Vorarlberg gymnastics association

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Vorarlberg gymnastics association
VTS logo
Founded 1946
Place of foundation Hohenems
President Monika Reis
societies 35
Members 10,600 (as of 2019)
Homepage http://www.vts.at

The Vorarlberger Turnerschaft (VTS-LFT) is the regional organization of the Austrian Association for Gymnastics ÖFT in Vorarlberg. The association has 35 gymnastics clubs with 10,600 members. The purpose of the VTS is the maintenance of general gymnastics and the promotion of competitive sports , especially artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics . A competitive sport introduced in 2001 is team gymnastics . The largest and most important division of VTS in popular sports is Turn10 . The VTS belongs to the ASVÖ sports umbrella organization .

organization

Olympic Center Dornbirn

The VTS-LFT is a non-profit non-profit organization, its officials are volunteers. The association presidium forms the board of the association. The sports operations of the respective divisions are managed by specialist supervisors. The main tasks of the association are the organization of trainer courses and further training, the organization of championships and the representation of the interests of its clubs in the state and federal organizations. The VTS is largely financed by subsidies from other associations and the Vorarlberg state government. The management of the Olympic Center in Dornbirn is managed by regional trainers.

meaning

State Youth Gymnastics Festival 2007 Bludenz

The annual regional youth gymnastics festival with around 1,500 participants is Vorarlberg's largest youth sports event - most of the youth gymnastics participants (around 800) belong to the Turn10 mass gymnastics division . The training of the national squad takes place in the Olympic Center in Dornbirn, which is equipped with an apparatus gym, a floor gym and a hall for rhythmic gymnastics. The Vorarlberger Turnverband is a leader in Austrian gymnastics, the statistics of the ÖFT are led by VTS gymnasts. The largest gymnastics events in Vorarlberg were the World Gymnaestrada 2007 and the World Gymnaestrada 2019 .

History of gymnastics in Vorarlberg until 1945

Gymnasts from the Vorarlberg Gymnastics Association prepare the parallel bars at the Austrian Future Cup 2018

Vorarlberg's first gymnastics club was founded in Bregenz in 1849. Until 1938 the gymnastics movement was organized in various umbrella organizations: Bodensee-Turnerbund (founded in 1875, dissolved in 1890), Turngau (founded in 1883, dissolved in 1938) and Rheingau (founded in 1906, dissolved in 1938). The first gymnastics clubs were founded in the second half of the 19th century by liberal-progressive circles and belonged to the Turngau. After the turn of the century, the establishment of the Catholic-oriented Rheingau (as a competitor to the Turngau) led to a split in the gymnastics movement.

In the inter-war period , the entire club system in Vorarlberg was politically co-opted, including the gymnastics clubs. The 23 formerly liberal member associations of the Turngau became increasingly German national . In the 1930s, parts of the Turngau were "illegally" involved in the NSDAP, which was banned in Austria from 1933 to 1938 . The 24 clubs in the Rheingau were close to the Christian Social Party and from 1933 to the Austro-Fascist regime . After Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany , both associations were banned, gymnastics could only be carried out in NS standard gymnastics (German gymnastics and sports community). During the war years from 1939 to 1945 all sports activities came to a standstill.

After the Second World War , the Vorarlberg Gymnastics Association was founded in 1946 as the only Vorarlberg Gymnastics Association, the gymnastics movement was thus reunited. A key feature is the apolitical orientation of the new association. The following quote can be found in Kessler (1995, p. 14): "Any party political activity with the association and in the association was prohibited [at the founding meeting]". Thus, the Vorarlberger Turnerschaft has been a non-political association that has existed since 1946 and in its more than 70-year history has shown no proximity to political parties or ideological principles.

