WSV Oberhof 05

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Winter sports club Oberhof 05 e. V. , WSV Oberhof 05 or WSV Oberhof for short , is a German winter sports club in Oberhof .

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The WSV Oberhof 05 walked out of the resolution on November 23, 1990 ASK forward Oberhof forth, who is considered one of the most successful winter sports club in the world. The ASK athletes won 16 gold medals at five Winter Olympic Games between 1956 and 1990. After the fall of the Wall , the former system of GDR sports funding could no longer be maintained in its army sports clubs. As before, a focus is on the search for and talent development in young and competitive sports in the sports of biathlon , cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined . The formerly very successful sports bobsleigh and tobogganing are offered, but are now operated on a professional level in the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof . In grassroots WSV also offers summer and indoor sports to: football , gymnastics , a running group , mountain biking , tennis , table tennis and volleyball , as well as in disabled sports . The association has around 500 members, in addition to active athletes, coaches, judges, stewards and volunteers. The club uses the Lotto Thuringia Arena on the Rennsteig as a training center for cross-country skiing . Ski jumping takes place on the ski jumping facility in the Kanzlersgrund , for the youth on the ski jumping facility on the Wadeberg . Luge and skeleton sports are practiced on the Oberhof luge track , but bobsleigh is not due to the lack of run-up length. The training of junior athletes takes place in conjunction with the Oberhof sports high school.

biathlon

Sven Fischer at a World Cup race in 2003

The most successful department of the club is biathlon. The most successful athletes here are the two-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion (information always based on starts for the WSV) Frank Luck and Sven Fischer with four Olympic champions and seven world championship titles. With Antje Misersky , the club provided a third Olympic champion who also won at least one silver medal in all three races of the Olympic biathlon competitions , which were first held in 1992 . Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm won Olympic silver and five titles at world championships . Sabrina Buchholz also became world champion, and medals at world championships were won by Christoph Stephan , Alexander Wolf , Kathi Schwaab and Kerstin Moring . For European Championships was Jörn Wollschläger four times successfully, Juliane Döll 's second most successful with five title wins woman at European Championships. Other well-known biathletes are Jenny Adler , Steffi Kindt and Lisa Voigt . The American Jay Hakkinen is also a member of the club.

With the establishment of the Oberhof sports promotion group, Andrea Henkel also trains at the club, and men's national coach Frank Ullrich was also based here, as were the current national and executive coaches Mark Kirchner , Gerald Hönig and Peter Sendel . Gerd Hauke ​​and Roman Böttcher are trainers at the sports high school.

WSV Oberhof also produced successful athletes in the summer biathlon with Matthias Albrecht , the seven-time German champion Niklas Heyser and Erik Lahl .

Nordic skiing

Ronny Ackermann during a race of the Summer Grand Prix in Steinbach-Hallenberg 2004

The most successful cross-country skier is Olympic and world champion Manuela Henkel , the most successful among cross-country skiers is Andreas Schlütter , who won one Olympic silver and one bronze as well as two silver and one bronze medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships . Jana Hönig also belongs to the association. Other athletes like Jens Filbrich also train at the club through the Oberhof sports promotion group . As a coach of the sports promotion group, Andreas Schlütter is also part of the club as a World Cup discipline trainer. Steffen Pollack works at the sports high school .

The most successful Nordic combined athlete is Ronny Ackermann , who before he switched clubs had won two Olympic silver medals, one world championship title and two times the overall World Cup. Even Marcel Höhlig won Olympic silver. Another combiner in the performance area was Stephan Münchmeyer .

In ski jumping, after the Olympic champions Stephan Hocke and Andreas Wank, Gerd Siegmund is the club's most successful athlete by winning a silver medal at world championships. Ralph Gebstedt was three times German champion, Jörg Ritzerfeld twice runner-up. Regional trainer at the club is Rainer Schmidt , trainer at the high school Ralph Gebstedt.

Bobsleigh and luge sports

Until the founding of the BSR Rennsteig Oberhof , bobsleigh and tobogganing was still practiced at the highest level under the umbrella of the WSV. The bobsleigh team Wolfgang Hoppe , Bogdan Musiol , René Hannemann and Axel Kühn won silver at the Olympic Games and a world championship title. Jan Behrendt is most successful in luge with an Olympic victory and four world championship titles. After the re-establishment of the department, the skeleton athlete Alexander Kröckel came third at a European championship, Michael Zachrau won the European Cup race in Altenberg in January 2013 and was fifth overall at the end of the season.

At the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , luge athlete Johannes Ludwig won bronze in the individual and gold medal in the team relay with Natalie Geisenberger and doubles Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt.

Disabled sports

In the training group for disabled sports, hopeful talents train Para Nordic skiing and Para biathlon . Cross-country toboggans , which enable wheelchair users to practice skiing, are available. In disabled sports, Thomas Oelsner is the most successful club member with five gold medals and five other medals at Paralympic Games .

literature

  • Gerd Falkner (Author), German Ski Association (Ed.): One Hundred Years of the German Ski Association: Chronicle of German Skiing from the Beginnings to the Present ; Volume 3. Deutscher Skiverband (self-published), 2005, ISBN 3-938963-03-4 , page 113.
  • Hubert Beck: Running training with a system. Marathon, half marathon, ultra running and 10 km training for beginners, advanced and competitive athletes - training plans, annual training, strength training, nutrition, gymnastics . Stiebner Verlag GmbH, 4th edition 2010, ISBN 3-7679-1045-4 , page 339.
  • Oliver Gerhard: Dumont BA 143 Thuringian Forest . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2011, ISBN 3-7701-9298-2 , pages 76-77.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberhof - The winter sports academy , MDR of June 17, 2011