First Vienna Danube SC
| Surname | First Vienna Danube Swimming Club |
|---|---|
| Club colors | blue and white |
| Founded | September 8, 1903 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| Venue |
Floridsdorfer Bad Jörgerbad |
| ZVR number | 757654393 |
| Homepage | sc-donau.at |
The swimming club First Vienna Danube Swimming Club , or EW Donau SC for short, is an Austrian water sports club from Vienna . The association was founded in 1903. The home of the swimming club is the Floridsdorfer Bad and the Jörgerbad , the club colors are blue and white.
history
There were already some indoor swimming pools in Vienna when the First Vienna Danube Swimming Club was founded on September 8, 1903 by Baroness Walburga von Isacescu, Maria Biberhofer, Franz Jacob and Franz Duschanek as a pure men's swimming club, the women were guests of the club. Baroness Walburga was the first woman in Vienna to cross the canal and was an enthusiastic swimmer. Franz Jacob took over the chairmanship and held it for 20 years. The swimmers of the First Vienna Danube Swimming Club met at the Krieau military swimming school and swam in the then still clean Danube river. The responsible persons chose the colors white-blue-white as the club colors.
Almost nine years later, on January 12, 1912, the club became a member of the Austrian Swimming Association . The association took electricity tours from Vienna to Bratislava, from Melk to Vienna or from Stein to Vienna with its members. After the First World War, the club almost came to an end if it hadn't been for Hans Willinger and his wife, who undertook weekly river tours and Danube crossings after the war, held athletic swimming training and competitions, founded a water polo team, included athletics exercises in swim training and one founded their own women's section mainly by Mrs. Willinger. The number of members rose to 100 and in 1921 a private bathing area was leased on the Old Danube, which was expanded six years later, in 1927. By 1933 the club overcame another club crisis before Franz Jacob, Hans Willinger, Josef Demel, Anton Falschlehner, Hammermüller, Ferdinand Klotz, Schmutzer, Roman Uhl, Wieland and Zechl achieved sporting successes.
With the Second World War, the club life ceased and only with a few returnees under Roman Uhl and Hans Kraus with the helpers Friedl Smekal, Grete Nutschnig and Karl Urban could the dissolution of the club be prevented. They began renovating the clubhouse and revitalizing the individual sports sections. Walter and Liselottelesek and Kurt Christoph were elected as club officials and the current structures of the swimming club were established. The club took part in smaller competitions and from 1949 there was again a women's team made up of Bergner, Nespor, Christa Pilz and Fanny Smekal.
From 1952, the members of the First Vienna Danube Swimming Club had to train on an iron 25 m lane and success soon set in: Richard Schmidberger became national champion in 1953, the athletic rise of the women's team, and the men's team formed a water polo team, Christl Filippovits , Hannelore Janele and Christl Wäber took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics and Gerhard Prohaska took part in the 1981 European Championships in Split , 1983 in Rome and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles .
The water polo team experienced its peak between 1985 and 1990 with six consecutive Austrian national championship titles in the outdoor pool and further titles in school, youth, junior competitions and indoor championships from 1980 in alternating succession. Thanks to the national championship title, the team also took part in European Cup competitions and many swimmers were appointed to the Austrian national team during this time.
At the end of the 1980s, the association's activities were concentrated on the master’s area and several meetings were held, with the former state champion and multiple world and European champion Sylvia Neuhauser playing a key role.
In the mid-1990s, Kurt Dittrich took over the club as head coach and the women's team won the national championship title in 1999, and in 2000 Petra Zahrl qualified for the European Championships in Helsinki , the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the European Short Course Championships in Valencia , where she qualified Bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly won. This year the club won the state championship in the women's relay over 4 × 100 and 4 × 200 m freestyle. In September 2002 Kurt Dittrich moved to SVS Simmering and with him ended or changed swimmers to other Viennese clubs.
Under Markus Oblak as head coach, the club concentrated on the youngsters and only won a national championship title again at the 2009 national championships. Since then, the association has produced talents such as Andreas Stockinger, Erich Strohmayer, Jakob Hofmann, Klaus Ortner, Nikola Dragovic, Christoph Tintel, Anja and Conni Rott, Kenan Emrovic and Laura Zwickle.
Successes:
- 6 x Austrian water polo champions: 1985–1990
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ First Vienna Danube Swimming Club 1903, Club history. In: sc-donau.at. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
- ^ First Vienna Danube Swimming Club 1903, since 1903 in the service of Austrian swimming. In: sc-donau.at. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Festschrift 100 Years of the First Vienna Danube Swimming Club 1903, 1903 - 2003. In: sc-donau.at. Archived from the original on August 30, 2003 ; accessed on December 15, 2018 .