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Sport in Germany
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Allianz Arena in Munich, venue for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
opening game
Berlin Marathon
Sport is an important part of German culture and society. In
2006 about 27.5 million people were members of the more than 91,000 sport clubs
in Germany. Almost all sports clubs are represented by the Deutscher
Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB, German Olympic Sports Federation).
With a total of 26,000 clubs and 178,000 teams the German
Football Association (DFB) is the largest individual body in the DOSB.
Sport is financed by means of state funding and state
contributions, voluntary service, private sponsors and membership fees.
Contents [hide]
1 Olympics
2 Football
3 Ice hockey
4 Basketball
5 Handball
6 Motorsport
7 Wintersports
8 Tennis
9 Cycling
10 Golf
11 Boxing
12 Rugby Union
13 References
14 External links
Olympics[edit]
Olympiastadion Berlin
In the all-time Olympic Games medal count through 2006
Germany ranks fifth, East Germany seventh and West Germany twenty-first. If all
the medals are combined Germany ranks third.
Germany has hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice, in Berlin
in 1936 and in Munich in 1972. Germany hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1936
when they were staged in the Bavarian twin towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen.
Germany claimed the most gold medals and the most total
medals during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Football[edit]
Main article: Football in Germany
The German national football team lining up against Austria
in 2011. The national sport of Germany is football.
Germany's top level football league, known as the
Bundesliga, has one of the highest average attendances of any professional
sports league in the world. As of the 2010–11 season, the Bundesliga is placed
third in UEFA rankings, which are based on the performance of clubs in the UEFA
Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. [1]
Football in Germany is (like in most European countries) the
number one assistance and practiced sport. Besides the national league, the
Euro cup and the FIFA World Cup has much attention among its population.
Bayern Munich (German: Bayern München) is the most
successful German football club, with 21 national championships, 14 National
Cups and 5 European Champions titles (three European Cups and 2 Champions
Leagues) to its credit. Like many other German football clubs, Bayern Munich is
a multi-sport club.
Franz Beckenbauer's Jersey in 1977
The German national football team is one of the traditional
powers of international football. It won the FIFA World Cup in 1954, 1974 and
1990 and the European Football Championship in 1972 and 1980 as West Germany
and in 1996 as Germany. Gerd Müller is the leading goal scorer for the national
team with 68 goals, but his fame is perhaps eclipsed by that of Franz
Beckenbauer who is one of the few men in the world who have won the World Cup
both as a coach and a player. Germany also hosted the World Cup in 1974 and
2006, finishing third in 2006 after losing a close semi-final contest to
eventual cup winners Italy.
The women's national team is also a world power, with its
wins of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003 and 2007, making Germany the only
nation to win both the men's and women's World Cup and European titles – a
rarity for a nation where the center of attention is usually the men's game. Women
have their own Bundesliga, but it is semi-professional and does not command the
fan support the men's competitions do. Germany hosted the 2011 FIFA Women's
World Cup.
Ice hockey[edit]
Main Article: Ice hockey in Germany
Eisbären Berlin vs Hannover Scorpions
Ice hockey is one of Germany's most popular sports, although
considering its importance and spectator popularity in the nation it is ranked
far behind football. There are many leagues but the top one is the 14 team
Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The Germany men's national ice hockey team features
NHL players such as Christian Ehrhoff, Jochen Hecht, Dennis Seidenberg, Thomas
Greiss, Dominik Kahun, Dominik Kubalik, Marcel Goc and Marco Sturm and NHL
prospects like Alexander Sulzer, Philip Gogulla, Korbinian Holzer and Marcel
Müller. The men's national team is currently ranked 9th in the world.
In 2010, Mannheim and Cologne co-hosted the Ice Hockey World
Championships. Germany defeated the USA in the opening game in front of a
record breaking crowd of 77,803 in Gelsenkirchen's Veltins-Arena. Germany
finished the tournament in fourth place, the nation's best finish since 1953.
German goaltender Dennis Endras was named the tournament's top goaltender by
the IIHF directors and the top goaltender and most valuable player by the
media.[1]
Basketball[edit]
Dirk Nowitzki
Together with football, ice hockey and handball, basketball
in Germany is among the most popular spectator sports.
One of the most popular non-football athletes to come out of
Germany is Dirk Nowitzki, who plays power forward for the Dallas Mavericks in
the NBA. In 2007, he became the first player trained totally outside the U.S.
to be named league MVP, and in 2011 led the Mavericks to their first NBA title.
The German national basketball team's biggest successes are
the victory in the European Championship of 1993 at home in Germany, the silver
medal in the 2005 European Championships and the bronze medal in the 2002 FIBA
World Championship.
Handball[edit]
Handball is a popular team sport and evolved historically in
Germany.
