Federal Performance Center

In Germany, a federal performance center (BLZ) is a state-financed, specialized training center for selected sports and their respective umbrella organizations. It primarily serves to train and promote top athletes (A, B and C cadres ) as well as to implement other promotional measures for high-performance sport that are the responsibility of leading associations. As a central course and training facility, the BLZ is an essential part of the training structure of the relevant umbrella organizations and enjoys high priority over other sports facilities. The first were founded by the Federal Committee for Competitive Sport, which was founded in 1969 .

In addition to the state training centers , the federal training centers and the Olympic training centers , the national training centers are a structural element within the base system for top-class German sport. Individual locations can carry out several base functions at the state and federal level at the same time.

Federal performance centers

Current German federal performance centers

The administration building of the Kienbaum Federal Training Center on Liebenberger See 2012

According to the DOSB's "support point concept from 2013" as part of the DOSB control model for competitive sports that was adopted in December 2006, there are currently four federal performance centers:

• The BLZ Duisburg (for canoe racing on the Duisburg regatta track, which was inaugurated in 1935 ).
• The BLZ Hennef (for boxes and rings in Hennef ).
• The Kienbaum BLZ (cross-sport; renamed the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center for Germany on July 18, 2017 ).
• The BLZ Wiesbaden (for sport shooting in Wiesbaden-Klarenthal ).

Former federal training centers

• The BLZ Augsburg (for canoe slalom and white water; today a branch of the Bavarian Olympic base , federal base and state performance center).
• The BLZ Bergisch Gladbach (for artistic gymnastics ).
• The BLZ Dortmund (for rowing; today federal base and state performance center).
• The BLZ Füssen (for ice hockey, curling and other ice sports ).
• The Herzogenhorn BLZ (for cross-country skiing ; on the Herzogenhorn in the Black Forest).
• The BLZ Inzell (for roller skating and speed skating ; today state performance center).
• The BLZ Cologne (for hockey).
• The BLZ Magdeburg (for swimming in the Elbe swimming hall in Magdeburg).
• The Oberstdorf BLZ (for winter sports at the Oberstdorf ski boarding school ; today the state performance center).
• The BLZ Tauberbischofsheim (for fencing; from 1976 at the Fecht-Club Tauberbischofsheim ; from 1986 in the former Tauberbischofsheim Olympic base ; today the federal base and state performance center).
• The BLZ Warendorf (for equestrian sports; built in 1970).

Situation in other countries

Austria

The Austrian Sailing Association (OeSV) has been running the national performance center for sailing and surfing in Neusiedl am See since 2002 .

Hungary

The Hungarian National Center for Ball Sports and Athletics is located in Tata .

Related articles

• Elite school of sport
• Olympic base

Web links

• Federal performance centers on the website of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) at www.dosb.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics, From the gymnastics father Jahn to the state amateur. Hanover: Torch bearer 1975. ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
2. ↑ DOSB base concept - further development of the base system from 2013; Page 19 ( Memento from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )