TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
| Surname | Gymnastics and sports club Bayer 04 Leverkusen e. V. |
|---|---|
| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | January 1, 1984 |
| Association headquarters | Leverkusen |
| Members | 10,000 (July 2018) |
| Departments | 11 |
| Chairman | Klaus Beck |
| Homepage | tsvbayer04.de |
The TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen is the largest sports club in Leverkusen and one of the largest membership sports clubs North Rhine-Westphalia . It was originally founded on July 1, 1904 under the name Turn- und Spielverein der Farbenfabriken, formerly Friedrich Bayer & Co., as a company sports club. In its current structure, it was created by the reunification of the sports association Bayer 04 Leverkusen and the gymnastics and game club 04 Bayer Leverkusen , which were separated in the 1920s, in 1984 .
In a total of eleven departments and two areas, the club covers a wide range of sports from youth and popular sports to top-class sports. The departments are basketball , disabled sports , boxing , fistball , fencing , handball , judo , athletics , gymnastics and volleyball . Leisure and popular sports as well as children's and youth sports are also offered. The professional football department was spun off into an independent company in 1999, Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH , in which the club no longer owns any shares; only the chairman of the TSV, Klaus Beck, sits on the shareholder committee appointed by Bayer AG.
Sports of the club
basketball
- see also: Bayer Giants Leverkusen
The Bayer 04 Leverkusen basketball teams are called Bayer Giants Leverkusen. The first men's team plays in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . The club provides a total of 18 teams, from the first men's team to the U-10 team of the under-10s. The first team achieved promotion to the 1st Bundesliga in 1968 and won their first championship title just two years later. The club is considered very successful in German basketball, as evidenced by 14 national championship titles (record) and ten cup wins. This can be traced back to intensive youth work, in which young basketball players have been encouraged for over thirty years. Since 2006, the Leverkusen youth program has been called the “Bayer Giants Academy”. Manager Otto Reintjes explained the name change as follows: "On the one hand, we are emphasizing the relationship and identification with the Bayer Giants' Bundesliga team much more, on the other hand, the focus is on the holistic training character." The youth teams have so far won 18 German championship titles. In 2006 a team from the Bayer Giants Academy took part in the newly founded youth basketball league (NBBL).
Disabled sports
The disabled sports department has around 330 members, making it one of the largest in Germany. It was founded in 1950 and was intended as a department for the disabled after the Second World War . A variety of sports are available, with athletics, sitting volleyball and swimming being the largest. Leverkusen athletes have also won medals at international competitions such as World and European Championships and Paralympics . In addition to competitive sports, Bayer 04 Leverkusen also offers rehabilitation and mass sports for the disabled.
In athletics for the disabled, athletics is divided into five categories. For amputees / Les Autres, spastic patients, wheelchair users, the blind and the mentally handicapped, the focus in Leverkusen is on the amputees. The training is led by Karl-Heinz Düe and the former javelin thrower Steffi Nerius. Helena Hermens is still at their side as a trainer in the youth work.
Sitting volleyball has been played in Leverkusen for 40 years. The team is considered to be one of the strongest in Germany and is looked after by coach Martin Blechschmidt. So far she has won 16 German championship titles and the European Cup three times.
The youth department in the area of disabled sports was awarded the Commerzbank Green Ribbon in 2002 and 2009 for its good work. The association regularly organizes taster courses in athletics, swimming and sitting volleyball.
Altogether, Leverkusen athletes have won 20 gold, twelve silver and 18 bronze medals at Paralympics so far. The most successful athlete is Britta Siegers, who won eight gold and four silver medals between 1984 and 1992.
Boxing
The boxers Bayer 04 Leverkusens have long been among the most successful in Germany. They have been represented there almost continuously since the 1st Bundesliga was founded in 1971. In 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 2001 and 2002 the boxing relay won the German championship. In 2005, the company "withdrew" from the 1st Bundesliga. The future goal is to introduce new talent to the top German performers and to prepare current performers for national and international challenges. Currently, individual athletes are loaned to a friendly club to gain experience in the major league. In the medium term, a complete team of its own should compete in the major league again.
At the Olympic Games Reinhard Skriczek won bronze in Montreal in 1976 , Orhan Delibaş in 1992 in Barcelona silver, Jan Quast and Arnold Vanderlyde also in 1992 bronze.
The best-known boxers in the Bayer 04 Leverkusen ranks include René Weller , who won numerous German individual titles in the 1970s, and Dariusz Michalczewski , 1991 European light heavyweight champion. Felix Sturm is currently one of the club's well-known boxers.
Fistball
The fistball department has existed since the club was founded in 1904. After the club was split into TuS 04 and SV Bayer Leverkusen, both clubs continued to play fistball. The German Gymnastics Association has organized German fistball championships since 1913. After the gymnasts had separated from the rest of the club, this was the only sport that SV Bayer Leverkusen organized under the gymnastics umbrella.
