Waspo 08 Göttingen
The water sports association Göttingen from 1908 eV (Waspo 08) was the second largest sports association in Göttingen with around 1700 members. It was created in 1979 through the merger of the swimming club SV Göttingen 08 and the water sports association from 1924.
The 1908 Göttingen Water Sports Association ceased to exist on January 1, 2015. It merged with the Gymnastics and Sports Association of 1861 Göttingen (Tuspo 1861) and is now called the Gymnastics and Water Sports Association Göttingen from 1861 (TWG 1861)
Sports offer
The club offered its members not only competitive but also popular and health sports.
- Aqua jogging
- badminton
- Darts
- Health sport with back training
- Handball
- Hip hop
- Indoor cycling
- Juggling
- canoe
- Infant swimming
- Swimming, all levels and styles
- Swimming training for children and adults
- Games and gymnastics for children
- Senior swimming
- To dance
- Diving
- Table tennis
- Triathlon
- Aqua aerobics
- Underwater rugby
successes
- 5 competition groups, 1 talent development group,
- Partner club of the Lower Saxony State Swimming Association as a state swimming base
- Cooperation with the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen, promotion of sports talents (SpoTa concept)
- Participation, successes and titles at district and state championships, in the grades and at the Masters
- Participation, successes, medals at North German and open German and German year championships as well as Masters championships.
- since 2006 women's team in the regional league DMS, 2007 3rd place, 2009 3rd place, 2010 5th place, 2012 7th place
- 2010: German class champion in 1992 over 1500 m freestyle Marcel Jerzyk
- 2010: Alexandra Janitzki four-time Masters World Champion in the age group 30 (100 m, 200 m chest, 200 m and 400 m medley)
- 2010: Promotion of the men's team to the regional league, 2012 5th place
- 2011: German year-old champion in 1992 over 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m freestyle and 5 km freestyle Marcel Jerzyk
- 2012: German year champion in 1992 gold over 800 m freestyle, silver over 1500 m and 400 m freestyle for Marcel Jerzyk
- 2012: German short course championship, 3rd place over 800 m freestyle for Marcel Jerzyk
- since 2002 various national championship titles
- 2006: 1st place in the DM for Margret Neher over 200 and 500 m in KI, as well as silver over 600 m in KII and bronze over 1000 m in KI
- 2006: 2nd place in the DM for Lars Bode / Matthias Kopiske over 6000 m in the KII, as well as bronze in the KII and KIV over 1000 m
- 2011: 1st place in the DM for Max Staats and Marvin Huth over 500 m in the KII.
- 2011: 2nd place in the DM for Max Staats in the canoe competition, as well as 3rd place at 1000 m
- 2011: 2nd place in the DM in the KIV for Staats, Huth, Lion Schettler and Christian Winnen on 2000 m, as well as bronze over 500 m
- 2012: 3rd place in the DM for Marvin Huth over 200 m in the KI