Linköpings ASS

Linköpings Allmänna Simsällskap, commonly known as Linköpings ASS or LASS, is a Swedish swimming club based in Linköping and founded on 4 June 1824.[1] The founding date makes Linköpings ASS one of the oldest Swedish swim teams. The club is active in swimming and diving[2]

Linköpings ASS
Club information
Full nameLinköpings Allmänna Simsällskap
Short nameLASS
CityLinköping
Founded4 June 1824 (1824-06-04) as Linköpings SS
Home pool(s)Linköpings simhall
Tinnerbäcksbadet
Swimming
Head coachVacant
Diving
Founded1989
Water Polo
Founded1974

History

An initiative of Per Westman, Linköpings ASS was founded in 1824 as Linköpings Simsällskap.[3] On 18 August 1824, the club organised their first swimming graduation ceremony (Swedish: simpromotion), where 9 bachelors and 20 masters graduated.[3] In 1891, the club took its current name, Linköpings ASS.[4]

Linköpings ASS had their first Olympic swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics, when Elisabeth Ahlgren participated.[5] In 1988, Linköpings ASS had their first Olympics synchronized swimmer at the 1988 Summer Olympics, when Marie Jacobsson participated.[5]

Led by coach Mikael Holmertz and swimmer Lars Frölander, Linköpings ASS was Sweden's best swimming club four years in a row from 2007 to 2010.[6]

In 2009, the water polo team of Linköpings ASS left the swimming club and started Linköpings VF.[7]

Bertil Wennberg became the swimming head coach in 2013. [8] In August 2021, Rebecka Lester became swimming head coach of Linköpings ASS after Niklas Larsson.[9] In 2022, Robin van Aggele, became swimming head coach of Linköpings ASS.[10]

Athletes

Swimmers

Swimmers that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing Linköpings ASS:

Lars Frölander at the 2006 Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships representing Linköpings ASS.

Synchronized swimmers

Synchronized swimmers that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing Linköpings ASS:

References
  1. Stadgar Linköpings Allmänna Simsällskap (PDF), 23 March 2022
  2. "Linköpings Allmänna Simsällskap".
  3. "Linköpings Allmänna Simsällskap".
  4. Stenberg, O. (1943). "Linköping". Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 5 Lahtis–Röhse (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlag. pp. 128–130.
  5. "Olympedia – Linköpings ASS, Linköping (SWE)".
  6. "LASS bäst igen". Sveriges Radio. 19 July 2010.
  7. "Linköpings ASS extra årsstämma".
  8. "Bertil Wennberg ny huvudtränare/Ungdomstränare för Linköpings Allmänna Simsällskap".
  9. "Ny huvudtränare".
  10. "Robin van Aggele, ny huvudtränare fr o m 1 december".
  11. "Lars Frölander - Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté".
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