Lundaspelen

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Lundaspelen (German: The Lund Games) are an annual youth tournament in the Swedish Lund in the sports of handball and basketball . According to the organizer, it is the largest indoor handball tournament in the world and one of the largest youth basketball tournaments in Europe. The handball tournament takes place annually at the end of December, the basketball tournament at the beginning of January.

history

In 1974 the four sports clubs Lugi Handboll, IK Eos Lund, Lunds IS and Lunds FF launched a sports ring ("Idrottsringen") in order to strengthen cooperation with one another and jointly increase economic opportunities. Lars-Erik Larsson pushed the idea of ​​a tournament in August 1978 and got in touch with the local authorities. One of the goals that should be achieved with the establishment of a transnational youth tournament was to establish contacts with athletes from abroad. Between December 27 and 30, 1978, the first handball and ice hockey tournaments took place in parallel, and the basketball tournament premiered from January 3 to 6, 1979. A soccer tournament followed. The ice hockey tournament was quickly discontinued, in soccer events were held until 1982, and in 2007 the soccer tournament was relaunched. The handball and basketball tournaments, on the other hand, became fixed points.

Handball

The organizer of the handball tournament is the Lugi Handboll association.

113 teams competed at the premiere in Lund in December 1978, in 1983 there were more than 400.

In December 2018, 691 teams from 15 countries with a total of more than 7,000 athletes in 22 competition classes (female and male in U8, U9, U10, U11, U12, U13, U14, U15, U16, U19 as well as wheelchair handball and a special competition class) were registered .

basketball

The basketball event is organized by the IK EOS Lund association.

39 teams took part in the first basketball tournament in Lund at the beginning of 1979, 103 in 1980 and 211 teams played in the third edition in 1981. For the 41st tournament at the beginning of 2019, 380 teams registered, which meant a new record for the event. In 2019, the direct transmission of all Lundaspelen games on the Internet was also introduced.

From 1979 to 1995, the U13, U15, U17 and U19 (male and female) competition classes were played, and in 1995 the U14 and U16 categories were added for both sexes. In 2008 the U19 division disappeared, but the U20 was added. In 2010 there was another expansion with the addition of the U11 and U12 competition classes. In 2013, the wheelchair basketball competition class was held for the first time. In the run-up to the tournament in January 2020, the U20 division was converted into the U23 division in order to enable older players to participate.

As of April 2017, teams from Denmark (4,557) had the largest number of participants since 1979 in a country comparison , followed by Swedish (4,366) and German teams (1,617). Austria (122 teams have participated since 1979) was in seventh place. In addition to participating teams from numerous European countries, teams from Australia , Chile , Canada and the United States also played in Lund between 1979 and 2017 .

The first Lundspelen winner from the German-speaking area was BG Zehlendorf in 1984 in the U13 girls' competition class, and in 1987, with ASC Göttingen (U19 boys), a German team won the tournament for the first time in a male division.

The record winner in basketball is the Danish club Hørsholm BBK with 37 Lundaspelen titles (as of 2017), while TuS Lichterfelde is the most successful German representative with eleven tournament victories.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LUGI Handboll - Lundaspelen - Världens största handbollsturnering inomhus. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Basketspelen drar många. January 2, 2014, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: Det började med en dröm ... - Lundaspelen Basket. Retrieved January 4, 2019 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ a b Om Lundaspelen | Lundaspelen. May 29, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kävlinge HK och Lugi HF vann Lundaspelen i handboll. In: nyheter7.se. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Finaledagen blev en FIF-dag i Lund - FIF Håndbold. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Registered teams - Lundaspelen Handball 2018 Results. June 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: 41st Lundaspelen-Largest Ever !! - Lundaspelen Basket. December 11, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: ALL Lundaspelen Games Streamed !! - Lundaspelen Basket. December 13, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 (Swedish).
  10. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: Heritage & Development - Lundaspelen Basket. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ https://lspbasket.cups.nu
  12. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: Countries representerade i Lundaspelen - Lundaspelen Basket. Retrieved January 4, 2019 (Swedish).
  13. ↑ https://static.cupmanager.net/uploads/z/7/UG/lundaspelengirlswinnersupdate2015.pdf
  14. ↑ Lundaspelen Winners. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Lundaspelen Basket | Arkivgatan 32 22359, Lund: The Winners - Lundaspelen Basket. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .

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