In TuS 04 there had been some local successes in the Niederberg district before the war, but it was only after the war and the re-establishment that one could attract national attention. In 1972 the male youth team became German runners-up. Many of these players later formed the framework of the first men's team, so that it was able to qualify for the newly founded European league straight away in 1978. The women's team has played first class since 1977, the men's team since 1978. In 1981, both teams became German runners-up, with the men being treated as relegation candidates before the start of the season. After winning the German championship for women in field fistball, numerous top performers migrated, whereupon the women’s team had to be dissolved after withdrawing from the Bundesliga and due to a lack of capable young players. In 1983 the men of TuS 04 won the European Cup against the Swiss representative Satus Altstetten . Important players of this era were player- coach Udo Cymera , Udo Mehle , Bernd Michel, Ingo Krewitt, Uwe Schneider and Karlheinz Schulze.
From 1928 onwards, SV Bayer Leverkusen saw an increase in performance that resulted in six Gaumeist titles and the West German runner-up title in 1928. After the war, SV Bayer Leverkusen's fistball players played in lower classes and couldn't keep up with TuS 04. In 1974 they were promoted to the association league, which was the top division at the state level at the time, in which they played together with TuS 04.
On July 1, 1984, SV Bayer Leverkusen and TuS 04 merged again and from then on formed TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The fistball players played a leading role in the Bundesliga fistball , came second in the RTB Cup in 1985 and won the European Cup again in 1985 and 1986. A women's team was also re-established, which rose to the association league in 1985, but was dissolved again at the end of the 1980s. The successful times of the men's team also came to an end. In 1987 they finished second in the European Cup, after which they were relegated. The Leverkusen fistball men are now playing in the first division again, but have never been able to build on the successes of the past.
fencing
The Leverkusen fencing department was founded in 1907 and today consists of around 300 members. The areas of modern pentathlon, Frisian pentathlon and triathlon also fall into the field of fencing. The club provides a women's and a men's epee team. The women's team includes the German national fencers Britta Heidemann and Marijana Marković , the Austrian national fencer Andrea Rentmeister , as well as Jutta Hofmann, Leigh Catherine Voigt, Nicola Fohrer and Silke low. The men's sword team consists of Jens Pfeiffer, Christoph Kneip, Alexander Nemeth and Sascha Ludwikowski, who won the German team championship in 2005, as well as Gerrit Heidemann, Achim Bellmann and Georg Hartmann. The Bayer Fencing Cup , which the men's team has won for the past six years in a row, is held every year . The women's team had to admit defeat in 2006 to the Hungarian representative Honvéd Budapest , who was led by the double Olympic champion Tímea Nagy .
Recreational and popular sports
The leisure and popular sports department is the largest within the club with 4,000 members. Throughout the week, recreational athletes take part in various sporting activities such as aerobics , aqua gymnastics, Nordic walking , fitness training, jazz dance , yoga or table tennis . There are also special offers for seniors and cancer follow-up patients.
Handball
- see main article: Bayer 04 Leverkusen (handball)
In the mid-1920s, handball began in the Leverkusen 04 sports association, and in the summer of 1930 the women's and youth teams played their first games. The women have won twelve German championships so far , nine times the DHB Cup and once the European title EHF Challenge Cup .
The men of SV Bayer 04 won the German field handball championship in 1956. In the same year, the men of TUS 04 also rose to the top German league. By 1964, SV Bayer was a total of eight western champions in field and indoor handball and was twice in the final of the German championship. After the introduction of the Bundesliga indoor handball league in 1966, Bayer 04 were only first class in the 1978/79 seasons and in the 1980/81 and 1981/82 seasons. After relegation in 1982, the team played in the 2nd Bundesliga for twelve years until they withdrew for financial reasons in 1994.
Judo
The judo department was founded in 1960, for which members of the wrestling department were responsible at the time. The club has a men's team in the 2nd Bundesliga North and a women's team in the 1st Bundesliga. The focus is on the youth work, which is already bearing fruit when three teams in the age groups U14, U17 and U20 have established themselves within the North Rhine-Westphalian Judo Association (NWJV). The teams' home fights will be held at Marienburger Strasse 4 in the Herbert-Grünewald-Hallen. The judo department is one of the largest in the association with 650 members. Michael Weyres is the coach of the women's team.
Children and youth sports
The children's and youth sports department has 2,600 members. Its aim is to motivate children and young people for the long term for popular sport and, if necessary, to integrate them into the performance-oriented area. The organizational implementation takes place in the division of children and young people according to age. One to three year olds can already take part in sporting activities, whereby the motor and cognitive development should be stimulated here. The four to seven year olds have to focus on solving exercise tasks. The high motor learning ability of eight to twelve-year-olds should be used, which is why they are introduced to various sports in this grade. The club has 14 of its own halls, six certified sports instructors and 15 licensed trainers.
