SC Motor Zella-Mehlis

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The Motor Zella-Mehlis sports club is a winter sports club from Zella-Mehlis in Thuringia , active in the areas of Nordic skiing and biathlon . It was founded in 1904 as the Zella winter sports club . The club has had its current name since it was re-established as the GDR sports club in 1954. With four gold, one silver and five bronze medals at the Winter Olympics , three gold, two silver and eight bronze medals at world championships and five times the Four Hills Tournament is the club of one of the most successful German winter sports clubs.

Mat jumping was developed here in 1954 by the ski jumping trainer Hans Renner .

history

After there was a forerunner club that existed for a short time from 1897, the Zella winter sports club was founded on October 1, 1904, as the first winter sports club in Thuringia. After initially taking part in local competitions, the club's athletes achieved success up to the outbreak of World War I, including German championships. After an interruption as a result of the war, the association was able to resume in December 1918. In February 1924, the cross-country relay won the German championship for the first time.

After the towns of Zella and Mehlis had already merged in 1919, the winter sports club Zella merged with the winter sports association Mehlis to form the winter sports association Zella-Mehlis e. V. From the mid-1920s, cross-country skier Otto Wahl was the club's most important athlete and was one of the best German cross-country skiers of the following years. In 1928 he was one of the first ever German Olympic athletes in Nordic skiing . In the following years, the club was able to record various successes.

After the end of the Second World War, organized skiing began again in 1947. In October 1954, SC Motor Jena was founded as a GDR performance sports center in several sports. The winter sports club Zella-Mehlis thus became the branch office for skiing (cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined) and wrestling of SC Motor Jena.

SC motor ski jumper Helmut Recknagel

In the same year, the ski jumping trainer Hans Renner invented the use of plastic mats for ski jumping training in the snowless period, after the Zella-Mehlis ski jumpers had only shown moderate performance in the previous season. This also laid the foundation for the club's subsequent ski jumping successes. In 1954, for the first time after the Second World War, athletes from the club took part in world championships, and from 1956 also in the Olympic Games. Since then, the club has been represented at all subsequent Olympic Winter Games and Nordic World Ski Championships . The ski jumper Helmut Recknagel was the club's first Olympic champion at the 1960 Winter Olympics . In 1961 and 1965 Peter Lesser achieved two ski flying world records with 141 and 145 meters respectively. In the 1960s and 1970s, three of the club's ski jumpers won the Four Hills Tournament. In addition to Helmut Recknagel (twice), these were Horst Queck and Rainer Schmidt (twice). In 1980 Veronika Hesse-Schmidt became the first German cross-country world champion. The GDR youth ski jumping champion from 1964 Reinhard Heß worked as a trainer for the club in the seventies and eighties, from 1988 as the head coach of the GDR ski jumpers and from 1993 to 2003 as the national ski jumping coach of the DSV .

In 1985, the cross-country youth trainer Henner Misersky was dismissed without notice because he refused to give the cross-country skiers he trained (including his daughter Antje ) male hormones as doping agents. After the end of the GDR, Henner and Antje Misersky campaigned for clarification of the GDR doping program and were honored many times.

Since 1997, biathletes have also started for the SC Motor Zella-Mehlis. Here was Kati Wilhelm since 2001 the most successful athlete of the club and in 2006 also German Sportswoman of the Year .

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Individual evidence

  1. Thuringia. Sheets on regional studies. State Center for Civic Education, Erfurt 2004 ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 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. (PDF; 115 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringen.de
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