Canoe Sports Association Wuppertal
| Surname | Canoe Sports Association Wuppertal eV |
|---|---|
| Club colors | Red / Green / Blue - White |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Chairman | Georg Rümker |
The Kanu-Sportgemeinschaft Wuppertal eV , KSGW for short , is a canoeing club based in Wuppertal .
The KSGW was founded in 1971 by the Association for Canoeing Wuppertal , the Wuppertal Paddler Guild and the ESV Wuppertal-Ost. In 1974 the ESV-Ost left, but the Wuppertal Canoe Club joined.
Since no racing communities were allowed in canoe racing, the aim was to pool the strengths of the clubs located next to each other at the Beyenburger reservoir , which previously competed , with a training and competition community . The autonomy of the sponsoring associations was retained; KSG has neither a boathouse nor, to a significant extent, its own boats. Even after the founding of the KSGW, the athletes remained members of their original clubs , some of which take part in competitions in other canoe disciplines (e.g. canoe polo , dragon boat ) under their own names.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the KSGW advanced to become the most successful canoe racing club in the Federal Republic and won more than 200 German championship titles , especially in the canoe disciplines. In 1972 the KSGW took part in the Olympic Games with Hans-Martin Röse and Klaus von der Twer , in 1984 and 1988 with Ralf Wienand (only 1984), Hartmut and Wolfram Faust , and numerous athletes from the club also took part in canoeing world championships . However, the last championship title came in 1991.
Individual evidence
- ↑ KSG Wuppertal: The great time of paddlers wz-newsline.de , article from December 2, 2011, accessed on August 13, 2012