Sports in Cologne

The people of Cologne are sports lover as well as they like to indulge in a variety of it. Football, basketball, Golf and Ice hockey being the major sports of the city , don't think that the citizens have limited their reach upto them

The city boasts to have more than eight hundred sports club dealing with different kinds of games. Innumerable inhabitants of the city is a part of these clubs and enjoy playing them.

Astonishingly the collected data of the city reveals that Cologne practices in itself more than seventy types of sports beginning from chess , show jumping , tennis to fashionable games like Nordic Walking, freeclimbing and inline skating .

Citizens of Cologne are active both in watching and playing sports of a wide array. The sports organizers and partakers equally acknowledge the fact that the audience of Cologne are very enthusiastic and its difficult to get such a passionate group of sports enthusiasts anywhere in the world.

The German Sports College In Cologne is another proof which shows how essentially is it embedded in the culture of the city. The institution has more than seven thousand students enrolled in it and is devoted in training and providing education about the field of sports.

Amazingly the institution has churned out many successful sports star who have gained recognition in this field after passing out from here. The German Sports and Olympic Museum must be visited by the tourists in order to get a comprehensive knowledge about the sports of Cologne.

Sports in Cologne can be broadly classified as professional sports and sports for everyone. The Ford Cologne Marathon is one of the very popular public sport of the city which sees the participation of as many as seventeen thousand five hundred participants every year.