 The athletic's division also had a prominent ice skating team which skated on Bad Rohrteich in Schönefeld .They hosted various races such as a 1200m ice skating race and a 600m race for the club championship.The first national marathon championship in Germany was held in 1925 with the course beginning in Halle and ending in Leipzig to commemorate the Sportbrüder athletics department's contribution to, and establishment of, the sport.It has sometimes been claimed that Sportbrüder Leipzig completely separated from VfB Leipzig in 1900 and faded into obscurity, but this belief is either due to a possible misinterpretation of the German team "Umbenennung" ("renaming") with reference to the change of VfB Sportbrüder 1893 Leipzig to VfB Leizpig, or due to the departure of many, but not all, of the original Sportbrüder Leipzig members.