TG Würzburg

TGW

Surname	Turngemeinde Würzburg from 1848 eV
Club colors	blue White
Founded	1848
Place of foundation	Wurzburg
Association headquarters	Heiner-Dikreiter-Weg 1 97074 Würzburg
Members	approx. 2000
Departments	13
Chairman	Manfred Graus
Homepage	http://tgw-online.de

The TG Würzburg ( TGW or Turngemeinde Würzburg von 1848 eV ) is a sports club founded in Würzburg in 1848 .

history

The Würzburg gymnastics community was founded on May 18, 1848 in the Café Klinger in Würzburg . After it was banned in 1853, it was re-established in 1861.

Departments

The association consists of departments for aerobics , badminton , basketball , fencing , handball , karate , athletics , Rhönrad , taekwondo , tennis , table tennis , gymnastics and volleyball .

basketball

TG Würzburg
Founded	1953
Hall	TGW Sports Center, S. Oliver Arena
Homepage	http://www.tgw-online.de/tg-blue-sharks.html?&L=%25
Trainer	Janet Fowler-Michel
league	2. DBBL women

Women's team

The women's basketball team became South German champions for the first time on January 10, 1965 with the national player Helga Nowitzki, and won this title four times again in the following years. In 1968 the basketball team of the TG Würzburg reached 5th place in the championship finals. In 1971 the women qualified for the newly founded basketball league and missed relegation a year later.

Men's team

The men's basketball team rose in the 1967/68 season as South German champions in the Bundesliga and rose again in the following season. For the 1977/78 season, the basketball players of the TG Würzburg qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga. In the 1978/79 season , however, the team rose again.

In the 2013/14 season, the "Blue Baskets" won the championship in the Regionalliga Südost and thus promotion to ProB Süd. In 2020, the team was withdrawn from the 2nd Bundesliga ProB following the 2019/20 season, which ended prematurely due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus .

fencing

The fencing department of the TG Würzburg has been trained by Rita König-Römer since January 1st, 2013 , before Jörg Fiedler trained the fencers.

Gym wheel

In wheel gymnastics, Claudia Geyer from the TG Würzburg became world champion in straight gymnastics with music in 1997.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1228.
2. ↑ TV touring Fernsehgesellschaft mbH & Co: s.Oliver Baskets: Homemade Max Ugrai remains loyal to the Würzburgers! . July 1, 2014. Online at www.tvtouring.de. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
3. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Update on the second licensing phase for the 2020/2021 season. Accessed June 3, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ Philipp Jeske: FE: 3 championship titles and a very good overall result. (No longer available online.) TG Würzburg, March 9, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved October 24, 2013 . 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.