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Preparations for Summercamp on full speed now 20-07-2026. The preparations for the 15th edition of the Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp are on full speed now. Not only the administration but also the Ice rink has to do a lot of work in order to make it a succesfull week for the skaters. The two Ice rinks which the skaters of the summercamp are using for the training and competitions must also be prepaired. Christoph Milz of the Eis Club Oberstorf together with the Ice rink engineers, under the eyes of Hans Hindelang, measured the dots and start- and finish-lines in the ice.                     Entry Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp closes 7th of July 29-06-2026. In a few weeks time the 15th edition of the Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp will take place with ice time every day and a lot of other activities. The entry of skaters is open and on full speed now. If you did not enter yet but still wants to come let your club enter you before the 7th of July because then the entry will close. All information can be found in the announcement on the Entry-page of the website Shorttrackonline.info. All further information can be found on this website www.Skatingonline.info.                     Franziska & Rüdiger married 01-06-2026. On 30 May 2026 Franziska Schönig and Rüdiger Kleynmans, from Grafing-Germany, have been married. Both Franziska and Rüdiger are for a number of years attending the Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp as volunteer-officials helping with the organisation of all the events and shorttrack-competition. Both are international competition officials Franziska is an international shorttrack referee and Rüdiger is a competitors steward. On behalf of all the skaters we wish them a happy and healthy life together and hope they will stay with us for many years.                     Preparations of Summercamp has started 30-05-2026. With 2 days of meetings in Oberstdorf the preparations for the 15th edition of the Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp has started. The program and activities of past year were evaluated and for this years edition be discussed. Parties involved are the Sport Office of Oberstdorf, the city of Oberstdorf, The Ice Sport Club Oberstdorf, the Icerink, the restaurant of the Icerink, the accomodation for the Welcome Party, the Skijump for the Mountain run, the Biathlon accomodation, the Red Cross and many more. It was enough to fill 2 full days with meetings.                     New light-weight wagons for safety padding 29-05-2026. During the 14 year the Shorttrack Summercamp has been held in Oberstdorf we used during the training sessions and competition the saftey padding of the Eissport Club Oberstdorf. Due to the fact the Summercamp became bigger every year we expanded the number of safety padding to a number of mats for both Ice rinks at the same time. As the transport of the safety padding on and of the ice is very heavy we also started last year with making some wagons for transporting the mats. This year also we added a number of specially made light weight aluminium wagons for this purpose.                     New 40 cm thick padding for Oberstdorf 29-05-2026. 6 New mats of 40cm thick are added this month to the safety padding for the Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp. With these new mats the Organizing Committee of the Summercamp will continue its proces to upgrade the padding of the Ice rink of Oberstdorf.  With these new mats we bring the total sett of padding for the 2 ice rinks to a better standard for both training and competitions. At the same time a number of the old  20 cm thick mats, which has been used in the past in hall-3, are replaced now by the new blue ones of 40 cm thick.                       Thousends of tulips this spring-time in Oberstdorf 01-05-2026. For many years it is a tradition that the Organisation of the Summercamp bring tulip bulbs for the city of Oberstdorf. They are every year traditionally handed over to the mayor of Oberstdorf at the Welcome Party. As the municipality of Oberstdorf treated the flowers very well and take the bulbs out of the grounds again after springtime, they now have many thousands of them. So every Springtime you can see the Dutch tulips all over the city of Oberstdorf.