An introduction created by a Virtual Traveller from Ukraine

as a part of the eTwinning project “Proud to b Europe@ns”

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)

Germany's top level football league,known as the Bundesliga, has one of thehighest average attendances of anyprofessional sports league in the world.

Besides the national league, the Euro cupand the FIFA World Cup have muchattention among its population.

Bayern Munich is the most successfulGerman football club, with 21 nationalchampionships, 14 National Cups and 5European Champions titles (threeEuropean Cups and 2 Champions Leagues)to its credit.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mikhail

Sergey

Alena