Nautical Club of Thessaloniki
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| Founded | 1931 |
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| Clubhouse | Kalamaria Kalamaria Kalamariá is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, located about 7 km southeast of downtown Thessaloniki. It is the second largest municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area as well as one of the largest in Greece, with a population increase of 8% since the 1991... , Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace... |
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The Nautical Club of Thessaloniki is a sports club based in Kalamaria
Kalamaria
Kalamariá is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, located about 7 km southeast of downtown Thessaloniki. It is the second largest municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area as well as one of the largest in Greece, with a population increase of 8% since the 1991...
, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, Greece
Greece
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. The club is commonly known by the acronym NCTH (ΝΟΘ).
General information
It was established in 1931 and is the oldest established yacht clubYacht club
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in Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)
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and now it has sailing
Sailing
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and rowing
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
branches. It organises many sailing and rowing competitions such as Alexander the Great race and North Aegean Reggata and participates regularly in sporting events such as the Aegean Reggata and other international races.
The club has about 600 regular and athletic members.
History
The Nautical Club of Thessaloniki was founded in 1931 and is one of the oldest nautical athletic associations in Greece.During the early years, rowing was the only sport offered. Toward the end of the 1940s N.C.Th. achieved the title of "Most Winning Club" and sent crews both to the London Olympics in 1948 and Helsinki in 1952. N.C.Th.'s outstanding role in rowing has lead many times to the title of "Most Winning Club", the continuous recruitment of athletes to the national team and distinctions in international championships (bronze medal in the Rowing Worlds of 1998, silver medals in the Rowing Worlds of 2005 and 2006).
In the 1950s, the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki came to include sailing in its activities. Almost immediately, it began to organize sailing races, to participate in national championships and other local meets. The club quickly gained a reputation as one of the most active sailing associations playing a prominent role both in Greece and beyond. Distinguished sailors represent Greece in international races and since 1992 in Olympic Games (Sidney 2000: 470 sailors finished 8th Olympic Winners) and gained gold and silver both in the 470 Worlds of 1995 and 2002 and in the FINN-Junior Worlds of 1999 and 2000.
In the 1970s a group of experienced sailors spearheaded the creation of an offshore sailing department which gave the opportunity for older members to participate in nautical activities.
Towards the end of the 1970s the club, wanting to offer something to its remaining members established a tennis division with the construction of five courts and started a small athletic team.
As an athletic association N.C.Th. organizes intramural games on a yearly basis and also conducts Greek and international championships. It has even come to initiate international races, the foremost of which are the "International Rowing Regatta", the «Alexander the Great Cup» (former Tzeni Grammalidou Cup) for Olympic class sail boats and the international offshore sailing week "North Aegean Cup".
Since 1974 N.C.Th. is offering an offshore sailing school, thus giving the residents of greater Thessaloniki the opportunity and the resources to be involved with sailing and the sea in general. In the beginning of the 1990s N.C.Th. started a sailing school for children, which apart from its primary function also acts as a preparatory school for the sailing division.
During the first thirty years N.C.Th. was housed in a rented building until 1964 when it moved to its own premises which include offices, club rooms for members and athletes, boat houses, an indoor rowing exercise pool, a gym, a marina, tennis courts, a restaurant and snack-bar.
Board of directors
The Board of Directors of the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki for 2009- 2010- President : Vasilios Fessas
- Vice-President : Leonidas Triandopoulos
- General Secretary: Ioannis Papadopoulos
- Treasurer : Stefanos Kouloglou
- Director of Rowing & Tennis : Nikolaos Tsirigotis
- Director of Dinghy Sailing : Theodoros Sertsios
- Director for Marina Affairs : Stelios Christodoulou
- Director for Offshore Sailing : Adam Tsiolakakis
- Director for Premises : Athanasios Arvanitidis