Stone throwing
The putting the stone is a sport that for lawn weight training part. In Germany the sport is subject to the supervision of the German Lawn Power Sport and Tug of War Association (DRTV). It is a fast strength discipline in which a device usually made of artificial stone or cast iron in the form of a cuboid with a weight between 3 kg and 15 kg, the "stone", with a run-up of 10 m to 15 m in front of a push-off bar as one-armed as possible is pushed far beyond. The athletes are divided into weight classes. Occasionally there are also competitions with heavier stone weights of over 80 kg.
Stone throwing is one of the oldest sports known to man. The prehistoric use of stones as throwing weapons required special training for distance and accuracy, from which a playful approach developed. Today's competitive character has its origins in Switzerland , where shepherds and herdsmen exercised the putting the stone as a power play. As early as the 13th century was built by the Viscount of Lienz and in Basel came across St. Peter's Square the stone, and the federal shooting festivals existed in the 15th century next to the shooting also open games where the putting the stone belonged.
The most traditional competition has been taking place in Switzerland for over 200 years on the occasion of the Unspunnen Festival in Interlaken , where a 184 pound stone was struck for the first time in 1805, and from 1808 the Unspunnen stone with 167 pounds (83.5 kilograms).
Stone throwing was first introduced as a sport at the first German Gymnastics Festival in Coburg in 1860 . At the time, the device to be pushed was a 15 kg cube made of iron, a "stone" that is still in use today. At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , stone throwing was added to the program. The impact device weighed only 6.4 kg. In 1913, the first German champions in stone throwing were determined at the German championships in wrestling and weightlifting . In 1972 stone throwing was also held as an indoor championship, and in 1983 a German female champion was chosen for the first time. In 2001 the first European championship in lawn strength sports was held, at which stone throwing was also part of the program.
Stone pushing can be chosen as a discipline for the German sports badge in the field of strength . In contrast to the usual evaluation, the best width of three hits with the right and left arm is added to a total width.
literature
- Hans Peter Treichler: Swiss national games or there chapter stone poking. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DOSB, German Sports Badge, Examination Guide 2015. (PDF; 4.8 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 3, 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.
