Federação Portuguesa de Natação

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Federação Portuguesa de Natação
Founded 1930
Place of foundation Lisbon
president António José da Rocha Martins da Silva
societies 379
Homepage www.fpnatacao.pt

The Federação Portuguesa de Natação ( FPN ) is the umbrella organization for swimming in Portugal . The FPN is based in the Complexo do Jamor sports complex in Cruz Quebrada , a municipality in the Oeiras district near the capital Lisbon .

From 2004 to 2013, the Olympic swimmer and Portuguese record holder Paulo Frischknecht was President of the PFN, and António José Silva has headed the association since then .

The FPN belongs u. a. the world association Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), the European association Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN), the umbrella organization Confederação do Desporto de Portugal and the Comité Olímpico de Portugal , the National Olympic Committee of Portugal. 379 Portuguese sports clubs are members of the FPN (as of September 2015) .

Several international swimming events took place in Portugal, including the 1999 European Short Course Championships . Since 2009, the city of Coimbra has been organizing an international open water swimming competition in the Mondego River with the Torneio Internacional de Águas Abertas do Mondego .

history

prehistory

Travassos Lopes in Madeira (1924), with local swimmers and guest swimmers from Lisbon

The origins of the FPN go back to the first Portuguese swimming championship, which the Real Ginásio Clube Português club from Lisbon organized on October 14, 1906. The statutes of the championship provided for the participation of all interested Portuguese clubs, from which representatives should also be represented in the jury of the championship. At a meeting in 1907, the representative of the Real Velo Clube do Porto from Porto proposed the creation of a national association with the Liga de Natação , which was founded that same year. Founding members were a number of Lisbon clubs, but also clubs such as the Real Velo Club do Porto , the Club Mário Duarte from Aveiro , Naval 1º de Maio and the Ginásio Clube Figueirense . The most important competitions were the Tagus crossing, which was held regularly from 1907 , the Lisbon-Porto competition with the Taça Leixões (at the port of Leixões ), and events in Porto, Póvoa de Varzim and Figueira da Foz .

In the course of the social upheaval after the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910, the league ended its activities. The general interest in swimming increased again as a result of the first official Portuguese participation in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 . In 1920 active people from Lisbon and Porto tried to revive the Taça Leixões . These contacts resulted in the establishment of the Liga Portuguesa dos Clubes de Natação , a much more professionally organized umbrella organization, with regular general assemblies and annual reports, a headquarters in Lisbon and branches in Porto and Figueira da Foz. However, the association was unable to develop a decisive influence. Even after the name was changed to Liga Portuguesa dos Amadores de Natação (German: Portuguese League of Swimming Amateurs) in 1925 and brief additional branches in Viana do Castelo and Setúbal , the increasing swimming competitions were held throughout the country without the participation of the league. In 1926, the Federação Portuguesa de Natação (Amador) was founded , another national association that was in strong opposition to the league. The reason was strong differences between different parliamentary groups among the member clubs. The trigger was the Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting), which appointed a Hungarian water polo player that year under the unexplained state of the statutes, whereupon a number of clubs founded the new association after the league did not sanction the Sportings approach.

Since the foundation

Manuel "Preto" Gonçalves, Madeira Champion Swimmer (1940)

A long series of attempts at mediation followed, especially the Cândido de Oliveiras . An agreement was finally reached, and on October 19, 1930, the umbrella organization FPN, which still exists today, was founded. The founding declaration was signed by all 21 members of the 14 founding associations. As agreed, the association assembly was chaired by Sporting, while Sport Algés e Dafundo (SAD) was entrusted with the management of the association. At the same time, the first two regional associations of the FPN started their work in Lisbon and Porto.

In the same year, SAD opened the first swimming stadium in the country, and its athlete Hermano Patrone became the most famous swimmer, high diver and water polo player in the country. In the 1930s, further regional associations were founded (Figueira da Foz, Coimbra and Aveiro), Madeira was added in 1941 , followed by others. In 1953, the FPN, with the associations of Quelimane and Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, took up regional associations of the Portuguese colonies for the first time , which was followed by others, first that of Luanda in Angola. The Mozambican swimmers from the colonies were particularly successful.

The supremacy of the SAD club in water sports in Portugal was not broken until 1969 by the Académica de Coimbra , the student club from the university city of Coimbra . After Coimbra, FC Porto also built an indoor swimming pool, and some indoor swimming pools were also being built on Madeira and in other places in the country, so that swimming continued to develop, especially thanks to the new democratic government's support after the Carnation Revolution in 1974. Counted the FPN At the beginning of the 1970s there were only a few hundred members, so in 1981 there were already 2,182 swimming athletes registered in the FPN.

