Sports college

The sports university is a university with a focus on sports and sports science . In addition, the subject of sports science can also be studied at sports science faculties of larger universities .

Sports universities in Europe

Germany

The German University for Physical Education was founded in 1920 by Carl Diem in Berlin as the world's first sports university . From 1950 to 1990 the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) existed in Leipzig , one of the world's best-known sports universities , which was re-established in 1993 as a faculty of the University of Leipzig . The only sports university that exists in Germany today is the German Sports University in Cologne .

Italy

• the Foro Italico University (formerly ISEF and IUSM Rome)

Lithuania

• the Sports Academy of Lithuania

Norway

• the Norwegian Sport University Oslo;

Poland

Sports universities in Poland are called Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego (AWF). In addition to the Polish, they all have an English name. AWF Warsaw was founded in Poland in 1929.

• the Wroclaw Sports University ( AWF Wrocław )
• the Gdansk Sports University ( AWF Gdańsk )
• the Sports University Kraków ( AWF Kraków )
• the Katowice Sports University ( AWF Katowice )
• the Poznan Sports University ( AWF Poznań )
• the Warsaw Sports University ( AWF Warszawa )

Russia

• the Moscow Sports University and
• the Veliki Luki Sports University

Switzerland

The Eidgenössische Hochschule für Sport Magglingen (formerly: "Eidgenössische Turn- und Sportschule Magglingen (ETS)") is the only sports university in Switzerland , based in Magglingen . It is also a high performance center for top athletes, a training center for the leaders of Jugend + Sport and a center for sports medicine.

Overseas sports colleges

People's Republic of China

• the Chengdu Sports University ,
• the Nanjing Sports University ,
• the Sport University Beijing ,
• the Shanghai Sports University and
• the Wuhan Sports University ;

Japan

• the Biwako Seikei Sports University ,
• the Japan Sports University ,
• the Kanoya Sports University ,
• the Osaka Sports University ,
• the Women's Sport University Japan and
• the Tokyo Women's Sport University .

Footnotes

1. ↑ W. Hollmann 75 years of organized German sports medicine in JM Steinacker: "Rowing: Sports medicine and sports science aspects" p. 5
2. ↑ Sports universities in Poland (English)