SK av 1909
Sportsklubben av 1909, often shortened as Sp-09 or Sportsklubben, is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo, founded in 1909. It has sections for amateur boxing and amateur wrestling, and has had several Olympians on its books.History
It was founded on 24 March 1909 as Arbeidernes TIF, and in 1916 it changed its name to Fagforeningernes TIF. It was the first explicit workers' sports club in Norway, founded 15 years before the creation of a nationwide Workers' Federation of Sports.
The club helped spur the creation of the Workers' Federation of Sports, because in the 1920s, the Norwegian Wrestling Federation banned fifteen members of the club for taking part in a "politicized" wrestling meet where "The Internationale" was played and red flags were flown. Nonetheless, the club was not a member of the Workers' Federation of Sports for long, as it left the Workers' Federation of Sports already in 1926. It was renamed to the more neutral SK av 1909 already in 1929. Its headquarters are at Dælenenga.
Well-known amateur wrestlers include Martin Egeberg, Birger Nilsen, Tore Hem, Harald Barlie, Lars Rønningen, Ronny Sigde, Harald Hervig, Håkon Øverby, Alfred Larsen, Kaare Larsen and Ivar Stokke,
Well-known amateur boxers include Leif Hansen, Roy Askevold, Haakon Lind and Olav Nilsen. The King's Cup in boxing has been taken by Haakon Lind in 1928, Thorstein Myhre in 1933, Sigurd Larsen in 1934, Leif Hansen in 1953 and Roy Askevold in 1959.
In athletics the club saw its heyday in the 1910s. Erling Aastad became Norwegian long jump champion in 1920 and won medals in 1918 and 1921. Victor Pettersen won silver medals in shot put with both hands and high jump, and also bronze medals in shot put and decathlon. Fredrik Martinsen won a silver medal in triple jump and Øivind Jensen a bronze in the pole vault.
