Water sports enthusiasts Liblar 1960
| Surname | Watersport Friends Liblar 1960 e. V. |
|---|---|
| Club colors | pink, black |
| Founded | December 1, 1960 |
| Chairman | Jürgen Schreiber |
| Homepage | http://www.wassersportfreunde-liblar.de |
The water sports friends Liblar 1960 e. V. are a non-profit canoeing club from the Erftstadt district of Liblar in North Rhine-Westphalia . The association is a member of the Canoe Polo -Bundesliga and was several times German champion in both men's and women as well as the junior and youth teams. Most recently, the first team succeeded in doing this at the 2018 playoffs in Duisburg.
history
The water sports friends Liblar were founded on December 1st, 1960 as a loose community after the opencast mine of the "Grube Liblar" was closed and the remaining lake could be used as Liblarer See ("Lido"). The first preparations took place at a meeting on May 29, 1960, the first chairman was Rudolph Anton. Thanks to the initiative of Rudolph Anton, rooms were made available in the Gracht Palace for building boats.
On February 13, 1966 a new statute was drawn up and an application was made for entry in the register of associations at the Lechenich District Court . On December 19, 1966, it was registered as a club at the local court as Water Sports Friends Liblar 1960 eV In 1966 the club received a plot of land on Lake Liblar, on which the clubhouse and sports facilities were built in the following years. In 1970 a boathouse for a total of 70 boats was built and in 1972 the clubhouse was officially inaugurated in the presence of Mayor Werner Tiemann . Until 1978 the association concentrated on pure leisure activities, competitive sport was not part of the activities until this year.
In 1978 the association became a member of the German Canoe Association (DKV), the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (LSB NRW) and the Erftstadt City Sports Association. In the club, two adults and five young people began to participate in white water sports as competitive athletes. The training now took place on the Liblarer See and the surrounding waters in the teaching pool in Bliesheim and at the Sports University in Cologne . In 1982 the association took part in the DKV meeting in Woffelsbach , and in 1984 the youth group won the DKV's hiking award in District IV Cologne-Bonn-Aachen. Of the 90 club members in 1985, 50 were active in sports.
Since 1989, the sports department of the club has concentrated on canoe polo and set up a canoe polo playing field on Lake Liblar. In 1996 the youth team took part for the first time in the German championships in canoe polo and directly won the title of German champion in canoe polo. In 1997 , a young men's team, which had already achieved great success in the youth field, was promoted to the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga . Since then they have been in the first division without interruption. After the team won eighth place in the Bundesliga in 1998 and fourth place in 1999, they became runner-up in 2000 and 2001 and German champion from 2002 to 2006; In 2004 she was also the German Cup Champion. In 2008, 2011, 2018 and most recently in 2019 the men's team won the championship title, in 2007 and 2010 they were third and in 2009 fifth in the Bundesliga. From 2012 to 2017, the men's team took 3rd place. In the following years the women's and junior teams recorded similar successes. The women became German champions in 2006 and runner-up in 2003, 2005 and 2007, the juniors German champions in 2007 and 2010 and runner-up in 2006.
Sporting successes
The Watersportfreunde Liblar 1960 eV have won numerous championship and runner-up titles since the youth team first took part in the German championships in 1996:
- Men's
- German champion of the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2018 and 2019
- Vice-champion of the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga: 2000, 2001
- 3rd place in the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga: 2007, 2010, 2012–2017
- German Cup Champion: 2004
- Germany Cup Sieher: 2017
- Ladies
- German Champion of the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga: 2006
- Vice-champion of the German Canoe Polo Bundesliga: 2003, 2005, 2007
- Renewed promotion to the first division: 2017
- U21 men
- Runner-up 2017
- Juniors
- German champion: 2007, 2010
- Runner-up: 2006
- Youth team
- German champion: 1996, 2005
- student
- German champion: 2006, 2017
- Runner-up: 2018
- 3rd place German championships: 2003
National team
The water sports friends Liblar 1960 eV have been providing players for the German national canoe polo team for many years. At the home World Cup in Essen 2002, for example, Kai Berner, Robin Pechuel-Loesche and Rafael Radloff were in the men’s U21s and were U21 world champions. In the same year Matthias Berner (formerly Ziebart), Richard Radloff and Niklas Reimers (formerly Pechuel-Loesche) played in the men's national team and came third at the World Cup. In 2007 the young players Dennis Witt and Jonas Vieren were appointed to the U21. In the first year you could win the Vice European Championship. In 2008 Niklas Geib joined the U21 team with which the three Liblarers became European champions in Essen in 2009. In 2010 Jonas Vieren was promoted to the men's national team and became vice world champion together with Richard Radloff. Dennis Witt and Niklas Geib continued to represent the U21s in 2010 and became world champions in the U21 class in Milan.
