Swimming Union Vienna
| Surname | Swimming Union Vienna |
|---|---|
| Club colors | Red and white |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| Umbrella organization | Sports union |
| ZVR number | 540205316 |
| Homepage | schwimm-union-wien.at |
The Swimming Union Vienna , SU Vienna or SUW for short , is an Austrian water sports club from Vienna . The club was founded in 1945 by former members of the First Vienna Amateur Swimming Club (EWASC).
swim
- history
In the post-war period, many Austrian clubs had to overcome many organizational hurdles that are unimaginable today. Austria was divided into four occupation zones and the clubs needed a lot of organizational talent to travel to the competitions. The members of the Vienna Swimming Union had this and were able to win many championship titles during this time.
- successes
The club achieved success in butterfly swimming , which the FINA only recognized as its own swimming style in 1952, in crawl swimming for women, and in backstroke swimming thanks to Helmut Koppelstätter , who was fourth in the world rankings over 100 m back in 1949 and sixth in 1951 was standing. Koppelstätter qualified for the European Championships in Monte Carlo in 1947 and in Vienna in 1950 and for the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. Other successful swimmers of the club were Peter Steinwender over 200 m and 400 m crawl and Kurt Dittrich , who took part in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Nora Novotny in the crawl swim and Lore Trittner in the backstroke reached the limit for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Austrian champions were Andrea Steiner in medley and backstroke swimming in 1970, and Kuno Leu, Detlef Leu, Herbert Humpelstetter and Philipp Urbanek five times in a row in the 4 × 200 m crawl relay in the 1980s. Also in these years fell the successes of Kurt Dittrich and Ulrike Bauer in breaststroke, which took part in the 1982 World Cup in Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the 1983 European Championships in Rome. Nina Hermann and Christa Weigang were successful in the long haul.
Diving
Members of the Vienna Swimming Union were Ali Pascher-Staudinger , who won silver from the board and bronze from the tower at the European Championships in Monte Carlo in 1947. In 1950 at the European Championships in Vienna she was ranked 2nd and Franz Worisch from the 3m board in fourth place. Eva Pfarrhofer won the bronze medal at the 1954 European Championships in Turin. Kurt Mrkwicka won the 1962 European Championships in Leipzig ahead of the East German sprinter HD Pophal.
Synchronized swimming
The first state championships in synchronized swimming took place in Schwaz in 1957. Ida Weingärtler won in solo, in duo with Gretl Gebauer and Hertraud Prank and in team competition with Annemarie Benischek, Edith Frank and Friedl Machek. During this time, the club was able to win a number of Austrian national championships with these swimmers.
At the first world championships in 1973 in Belgrade, Ida Weingärtler started in the solo competition; Gabriele Haureich, Gabriele Nechansky, Sonja Bangerter, Sissi Bartl, Ida Weingärtler and Tamara Worisch were represented at the first European Championship in Amsterdam.
At the 1978 World Championships in Berlin, the then 13-year-old Alexandra Worisch and 12-year-old Eva Edinger caused an international sensation as a duo, at the European Championships in 1981 Alexandra took 2nd place in solo and together with her partner Eva in duo third place , supervised by the English trainer Dawn Zajac. The 1982 World Championships in Guayaquil (Ecuador), the European Championships in Rome and the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles did not produce the desired results for the two of them. The duo changed coaches and was now looked after by the Olympic champion Sharon Hambrock, went to Florida for a training stay lasting several months, and started with a revised freestyle program at the 1985 European Championships in Sofia, where they won the gold medal.
Worisch had already achieved third place in solo, fifth place at the 1986 World Championships in Madrid and, at the end of her sporting career, second place at the 1987 European Championships in Strasbourg.
Water polo
| Surname | Swimming Union Vienna water polo |
|---|---|
| Department of | Swimming Union Vienna |
| sport | Water polo |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| resolution | 1972 |
| Homepage | www.schwimm-union-wien.at |
- history
At the First Vienna Amateur Swimming Club (EWASC), the water polo players were eight times Austrian champions. That is why water polo was played in the Vienna Swimming Union very soon after it was founded and it became one of the most successful sections of the club.
- titles and achievements
After the success of the Police SV Wien in 1946 and the Vienna AC in 1947, the water polo players won the Vienna Bundesliga championships twice in a row. After Diana Vienna won the championship twice, the section started a winning streak of 18 championship titles in a row, with an Austria-wide championship, the State League, being founded from 1955. The last championship title was won in 1972. In total, the water polo players from the Schwimm-Union Wien won 21 championship titles. The squad consisted of top swimmers, such as the nine-time state champion in butterfly swimming Otto Mayer, Rudolf Stiskalik, the back swimmer Fritz Stingel, the long-distance swimmer Erich Bohuslav, the breaststroke swimmer Willi Baidinger, the state champions in the relay competitions Helmut Bauer, Robert Fessl, Heinz Krumpfholz, and Wolfgang Leu , Wolfgang Navratil, Helmut Rapp and Herbert Zgraja, as well as Otto Mayer, Fritz Stingel, Erich Bohuslav and back swimmer Wolfgang Navratil.
In the Austrian national team, which took part in the European Championship in Vienna in 1950, four water polo players from the Vienna Swimming Union were represented with Julius Depaoli, Robert Fessl, Gustl Gebhardt and Heinz Krumpfholz; the national team finished fifth after beating France. The national team has been invited to national competitions by other nations. The Austrians played against Spain in 1957 with a squad that consisted almost exclusively of players from the swimming union: Helmut Bauer, Gustl Gebhardt, Klausinger, Kottas, Otto Mayer, Wolfgang Navratil and Herbert Zgraja as well as the two Linzers Kutschera and Ilk.
The sports pool at Engelmann-Platz in Vienna's 17th district was an ideal training facility for water polo players and the venue for many fights on a national and international level. Despite the closure of this pool in 1964, thanks to the Engelmann family, the club continued to play its championship games there until 1972. In 1972 the family sold the rights to build a wholesale market, and the club lost its traditional training facility and with it the connection to the international top.
- Overview of the titles
- 8 × under the first Viennese amateur swimming club : 1912, 1913, 1915, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937
- 5 × Bundesliga champions: 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954
- 16 × Austrian champions (men): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ SU Vienna, history of the swimming division. In: schwimm-union-wien.at. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
- ^ SU Vienna, history of the diving division. In: schwimm-union-wien.at. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
- ^ SU Vienna, history of the synchronized jumping division. In: schwimm-union-wien.at. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
- ^ SU Vienna, history of the water polo division. In: schwimm-union-wien.at. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Well-known Viennese ice rinks: Historical overview. In: ots.at. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .