Sports
- Enschede is well known for its local association football club, FC Twente. Twente were the 2010 Eredivisie champions.
- The oldest marathon of the Netherlands, and the second oldest of Europe, is the Enschede Marathon.
- The Student Rowing Club D.R.V. Euros has produced several national champions and one Olympic Champion.
- The female Fieldhockeyers of EHV play in the second highest competition, "Overgangsklasse", of the Netherlands.
- DOS-WK plays in the highest competition of korfball, the 'Korfbal League'.
- Enschede (Old Church to University) is the final stage of the Batavierenrace, a footrace relay beginning in Nijmegen, contested mostly by university student teams and claimed to be the largest relay races in the world, with 8000 participants.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)