German Sports

German sports have gained worldwide popularity. It is indeed the national pride of Germans. Germans are also quite sport loving people. Anyone in Germany can keep himself physically active by taking part in Germany sports. In Germany group activities, team sports and competition take place very frequently. Playing with neighbors and friends is one of the leisure activities of Germans. Germans are culturally rich people and they follow their conventional tradition strictly. German sports also falls under the domain of cultural activities and therefore plays a major role in Germany. The German sports activities include

Volleyball
Basketball
Field hockey
Track and field events
Skiing
Ice

Soccer had been the most popular game in West Germany until 1980. In 1954, 1974, 1990 West Germany won the world cup.

Apart from this tennis is also one among the other favorite German sports. In international competition some of the outstanding German tennis players participated and with their skill and efficiency brought cup for the country. Boris Becker was the youngest German tennis player who won Wimbledon at a very young age. In 1998 and 1989 West Germany also won Davis cup. During that time Boris Becker had been the team lead . Steffi Graf is the other legendary figure in the history of German as well as world tennis. She started her career as a tennis player at a very young age. When she was only 18 years old she became the world number 1 woman tennis player. Steffi is also the winner of Grand Slam. This unquestionable contribution of Steffi and Becker inspired the Germany sports and number of tennis clubs started increasing.

East Germany also gives excessive support to the sports activities. The residents of East Germany use sports for acquisition of worldwide recognition. During the period of 1960s the communist athletes started winning medals for various sports activities. Those Germany sports include track , winter games, field, swimming etc. The secret of the popularity of Germany sports is probably their disciplined life, well organized training procedure and efficient trainers. There is an allegation regarding the German sportsman that they take anabolic steroids (drugs) for increasing their energy level. In 1972 East Germany participated at the Olympics (Munich) as a national team. In 1980 also Germany became the topper in the winter games.