In 2011, with Jonas Vieren, Dennis Witt, Kai Berner and Robin Pechuel-Loesche, half of the national team consisted of players from the WSF Liblar, and with this line-up the team became vice-European champions in Madrid. Max Köhnen, Marco Hoppstock and Felix EIkmeier strengthened the U21 national team for the first time in 2011 and also finished second. The same players became vice world champions for men and men under 21 in Poland a year later.
Success with the national team
The Liblar players were able to celebrate some successes with their national teams in 1998 and collect titles. This includes various World Cup and European Championship titles, as well as victories at the World Games. Since 1998 there has always been at least one Liblar player, sometimes even up to four Liblar players, in the men's national team. Here are all the successes that the WSF Liblar players were able to achieve with the DKV:
| year | event | team | placement | Player from Liblar | venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | EM | Men's | 5th place | Niklas Reimers; Matthias Berner; Richard Radloff | Mechelen, Belgium |
| 2000 | WM | Men's | 3rd place | Niklas Reimers; Matthias Berner; Richard Radloff | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2001 | EM | Men's | 1st place | Niklas Reimers; Matthias Berner; Richard Radloff | Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| EM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Robin Pechuel-Loesche; Kai Berner | Bydgoszcz, Poland | |
| 2002 | WM | Men's | 3rd place | Niklas Reimers; Matthias Berner; Richard Radloff | Essen, Germany |
| WM | Men U21 | 1st place | Robin Pechuel-Loesche; Rafael Radloff; Kai Berner | Essen, Germany | |
| 2003 | EM | Men's | 2nd place | Niklas Reimers; Matthias Berner; Richard Radloff | Kilkock, Ireland |
| EM | Men U21 | 1st place | Robin Pechuel-Loesche; Kai Berner | Kilkock, Ireland | |
| 2004 | WM | Men's | 2nd place | Kai Berner, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Matthias Berne, Robby Densch | Miyoshi, Japan |
| 2005 | World Games | Men's | 2nd place | Kai Berner, Niklas Reimers, Matthias Berner, Richard Radloff, Robin Pechuel-Loesche | Duisburg, Germany |
| EM | Men's | 1st place | Niklas Reimers, Richard Radloff, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Kai Berner, Matthias Berner | Madrid, Spain | |
| 2006 | WM | Men's | 4th Place | Kai Berner, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Matthias Berner | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007 | EM | Men's | 2nd place | Kai Berner, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Richard Radloff | Thury-Harcourt, France |
| Men U21 | 2nd place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren; Niklas Geib | Thury-Harcourt, France | ||
| 2008 | WM | Men's | 7th place | Kai Berner, Robin Pechuel-Loesche | Edmonton, Canada |
| Men U21 | 4th Place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren; Niklas Geib | Edmonton, Canada | ||
| 2009 | EM | Men's | 2nd place | Kai Berner | Essen, Germany |
| EM | Men U21 | 1st place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren; Niklas Geib, Niklas Schreiner | Essen, Germany | |
| 2010 | WM | Men's | 2nd place | Jonas Vieren, Richard Radloff | Milan, Italy |
| WM | Men U21 | 1st place | Dennis Witt; Niklas Geib | Milan, Italy | |
| 2011 | EM | Men's | 2nd place | Jonas Vieren, Dennis Witt, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Kai Berner | Madrid, Spain |
| EM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Max Kohnen | Madrid, Spain | |
| EM | Women U21 | 1st place | Nathalie Herrmann, Pia Bachem | Madrid, Spain | |
