SG Essen

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SG Essen

Club information
Full name	Startgemeinschaft Essen
City	Essen
Swimming
Head coach	Horst Melzer

The SG Essen (full name: Startgemeinschaft Essen) is a swimming club in Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). In effect, it is a union of the swimming sections of 13 sports clubs. The SG Essen is one of the most successful swimming associations in West Germany.^{[citation needed]} The woman team, for instance, is in the first Bundesliga (i.e. national league), the man team in the second.^{[citation needed]}

The SG Essen's breaststroke swimmers are well known^{[citation needed]}: Mark Warnecke, Anne Poleska, and Rebecca Horstmann. The chief trainer is Horst Melzer.