Swiss Athletics

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Swiss Athletics is the governing body of all athletics - clubs in Switzerland. Its headquarters are in the House of Sports in Ittigen near Bern .

The name Swiss Athletics has been in effect since November 1, 2006 "in the sense of a standardization of the various known names". The names of Swiss Athletics Federation , Fédération Suisse d'Athletisme (in French-speaking Switzerland ) and Federazione Svizzera d'Atletica Leggera (in Italian-speaking Switzerland are) still well used, but not the corresponding abbreviations SLV and FSA .

The SLV emerged in 1971 from the merger of the two associations, the Swiss Amateur Athletics Association and the Federal Athletics Association . Swiss Athletics consists of around 500 clubs (organized in 19 cantonal associations) and has around 34,000 members. In the 2010 season, Swiss Athletics surpassed the total of 10,000 licensed athletes for the first time since 1995 (including a little more than 5000 children up to the U14 category). In 2016 and 2017 there were already more than 12,000, which shows the upswing in Swiss athletics.

Peter Bohnenblust has been the managing director of Swiss Athletics since August 2015. The management also includes Thomas Suter (Head of Association Management, Sports Services), Peter Haas (Head of Competitive Sports), Karin Schnüriger (Head of Training and Young Talent), Simon Weiler (Head of Marketing and Communication) and Beat Freihofer (Head of Communication).

Christoph Seiler has been President of Swiss Athletics since April 2015 . At the delegates' meeting in Basel in March 2015, he was elected to succeed Hansruedi Müller , whose term of office was ending.

The association magazine Swiss Athletics Magazin (previously run + athletics ), with a circulation of approx. 18,000, appears twice a year.

In Swiss athletics there are three large projects for young talent that teach children how to enjoy athletics. These are the UBS Kids Cup (winter version of the UBS Kids Cup Team), the Mille Gruyère and the Swiss Athletics Sprint. The largest project is the UBS Kids Cup with more than 150,000 participants in 2018.

Swiss Athletics also publishes the running guide, which is very popular in the running scene, with a detailed overview of the dates for the year in question. This has been published exclusively digitally since 2018.

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  1. ↑ http://www.swiss-athletics.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4312&Itemid=10