Società Ginnastica Triestina (Gymnastics Club Triestina) is an
amateur sports
Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration
Remuneration is the pay or other financial compensation provided in exchange for an employee's ''services performed'' (not to be confused with givi ...
association from
Trieste,
Italy. The club was honored by
CONI Stella d'oro Sporting Merit with a Gold Medal at the
Ministry of Education for the school and another gold collar CONI for Sporting Merit.
The club supports football, gymnastics, fencing, volleyball, judo, various martial arts, ballet, modern dance, yoga and others.
History
The club was founded in 1843.
For more than a century, it has been the main supporter sports activities in the area, even across the borders of
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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. The club represented Italy at the
1936 Berlin Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
; the Italian gymnastics team and the male basketball team was mostly made of Trieste team members.
Società Ginnastica Triestina's basketball section won ten championships, with both male and female teams each winning five first national divisions (women's Serie A1 and LEGA Basket Serie A). The women's basketball team disputes the A1 series.
References
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1863 establishments in Italy
Basketball teams in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Sports clubs and teams established in 1863
Sport in Trieste