SV Wasserfreunde 1898 Hanover
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| Surname | Water sports enthusiasts from 1898 Hannover eV |
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| Club colors | White, black, red, blue |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Association headquarters | Am Lister Bad 1A 30179 Hanover |
| Members | approx. 1300 (2018) |
| Departments | Swimming, water polo |
| Homepage | www.w98.de |
The SV Wasserfreunde von 1898 Hannover e. V. or in short Wasserfreunde Hannover or W98 was a swimming club from Hanover that was three times German team champion in swimming and eight times German champion in water polo . On October 31, 2012 the association with water sports Hannover-Linden became the new club water sports friends of 1898 Hannover e. V. merged.
Success in swimming and well-known swimmers
In 2005, 2006 and 2007 the club was the men's German team champion in swimming. The club has been in the 1st Bundesliga with its first men's team since 2012. The first women's team is currently in the 2. Bundesliga North.
The world record holder Thomas Rupprath , the relay world champion Lars Conrad and the German record holder Stephan Kunzelmann started or started for Hanover . Other participants in the championship team are Kamil Kasprowicz , Mario Schild , Philipp Möller , Matthias Wessel , Thanh-Uy Phan Tan , Danil Bugakov , Volker Wagenschein , Stephan Maleszka , Sebastian Barsch and Jens Schreiber . Among the women, Lena Celina Hiller , third of the Junior World Championships in 2006, is particularly well known.
Team successes:
- German team champion men 2005, 2006, 2007
Individual successes:
male:
- Thomas Rupprath (silver + bronze at the Olympics, two-time world champion, 28-time European champion, 77-time German champion)
- Lars Conrad (silver at the Olympics, world champion, 7-time European champion, 9-time German champion)
- Jens Schreiber (European Champion)
- Stephan Kunzelmann (2-time European champion, bronze at the World Cup)
- Kamil Kasprowicz (7-time German champion)
- Markus Gierke
Female:
- Patricia-Lucia Wartenberg (bronze JEM open water, bronze JWM open water)
- Lena Celina Hiller (Bronze JWM)
Success in water polo
The Wasserfreunde Hannover became German water polo champions eight times. A winning streak from 1921 to 1923 was followed by a title in 1927. From 1936 to 1938, three more titles in a row followed. The club won its last title in 1948. In the only Olympic victory of the German water polo players at the Olympic Summer Games in 1928 , two water lovers, Karl Behre and Fritz Gunst, played in the victorious team; with Otto Kühne and Heini Atmer two other players were part of the German squad, but they were not used. With one Olympic gold medal and two Olympic silver medals, Fritz Gunst is the most successful water polo player among water lovers.
After the war, the Wasserfreunde played for many years in the Oberliga Nord as the highest class and in the 50s also came to several national finals. In the Bundesliga, which was introduced in 1969, the club was never able to establish itself permanently and in 2003 entered a syndicate with the established city rival Waspo Hannover-Linden as SG W98 / Waspo Hannover . There were national youth titles in 1983 for the C youth and 1985 and 1986 for the B youth.
Club life
The top swimmers mainly trained under the leadership of the Lower Saxony State Swimming Association in the adjacent sports center in Hanover and the Lower Saxony Olympic Training Center in the association's cadre groups. In Stadionbad including the normal training operations took place. There were numerous other training groups, from beginners to amateur athletes to senior swimmers, who trained in five different pools.
literature
100 years of sports club Wasserfreunde from 1898 Hannover e. V. , Hanover [1998].