Part of the concept is also the sports class introduced in 2000 at the District Administrator Lucas-Gymnasium, which is supported by the responsible ministries and the Cologne-Bonn-Leverkusen Olympic Training Center. In addition, the “Teilinternat Leverkusen” concept has existed since 1995 , which is intended to ensure the schooling development of the young athletes.
athletics
The athletics department at Bayer 04 Leverkusens is the club's flagship. Nationally and internationally, Leverkusen athletes have drawn attention to themselves several times for years and have won various titles.
The first Olympic champion of SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen was Willi Holdorf , who won the gold medal in the decathlon in Tokyo in 1964 . Holdorf trained with Bert Sumser , as did Gerhard Hennige and Claus Schiprowski later , who won Olympic silver in 1968. In general, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen was the club of athletes, the athletes competed for TuS 04 Leverkusen . The trainer Gerd Osenberg was particularly responsible for the success of Liesel Westermann and Ellen Wessinghage . In 1972 in Munich , Heide Rosendahl was able to win gold in two competitions, both in the long jump and in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Since 2002 she has been the second chairman of the athletics department. The only known athlete at TuS 04 Leverkusen was the long jumper Hans-Jürgen Berger .
In the late 1970s, the athletics departments of the two departments merged into one athletics community. In 1979 Ulrike Meyfarth became German champion in the high jump for TuS 04 Leverkusen, and in 1980 she was successful for the new LG Bayer Leverkusen . The Wesselingen athlete, who surprisingly became Olympic champion at the 1972 Olympic Games at the age of 16, won gold as a Leverkusen athlete twelve years later at the 1984 Los Angeles Games . She still does public relations work and talent scouting in the club today.
In 1992 two athletes won gold in Barcelona: Dieter Baumann over 5000 meters and Heike Henkel in the high jump, both starting for the LG Bayer Leverkusen. The athletics community was only officially ended at the end of 1996, the competitive sports department with head coaches Gerd Osenberg and Bernd Knut now also officially acted as TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , and in 1999 Charles Friedek won the world championship in the triple jump.
In addition to the Olympic gold medals, Leverkusen athletes were able to win silver seven times and bronze ten times at the Olympic Games. Among them was Kurt Bendlin , world record holder and athlete of the year 1967, who won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, only Steffi Nerius was able to win a silver medal in the javelin throw, in 2009 she was world champion and athlete of the year at the end of her career.
Current top performers in the squad include Konstanze Klosterhalfen in the middle and long-distance run, Aleixo Platini Menga in the sprint, Mateusz Przybylko in the high jump, Silke Spiegelburg in the pole vault, Jennifer Oeser in the heptathlon and Katharina Molitor in the javelin throw.
do gymnastics
The Turn Department organized itself after the split of the association in 1923 TuS 04, since the merger of TuS 04 and SV Bayer Leverkusen is the gymnastics part of the TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen. In 1985 the sports gymnastics group was established, in which the gymnastics disciplines ball, hoop and ribbon, as well as the gymnastics wheel, are trained.
volleyball
- see main article: Bayer 04 Leverkusen (volleyball)
In 1969 the volleyball department was founded. In 1977 the men's team of SG Monheim, playing in the 2nd Bundesliga, moved to Leverkusen, whereupon in 1978 they were promoted to the top division. Under coach Peter Szück, the team managed to become German champions as early as 1979. She was able to repeat this in 1989 and 1990, and she also won the German Cup in 1988. As part of the sports concept of Bayer AG, the first men's team was transferred to SV Bayer Wuppertal .
After that, the work in the women's department was intensified, which was reinforced by the change of the second-rate post SV Köln. After a short interlude in the 1st Bundesliga in the 1990/91 season, they have remained consistently top-notch since being promoted again in 1993, or should have been allowed to register for the 1st Bundesliga. After they became runner-up for the first time in 1999, the team reached second place in the championship, in the cup and in the European Cup (Top Teams Cup) in the 2004 season. For the 2009/2010 season, the team was withdrawn from the 1st Bundesliga because it was not possible to raise the budget to finance the season. For the same reason, the team was unable to exercise the right to promotion to the 1st Bundesliga that they had won in the 2nd Bundesliga this season.
The volleyball department has around 300 members and comprises 8 women, 3 men, 12 women and 6 men youth teams.
Web links
- Official homepage of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e. V.
- Homepage of the handball department of the TSV
- Homepage of the Bayer Giants (basketball department)
- Homepage of the athletics department
Individual evidence
- ↑ TSVBayer04.de: My TSV - sport is our passion
- ^ Leverkusen.com: Systematic funding: "TSV Bayer 04 Academy"
- ↑ ksta.de: patient development work ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 28, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015. ( dead link )
- ↑ TSVBayer04.de: The future in mind
- ↑ TSVBayer04.de: Olympic Games
- ↑ Sport-Komplett.de: Athletics - German Championships (high jump - women)
- ↑ Bayer.de: Bayer - one of the largest sports sponsors in Germany