Germany is regarded as the birthplace of handball. The first
match of the modern era was officially recorded on 29 October 1917 in Berlin,
Germany. Outdoor Handball had its only Olympic Games appearance in the XIth
Olympiad (1936 Berlin Games). The first international match recorded was played
on 3 September 1925 with Germany and Austria.
Today handball is a major team sport being played and
watched in all of Germany. The German Handball Bundesliga is considered to be
the most competitive professional league in the world. As a spectator sport it
ranks popular in smaller cities around the country and draws attention
comparable to other indoor sports such as ice hockey or basketball.
The Germany national handball team is the national handball
team of Germany. Germany won the handball world cup in 1938, 1978 and in 2007
as the host of the handball world cup.
Motorsport[edit]
Michael Schumacher has claimed 91 race victories and 7
championships in his F1 career.
Germany is one of the leading motorsports countries in the
world. While countless race winning cars have come from Germany, only Michael
Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel have been Formula One world champions (they
both won 10 titles together). One other German driver came close to winning the
title: Wolfgang Von Trips. Unfortunately, he died in a crash in the last race
of the season at Monza in 1961, giving the championship to his Ferrari team
mate Phil Hill.
Schumacher has won more Formula One championships and races
than any other driver since the Formula One world championship began in 1950.
In 2003, Schumacher set a new record for driver's championships when he
surpassed Juan Manuel Fangio's total of 5 championships, a record that had
stood for 46 years since 1957. He is also the highest paid athlete in sports
history, with an annual salary of some U.S. $70 million from the Ferrari team,
and an estimated $25–30 million more coming from endorsements. In 2005, he
became the world's first billionaire athlete, according to Eurobusiness
magazine. He is regarded as one of the greatest drivers of all time; when he
first retired at the end of the 2006 season, he held 7 championships and every
significant F1 record. He returned to F1 in 2010, celebrated his completion of
20 years in F1 in August 2011, and retired for a second time at the end of the
2012 season.
Sebastian Vettel
In 2010, Vettel became the youngest driver ever to win the
world championship, he also successfully defended the title in 2011, 2012 and
2013; he had already been the youngest ever to drive at a Grand Prix meeting,
earn F1 world championship points, start from pole position in an F1 race, and
finish as runner-up for the driver's championship.
The DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) is the national
touring car series. It is considered one of the best touring car series in the
world. Many Formula 1 drivers have made the switch to the series, including,
Mika Häkkinen, Jean Alesi and others. From 1995, only German marques of cars
are allowed to compete in the series. Currently only Audi, BMW and
Mercedes-Benz compete, but Opel and Alfa Romeo have a history in the sport. The
races are held mainly in Germany, but some races occur elsewhere in Europe. The
races draw monster crowds and TV ratings and many celebrities have attended
race days.
The 24 hours of Le Mans is a prestigious annual race held in
France. Porsche has won the race 16 times, far more than any other constructor.
Second on the list is Audi, who have dominated the race in recent years,
scoring 11 wins since their first in the year 2000.
Wintersports[edit]
Magdalena Neuner, biathlon athlete.
Germany is one of the most successful wintersport nations.
Its dominance in sledding disciplines can be attributed to it being the only
country in the world to have four bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks. These
tracks are located in Altenberg, Königssee, Oberhof, and Winterberg.
Germany has long been dominant in the sport of Bobsledding
having won more medals in the Winter Olympics than any other nation except
Switzerland. However, if medal wins by East Germany and West Germany from 1949
through 1990 are combined, Germany's medal count is nearly double that of
Switzerland. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, André Lange piloted both the
two-man and four-man sleds to gold, sweeping the men's bobsledding events.
In luge, Germany has also been dominant, stretching from
luge's foundation in the early 20th century with dominance in the European
championships to the Winter Olympics. Noted lugers include Georg Hackl, Klaus
Bonsack, Margit Schumann, David Möller, Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, Sylke Otto,
and Tatjana Hüfner. Of 117 Olympic Medals Germany won 70!
In skeleton, Germany has been dominant with the likes of
Kerstin Jürgens and Anja Huber.
Biathlon has become one of the most popular winter sports in
Germany in recent years.[2] Germany has won 59 Olympic medals in biathlon, more
than any other nation, and is the joint most successful nation in terms of
Olympic golds won, with Germany and Russia having won 20 golds each. Some of
Germany's most successful biathletes include Frank-Peter Roetsch, Michael
Greis, Sven Fischer and Ricco Groß among the men and Uschi Disl, Andrea Henkel,
Kati Wilhelm and Magdalena Neuner among the women.
Tobias Angerer has enjoyed success in cross-country skiing,
winning consecutive overall FIS Cross-Country World Cups in 2005/06 and
2006/07.
Germany has produced a number of top ski jumpers. Jens
Weißflog is Germany's most successful ski jumper and was one of the top
competitors in the world from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Other notable
athletes include Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Sven Hannawald and Martin Schmitt. Two
of the four rounds of the prestigious Four Hills Tournament are held on German
hills, at Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
German athletes have been competitive in Nordic combined.
Title-winning competitors include Georg Thoma, Ulrich Wehling, Hermann
Weinbuch, Ronny Ackermann and Eric Frenzel.
Germany has enjoyed great success in alpine skiing, although
the most successful German alpine skiers have tended to be female. One notable
male alpine skier was Markus Wasmeier. Rosi Mittermaier, Katja Seizinger and
Maria Höfl-Riesch have won multiple world-level titles on the women's circuit.
In speed skating Germany has been a major power,
particularly in women's competition. Four of the five most prolific winners in
the women's ISU Speed Skating World Cup are German - Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann,
Jenny Wolf, Anni Friesinger-Postma and Monique Garbrecht. Claudia Pechstein won
nine Olympic medals in long track speed skating, more than any other skater,
male or female. Successful male German speed skaters have included Erhard
Keller and Uwe-Jens Mey. Success in short track speed skating has been harder
to come by, however Tyson Heung did win the overall ISU Short Track Speed
Skating World Cup in 2006/07.
Germany has a heritage in figure skating extending to the
early days of international competition - Oskar Uhlig won the inaugural
European Figure Skating Championships in 1891, while the first male and pairs
World Champions were Gilbert Fuchs in 1896 and the pairing of Anna Hübler and
Heinrich Burger in 1908 {Hübler and Burger were also the first Olympic gold medalists
in pairs competition at the 1908 Games). Germany's best-known figure skater is
Katarina Witt, a double Olympic gold medalist in the 1980s. Other notable
German competitors include Manfred Schnelldorfer, Jan Hoffmann, Gabriele
Seyfert, Anett Pötzsch and the pairings of Ria Baran and Paul Falk, Marika
Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, and Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy.
Germany has been a regular competitor in Olympic Curling
since the sport was reintroduced at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The German men's
and women's teams both won World Curling Championships in 1992 and 1994. A
related sport, known as Eisstockschiessen or ice stock sport, is played in
southern Germany.
Tennis[edit]
Steffi Graf
The two most successful German tennis players of all time
are Steffi Graf and Boris Becker.
Becker became the youngest champion in the history of the
men’s singles at Wimbledon, won six-time Grand Slam singles titles and an
Olympic gold medal together with Michael Stich.
Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and
female players. In 1988, she became the first and only tennis player (male or
female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam
singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.
Cycling[edit]
Cycling is a popular sport in Germany and one of the
greatest riders of recent times Jan Ullrich dominated the Tour de France in
1997. He finished a full 9 minutes in front of second place rider Richard
Virenque. Jan was regarded as Lance Armstrong's only consistent rival,
finishing second to him several times in the Tour de France. Recently Tony
Martin has emerged as one of the top Individual time trial specialists in the
world, winning the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 2011, 2012
and 2013. André Greipel has been one of the most prolific winners among road
sprinters since his breakthrough in the late 2000s, while fellow sprinters
Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb have also enjoyed major success from the early
2010s.
See also: Germany at the UCI Road World Championships
Golf[edit]
Martin Kaymer at the BMW Open
As recently as 2007, Germany hosted three events on golf's
European Tour—the Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe, the
Mercedes-Benz Championship and the BMW International Open. However, since 2010,
the only European Tour event in Germany has been the BMW International Open.
The Players Championship was scrapped after 2007; the Mercedes-Benz
Championship was not held in 2008, resumed in 2009, and dropped again in 2010.
Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer is the first
German to have won a major championship and is a former World No. 1. He is now
on the Champions Tour in the U.S. for golfers 50 and over; he has led that tour
in prize money in five of his six full seasons on that tour, and won two majors
in 2010, namely the Senior Open Championship and U.S. Senior Open. Martin
Kaymer became the second German to win a major championship by winning the 2010
PGA Championship in Wisconsin, and in 2011 rose to World No. 1.
Boxing[edit]
Max Schmeling in 1938.
Boxing is among the most watched TV sports in Germany.
Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are among the two most popular boxers in Germany
with both male and female fights enjoying regular spots on national
television.[3] German television network RTL has listed the Klitschko brothers
as their most important asset next to football. In recent years Germany has
become a hub for boxing, the Vegas of Europe, and many international fighters
travel to fight out of the country.[1][4][5]
Max Schmeling was heavyweight champion of the world between
1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended
boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national
associations. He was ranked 55 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers
of all time.
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