| 2012 | WM | Men's | 2nd place | Jonas Vieren; Dennis Witt, Robin Pechuel-Loesche, Kai Berner | Poznan, Poland |
| WM | Men U21 | 3rd place | Max Kohnen | Poznan, Poland | |
| WM | Women U21 | 1st place | Nathalie Herrmann, Pia Bachem | Poznan, Poland | |
| 2013 | World Games | Men's | 1st place | Jonas Vieren | Cali, Colombia |
| EM | Men's | 1st place | Jonas Vieren | Poznan, Poland | |
| EM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Max Kohnen | Poznan, Poland | |
| EM | Women U21 | 1st place | Nathalie Herrmann, Pia Bachem | Poznan, Poland | |
| 2014 | WM | Men's | 2nd place | Jonas Vieren | Thury-Harcourt, France |
| WM | Women U21 | 1st place | Nathalie Herrmann, Pia Bachem | Thury-Harcourt, France | |
| 2015 | EM | Men's | 1st place | Jonas Vieren; Marco Hoppstock | Essen, Germany |
| EM | Men U21 | 3rd place | Felix Fittkau | Essen, Germany | |
| EM | Women U21 | 1st place | Charlotte Dörfler | Essen, Germany | |
| 2016 | WM | Men's | 4th Place | Jonas Vieren; Marco Hoppstock | Siracusa, Italy |
| WM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Felix Fittkau | Siracusa, Italy | |
| WM | Women U21 | 1st place | Charlotte Dörfler | Siracusa, Italy | |
| 2017 | World Games | Men's | 1st place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren | Wroclaw, Poland |
| World Games | Ladies | 1st place | Elena Gilles; Carolin Sinsel | Wroclaw, Poland | |
| EM | Men's | 2nd place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren | St.Omer, France | |
| EM | Ladies | 1st place | Carolin SInsel, Ellena Gilles | St.Omer, France | |
| EM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Svante May | St.Omer, France | |
| EM | Women U21 | 1st place | Charlotte Dörfler | St.Omer, France | |
| 2018 | WM | Men's | 1st place | Dennis Witt; Jonas Vieren; Marco Hoppstock | Welland, Canada |
| WM | Ladies | 1st place | Carolin SInsel, Ellena Gilles | Welland, Canada | |
| WM | Men U21 | 2nd place | Svante May, Kai Hachenburg | Welland, Canada | |
| WM | Women U21 | 1st place | Charlotte Dörfler | Welland, Canada |
The information comes from DKV and from the WSF Liblar homepage.
Tournaments at Lake Liblar
The Liblar Canoe Polo Cup is currently held annually on Lake Liblar and has developed into a high-class tournament for men's teams from all over the world over the past few years. At each tournament, a WSF youth team can show itself in front of its own audience.
literature
- Jürgen Schreiber: Liblar water sports enthusiasts - 50 years old and still young! In: Stadt Erftstadt (Ed.): Erftstadt Jahrbuch, 2010 ( wassersportfreunde-liblar.de ; PDF; 1.4 MB, full text).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jürgen Schreiber: Liblar Water Sports Friends - 50 years old and still young! In: Stadt Erftstadt (Ed.): Erftstadt Jahrbuch, 2010 ( wassersportfreunde-liblar.de ; PDF; 1.4 MB, full text).
- ^ A b Watersport Friends Liblar 1960 e. V. - Festschrift and chronicle for the 25th anniversary of the association on September 7, 1985 (PDF; 1.7 MB).
- ↑ a b c tournaments and successes on the official homepage of Wassersportfreunde Liblar 1960 eV. Accessed on June 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b men's national team on the page kanupolo.de. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
- ↑ International successes - DKV. kanu.de, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ International tournament successes. WSF Liblar, accessed December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Liblar Canoe Polo Cup. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .