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 coachRobin van Aggele
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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