Winterthur ice skating club

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The Winterthur Ice Skating Club (abbreviated WSC ) is an ice skating club from Winterthur . It was founded in 1869 and is the oldest ice skating club in Switzerland .

history

The WSC was founded in 1869 by Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler , because previously there was only an ice rink in Hettlingen on the Schwerziwiese, which was rather poorly maintained. He was also the first president of the club and until his death in 1913. The first field of the WSC was the Äckerwiesen near today's Rennweghallen. In 1879, the ice skating club got part of the Zelgliwiesen leased from the Winterthur city council on condition that two ice rinks be built and operated. Finally, in 1886, the training operations could be relocated to the Zelgli ice rink after it was fenced in and a clubhouse was built on it - the ice rink even had night lighting, the costs of which were largely co-financed by Sulzer-Ziegler of around CHF 4,000 at the time .

In 1942, thanks to a sponsor, a clubhouse was built on the Zelgli. The club remained the tenant of the facility until 1953, when the ice rink had to be sold to the city due to financial difficulties in its preparation and from then on only acted as the operator. This was the case until 1957, when the whole facility was renewed and a modern art skating facility was built. With the construction of the new Deutweg ice rink in 2002, the club moved there.

Swiss champion of the WSC

Saskia Bourgeois / Guy Bourgeois , four-time Swiss pair skating champions (1988–91)
Gerda Bühler , four-time Swiss ice dance champion, but only started in the 1973 Swiss championship title for the WSC.
Karin Iten , three-time Swiss figure skating champion (1973–75), bronze at the 1973 European figure skating championships and Swiss athlete of the year 1973, inventor of the Biellmann pirouette
Markus Meier , Swiss speed skating champion, sprint category, 1989
Patrick Meier , seven-time Swiss figure skating champion (1992–2000)
Gaby Schuppli , Swiss ice dance champion together with Markus Merz from EC Zurich 1985
Bettina Heim , Swiss figure skating champion 2011
Romy Bühler , Swiss figure skating champion 2012
Alexia Paganini , Swiss figure skating champion 2018 (lives in the USA, licensed at the WSC)

Web links

Website of the Winterthur Ice Skating Club

Individual evidence

↑ Arthur Straessle mentions in his book on Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler (see corresponding itemization) the year 1879 as the date of foundation
↑ Arthur Straessle: Eduard Sulzer Ziegler 1854-1913 . About the political and socio-political activities of a Winterthur industrialist. Winterthur printing works , Winterthur 1968, p. 32 .
^ ^A ^b Hermann Pedergnana: Ice ages . From the Zelgli and the Schützenweiher to the Deutweg ice rink: a look back at and outlook on ice sports in Winterthur. Bookstore Vogel, Winterthur 2002.

[1] Arthur Straessle mentions in his book on Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler (see corresponding itemization) the year 1879 as the date of foundation

[2] Arthur Straessle: Eduard Sulzer Ziegler 1854-1913 . About the political and socio-political activities of a Winterthur industrialist. Winterthur printing works , Winterthur 1968, p. 32 .

[eiszeiten-3] A ^b Hermann Pedergnana: Ice ages . From the Zelgli and the Schützenweiher to the Deutweg ice rink: a look back at and outlook on ice sports in Winterthur. Bookstore Vogel, Winterthur 2002.