October 22, 2013]).
  5. ↑ The moderator team for Kassel is up! Leichtathletik.de, April 2, 2004, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  6. ^ Christian Fuchs: Kassel and Cuxhaven with a new status. Leichtathletik.de, October 16, 2007, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  7. Jump up ↑ Askina Athletics Sports Festival . Organizer is missing. In: HNA . October 17, 2010 ( HTML [accessed October 22, 2013]).
  8. ↑ Hüsselmann: Askina will exist . In: HNA . December 17, 2010 ( HTML [accessed October 22, 2013]).
  9. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Flash News of the Day. City of Kassel rules out new meetings. Leichtathletik.de, February 20, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Tobias Kestin: Hüsselmann owes Biberachern money . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . February 19, 2012 ( HTML [accessed October 22, 2013]).
  11. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day. Open questions in Cuxhaven too. Leichtathletik.de, February 24, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Top runner in the Auestadion . In: HNA . August 21, 2013 ( HTML [accessed October 22, 2013]).