Deutscher Turner-Bund, specializing in orienteering

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Deutscher Turner-Bund (DTB) - orienteering
Founded 1975
Chairman Chairman of the Technical Committee: Steffen Lösch
Association headquarters Otto-Fleck-Schneise 8
60528 Frankfurt am Main
Homepage www.orientierungslauf.de

The sport of orienteering has been organized by the German Gymnastics Federation ( DTB for short ) as an independent subject area of ​​orienteering since 1975 . Orienteering is represented by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) through the DTB .

history

The two German states (Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic) were among the founding members of the International Orienteering Federation in 1961 . Up to this point in time there had been orienteering events in the GDR since the beginning of the 1950s. First the so-called "Touristic All-Around Battles" as teams of four and later as teams of two, orientated athletes from Quedlinburg, Dresden, Leipzig and the then Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) went to the end of the 1950s to the individual orienteering race, which is still common today.

The first official (West) German championships took place in 1963. In 1975 the orienteering department was established within the German Gymnastics Federation. Before that, the orienteers were organized by the German Ski Association. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, orienteers in eastern Germany were organized in the German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering (DWBO). As part of the political changes with the subsequent reunification of the two German states, the German Orienteering Association (DOLV) was founded in March 1990 by the East German orienteers in Bad Blankenburg. The DOLV ceased its activities at the end of 1990, not least because of the financial incentives from the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB). The orienteering community from eastern Germany then also joined the DTB as the umbrella organization for orienteering athletes in western Germany. The German Orientation Sports Association (DOSV) was founded in June 2014, not least because of the very limited financial support for orienteering sports by the DTB. A jointly concluded agreement regulates the cornerstones of the cooperation between DTB and DOSV. The agreement came into force in 2018 and will expire after a period of four years.

In the 1990s, Germany hosted the Junior World Championships in 1991 in Berlin and the World Championships for the Elite in 1995 in Detmold, as well as two World Cup events. In 2004, the orienteering World Cup final was held in Dresden , followed by the senior orienteering world championships in Bad Harzburg in 2012 . A world cup and the senior world championships in ski orienteering followed in 2016 in Oberwiesenthal . The Saxon Rabenberg was the competition center of the World Cup finals as well as the Senior World Championships and the Youth & Junior European Championships in Mountain Bike Orienteering in 2019.

Frauke Schmitt Gran won the bronze medal over the short distance in 1999, the only medal for Germany at the orienteering world championships. In the field of mountain bike orienteering, Anke Dannowski won the gold medal at the world championships in Australia over the long distance in 2004 , Antje Bornhak won bronze in the same race. In 2005, Anke Dannowski, Gerit Pfuhl and Antje Bornhak won relay gold in Slovakia . Anke Dannowski drove the long distance to the bronze rank.

Events carried out

Orienteering:

In addition, there were three World Cup orienteering events in Germany in 1990 (in Uslar ), 1994 (in Quedlinburg ) and 2004 (in Dresden ).

Ski orienteering:

Mountain bike orientation:

Technical Committee

The Technical Committee (TC) consists of 11 members, the chairman and 10 representatives for certain areas:

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