MRRC Munich

MRRC Munich

Surname	Munich Road Runners Club eV
Founded	August 8, 1985
Association headquarters	Munich
Members	780
Departments	Triathlon , running
Homepage	www.mrrc.de

The MRRC Munich (Munich Road Runners Club eV) is a sports club founded in 1985 with a focus on triathlon and running from Munich .

history

Out of necessity of needing a sports club registered with the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV) for formal approval of the Munich Marathon , eleven people founded on August 8, 1985, including the two-time Olympic participant in the marathon and publisher of the running magazine "Spiridon" , Manfred Steffny , as well as the organizer of marathon trips, Ali Schneider, the MRRC Munich. It was not until later that its own sports business was added with a running club founded in March 1986.

Club logo (until 2010)

The MRRC met its claim to organize one of the largest German marathons eleven times until 1995, when opposing views with the race director Michael Schultz-Tholen , coming from polo , about the requirements of the runners caused the MRRC to terminate the cooperation. In 1996 the last marathon for the time being took place in Munich - but without the participation of the MRRC. The Munich Marathon, which has been held again since October 2000, is supported by the MRRC with various helpers (refreshment stand, train and brake runners, VIP support, etc.).

In the first two decades of the club's history, the sporting orientation of the MRRC Munich was primarily aimed at popular sport. In 1989 the number of 100 members was exceeded, in 2000 the 300th member was welcomed to the association. The training offer was initially limited to regular running meetings. Only with the self-responsible organization of the New Year's Eve run and, from 2003, the Munich City Triathlon, the necessary financial resources were available for an expansion, e.g. B. available by renting swimming pools. In 2004 the association already had over 500 members, in 2013 the number of 1,000 members was exceeded. In 2007, the MRRC Munich also included organized youth training in its offering, and the youth department quickly became one of the largest in Bavaria.

The association has 780 members. ^{(Status: January 1, 2018)} With around 200 starter pass holders , the MRRC Munich is one of the larger member clubs in the Bavarian Triathlon Association. The MRRC is represented by a women's team in the German Triathlon League. In Road Running Competitions, the athletes of the MRRC Munich for the start LG Stadtwerke München .

successes

Team successes in triathlon

Until 2009

If only a handful of triathletes were represented in the MRRC Munich up to the turn of the millennium, both their number and their ambitions increased. In 2002 a women's team and a men's team started in the Bavarian triathlon league for the first time. While the men initially needed five attempts to qualify for second place in the regional league competitions for the fourth-class Bayernliga in 2006, the women were not only able to place themselves successfully in the midfield of the 2nd Bundesliga.
At the German Championships over the middle distance in Immenstadt in 2002, the MRRC won with the team Stefanie Weinberger, Martina Quintana-Madelheim and Isabel Puchinger. The following year, the MRRC and the team with Britta Martin , Stefanie Weinberger and Karin Weißbach became German runner-up over the middle distance. In 2006, the MRRC women's team with Karin Weißbach, Britta Martin, Isabel Puchinger, Katrin Esefeld , Renate Forstner , Simone Bayer and Selina Gordon finished the season as champions of the Bavarian Triathlon League . The right of promotion to the 1st Triathlon Bundesliga was not exercised.
After a women's team could only be put together with great difficulty in the league renamed Regionalliga Bayern in 2007, no women's team was reported in 2008 and 2009.

From 2010

Team of the MRRC Munich with Liora Feicht, Janina Lorenz, Johanna Ahrens and Maria Paulig after winning the competition of the triathlon regional league on the regatta course Oberschleißheim (2016)

In 2010, in its fourth season in the Bayernliga, a fourth place (under 15 teams) was enough for the men's team to move up to the third-class regional league - two clubs had withdrawn their teams there. But already at the end of the next season, as the bottom of the table, relegation was determined one class lower, where the team stayed until the end of the 2014 season - then with second place at the end of the season, they were promoted again to the regional league, which they placed 7th in 2015 completed. At the end of the 2012 season, the MRRC took over the team and the license of the neighboring TuS Fürstenfeldbruck for the 1st Bundesliga - the Bayernliga team thus became a reserve. In 2013 the Bundesliga team with Philipp Peter, Frank Schuster and Sebastian Mahr as well as the Spaniards Andres Carnevali, Alejandro Canas del Palacio, David Castro , Fernandez Ruanova and the Serbian Ognjen Stojanovic finished 15th in Buschhütten , 14th in Schliersee , 7th in Düsseldorf and finally 5th place in Hanover secure the league among the 16 teams. In the following season, the team around Robert Wimmer and Julian Ehrhardt as well as the Portuguese Filipe Ricardo Couto Azevedo were strengthened, after 11th place in Buschhütten, 8th place in Kraichgau , 4th place in Düsseldorf and 2nd place in Hanover even jumped in the final with 6th place a place in the upper midfield. In 2015, after 11th place in Buschhütten, 3rd place in Kraichgau , 2nd place in Düsseldorf and 8th place in Tübingen, there was again a sixth place in the final bill. Antonio Benito Lopez was third, Ignacio Gonzales was 10th and Robert Wimmer was 12th in the Bundesliga individual ranking, which was introduced for the first time and is endowed with 50,000 euros. After finishing eighth in the 2016 season, the club withdrew its Bundesliga team from the men's category In the following season, the previous second team became the first and finished 2017 with a tenth place and 2018 with a fourteenth place. The figurehead of the MRRC, squad athlete Gabriel Allgayer from his own offspring, continued to train at the MRRC, but started in the 2017 season for Triathlon Grassau and since 2018 for SV Nikar Heidelberg .

