SV Ohlstadt
The Ohlstadt sports club is a sports club from Ohlstadt in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district . The club, which was founded in 1948 , has produced world-class athletes in bobsleigh for years in addition to its popular sports departments .
history
The association was founded on December 4, 1948 by 28 people. At the beginning, skiing dominated, one of the first steps the young club took was the construction of a ski jump in 1950. A bobsleigh department was added in the 1950s. A separate soccer department has existed since 1965. In the 1970s, the hiking department was the largest department of the club, the department was dissolved in the 1990s, but departments for gymnastics and athletics were created.
Today the club consists of skiing, bobsleigh and luge sports as well as departments for football, gymnastics, athletics, table tennis and ice stock sport.
Bobsleigh
The bobsleigh department started with wooden bobsleighs in the 1950s, the first wood-iron sled was provided by Franz Kemser from the neighboring SC Riessersee . The first successes came from Franz Schelle who, together with Otto Göbl, brought the first German championship title to Ohlstadt in 1960 . In 1962, Franz Schelle drove his four-man bobsleigh to first place at the World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1966 Anton Pensperger and Helmut Wurzer took third place at the European Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. At the Bobsleigh World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1966 , the four-man bobsleigh driven by Pensperger crashed; while Pensperger succumbed to his injuries and Ludwig Siebert was seriously injured, Helmut Wurzer and Roland Eberhart survived the accident with minor injuries.
Only two years after Pensperger's death, Wolfgang Zimmerer won his first German championship title, in 1969 Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider , Walter Steinbauer and Stefan Gaisreiter won the world championship in the four-man bobsleigh. In total, Zimmerer and Utzschneider won an Olympic gold medal and four world championship titles. From 1974 Stefan Gaisreiter also worked as a bobsleigh pilot, he won the last world championship title for an Ohlstadt bobsleigh at the 1979 bobsleigh championship. Besides Franz Schelle, Wolfgang Zimmerer and Stefan Gaisreiter, the bobsleigh pilots Klaus Heiß, Walter Vorderwülbecke and Anton Fischer also won German championship titles. From 1986 to 1989 Christoph Langen acted as a pusher for Anton Fischer, and later Langen was active as a bobsleigh pilot for the Unterhaching bobsleigh club.