But Munich is much more. Munich ist the most important economic centre in the Federal Republic ofGermany, a dynamic city of commerce, headquater of science and technology and an international recognized trade fair centre. And Munich was a sport metropolis long before the 1972 Olympic Games. In addition to a multitude of top sporting events, over 300.000 citizens participate in 800 sport clubs or keep themselces fit and healthy on their own through leisure sport.
Munich is also the embodiment of "Gemütlichkeit", a peaceful joy of living, hospitality and cosmopolitanism. Whether in the historic old city, in an idylllic beer garden or in youthfull Schwabing, the citizens of Munich look forward to the guests who arrive from far and near.
The Bavarian capital is the leading tourist city in Germany. More than 52 million day tourists a year choose Munich as their destination. Nearly half of the visitors come from abroad. Guests from the USA lead the list here, followed by Italy, Japan, Great Britain including Northern Ireland, Switzerland and Austria.
The touristic infrastructure is outstanding: over 36.000 hotel beds, 16.000 of which are in the first category, more than 5.300 restaurants, approximately 70 theatres, some 115 well-developed congress and conference halls with a total seating capacity of over 100.000; the Philharmonic at Gasteig, the cultural centre with the largest concert hall in Germany. All of these facilities contribute to making Munich the main destination for guests from around the world.
The countryside surrunding Munich is also world-famous. Upper Bavaria with its green meadows, mountains, forrests and lakes is a landscape, one finds pleasant villages in the middle of the world which, to a large extent, is as it was a century ago. This combines with an apparently inexhaustible wealth of art and culture. Three keywords: royal castles, Wieskirche, Pinakothek. Nature and culture resound harmoniously in a landscape which is colossal and idyllic at the same time.
The large winners' plaque at Coubertin Square reminds people of Olympic
records and medal winners. Sports, organizational and visitors' records are
still nothing out of the ordinary in Europe's biggest centre for gathering
and recreation: more than 100 million registered visitors since the end of
the Olympic Games of 1972 speak for themselves.
Since the end of the Games until 1994, the year of the application, 49
million persons have visited 6.000 sporting, cultural and commercial events.
51 million persons have visited the permanent installations such as the
Olympic Swimming Hall, the Olympic Tower, the Olympic Ice-Skating Centre or
the Olympic Stadium. Many million visitors that "only" took a walk as strollers
through the vast park are not even included in these figures.
Life is colourful, manifold, versatile, and it has a wide range of action.
Within a few years, the main Olympic arena of 1972 has become the largest
stage of Munich's life. The grounds around Coubertin Square remained a
meeting place of the world's youth - the purpose they were actually conceived
for. They have become even more: an oasis of quietness and relaxation in the
midst of the turbulent happenings of the metropolis of Munich.
The cry of "Goal!" from the stadium and the sunbath in the forum, the ecstasy
of pop fans and the boat trip on the lake, the brilliance of famous show stars
and the picnic in the grove near the Olympic Cycle Stadium, the chase of
professional racing cyclists over steep tracks and a leisurely game of
miniature golf, the lively blaze of colors of big ice revues and the cheerful
paddling of bathing children, the concentration of thousands during congresses
and the colourful medley on the ice surface - all this and a lot more stands
for the Olympic Park of today. Where at that time Mark Spitz won his seven
gold medals, today a real swimming Eldorado presents itself to competitive
athletes as well as to ordinary swimmers. Every year, tens of thousands of
people perform spins in the skating rink covered by tent roof or leisurely bowl
on the bowling alley of the Olympic Hall. Main attraction and focal point,
however, remain top events in sports and culture which enticed world-famous
stars to come to the Isar metropolis and for whom the Olympic Park has become
a must in their athletics career or during their world tours.
The outstanding sport hits until 1994 have been twenty-three world, eleven
European and sixty-four German championships which held sports enthusiasts
from all over the world spellbound just as much as the sensational Tennis
Davis Cup Final in December 1985, the brilliant Davis Cup Semifinal against
the USA in summer 1989 or the ski parallel slalom of the worlds best woman
slalom racers at the Olympic Hill. The football matches of FC Bayern in
national and international contests offer first-class sport and also, of cause,
exciting entertainment to hundreds of thousands.
Since 1972, the Olympic flair and the always optimal conditions have
invariably inspired the best athletes of the world to give their best.
The programme diversity is breathtaking: the famulous "Holiday on Ice" show
sparkles every year where, shortly before, the best tennis players fought for
prize money and honour in the Compaq Grand Slam Cup. A Sting concert is
followed smoothly by a large ice hockey or basketball tournament. The jubilant
cries of the ten thousand visitors to the Six-day Races have just died down
when, a few days later, daring motocross artists show their daredevil jumps
over washboards and tables. Large-scale opera productions or concerts featuring
the best tenors of the day are given the same wothy attention as congresses and
exhibitions. Around 50 annual events fill up the Hall's appointment book.
The Olympic Hall symbolizes guaranteed success for organizers. The Karate World
Championships 2000 will find it an outstanding site for its event.
Olympic use:
Handball and gymnastics
Post-Olympic use:
sporting events; cultural entertainment; exhibitions and congresses
Until 1994, a total of more than 14 million people visited over 1070 events
Construction:
Reinforced concrete foundation. Height of the stands above the arena: 15m.