Paulo Frischknecht won the first Portuguese medal in 1976 (bronze at the European Youth Championships in 1976) and participated in the Portuguese Olympic team in 1976 and 1980 with Rui Abreu . In 1983 the Taça Latina (based on the Taça Latina soccer cup ) was the first internationally significant swimming event in Portugal.

Nuno Almeida at the swimming meeting in Porto 2007

In the 1990s, a large number of new swimming facilities were built in Portugal as part of the country's economic boom. At the same time, the association went through a restructuring in several, sometimes crisis-ridden waves, in order to adapt to the new realities of sport and the growing demands on the association in the country. Since then, Portuguese swimmers have won a number of medals, especially in the European Youth Championships, but not in the World Championships or the Olympic Games, and only rarely in European championships. At the European Short Course Championships in Lisbon in 1999 , José Couto won two medals.

Personalities

  • Hermano Patrone (1909–1999), swimmer, water polo player and coach
  • Rui Abreu (1961–1982), national record holder and Olympic participant in 1976 and 1980
  • Paulo Frischknecht (* 1961), national record holder and Olympic participant in 1976 and 1980, later association president

organization

activities

At the Centro Náutico in Montemor-o-Velho , u. a. FPN performance center (for open water swimming)

The FPN represents the Olympic and Paralympic sports swimming , water jumping , synchronized swimming , water polo and open water swimming . In addition, the FPN organizes the participation of Portuguese national teams in other international competitions, organizes international competitions and national championships, and promotes popular sport . In addition, the association is working increasingly with public bodies in swimming lessons.

The national championships of the FPN also include the club championships in water polo. The most important competitions are the Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão, the two first division competitions for men and women, and the two national cups Taça de Portugal for men and women.

The Portuguese Swimming Association has two centers of excellence ( Centro de Alto Rendimento , CAR), the CAR Montemor-o-Velho and the CAR Rio Maior . The second round of women's qualification group D for the 2016 European Water Polo Championships in Belgrade took place in the CAR Rio Maior from September 25 to 27, 2015 .

structure

President is António José Silva (as of September 2015) . In addition to the association management with president and vice-president, the association has a general assembly ( Assembleia Geral ) and four other organs:

  • Conselho Fiscal (German: Supervisory Board or Control Council)
  • Conselho de Arbitragem (German: Arbitration Council)
  • Conselho de Justiça (German: Legal Counsel)
  • Conselho de Disciplina (German: Disciplinary Council)

The FPN has 13 regional associations:

President

  • 1930–1936: Club Sport Algés e Dafundo
  • 1937–1938: Mário Fernando de Oliveira
  • 1939-1945: Oliveira Duarte
  • 1946: Francisco José da Rosa
  • 1947–1948: Gualter José Marques
  • 1949–1950: José Dias Pereira
  • 1951–1954: Diogo Novaes doll
  • 1955–1957: José Maria Antunes
  • 1958-1964: Joel Pascoal
  • 1965–1967: José Maria Antunes
  • 1968–1972: Francisco Ferreira Alves
  • 1973–1978: Luis Cavaleiro Madeira
  • 1979: José Afonso Palla
  • 1980-1981: Luis Cavaleiro Madeira
  • 1982-1983: Carlos Alves Pinto
  • 1984-1991: José Vicente Moura
  • 1991-2000: Francisco Alberto Victor Nogueira
  • 2001-2004: Isidoro Augusto da Costa Morgado
  • 2004–2013: Paulo José Frischknecht
  • since 2013: António José Silva

Finances

FPN closed the 2014 financial year with a positive balance of € 7,758.98, after a loss of € 122,763.41 in the previous year.

The situation of the association corresponds to the generally difficult situation to a large extent of all Portuguese sports associations, which strive for increasing income and increased cost control with falling public subsidies, in an economically persistently difficult environment. The reason is the government's rigid austerity policy and the tense overall economic situation in Portugal as a result of the euro crisis .

However, the FPN managed to stop the downward trend in 2014. This was achieved by gaining new sponsors and further cost reductions, but above all by increasing public subsidies for the preparations for the 2016 Olympics and for the implementation of paid awareness and swimming instruction campaigns for public institutions.

Web links

Commons : Swimming in Portugal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the FPN on the association's website ( memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (port.), Retrieved September 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fpnatacao.pt
  2. ↑ Website of the FNP for the qualification tournament in Rio Maior ( memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fpnatacao.pt
  3. ↑ page 72ff of the FPN Annual Report 2014 (pdf download), accessed on September 12, 2015

Coordinates: 38 ° 42 '19.3 "  N , 9 ° 15' 8.6"  W.