SV Cannstatt
The SV Cannstatt (officially swimming club Cannstatt 1898 eV ) is a sports club from the Stuttgart district of Bad Cannstatt . In addition to the swimming department, he also has a water polo department.
society
The association was founded in 1898 and has around 1,300 members. This makes it the largest swimming and water polo club in Baden-Württemberg. In both areas, the club engages in top-class and popular sports . The club's own swimming pool is the Mombachbad in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.
swim
The first big - and to this day also biggest - success of SV Cannstatt in the swimming area was achieved by Otto Fahr . In 1912 he was able to set world records over 100 m backs as well as 200 m backs . The world record over 200 m backs lasted over 14 years.
At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 Otto Fahr won the silver medal over 100 m back .
The first swimming team of SV Cannstatt had the right to start in the 1st swimming Bundesliga in 2005 . But since she did not run (because the swimmers were fired), she was downgraded. In 2007 the best team from Cannstatt was found in the Württembergliga.
Water polo
SV Cannstatt is one of the traditional clubs of the German Water Polo League . He won the German Cup in 1973 .
In 2005 and 2006, the SVC was the largest club in the team of national coach Hagen Stamm with six national players . In the 2005/06 season the Cannstatt was a 3: 2 victory in the Best of five discharged play-offs against the water Spandau 04 for the first time German champions . Previously, the Spandau had won the German championship title twelve times in a row. Three weeks after winning the German championship, SV Cannstatt announced that it would withdraw its team from the Bundesliga, as the budget for the coming season was 150,000 euros short. The players were allowed to look for new clubs before problems were foreseeable. The club now intensively promoted the next generation of water polo players.
After SV Cannstatt withdrew from the German Water Polo League and competed in the Baden-Württemberg Oberliga, they were promoted to the Second Water Polo League South in the first season. There they became champions straight away in the 2007/08 season, but did not participate in the promotion tournament to DWL. In the 2008/09 season, the club was able to repeat this success in the second water polo league south. At the promotion tournament to the German Water Polo League on 18./19. July 2009 in Duisburg the SV Cannstatt was able to prevail against the teams of Duisburger SV 98 , SVV Plauen , SpVg Laatzen and thus return to the first division (Group B).
On April 27, 2012, SV Cannstatt managed to return to the A group of the German Water Polo League. He defeated SV Würzburg 05 in four play-off games and returned to the top German division for the first time since the championship season in 2006. In the 2014/15 season they rose again to the B group and in the 2016/17 season to the 2nd division .
Disabled sports
The disabled sports department of SV Cannstatt was founded on February 10, 2004 in the Mombach restaurant by nine active members. At the moment the department consists of thirteen people with all kinds of disabilities.
Christina Ziegler brought her greatest success with a gold medal at the 2006 World Championships in Durban / South Africa and her participation in the 2004 Paralympics in Athens. She is also a multiple international German champion on the long and short course, multiple Württemberg champion and regional champion in Saxony, Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria. She set a world record over 100 m chest on the long track and the world record over 50 m and 100 m chest on the short track.