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The State and its Inhabitants
Sport in Bavaria
Leisure activities and world-class sport
Bavaria is a paradise for sports enthusiasts. The varied Bavarian landscape offers a wide range of sporting opportunities catering for every taste. The Bavarian Alps provide excellent conditions for winter sports, particularly for alpine and cross-country skiing and for tobogganing.
The wide lakes and rivers are an invitation to sail and surf or to go on rowing or canoeing trips. More than 1,000 dedicated cycle routes with a total length of 8,700 km lead cyclist to the most beautiful corners of Bavaria. But you do not only find popular or leisure-time sport in Bavaria. It is also home to high-performance sport.
The Olympic Base in Bavaria and its four regional centres provide optimum training facilities and high-quality care for top-class sportsmen and sportswomen. No fewer than twelve professorships for sports at Bavarian universities are dedicated to further developing modern training methods. Sportsmen and sportswomen from Bavaria are regularly successful at both national and international levels.
Sporting Highlights in Bavaria
The major sporting events in Bavaria attract leading sportsmen and sportswomen from all over the world and reach an audience of millions on television. The Olympic Stadium in Munich is inextricably linked with the 1972 Olympic Games or the Final of the World Cup in 1974. Every year the international ski-jumping elite meet in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in Oberstdorf for the Four Jumps Tournament.
The Bavarian World Cup Competitions in alpine and cross-country skiing and biathlon are celebrated highlights in the winter sports calendar. Friends of football are well catered for in Bavaria, the home of top-flight clubs with long traditions, foremost among them the German record-holder and top international club, FC Bayern Munich. And on 9 June 2006 the World Cup Finals kicked off in the Allianz Arena in Munich, one of the most up-to-date and architecturally exciting football stadiums in the world.
The Football World Cup 2006
The World Cup 2006 was the sporting event of superlatives in Germany. Bavaria was especially well represented in this football festival with the two stadiums in Munich and Nuremberg, with the International Media Centre for several thousand media representatives at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, and with the opening match in the new Allianz Arena.
The Skiing World Championships 2011
The State of Bavaria and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are co-operating closely in the preparations of the Skiing World Championships 2011.
"The Alpine Skiing World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011 are a wonderful opportunity for sport, tourism and the economy in the whole of Bavaria. Following the Football World Cup, Bavarian can once again prove itself a good host for an international sporting event.
The state government will therefore support Garmisch-Partenkirchen all along the line. We believe that close co-operation will provide perfect preparation for the World Championships," said Prime Minister Dr Edmund Stoiber in the Council of Ministers on 30 May 2006. The preparations are being co-ordinated by a planning team established by the Prime Minster and led by Economics Minister Erwin Huber.