Sport in Germany an introduction created by the students as a part of the eTwinning project

1. An introduction created by a Virtual
Traveller from Ukraine
as a part of the eTwinning project “Proud to
b Europe@ns”

2.  Germany 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.
 ( Gold 11 Silver 12 Bronze 6 Total 29)

3.  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.
 Besides the national league, the Euro cup
and the FIFA World Cup have much
attention among its population.
 Bayern Munich 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.

4.  The women's national team is also a
world power, with its wins of the FIFA
Women's World Cup in 2003 and 2007
 Germany is the only nation to win both
the men's and women's World Cup and
European titles

5. 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

6. among the most popular
spectator sports.
 Dirk Nowitzki is one of the
most popular non-football
athletes to come out of
Germany, who plays power
forward for the Dallas
Mavericks in the NBA

7.  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.
 The first international match recorded
was played on 3 September 1925 with
Germany and Austria.
 The German Handball Bundesliga is
considered to be the most competitive
professional league in the world.

8.  Germany is one of the leading
motorsports countries in the world.
 Countless race winning cars have come
from Germany
 Michael Schumacher and Sebastian
Vettel have been Formula One world
champions (they have won 11 titles
combined)

9.  is a popular sport in Germany
 One of the greatest riders of recent times is
Jan Ullrich.
 Tony Martin won the time trial at the UCI
Road World Championships in 2011, 2012 and
2013.
 André Greipel has been the most prolific
winner among road sprinters since his
breakthrough in the late 2000s
 Sprinters Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb
have also enjoyed major success from the
early 2010s.

10.  The most popular
 sailing, rowing, swimming
 wind- and kitesurfing
 wakeboarding underwater
diving
 fishing
 powerboating and yachting
 Large annual events
 Kiel Week or Hanse Sail in
Rostock.

11. The two most successful German
tennis players of all time are
Steffi Graf( won 22 Grand Slam
singles titles, second among
male and female players)
Boris Becker (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.

12.  Germany has long been
dominant in the sport of
sledging, bobsledding, luge,
skeleton,
 biathlon, cross-country skiing,
ski jumping, Nordic combined,
alpine skiing, speed skating
and figure skating.

13. Mikhail
Sergey
Alena