50 years after the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the European Championships (EC) Munich 2022 will be held in the state capital. From August 11 to 21, 2022, around 4,700 athletes from all over Europe will compete for a total of 177 medals. The European Championships will take place in nine sports: beach volleyball, canoe racing, climbing, gymnastics, athletics, cycling, rowing, table tennis and triathlon.
The TUM Campus im Olympiapark (CiO), scientific home of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences and the University Sports Center Munich (ZHS), will contribute to the successful outcome of the major European event, some three months after the official inauguration ceremony.
"We are very pleased that we could officially inaugurate this wonderful campus, which is also Europe's largest and most innovative campus for health and sports sciences, in the anniversary year. The fact that the top European sports federations, Olympiapark GmbH Munich, the City of Munich and the Free State of Bavaria will use this new campus immediately after the inauguration for such a major European sporting and media-attractive as well as crowd-pulling event, and thus seamlessly integrate it into the event ensemble of the historic Munich Olympic Park, is a great honor," explains Prof. Dr. Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Dean of the Deprtment of Sport and Health Sciences and head of the Chair of Preventive Pediatrics.
In particular, the TUM Campus im Olympiapark will be used before and during the event as a training and warm-up facility for the four sports of gymnastics, athletics, table tennis and triathlon by the top athletes. Athletes such as table tennis players Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, track and field athletes Gina Lückenkemper (sprint), Christina Hering (800 meters), Malaika Mihambo (long jump) and Johannes Vetter (javelin), triathletes Laura Lindemann and Lasse Lührs, and gymnasts Sarah Voss, Kim Bui and Emma Malewski will mingle with students and visitors to the campus.
"The track and field athletes and triathletes will be able to use both the new track and field stadium and the throwing field," explains Dr. Till Lorenzen, Managing Director of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences. "The table tennis players will have their training facility in the quad hall. For this purpose, a mobile floor will be laid in this hall. The gymnasts will have their training and warm-up stations in the triple hall in addition to the new apparatus gymnasium. A new additional apparatus gymnastics hall with professional rental equipment will be built in the triple hall especially for this event."
In addition, other events will take place at TUM CiO, such as the European Athletics Young Leaders Forum (YLF). In addition to athletics, participants from the other eight sports and other invited national associations are expected to attend. The aim of the forum is to bring together motivated young adults aged up to 30 who want to get involved in top-level sport and actively shape its future.
"In parallel to the sporting competitions, EC Munich 2022 will be hosting the European Athletics Young Leader Forum in the immediate vicinity of the Olympic Stadium in the lecture halls and seminar rooms of the TUM Campus in the Olympic Park," said Dr. Lorenzen. "At peak times, we expect up to 460 athletes and coaches as well as participants of the European Athletics Young Leaders Forum. That, of course, means considerable logistics, which we are making available to EC Munich 2022."
As part of the European Championships Munich 2022, an extraordinary Conference of German Ministers of Sports will be held at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Garching on August 16. Dean Prof. Oberhoffer-Fritz will address the sports ministers and sports senators there. The Conference of Ministers of Sport is composed of the ministers and senators responsible for sport in the federal states as well as other permanent guests. The current chairman of the Conference of Ministers of Sports is Roger Lewentz, Minister of State in the Ministry of the Interior and Sports from Rhineland-Palatinate.
In addition, a student project group from Prof. Dr. Michael Schaffrath's Department of Media and Communications will provide media coverage of the European Championships Munich 2022 under the direction of Romy Schwaiger. On a subpage of the Department homepage, the articles and contributions of the total of 14 students will be published during the event.
To the homepage of the European Championships 2022
To the homepage of the student project group of the Department of Media and Communications
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz
Dean Department of Sport and Health Sciences
Chair of Preventive Pediatrics
Georg-Brauchle Ring 60/62
80992 München
phone: 089 289 24601
e-mail: dekanat.sg(at)tum.de
Dr. Till Lorenzen
Managing Director Department of Sport and Health Sciences
Georg-Brauchle Ring 60/62
80992 München
phone: 089 289 24645
e-mail: till.lorenzen(at)tum.de
Text: Romy Schwaiger
Photos: European Championships Munich 2022/private