Mission Olympic

Mission Olympic was a nationwide city competition in popular sport . In the annual competition between selected cities from 2008 to 2014, “Germany's most active city” was sought. The initiators were the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and Coca-Cola Germany.

The competition was launched in 2007 with the aim of getting as many people in the cities as possible to be enthusiastic about more sporting activities or an active lifestyle. The focus here was on promoting popular sport. Between 2007 and 2014, more than 200 cities applied for the Mission Olympics. 2.0 million people from 34 cities took an active part in the final competitions during these years. In the first competition in 2007/2008, the city of Speyer prevailed as the winner, eleven other cities followed in the following years. The last competition took place in 2014.

The competition

Any German city or municipality could apply for the “Mission Olympic” city competition. Certain conditions of participation had to be met. After reviewing all applications, a jury named the candidate cities from which the final cities were selected. The selection was primarily based on the number and variety of sports clubs, mass sports activities and sports facilities in a city. Up until 2011, five final cities competed against each other every year. In 2012 and 2013, two final cities were selected in a maximum of three size categories: small cities, medium-sized cities and large cities. In 2014 there was then a dichotomy: small and medium to large. Each final city organized as many wide-ranging events as possible over one weekend , which should get many citizens, at best the whole city, in motion. The search was made for “Germany's most active city” and “Germany's best initiatives for exercise and sport”. At the end of the competition year, the jury named the winning cities after intensive scrutiny, which were honored and awarded a prize at a gala event in Berlin .

The winning prizes were most recently, depending on the size category, 30,000 euros for small cities with up to 30,000 inhabitants and 45,000 euros for medium-sized and large cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants. As finalists, the second-placed received prizes of 10,000 and 15,000 euros, depending on the size of the city. The money is to be used in the respective cities to promote popular sports.

Final and winning cities

The table lists all of Mission Olympic's finalists and winning cities since 2008.

year	City category	Winning city	Finalists
2008		Speyer	Erlangen , Freiburg im Breisgau , Fürstenwalde , Herne , Speyer
2009		Luebbenau	Göttingen , Lübbenau, Neubrandenburg , north , Stuttgart
2010		Mannheim	Cottbus , Mannheim, Nordhorn , Wetzlar , Zehdenick
2011		Delbruck	Delbrück, Geisenfeld , Lehrte , Nürtingen , Zwickau
2012	small small medium	Meiningen Weißwasser Willich	Meiningen, Troisdorf , Weißwasser, Willich
2013	small medium large	Montabaur Rottenburg am Neckar Bocholt	Lübz , Montabaur Rottenburg am Neckar, Ibbenbueren Offenbach am Main , Bocholt
2014	small medium to large	Sandersdorf-Brehna Langen / Samtgemeinde Bederkesa ( Geestland )	Rosbach vor der Höhe , Sandersdorf-Brehna Sangerhausen , Langen / Samtgemeinde Bederkesa

Web links

• German Olympic Sports Confederation - Award ceremony 2012
• Coca-Cola-Germany, Mission-Olympic - Award ceremony 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Press releases from the German Olympic Sports Confederation
2. ↑ na-presseportal ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published November 11, 2008. 
3. ↑ Moving cities ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. - Official website of Mission Olympic