Horgen swimming club
The Swimming Club Horgen is a club for swimming and water polo from Horgen . The first water polo team is the Swiss record champion (30 times as of 2015)
history
The Horgen swimming club was founded in 1926 and from 1928 onwards it set up a water polo team. The 1st team of SC Horgen took part in the new 1st league of Swiss water polo from 1947. They rose to the top division, the National League A, in 1951, were runner-up in 1952 and in 1953 for the first time Swiss champions in the top division.
successes
Switzerland
The SC Horgen was Swiss champion 30 times, runner-up 16 times, and 7 times they finished 3rd in the National League A. The team won several times in the Swiss Cup and at the Junior and Youth Swiss Championships.
2007 was the club's most successful water polo year, the water polo teams won all championships held for men, women, juniors and youth, including the women’s title for the first time.
In 2011, the women's team won the Swiss championship for the fifth time in a row.
After an 8-year dry spell, the men of SC Horgen were able to win the long-awaited 30th championship title in 2015.
International
Internationally, qualifying for the semi-finals in the 1977 European Cup was the greatest success. For political reasons, the Eastern European players in the Horgner team were not allowed to play at the semi-final tournament in Belgrade and there was no surprise.
Former players
- Nijs Korevaar , member of the championship team in the 1960s
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results / Rankings. (No longer available online.) In: swisswaterpolo.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 11, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Nijs Korevaar died , accessed on February 26, 2017
