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One out of three Germans is member of a sports club. Therefore it is no surprise that Germany is so succesful in the international sports scene. But there is also lots development within the borders of Germany.
Here you will find more interesting facts about the land of sport. Take a look!
Sixty-one years after fast-footed men got the chance show off their skills to a worldwide audience, women entered the field for their first World CupGames. Now, 20 years later, they will play in their...
The history of women's football
While women's football was well underway in other countries and even starting to rise in Western Germany, the GDR did not establish the sport for women until 1968. Bulgarian student Wladimir Zwetkov founded the first women's team as a division of BSG Empor Dresden-Mitte.
Women's Football in the GDR
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn held his first public gymnastics instruction at the Hasenheide park in Berlin in June 1811. This marked the birth of the German gymnastics movement, whose mission involved sport as well as politics. His followers introduced gymnastics in the US.
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It stands for fairness, tolerance and peaceful competition: International Sports Promotion of the Federal Foreign Office is a global success story and one example of how sport can build bridges across linguistic, political and cultural divides. In the past 50 years the Federal Foreign Office and its partners – including the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), the German Football Association (DFB), the German Athletics Federation (DLV) and the Sport University in Leipzig – have supported more than 1,300 sporting projects in 100 countries as part of its International Sports Promotion.
Sport without Borders