History of the Vorarlberg gymnastics association

  • Hans Sauter took part in four Olympic Games: London 1948, Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960.
  • In 1960 five gymnasts from Vorarlberg took part in the Olympic Games in Rome.
  • In 1965 a group of the Vorarlberg gymnastics association took part in the Gymnaestrada in Vienna.
  • In 1970 the first construction phase of the Oylmpiazentrum in Dornbirn (formerly the state sports school) was inaugurated. Since then, the clubs have been sending their best talents to the LSZ for management training.
  • In 1974 training was started in the new VTS rhythmic gymnastics division .
  • The VTS took part in the Gymnaestrada in Berlin in 1975 with a regional selection .
  • In 1980, at the suggestion of the regional gymnastics supervisor Otto Gratt, a first model test of a sports high school was started at BORG Schoren. The sports high school enables gymnasts to combine school and competitive sports.
  • In 1982, with the completion of the second construction phase of the Olympic Center, the state cadres received an art gymnasium equipped with standing equipment with foam pits.
  • The Vorarlberg Art Gymnastics Days (in Bregenz from 1969 to 1994) were held in the 1980s and 1990s as a "Medico Cup" with top international athletes. The final was held in the Bregenz Festival Hall .
  • Reinhard Blum reached the international IOC limit for the Olympics in Seoul in 1988 and in Barcelona in 1992, but was not sent because the ÖOC national committee set the limit higher.
  • The gymnastics days were revived from 1996 to 1999 and held in the Dornbirn exhibition hall. In 1999 the Olympic champions Alexei Jurjewitsch Nemow and Swetlana Wassiljewna Chorkina take part . Due to a lack of sponsors, this event was discontinued.
  • In 1999, the Olympic Center in Dornbirn was expanded to include a floor gym in the third phase of expansion. At the Gymnaestrada in Gothenburg, TS Wolfurt , a VTS club, took part for the first time.
  • In 2001, the sport of team gymnastics was newly introduced in the VTS.
  • In 2002, a team from Vorarlberg took part in the European Championship in team gymnastics for the first time : a men's selection from the Dornbirn Sports High School took 12th place in Chalons en Champagne.
  • 2001: Artistic gymnast Thomas Zimmermann showed a "Zimmermann-Sprung" jump he had created as a world first: a flip plus a double somersault with a screw.
  • In 2003 artistic gymnast Marco Baldauf won the first gymnastics world cup medal for Austria. Others followed.
  • In 2004 the European Championships in team gymnastics took place in Dornbirn . Vorarlberg is represented by a team from TS Mäder and a VTS selection (at the start as a sports high school in Dornbirn).
  • In 2007 the Gymnaestrada took place in Vorarlberg with 22,000 participants from 53 nations.
  • In 2008 the rhythmic gymnast Caroline Weber qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
  • In 2009 the international gymnastics federation awarded the first “Gym for Life Challenge” to the VTS.
  • In 2012 Marco Baldauf qualified as the first gymnast in the history of the ÖFT for an apparatus final at the European Gymnastics Championships 2012 in Montpellier and achieved 6th place.
  • In 2012, Caroline Weber and Barbara Gasser, two gymnasts from the VTS, qualified for the Summer Olympics in London.
  • In 2013 Caroline Weber ended her career after the 29th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship in Vienna. The acrobatics group Zurcaroh won the FIG world championship in group gymnastics at the Gym for Liefe Challenge in Cape Town .
  • In 2014, the Vorarlberg Gymnastics Association was represented at the European Championships in team gymnastics in Reykjavik with a women's team from TSZ Dornbirn and a men's team from TS Wolfurt .
  • In 2015, eleven clubs from the Vorarlberg Turnerschaft competed at the Gymnaestrada in Helsinki.
  • In 2016, Olympic candidate Elisa Hämmerle injured herself at the "Olympic Test Event" in Rio de Janeiro and thus missed the Olympic qualification. In 2017 she made a comeback with the state champion on the uneven bars at the ÖM in Mattersburg .
  • In 2017 the Turn10 national championship took place in Bregenz. In a comparison of the federal states in this popular sport competition , the VTS takes second place. At the European Championships in artistic gymnastics in Cluj-Napoca , the VTS was represented by four athletes: Marlies Männersdorfer, Dirk Kathan, Michael Fußenegger and Matthias Schwab.
  • In 2018 the 72nd state championship in artistic gymnastics was held in Wolfurt . The VTS won team gold twice and ten individual titles. At the European championship in team gymnastics in Odivelas , VTS gymnasts made up the majority of the ÖFT national teams.
  • 2019: The World Gymnaestrada 2019 is the second major gymnastics event in Vorarlberg after 2007. The VTS associations take on most of the voluntary organization

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Articles of Association of the VTS ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 19 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vts.at
  2. ^ Association magazine with statistics (see p. 12; PDF; 2.3 MB).
  3. ↑ Association magazine with a Gymnaestrada review (PDF; 3.5 MB).
  4. ^ Articles of Association of the VTS ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 19 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vts.at
  5. ↑ Marco Baldauf on the website of the Austrian Gymnastics Association ( Memento from November 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Anniversary edition of the association magazine (see p. 18; PDF; 2.3 MB).

literature

  • Doris Rinke: Come together. be one. Documentation of the 13th World Gymnaestrada 2007 . Ed. Weltgymnaestrada 2007 Management non-profit GmbH Dornbirn.
  • Otto Gratt (among others): 50 years of Vorarlberg gymnastics, 1946–1996. Anniversary font . Published in April 1996.
  • Rinke, Doris: run-up, somersault, carpenter. The unparalleled career of an Austrian gymnast. Hecht Verlag, Hard 2005.
  • Kessler, Josef (1995): 50 Years of the Vorarlberg Sports Association 1945–1995. Hohenems: Editor and publisher: Vorarlberger Sportverband.
  • Wolfgang Weber: From Jahn to Hitler. Political and organizational history of German gymnastics in Vorarlberg. Research on the history of Vorarlberg, published by the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv. University Press Konstanz 1995.

Web links

Commons : Vorarlberger Turnerschaft  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files