166 participants attended the Mittenwald event

Created: 08/01/2022, 02:00 p.m

By: Wolfgang Kunz

The winners at the 67th Lautersee Mountain Sports Festival were congratulated (from left) Reinhardt Renz (Turngau Oberland), Mark Ostermayr (TSVM Vice/kieend) and Andreas Knilling (TSVM Chairman).

©Wolfgang Kunz

Mittenwald – After a three-year Corona break, the organizers were happy to welcome 166 participants from 13 clubs and groups at the 67th Lautersee Mountain Sports Festival.

"A strong signal from our young and older athletes", said chairman Andreas Knilling at the award ceremony, "special praise for the 40 helpers and the three ladies in the calculation office".

TSV members were already in action the day before.

Tents had to be set up, meadows mowed, the tracks prepared and cleared, and tables and benches set up.

The mountain rescue service took over the medical care.

After 21 individual disciplines, the pendulum relays, the sea relay over 2,200 meters, the team tug of war and the swim over around 115 meters in Lautersee could start this year.

Leo Buxbaum (17) from TSV Wolfratshausen was able to take home the challenge cup donated by Raiffeisenbank Mittenwald for the fastest with a best time of the day of 1:41.44 minutes.

The men from TSV Wolfratshausen II won the trophy donated by the HypoVereinsbank for the winner of the 4 x 100 meter pendulum relay in 53.33 seconds.

SC Mittenwald I won the girls' 4 x 50 meters in 35,

96 seconds ahead of TSV Rottach-Egern III (37.14) and TSV Rottach-Egern II (37.34).

TSV Rottach-Egern I won the boys' relay over 4 x 75 meters in 40.16 seconds ahead of SC Partenkirchen (48.42) and TSV Wolfratshausen II (50.34).

The male youth relay team won without competition from TSV Wolfratshausen in 59.44 seconds.

Two trophies were awarded in the sea relay.

The trophy offered by TSV Mittenwald for boys and girls up to the age of 14 was won by SC Partenkirchen in 7:38.50 minutes among twelve relay teams.

TSV gymnastics member Stefan Schmitz – at 57 he was the oldest active male participant – had donated the challenge cup for adults won by TSV Wolfratshausen III in 5:57.13 minutes.

Second was SC Partenkirchen (6:24.11) ahead of TSV Wolfratshausen II (7:31.38).

The tug of war - the 13 mixed teams were not allowed to exceed a total weight of 400 kilograms - was won by TSV Mittenwald against SC Mittenwald.

Third place went to SC Partenkirchen.

At the award ceremony, TSV club boss Knilling and deputy Mark Ostermayr, together with the chairman of the Turngau Oberland Reinhardt Renz, who came from Seeshaupt ("I was here as an active participant. This sports festival is still in demand in modern times and a must for me") The three best participants in each class received a trophy with a sweet medal made by the Mittenwald confectioner Christoph Veit ("Marzipano"), along with a certificate and a bag of gummy bears.