Aarhus - Sports

Sports

In the southern-Aarhus Marselisborg Park, the sports center named Atletion is located comprises athletics, the football NRGi Park and the indoor sports NRGi Arena. Several sport clubs have their home ground in Atletion, including AGF Århus, the Danish superliga football team, and Aarhus GF handball team, the 1960 European Cup runner-up. Although basketball is a minor sport in Denmark, Aarhus is considered the main Danish hub of the sport, with the local team Bakken Bears being the most successful team in Denmark for the past decade.

Aarhus (and especially Atletion) has served or will serve as the host of many sport events in recent years including:

  • 2002 European Women's Handball Championship
  • 2005 European Table Tennis Championships
  • Denmark Open in badminton
  • UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup
  • 2006 World Orienteering Championships
  • 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  • GF World Cup; the world's largest handball tournament for women
  • DanceSport IDSF World Standard 2006

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