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Published on Monday, 06 June 2011 12:47

The Independent Athlete Club (IAC) Kulmbach emerged from the earlier heavy athletics department of the ATS Kulmbach. The mid-70's built on the Bavarian champion in boxing, Volker Scheibe, a weight-lifting season, also came to the Bavarian youth and junior champion in the hammer throw, Martin Ständner. The energetic group quickly established himself in competitions in the classic weightlifting (snatch and jerk), somewhat later in the Powerlifting (squat, bench press, deadlift). Spectacular and legendary in memory is the first city championship in 1977, which attracted some 200 spectators in the small Ziegelhüttner gym. Thomas Tischer, Harald Scheibe, Karl-Heinz Sesselmann, Norbert Ständner, Harald Schmidt, Gerhard Popp, Martin Ständner and Volker Scheibe were called Kulmbacher motor sports pioneers of that time, the local number of successes at district and state level and as a starting communion with the AC Bayreuth many years in the team competitions in the national league successfully lifted.
Beyond the positive pulses, expressed sports but for many years a big downer. The association, the ATS cared little for the weight lifting and training conditions. Thus, the lift, despite many requests for an adequate training facility put off again and back and forth for (tight equipment rooms, beer stands, dilapidated offices). The ATS Weightlifting felt just as annoying appendage and decided in 1984 to found its own association, the Independent Athlete Club, which was now in the gym by Jürgen Scheibe a home. Two years later, also an athletics department was founded, dedicated himself (to date) first, the throwing events. Thus, the tradition and know-how in the power and speed strength range was obtained. The UAC athletes have since been awarded several times by different levels of organization for their work and produced in the past 20years and nearly 150 Bavaria 16 German championship titles. In parallel we ended with the lawn strength athletes of TSV Stadtsteinach a cooperation agreement and extend the joint training center, the center's throw Stadtsteinach for all aspects of litter training gradually. The plant was not only top athletes always a focus for training camp, but was also the scene of high-profile union competitions, eg excretion in the Olympic hammer throw 2004th 12 athletes who are in union center matured Stadtsteinach managed since 1988 made it into the national team.

- 1985: The National League-Season Weight Lifting



(Left / right: Harald Schmidt, Toni Engelbrecht, Walter Nützel, Harry Bernd - left / down: Ständner Martin, Karl-Heinz Sesselmann, Thomas Tischer, Edmund Hirsch)

- 1988: Horst Ständner discus thrower won the first German Championship title for the UAC Kulmbach

- 1991: Peter Bouda is 190kg with German junior champion in the bench press in the class up to 90kg.

- 1997: Silke Tauber, Manuela Scheer, Kerstin Eckert and Sandra Taubmann get the record with a German league titles in the team competition



- 2004: "Drama at Simone Mathes," it said in the sports press. Simone threw Olympic standard, was the decisive match to the last test promising qualified in the race and appeared for the Olympic Games in Athens. But in the last attempt of the qualifying competition was Simon literally surpassed in the last minute to 17cm ...


- 2008: Kai Grüner (here after his first 20m shot put with coach Martin Ständner) was twice German B-Youth Champion and named the German junior athletes of the year.

The B-youth team in the cast Kai Grüner, Johannes Limmer, Kevin Hoch and Tim Berns (left / front coach Günter Sesselmann) at the German championships in the lawn weight training improves the German team record by more than 600 points.

- 2009: A huge step forward made in the training year 2008/2009, hammer thrower Johannes Limmer. He improved to 73.20 meters, qualifying for the U-18 World Cup in Bressanone, Italy struggled to reach the finals and finished among the world's best junior hammer throwers the 8th place.

The Stanich Jo with the U18 World Champion Hongqiu Chen from China.