German champions
German master is the general name for the winner in the team or individual evaluation of the highest national comparative competitions in a competitive discipline in Germany. The title is generally awarded annually. The competitions are usually carried out separately by gender.
The competition to determine the German champion is called the German Championship .
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Organizers of the German championships for the sports organized in the German Olympic Sports Confederation are the sports associations , which each issue their own sets of rules. Only members of German sports clubs who belong to the respective sports association are eligible to participate . A German nationality of the athletes is not required in all sports.
For other disciplines, the relevant associations issue the rules.
Team sport
In team sports , the German champion is usually determined in league mode , i.e. in a fight of each individual team in a league against each other. Often (e.g. in football and handball ) a round trip is played, so that there is a home and an away game against every opponent . The German champions will be the team that has the most points in a table at the end of the season. The top league in which the German champions are determined is usually called the Bundesliga in Germany .
Another mode is the tournament mode, in which the individual teams play against opponents drawn or otherwise determined and the winner qualifies for the next round until the German champions are determined in a final from two teams.
In US-American sports such as basketball or ice hockey , a mixture of both is practiced: First there is a league competition, followed by a play-off round of the best (usually eight) teams, in which the German champions are ultimately determined.
As far as available in the respective sport, the German champion is mostly qualified for international competitions.
Individual sport
In most individual sports (e.g. athletics , swimming ), the German champions are determined as part of a single competition, the so-called German championship . This is where the best German athletes meet to determine the champion in the respective sports discipline . Participation is often linked to a qualification that must meet certain standards in advance. In sports with several disciplines, the championship titles are often awarded as part of a joint competition between different disciplines.
In some sports there are several German championships per year in which the German champions are determined over different distances or under different competition conditions (e.g. short-track and long-track championships in swimming, indoor and outdoor championships in athletics).
The German championships are often elimination competitions to form the national team that takes part in international competitions such as world championships or the Olympic Games .
Demarcation
The title of German Champion is only awarded to the winner of the highest adult competition class and is therefore only awarded to one team or person in each discipline. The winners in competitions of individual year classes are therefore called German youth champions , German year champions , German senior champions or the like.
In some sports (for example boxing ; earlier also football) there are separate competitions for amateurs and professionals. The term German amateur champion is often used here for the former .
Remarks
The German master is capitalized as an honorific noun phrase if it has a specific function: “Here comes the reigning German master!” If the term loses its personally identifying character, as in lists or summaries, it is written in lower case: “Dortmund could become German master . ” Because the“ German championships ”are listed as a group designation, they are always written in lower case. See also the relevant Wiktionary entry .
Although the term German champion suggests that the title holder is the best athlete in a sporting discipline in the respective year, the German championship in sports that are primarily international often takes a back seat to international competition series such as the World Cup , so that occasionally the best athletes - mostly due to their training plan - are not at the start. This occurs especially when the championship does not have a qualifying character, for example in skiing or canoe racing .
At the time of the division of Germany , only the clubs of the Federal Republic took part in the German championships. In fact, these competitions were only about the championship of the Federal Republic of Germany, even if the athletes from the GDR would theoretically have been eligible to participate as Germans within the meaning of the Basic Law . Separate GDR championships were held in the GDR .
There are German champions, for example, in the following sports:
American football • badminton • baseball • basketball • beach volleyball • board game • cricket • darts • three cushion • ice hockey • curling • fistball • fencing • soccer • gymnastics • handball • hockey • inline skater hockey • athletics • athletics hall • motorcycle sports • mountain biking • pétanque • Pool Billiards • Quadrathlon • Rally • Racing • Wrestling • Rugby Union • Rowing • Chess • Snooker • Softball • Squash • Street Cycling • Sambo • Swimming • Tennis • Table Tennis • Touring Cars • Triathlon • Volleyball • Water polo
German championships are also held in the arts of magic and the bakery.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b German Language Council: Questions about the language. Retrieved February 9, 2011 .
- ↑ German spelling: rules, § 64 Paragraph 1. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 25, 2012 ; Retrieved February 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Duden Volume 1 "The German Spelling", 20th edition, keyword German .
