Olympic base Rhine-Neckar

Olympic base Rhine-Neckar
Sponsorship :	State Sports Association of Baden-Württemberg
Seat:	Heidelberg
Founded:	1987
Website:	[1]
Main building of the Olympic training center Rhein-Neckar

The Olympiastützpunkt Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar (OSP MRN) is a regional cross-sport advisory and support facility for Olympic, Paralympic and deaflympic top athletes and their trainers. As a second task, the OSP MRN assumes central advisory and support services for national umbrella organizations in the context of competition and training measures.

history

Main building and entrance, house number 710

The OSP Rhein-Neckar was founded in 1987 and has had its headquarters in Neuenheimer Feld in Heidelberg ever since .

In 2017 the basic agreement "Olympic training centers Baden-Wuerttemberg" was decided by the LSV that the sponsorship of the OSP 1 January 2018 with the signing Landessportverband Baden-Wuerttemberg changes. In addition to the OSP metropolitan region Rhine-Neckar, the other Olympic training centers in Baden-Württemberg ( OSP Freiburg-Black Forest , OSP Stuttgart and OSP Tauberbischofsheim ) were also merged under the legal sponsorship of the Baden-Württemberg State Sports Association as part of the basic agreement.

The OSP Rhein-Neckar is currently one of 18 German Olympic training centers .

Structure and financing

Approach to the Olympic training center Rhein-Neckar

The State Sports Association of Baden-Württemberg eV (LSV) acts as the supporting institution for the OSP MRN . Dr. Martin Lenz, as President of the Badischer Sportbund Nord, takes on the honorary management of the OSP MRN within the LSV, the management committee is the performance staff for the Olympic training centers in Germany, chaired by the DOSB . The former top fencer Daniel Strigel has been the full-time director since June 2010 .

structure

The OSP MRN is divided into the areas of management / administration / finances (2 positions), sports medicine / sports orthopedics / sports psychiatry (in cooperation with the Heidelberg University Hospital), sports physiotherapy (2 positions and cooperation with practices close to the training location), rehabilitation / prehab (1.5 Positions), strength (1.5 positions), speed / agility / quickness (0.5 positions), performance physiology (2 positions), nutrition / weight management (fee-based staff as required), sports psychology (1 position), career advice / dual careers (2 , 5 positions), house of the athlete (sports boarding school / student dormitory & elite schools of sport, 5 positions and cooperation with elite schools of sport) as well as course and building service (5.5 positions).

financing

The OSP MRN has a total annual budget of around 2 million euros. As part of project funding, the OSP MRN receives grants from the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg (shortfall financing, equity ratio approx. 19%). The federal government bears around 77% of the shortfall (approx. 1,500,000 euros) and the state approx. 23% of the shortfall (approx. 430,000 euros).

Athletes

Around 300 athletes with proven prospects of participating in the Olympic Games, Paralympics or Deaflympics live and train in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Short biographies of the most successful athletes with a training focus on the Rhine-Neckar can be found at: team-peking-mrn.de, team-london-mrn.de, team-rio-mrn.de and team-tokio-mrn.de.

sports

The following federal sports associations run federal training centers or cooperate with training centers similar to federal training centers in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region:

German Boxing Association

German Ice Skating Union

Federal Association of German Weightlifters

German Golf Association

German Hockey Association

German Canoe Association

German Athletics Association

German Wrestling Association

German Rugby Association

German Swimming Association

German Table Tennis Association

German Gymnastics Federation

German Disabled Sports Association

German ice hockey association

German Football Association

German Deaf Sports Association

German Handball Federation

tasks

According to the DOSB support point concept, the OSP MRN offers advice and support in mainly the following service areas:

Sports medicine, sports orthopedics and sports psychiatry
Sports physiotherapy
Rehab & Prehab
force
Speed, agility & quickness
Exercise physiology
Diet and weight management
Sports psychology
Career advice & dual career
House of the athlete (sports boarding school / student dormitory & elite sports schools)

Special feature of the OSP training center in Heidelberg

In addition to its core tasks, the OSP MRN operates the training center at the MRN Olympic base in Heidelberg. In the INF 710 building complex, which has retained the charm of its Olympic year of construction in 1972, the federal cadres (and if there are free capacities also other cadres and external users) are available on a total of 18,000 square meters of covered area:

a 3-field hall with a clear height of 13 meters and an extendable grandstand
a 3-field hall with a clearance height of 8 meters
a boxing gym with five high rings, equipment road and a small weight room (from 2021)
a swimming pool with 50x25 pools
a two deck weightlifting room
a device-oriented weight room with approx. 450 square meters
a free weight-oriented weight room with approx. 100 square meters
Changing rooms and showers
Seminar rooms in different sizes
25 overnight rooms for single or double occupancy
the cantina at the OSP with 100 seats and a daily sports-friendly buffet (breakfast, lunch, evening and, if necessary, snacks)
Outpatient departments of the sports medicine and sports orthopedics departments of the Heidelberg University Hospital
an extensive performance diagnostic infrastructure (ergometer, isokinetics, videometry, bioimpedance, speed / height measurement systems, laboratory, etc.)

Web links

Commons : Olympiastützpunkt Rhein-Neckar - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ GEQUO: Olympic Training Center in Heidelberg . Online at www.heidelberg.gequo-travel.de. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
↑ Fränkische Nachrichten: Fencing Sponsorship of the Olympic base Tauberbischofsheim changes from FC to the state sports association. Clear commitment to the location . September 29, 2017. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
↑ Artrevolver: Federal bases. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
↑ Olympic base in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region - further information and updates can be found in the menu at the top right. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 (German).

49.423318 8.660562Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 23.9 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 38" E

[1] GEQUO: Olympic Training Center in Heidelberg . Online at www.heidelberg.gequo-travel.de. Retrieved October 9, 2017.

[2] Fränkische Nachrichten: Fencing Sponsorship of the Olympic base Tauberbischofsheim changes from FC to the state sports association. Clear commitment to the location . September 29, 2017. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 8, 2017.

[3] Artrevolver: Federal bases. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .

[4] Olympic base in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region - further information and updates can be found in the menu at the top right. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 (German).