Canoe Club Laubegast Dresden
The Canoe Club Laubegast is a German canoeing club based in Dresden .
The club's most successful international athlete recently is Gesine Ruge . She won a gold and a bronze medal at the 2007 Canoe Racing World Championships in Duisburg .
history
The foundation of the association goes back to the year 1928. After an eventful time at the beginning and middle of the last century, from 1950 the members could concentrate exclusively on canoeing and the expansion of their boathouse. The name of the association at that time was BSG Motor Dresden Ost . The first major successes in canoe racing , including the GDR championship title by Horst Genaus in 1951 or world champion Eduard Augustin in 1969 (for SC Einheit Dresden ), arose.
Carsta Genaus showed himself to be a great talent of the 1970s and 1980s . Between 1975 and 1985 she won several world and European championships and in 1980 she was Olympic champion in the KII in Moscow. But even without being involved in the state promotion of competitive sport in the GDR sports system, the then BSG Pentacon Dresden produced very successful athletes. Special mention should be made of Rita Zimmermann . She became the GDR Spartakiade champion in 1987 , but was no longer allowed to compete nationally or internationally because of her refusal to switch to the competitive sports promotion center.
In November 1990 the association was re-established with its current name. The four-man kayak of the school class with Lars Augustin , Clemens Kimmel, Janko Förster and Dan Knobloch achieved its first national sporting successes in reunified Germany in 1993 in Munich as the club's first all-German champion. In the following year Annett Breuer and Katrin Steinbock-Eich topped this success (on the marathon route ) and, after winning the German championship title, also took 6th place at the world championships. In the same year, the association founded a kite boating section and then had over 200 members.
The association has been self-supporting since 1997, supported by grants from the city of Dresden. The focus of the association's work lies not only on the kayak competitions (junior world champion Lars Augustin; German runner-up Clemens Kimmel, Janko Förster and Robert Römer) but also on the modernization of the club house. It was concluded to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
today
Today the association offers training in dragon boating and canoe racing as well as fitness courses and children's sports.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 32 ″ E