Sports Survey - the German Results

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The results of the survey on sport-habits amongst the German students show us that sport plays an important role in nearly everyone’s life.

However, when it comes to the choice of a favourite sport, opinions vary a lot. Apart from individual sports like jogging, going to the gym, inline skating or going swimming, many pupils also enjoy team-sports like volleyball, football or badminton. A few also reported about their passion for dancing, horseback riding or tennis.

All students practise sport regularly because they want to get fitter and because it is fun for them. The majority prefer doing sport outside and are also a member in a sports club. Most of them work out three or four times a week. The preferences towards individual sports or team sports are fairly evenly distributed.

In Germany, pupils have PE lessons twice a week. Whereas most of them participate in these lessons regularly, a third of them does not enjoy this.

All students consider it very important to be physically active  in order to lead a healthy life. 

Nearly all of them are of the opinion that football is probably the most popular sport in Germany which is also shown on TV the most. However, only half of them watch sport on TV. If they do, they normally watch football, winter-sports like biathlon or special events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games.