Olympic base Lower Saxony

Olympic base Lower Saxony
Sponsorship :	State Sports Association of Lower Saxony
Seat:	Hanover
Founded:	1986
Website:	www.osp-niedersachsen.de
Olympic Training Center Lower Saxony in Hanover (2013)

The Lower Saxony Olympic Training Center is a support and service facility sponsored by the Lower Saxony State Sports Association for national cadre athletes (A, B and C cadres ) and their responsible coaches. It is primarily used to train and promote top athletes . Its headquarters are in the Sportpark Hannover at Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg 2b in Calenberger Neustadt , a district of the state capital Hannover .

history

Entrance area (2017)

On September 11, 1986, today's Olympiastützpunkt (OSP) Lower Saxony was founded as the Olympiastützpunkt Hannover / Wolfsburg as support and service facilities for the national cadre athletes (A-C cadres) and their support staff in Hanover. The State Sports Association of Lower Saxony has been the sponsor of the OSP from the start. In terms of space, the OSP was initially divided between the federal performance center (today: sports performance center) Hanover and the former state performance center Wolfsburg. Today, the federal bases in Hanover, Braunschweig , Clausthal-Zellerfeld , Gifhorn and Salzgitter are looked after from Hanover . Sports medical care has been based directly at the OSP in the Hanover Sports Center since 1993. In 2004, representatives from 23 universities and technical colleges signed the cooperation agreement “Partner University of Top Sports” with the Lower Saxony Minister of Science and the President of the State Sports Association.

OSP Lower Saxony is one of 18 German Olympic bases .

Outline and structure

Training hall (2017)

tasks

The main task is to ensure complex sports medicine, physiotherapy, training science, social, psychological and nutritional support for the national squad athletes, in particular in preparing the top team for the Olympic Games in daily training on site and in central measures of the leading associations. The high-performance training demands a lot of time from the athletes, often 28 to 32 hours per week. This is why trainers and top athletes need help from the support service at the Olympic base.

Focus

Sports hall, in the foreground the Seufzerallee

The OSP primarily looks after national cadre athletes from 13 federal bases in Hanover, Gifhorn, Salzgitter, Braunschweig and Clausthal-Zellerfeld, both in training and in central measures of the central associations in Germany and abroad. Among them are 9 A- cadres , 51 B-cadres, 53 C-cadres and 38 D / C-cadres. They come from the main sports water polo , swimming , athletics , judo , gymnastics (male), hockey (female), trampoline , shooting , boxing , tennis , table tennis , rowing and biathlon . There are also individual athletes from other Olympic sports such as B. Ice hockey , rugby , gymnastics female. In addition, at OSP 8 AB cadre athletes from the Disabled Sports Association of Lower Saxony and a further 51 top athletes from the federal territory are looked after centrally on the basis of cooperation agreements for focus support with the top associations of the sports trampoline, artistic gymnastics (male), rowing, water polo (male) and hockey. D-cadres from Lower Saxony who live in the nearby sports boarding school are also looked after by the OSP. Approx. 20 sports soldiers from across Germany train in the sports center and use the support services of the OSP. Since May 2011, top athletes in the sports promotion groups of the Bundeswehr have been completing basic training or training and further education measures centrally in the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks in Hanover.

Sports boarding school

The LOTTO Sports Boarding School is connected to the Lower Saxony Olympic Training Center as an elite school for sports .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Lower Saxony Olympic base. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 486.

Web links

Commons : Olympiastützpunkt Niedersachsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Lower Saxony Olympic Training Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympiastützpunkt Niedersachsen ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Compare the imprint on the institution's website

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '25.2 "  N , 9 ° 44' 9.5"  E