HC Gym Biel
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| Full name | Handball club Gymnasium Biel |
| Nickname (s) | Gym Biel |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Dissolved | 1985 merged to form HS Biel |
| Club colors | Blue White |
| Hall | Gymerhalle at Lake Biel |
The HC Gym Biel was a handball club in the bilingual city of Biel / Bienne from 1966 to 1985 . Founded in 1966, he rose from the 4th division (1981) to the National League A , where he reached the final round in 1983/84. In 1985 the HC Gym Biel merged with the HBC Biel to form HS Biel .
history
The history of the handball club HC Gym Biel has its origins on March 18, 1966, when 15 gymnasts got together and founded the second handball club in Biel after HBC Biel. The fourth division started in the old Logengasse gym, where only five field players were played due to the narrow building. In 1967 they rose to the 3rd division, 1968 to the 2nd division and 1969 to the 1st division.
National League B
After six years, he was promoted to the NLB in 1972 under coach Heinz Suter. After a 5th place in 1972/73, however, the relegation had to be accepted in 1974 after various departures, a certain aging, lack of competition and a lost promotion / relegation game against Länggasse Bern.
The following year, the team was again champions in the first division, but missed promotion. A season later they rose again to the National League B. At that time the association had 80 members, 5 teams and 3 student teams.
National League A (1981–1985)
In the following years the first men's team achieved two 4th and then two 2nd places. In 1980/81 the team was able to celebrate promotion to the National League A with a win in the last game against ATV Basel, who were first in the table with the same number of points.
The championship was initially played in 18 qualifying rounds, before the first six contested the championship and the last four the relegation round, the last two of which were relegated. Despite three initial defeats, the team managed to keep the league. Also in the 1982/83 season the goal of relegation was achieved with a 9 point lead over the relegation place. In the following season they achieved participation in the championship round, but had to relegate to League B a year later in the 1984/85 season.
1985: Merger with HBC Biel to form HS Biel
After years of competition for supremacy in regional handball, the voices calling for a collaboration or merger increased in both the HBC Biel and the HC Gym. In 1984 both clubs agreed to an association at extraordinary general meetings: the HC Gym on May 25, 1984 with 75:16 votes with 2 abstentions, the HBC on June 21, 1984 with 44: 2. On February 14, 1985, a merger general assembly took place in the aula of the trade school. HBC Biel and HC Gym Biel were dissolved and transferred to the HS (handball sport) Biel.
successes
- 1967 Promotion to 3rd division
- 1968 promotion to 2nd division
- 1969 Promotion to 1st division
- 1972 rise to NLB
- 1974 Vice European Middle School Champion
- 1978 Junior Swiss Champion
- 1981 Promotion to NLA (Team of the Year in Biel)
President
- 1966 - 68 Ruedi Kropf
- 1968 - 74 Peter Räz
- 1974-77 Urs Knecht
- 1977-79 Fredy Jean
- 1979-85 Donato Cermusoni
Trainer
- 1966–1967 Jürg Müller
- 1967–1969 Alexej Buergin
- 1969–1970 Laszlo Megyeri
- 1970–1972 Heinz Suter
- 1972–1974 Fredy Jean
- 1974–1981 Heinz Hofmann
- 1982–1984 Urs Reinhardt
- 1984–1985 Werner Krüger
NLA player
| season | 1981/82 | 1982/83 | 1983/84 | 1984/85 | Games | Gates | Penalties |
| Braun Markus TH | 20/0 | 24 / 1P | 25/1 | 24/0 | 93 | 1 | 1 |
| Liechti Ueli TH | - | - | 1/0 | 3/0 | 4th | - | - |
| Moser Ueli TH | 6/0 | 23 / 3P | 28/0 | 3/0 | 60 | 0 | 3 |
| Stauffer Ernst TH | 20/1 | - | - | 3/0 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| Ueltschi Andreas TH | - | - | 1/0 | - | 1 | 0 | - |
| Arn Thomas | 20/11 | 7/0 | 17/3 | 3/1 | 47 | 15th | - |
| Bani Rolf | - | - | - | 1/0 | 1 | - | - |
| Beck Raoul | - | - | - | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | - |
| Biberstein Paul | 21/36 / 1P | 23/34 | 25/32 / 1P | - | 69 | 102 | 2 |
| Burri Heinz | 22/20 / 3P | 4/1 | - | - | 26th | 21st | 3 |
| Cermusoni Donato | 24/74 / 2P | 21/23 | 25/24 | 24/36 | 94 | 157 | 2 |
| Dubach Stefan | - | - | 4/1 | 6/2 | 10 | 3 | |
| Etter Daniel | - | 1/0 | 2/1 / 1P | 16/10 / 1P | 19th | 11 | 2 |
| Fluri Martin | 24/61 | 23/64 | 28/88 | 23/88 / 3P | 98 | 301 | 3 |
| Gyger Rolf | 24/43 | 24/37 | 27/30 | 2/3 | 77 | 113 | - |
| Hänzi Martin | - | 12/4 | - | - | 12 | 4th | - |
| Jampen Markus | - | 7/12 / 5P | 3/2 | 4/2 | 14th | 16 | 5 |
| Jegge Stephan | 18/24 / 14P | 22/12 / 8P | 25/19 / 12P | 15/6 / 1P | 80 | 61 | 35 |
| Kobel Roland | 3/1 | - | 28/43 / 4P | 24/22 | 55 | 66 | 4th |
| Reinhardt Urs | 16/30 | 3/1 | 1/1 | - | 20th | 32 | - |
| Rolli Mario | - | - | - | 7/3 | 7th | 3 | - |
| Rüeger Beat | 21/57 / 22P | 22/71 / 27P | 28/62 / 13P | 23/48 / 11P | 94 | 238 | 73 |
| Rütti Toni | - | - | - | 1/0 | 1 | 0 | - |
| Suter Peter | - | - | - | 1/1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Thoma Urs | - | - | - | 1/1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Vögtli Hermann | 5/12 | 24/38 / 1P | 25/39 | 19/36 | 73 | 125 | 1 |
| Weber Ruedi | 18/147 / 30P | 24/180 / 49P * | 23/140 / 47P | 22/118 / 48P | 87 | 585 | 174 |
| Tooth François | 11/5 | 12/5 | 1/0 | 6/0 | 30th | 10 | - |
| * According to the official version of the SHV, Ruedi Weber was the top scorer in the 82/83 season with 180 goals. | |||||||
literature
- Peter Renatus: Handball in Biel . Ed .: Peter Renatus, Fred Wegmüller, Urs Reinhardt, Donato Cermusoni. 500 copies. Self-published, Biel-Bienne 2018, p. 150 .
