LG Rhein-Wied

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The LG Rhein-Wied is an athletics community from Rhineland-Palatinate founded in 2009 . It bundles several associations from the medium- sized towns of Andernach , Lahnstein and Neuwied in the Koblenz area . According to its own statements, it unites almost 3,000 members, including around 750 athletes. Their “parent clubs” are the SG DJK Andernach , the DJK Neuwieder LC and the TG Oberlahnstein. TV Engers from Neuwied also joined the company later.

The athletes from Andernach and Neuwied started together for what was then LG Andernach-Neuwied since 1974 . Before that, the top athlete Inge Helten emerged from the DJK Andernach , who started for the club until 1971, set a world record in 1976 and then won Olympic bronze over 100 meters and relay silver in Montreal . The day before, Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand had done the same to Helten and won bronze over 5000 meters in a historic finish . He grew up at the Neuwied LC and ran for them until the successful 1976 Olympic year.

From the successful generation of those early years, Ute Hedicke also achieved the German indoor runner-up in the long jump in 1974 and 1975 and fifth place in the 1975 European indoor championship . After she left LG, she won the German indoor title in 1976, but didn't make it to Montreal.

A little later, the 400-meter sprinter Norbert Dobeleit also became a top athlete at the Neuwieder LC , winning the relay bronze over 4 × 400 meters in Seoul in 1988 . From 2007 to 2014 Marcel Kirstges competed for the LG Rhein-Wied and was three times German U23 and youth champion.

The greatest success so far for the club was achieved in 2012 by the heptathlete Lilli Schwarzkopf when she won the Olympic silver medal , as she was already a very successful U23 runner-up in the European Union and third in the European Championship. She only moved to LG Rhein-Wied in 2009 and stayed there until 2014.

The currently most successful athlete, Kai Kazmirek, has been starting as a decathlete for the LG Rhein-Wied since 2006 and thus much longer and during this time, most recently in 2018, he was multiple German champion, 2013 U23 European champion and 2017 bronze medalist of the world championship in London .

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  1. ^ Athletics Community (LG) Rhein-Wied. "About us". LG Rhein Wied, accessed on September 4, 2019 .