SC Magdeburg

The Sports Club (SC) Magdeburg is a German sports club based in Magdeburg (Saxony -Anhalt). It was founded in 1955 as a sports club in the GDR sports system and was until 1965 the name of SC Magdeburg structure.

The club has departments for the following sports: handball, canoe racing, athletics, rowing, swimming, gymnastics and water polo. The football department was spun on 22 December 1965 and since then as a freelance 1.FC Magdeburg.

Departments

Handball

The SC Magdeburg is one of the most successful German handball clubs.

Athletics

Grit Breuer was for many years the flagship of Athletics at SC Magdeburg. Later Nils Schumann trained under coach Thomas Springstein at SC Magdeburg.

Before Raymond Hecht ended his career, he was also in the jersey of SC Magdeburg active.

Today, the following athletes in the top class for the club to start:

Swimming

Where the swimming section of the SC Magdeburg over 800 members ( including about 150 in the water polo ) and is one of the most traditional swimming departments in Germany. A precursor of today's club was the resolution in the forties Magdeburg Swimming Club 1896. During the establishment of the SC Magdeburg in 1954, the remaining swimmers were integrated.

With one team in the first league swimming the men and the ladies of SC Magdeburg is also one of the most important teams in the German competitive swimming. In the women was in the 2005/06 season in fourth, sixth place achieved in the men. Are trained the Bundesliga teams of Bernd Henneberg. A special feature in the training events is that the training venue same swimming pool, in a National Training Centre is stationed, almost 40 hours a week available for training sessions of elite athletes available.

The famous swimmer of the association are the world champion Antje Schulte Busch, the former Junior European Champion Christina Werner and Leif Marten Kruger and no longer active Olympic champion from 1992, Dagmar Hase.

In water polo, the club was represented in the first Bundesliga since 2005. However, on January 1, 2009, the water polo player switched from the swimming section of the SCM in the newly established Water Polo Union Magdeburg. By the end of the 2008/09 season, the team must therefore compete under the name construct SGW WU Magdeburg / SC Magdeburg. From the season 2009/10 water polo are finally on its own as WU Magdeburg.

Canoe Racing

The canoe racing division has produced numerous world champions and Olympic medalists, including the Olympic champion Björn Bach, Bernd Duvigneau, Andreas Ihle, Ulrich Papke, Ingo Spelly, Conny Waßmuth and Mark Zabel and is currently the most successful international section of the club.

Rowing

Since 2013, multiple German and world champion Marcel Hacker starts for the SC Magdeburg.

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