Water sports Hannover-Linden
Watersports Hannover-Linden (mostly Waspo or Waspo Hannover for short ) was a swimming sports club from Hannover , which became famous for its success in water polo and became German champion here in 1993. On October 31, 2012, the club merged with SV Wasserfreunde 1898 Hannover to form the new association Wassersportfreunde von 1898 Hannover (Waspo 98).
History and sporting success
The club was founded in 1913 as a spin-off from the workers' swimming club Aegir Hannover-Linden (today SV Aegir 09 Hannover-Ricklingen ) and was based in the Hanover districts of Linden and Limmer . Since 1925 the club, now known as Free Watersport Hannover-Linden , resided near the Leineabstiegskanals in Volksbad Limmer , which had been built by the club members in an old gravel pit. The club was a member of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association, which existed until 1933, and became the national water polo winner in 1932.
After the Second World War, the club was re-established as the Hannover-Linden water sports ; In addition, the Volksbad Limmer was reopened in its now known form in 1950. The district club, soon also known supraregionally, mostly in its short form as Waspo, developed in the mid-1970s into the leading water polo club in Lower Saxony and Northern Germany. Under the long-time coach Hartmut Nikoleyczik, the men's team of the club succeeded in 1974, meanwhile for a decade a division in the local Kneipp club, the promotion to the then two-part water polo league .
Waspo became one of the leading German water polo clubs in the late 1980s and was in the final of the German championship six times between 1991 and 2002. In 1993 the club became German water polo champions under coach Bernd Seidensticker with a 2-1 overall success in the final series against SSF Delphin Wuppertal . In 1998 and 2003, the German Water Polo Cup (DSV Cup) was won twice , and the national Supercup went to the club in 1998 and 2000 .
The club's water polo teams entered into a syndicate with their long-standing rival Wasserfreunde 98 Hannover as SG W98 / Waspo Hannover in 2003 . The final merger of the two clubs followed in October 2012, from which the largest swimming club in Lower Saxony and Northern Germany emerged with a good 2,000 members.
literature
- 25 years of Volksbad Limmer. Waspo Hannover-Linden e. V., [Hanover] 1950.
- 75 years of water sports Hannover-Linden 1913 - 1988 , Hannover, 1988
- Wolfgang Philipps: Past and Future. 100 years Waspo Hannover-Linden: 1913 - 2013. Hannover 2013
- Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Watersport Association (WASPO) Hannover-Linden eV In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 656.