WAT Stadlau
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| Surname | WAT Stadlau |
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| Founded | February 9, 1914 |
| Members | 775 |
| Homepage | http://www.wat-stadlau.at |
The WAT Stadlau (for Wiener ASKÖ Team Stadlau) is a sports club from Vienna - Donaustadt . It has 775 members (as of 2008). The club celebrated its greatest successes in ice hockey and judo .
history
On February 9, 1914, the “Arbeiter Turnverein in Stadlau” was founded. The aim of the working class gymnastics clubs was a harmonious physical training with the greatest possible versatility. The gymnasts wanted to do the sporting exercises under the influence of "air, light and sun" (fresh-free-strong-loyal = FFST, which is reflected in the club's logo).
With the outbreak of the Second World War , the association's work was ended.
In October 1954 some sports enthusiasts met around the later chairman Ferdinand Kremnitzer (1922–2006) and decided to re-establish the sports club WAT Stadlau. In autumn 1955, Ferdinand Kremnitzer was elected first chairman at the first ordinary general assembly.
In the first year only gymnastics for children, women and men was offered, two years later the sports offer was expanded to include judo , basketball , wrestling and apparatus gymnastics . In the next few years other sports such as fencing , athletics , skiing, ice hockey, table tennis , karate , handball , jazz dance , volleyball and a slow-running club were added. The club's first clubhouse was on Wurmbrandgasse; the club's current premises are also in Stadlau .
In the 1970s and 1980s, the WAT Stadlau was particularly successful in ice hockey. The Russian players Juri Morosow and Valeriy Nikitin were committed, who were the first legionnaires from the former USSR in the West to receive a game permit. Reinhard Divis , who started his career with the club, was the first Austrian to play in the NHL . Third place overall was achieved in the very first season in the Bundesliga . In 1980 the ice hockey team won the national league and in the 1983/84 season again achieved third place overall; after the 1984/85 season , the club had to relegate. The Donauparkhalle functioned as home . The merger with WEV in 1992 to form CE Vienna sealed the end of the ice hockey division.
Due to the successes in judo since the 1980s, this division became the club's new flagship. In 1983 the Judokas rose to the National League. As a newcomer, who had to do without legionnaires, relegation was not achieved. With fighters from its own offspring, the club attempted to return to the national league, which succeeded in 1988. The team had to be relegated after a year.
In the 1980s, the club was heavily in debt and chairman Ferdinand Kremnitzer had to give up the office of club management. Ms. Irene Silberbauer was elected chairwoman for one year. At the end of 1986 Heinz Unger took over from Irene Silberbauer as chairman of the association. Mrs. Christa Bucher, whose son Michael Bucher is one of the most successful judoka of the club, became the new chairwoman in 1995.
In December 2002, the ASKÖ was accepted and the name of the club was changed to Wiener ASKÖ Team Stadlau (WAT Stadlau).
In November 2004, the chairwoman was awarded first place in the choice of volunteers for the most successful young talent work by the Ministry of Social Affairs. In his laudation, BSO President Franz Löschnak described the chairwoman as "The mother of the Viennese judo sport".
On April 22, 2005, the WAT Stadlau celebrated its 50th anniversary in the town hall at the invitation of Mayor Michael Häupl .
In 2013, Wolfgang Ehrenzweig took over the management of the club, which he handed over to Alexander Dick in 2019.
successes
- ice Hockey
- 1971/72 : 3rd place in the Bundesliga
- 1979/80 : 1st place in the national league
- 1983/84 : 3rd place in the Bundesliga
- Judo
- several Austrian champions in the youth field
- Austrian masters in the Kata competition
- 1983: 8th place in the national league
- 1988: 8th place in the national league
- 1991: 1st place world tournament Leonding (Michael Bucher)
- 2012: 1st place Austrian State Championships Nage-no-kata (Alexander Dick & Martin Grafl)
- 2013: 2nd place Austrian women's team championship
- 2014: 1st place Austrian State Championships -60 kg (Stefan Moser)
- 2014: 7th place European Cadet Championship in Athens -57 kg (Asimina Theodorakis)
- 2015: 3rd place Austrian women's team championship
- 2018: 5th place Cadet European Cup in Györ -60 kg (Adam Safer)
- 2019: 5th place Cadet European Cup in Follonica & Zagreb -60 kg (Adam Safer)
Well-known athletes
- ice Hockey
Johannes Schuller, Bill Gilligan , Jan Suchý , Jiří Holík , Brian Stankiewicz, Walter Znenahlik, Walter Znenahlik jun., Peter Znenahlik, Larry Sacharuk, Christian Schnabl, Philipp Lukas , the brothers Reinhard Divis and Raimund Divis
- Judo
Martin Kölbl, Michael Bucher, Norbert Ehrenzweig, Wolfgang Ehrenzweig (first Austrian KATA master 1997), Alexander Dick (multiple Austrian KATA master), Rene Fuger (Austrian KATA master 2004) and Stefan Moser (Austrian master 2014)