Borussia Düsseldorf

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Borussia Düsseldorf is a table tennis team from the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf . It is Germany's most successful table tennis club and with 71 titles it is the most successful German sports club after Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 .

history

Borussia Düsseldorf building on Staufenplatz in Düsseldorf

Borussia Düsseldorf emerged as an independent table tennis club from the Police Sports Association (PSV), which was founded in 1949 as a merger of the clubs SC Grafenberg 02 and Borussia Concordia 05. Co-founder and first department head was Theo Sommer († 1960), under whose leadership the men's team rose to the top division. On May 2, 1984, this table tennis division was re-established as a separate club under the name Borussia Düsseldorf , because it was expected to provide tax advantages.

Borussia Düsseldorf has not yet qualified for the first Bundesliga season in 1966/67. But just a year later the club was promoted to the Bundesliga and has been a part of it ever since. The rise to the most successful table tennis club in Germany began in 1968 when Eberhard Schöler from "TT club boss" Karl Steinhausen on the advice of Hans Wilhelm Gäb from local rival DJK TuSA 06 Düsseldorf (who was German champion five times between 1962 and 1967 and who withdrew his team in 1974 at district level ) and Wilfried Micke moved from Borussia Dortmund to PSV Borussia.

Since 1994 the club has had its own table tennis center with a hall (ARAG CenterCourt), sports hotel and table tennis school in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg , Ernst-Poensgen-Allee.

After the long-time successful coach Mario Amizic resigned from his position in 1999, there was a change at the end of the 1999/2000 season when Jörg Roßkopf and Vladimir Samsonov left the club. With the Germans Lars Hielscher , Bastian Steger , Christian Süß as well as Magnus Molin (SWE), Michael Maze (DEN) and Xiao Han (CHN), Düsseldorf under the coach Andreas Preuss put on a team that had an average age of around 20 years during the season exhibited. In the 2002/03 season, this "boy group" (with Zichao Tian for Xiao Han) surprisingly won the German championship after being in last place in the table at the end of the preliminary round.

In 2007, Düsseldorf strengthened itself with Timo Boll and since then has dominated the table tennis Bundesliga: Nine out of ten championships went to Borussia, as did nine of the next eleven cup wins. In addition, the team won the Champions League in 2009 and celebrated the triple of championship, cup and Champions League in both 2010 and 2011. In 2015 they narrowly missed the triple when a 3-1 home win over Orenburg was followed by a 3-0 defeat in the Champions League final . The team was able to make up for a 3-0 defeat against Saarbrücken in the second leg in the play-off semi-finals of the Bundesliga , followed by a final victory over Fulda .

The successes are based on professional club management. Borussia was the first German table tennis club to have a manager ( Wilfried Micke , Andreas Preuß since 1994) and a trainer (Johannes Dimmig 1977–1980, Mathias Gantner 1980–1986, Mario Amizic 1986–1999, Andreas Preuß 1999–2006, Dirk Wagner 2006– 2010, since then Danny Heister ). The department for press and public relations, which was headed in the first years of the Bundesliga by Hans Wilhelm Gäb , later President of the DTTB and chairman of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation , received support from the Free Düsseldorf sports journalist Joachim Breitbach, who was three years later, from 1974 Relieved office to Bernd Stemmeler. Marcel Piwolinski took over this task from Stemmeler and since 2005 Alexander Schilling has headed the press and public relations department.

In order to promote youth work, the association organized the 1st Children's Olympiad in 1988, which is still held regularly today - now as the “Kids Open”. Around 1400 children from Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg took part in the first edition. Meanwhile, the participants come from all over the world, u. a. China, Chile, Sri Lanka and Argentina.

successes

Team 2019/20

  1. Timo Boll GermanyGermany
  2. Omar Assar EgyptEgypt
  3. Kristian Karlsson SwedenSweden
  4. Anton Källberg SwedenSweden
  5. Ricardo Walther GermanyGermany
  6. Sharath Kamal Achanta IndiaIndia

Known players

In addition to promoting young talent, the association also hired world-class professionals. A selection:

Disabled sports

Since around 2005 there has also been a table tennis department for the disabled. In 2012, Borussia Düsseldorf became a member of the Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia , and one year later of the German Wheelchair Sports Association . Since then, many top players with disabilities have been hired, some of whom also competed in teams of "pedestrians" (players without disabilities), but also formed their own teams for the disabled. These disabled teams took part in organized matches in Germany and worked their way up to the Bundesliga for disabled people. In addition to wheelchair users and the standing disabled, there has also been a team for the blind since February 2015, consisting of four men and four women.

Important successes:

  • Wheelchair team
  • Pedestrians (standing disabled)
    • 2013/14: Second place in the national league with the team Stephanie Grebe , Jürgen Kessler, Dominik Gresens, Sonja Scholten, Klaus Mewes, Julian Pagnotta and Thomas Altrogge.
    • 2014/15: Second place at the German team championship with Stephanie Grebe, Jochen Wollmert , Jürgen Kessler, Dominik Gresens, Sonja Scholten and Klaus Mewes
    • 2015/16: Second place in the German team championship
    • 2016/17: German champion

literature

  • Düsseldorf-Report , DTS magazine , 1991/2, pp. 46-51.
  • Friedhelm Körner: The Borussia Düsseldorf phenomenon , DTS , 1995/8, pp. 8 and 14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1963/19 Edition West p. 1
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/2 West issue, p. 11.
  3. ^ Journal DTS , 1984/5 p. 29 + DTS 1985/11 p. 30.
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1974/19, p. 65
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/1 p. 44.
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/3, p. 6.
  7. ↑ Friedhelm Körner: Jörg Roßkopf is not the only one who sees Mario Amizic as the master maker - he has the largest share , DTS magazine , 1992/6, p. 5.
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/8, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Elmar Schneider: Children, children - that was a round thing , DTS magazine , 1988/9, p. 2224.
  10. ↑ Manfred Schillings: Disenchanted: After 1: 5 still 5: 0 , DTS magazine , 1991/4, pp. 50-52.
  11. ↑ Manfred Schillings: Borussia Düsseldorf European Cup winner for the third time - Roßkopf remained undefeated , DTS magazine , 1992/4, p. 21.
  12. ↑ Journal DTS , 1993/4, pp. 5-6.
  13. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/4, pp. 16 + 18.
  14. ↑ Report from the endgame: DTS magazine , 2009/6, pp. 8-13.
  15. ↑ In 1997, the title was awarded to Düsseldorf retrospectively despite losing the final, more details on this in TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau
  16. ^ Report from the final round Final Four: Zeitschrift tischtennis , 2008/1, pp. 30–33.
  17. ^ Report from the final round Final Four: Zeitschrift tischtennis , 2011/1, pp. 8–12.