Sports Schools in Other Countries
Soviet experience of mass children and youth sports education was applied by Eastern European countries, in particular East Germany, where they were called "Kinder- und Jugendsportschule" and abbreviated as "KJS"; for instance, Katarina Witt and Sven Fischer attended such schools. Similar sports schools were established in the People's Republic of China, North Korea and Cuba (called Schools for Sports Initiation there), allowing these countries to raise the level of sportsmen and achieve highest results at World Championships and Olympic Games.
At the present time some 3,000 sports schools exist in the People's Republic of China, including full-time ones, and this system is essentially based on the powerful system of sports schools of the USSR.
There are sport school in Asian countries such as Singapore Sport School in Singapore and Bukit Jalil Sport School in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Both of these sport school established after end of Soviet Union (1991).
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