In 2010, after a two-year break, a team was again registered in the regional league for women, with young female athletes from the club's own youth playing for the first time. At the end of the season, the placements were in the middle of the league. In 2014, the Bavarian Triathlon Association set up the Bavarian League for women below the Regionalliga - and the MRRC started the season for the first time with two women teams, each of which could be celebrated as champions at the end of the season. Both promotion rights were exercised, so that the MRRC Munich was also represented with a women's team in the triathlon Bundesliga in the 2015 season . After 9th place in Buschhütten, 12th place in Kraichgau and 11th place in Düsseldorf, the team slipped to 13th place for the first time in the last competition in Tübingen and thus became second relegated. The second women's team took seventh place in the Regionalliga Bayern and the third women's team took third place in the Bayernliga. With five victories in five competitions, the direct promotion followed in 2016, albeit in the 2nd Bundesliga South , which the DTU had meanwhile also introduced for women. But there, too, in 2017, with five wins in five starts, Janina Lorenz, Johanna Ahrens, Maria Paulig , Sophie Lingelbach, Louisa Omoruyi and Jessica Lewerenz returned to the Bundesliga. There the team, which provided the 15-year-old athlete from their own youth team, Luisa Geist, the youngest athlete in the league, was able to secure relegation in the highest German triathlon league with an eleventh place at the end of the season. With a French manufacturer of competition clothing for triathletes as the name sponsor and reinforced by Leah Cagol from Würzburg, Hanna Krauss from Bamberg and Vice-European Junior Champion Nora Gmür, the team took ninth place in the 2019 season.

Single successes

• 2015: David Castro Fajardo was European champion at the U23 European Championship in Banyoles
• 2015: Ignacio González Garcia (* 1996) was Vice European Champion at the Junior European Championships in Geneva
• 2015: Ignacio González Garcia was at the Junior European Championship Duathlon in Alcobendas Junior European Champion
• 2015: Gabriel Allgayer became German Vice-Champion in Youth A in Verl
• 2014: David Castro became Duathlon World Champion in the U23 category at the ITU Duathlon Championships on May 31st in Pontevedra, Spain
• 2014: David Castro was elite Spanish duathlon champion in Avilés on April 6th
• 2013: Ognjen Stojanović won the ETU Triathlon Balkan Championships in Kladovo on September 22nd
• 2007: Sebastian Jost became Bavarian marathon champion in Würzburg .
• 2002: Peter Forster became Bavarian marathon champion in Schwangau , Burkhard Summer became Bavarian runner-up half a minute behind. In the team with Joachim Otto, the two also became Bavarian team champions in the marathon.

Own events

• Since 1997: New Year's Eve Run in Munich (together with PSV Munich until 1999 ), largest fun run in the Bavarian winter half-year
• 2003 to 2015: City Triathlon Munich in and around the Olympic Park , the largest sprint triathlon in southern Germany
• As a participating association Munich Marathon (until 1995)

Web links

• www.MRRC.de Homepage of the Munich Road Runners Club
• www.Stadt-Triathlon.de Website of the City Triathlon Munich
• www.Silvesterlauf-Muenchen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New individual evaluation with 50,000 euros in prize money . In: tri-mag.de of April 24, 2015
2. ↑ Individual evaluation Triathlon Bundesliga 2015 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Final tables of Bavarian Triathlon Leagues 2017 ( Memento from August 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Triathlonverband .
4. ↑ Final tables Bavarian Triathlon Leagues 2018 . In: Bavarian Triathlon Association .
5. ↑ Final tables of Bavarian Triathlon Leagues 2016 ( Memento from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Triathlonverband .
6. ^ Karl-Wilhelm Götte: Ten against professionals . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 4th July 2018.
7. ^ Karl-Wilhelm Götte: Further first class . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 12, 2018.
8. ↑ Karl-Wilhelm Götte: Trumps trumps . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 5th June 2019.
9. ^ Karl-Wilhelm Götte: Luck from the Aargau . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 4th July 2019.
10. ↑ 2015 Banyoles ETU Triathlon U23 and Youth European Championships
11. ↑ 2015 Geneva ETU Triathlon European Championships
12. ↑ 2015 Alcobendas ETU Sprint and Standard Distance Duathlon European Championships
13. ↑ Results DTU Triathlon DM Youth A on July 19, 2015 in Verl
14. ↑ Results ITU Duathlon Championships U23 2014
15. ↑ Results Spanish Duathlon Championships Elite 2014
16. ↑ Results ETU Triathlon Balkan Championships 2013