Exterior front is a glass facade reaching up to 18 meters. Around 13.500
spectators can be accomodated in the Hall, whereas the use of the space
depends upon the various events. Following the Olympic Games, a 200-meter
cycling track, an indoor skating rink and a complete track-and-field
facility were installed and the sound and lighting systems were improved
in state-of-the-art quality.
Luminosity of up to 2400 lux (new value). Four scoreboards with integrated
large-scale video walls are mounted above the arena on the technical bridge
in an approximately 106 qm cubicform. The large-scale video walls provide
dimensions which are unique in Germany. When necessary, it is possible to
section off the arena into various sizes by means of giant curtains.
The northern underground section of the Hall is divided into the Minor
Olympic Hall (924 sqm), a gymnastics room (192 sqm) as well as a room for
fitness training and equipment rooms.
The Hall consists of four levels
The Judoka Jürgen Seidel participated in a Shotokan Karate training course
held by the Japanese champion Hiroo Mochizuki in France in 1957. This was the
beginning of Karate in Germany.
On June 17, 1976, the German Karate Federation was founded as the umbrella
organization of German Karate association (DKB), Goju Kai Germany (GKD) and
German-Japanese Karate Federation (DJKV). A short time later, three more
associations joined: the German Karate Union (DKU), the Karate Division of the
German Judo Association and Wado Kai Germany (WKD).
Since its foundation, DKV has produced a number of very successful athletes:
Birgit Schweiberer, for example, was eight times European kata champion in the
eighties. Marijan Glad was similarly successful in these years. Toni Dietl, the
current federal kumite trainer for woman, also ranks among the most successful
athletes. In addition to winning six European championships, he won the World
Cup and World Games once as well as third place twice in world championships.
Silvia Schnabel (nee Wiegärtner) has won several second and third places and
one first place in European woman contents, a second place in the World Cup and
a third place in the 1992 World Championships. The only world champion so far
is Dirk Betzien from Berlin who won the title in Maastricht in 1984.
The DKV has proved equally capable serveral times as regards the organization
of major international championships. In 1980, the IAKF World Championships
took place in Bremen, in 1983 the EAKF European Championships in Munich. In
1990 and 1991, they were followed by the Woman European Championships and the
Juniors' and Seniors' European Championships in Hannover. In 1993, the DKV
hosted the WSKA Shotokan Cup in Saarbrücken and the Wado Ryu European Cup in
Nürnberg. One year later, the EKU Team Cup in Karlsruhe also organized by the
DKV was a further international highlight. In 1995, Frankfurt will host the WKF
World Cup. In the German Karate Federation, six styles are represented today.
In addition to Shotokan which is practiced by about 85 %, other styles such as
Goju Ryu, Wado Ryu, Kyokushinkai, Shorin Ryu and Shito Ryu have their fans, too.
However, it is not just since 1972 and not only on the Olympic grounds that
over 300.000 Munich residents have participated in approximately 800 sport
clubs. There are additional facilities where leisure time sport enthusiasts
as well as top athletes are offered ideal possibilities for training and
education.
Aside from Munich's Olympic Park, the sport school in Oberhaching will also be
affected by the Karate World Championships in the year 2000. The facilities at
Munich's gates will provide the framework for the World Karate Federation
course of instruction for judges from November 9 - 11, 2000.
Ever since it opened on June 9, 1994, the sport school of the Bavarian Federal
Land Sport Association and of the Bavarian Soccer Association has provided the
following facilities for instruction of all types, competitive sports training
and competitons, conferences and meetings as well as seminars, nine gymnasiums
(among others a swimming pool, two large gymnasiums and a squash court), six
leisure sport facilities (two grass playing fields, one artificial turf playing
field, three small playing fields), a training area with auditoriums, seminar
rooms, media workrooms and a library as well as, naturally, living
accommodations (a total of 110 double rooms and 40 single rooms) and a generous
dining area.
The judges at the World Karate Federation will enjoy the course in the pleasant
atmosphere of the sport school in Oberhaching.
It is no wonder that Munich is nationally, and even more so internationally,
one of the most popular cities. The proverbial hospitality of the Munich
natives will be, among others, felt by the guests of the World Championships
2000 at the receptions held by the Free State of Bavaria or the capital of
Munich.
The general programme of the World Championships will be just as broady
diverse as Munich's extensive cultural and entertainment offerings.
Placed within a magnificent landscape of mountains and lakes, the official
guests will get to know Bavaria's worldfamous treasures such as the Wieskirche
and the Neuschwanstein, Linderhof or Herrenchiemsee castles. As a supplement
to the athletic events, Munich will offer the participants of the Karate World
Championships adequate artistic experience such as performance of the Bavarian
State Opera, a concert of the Philharmonic at Gasteig or a musical in the
Deutsches Theater and naturely, a look into the city's numerous museums.
As it did in 1972, the typical and charming Munich flair will again captivate
and unite all of the young and "young-at-heart" guests in the year 2000. There
is thus no better meeting place than the Olympic Park - today still a gathering
place for the world's youth.
It goes without saying that the world title bouts in the Olympic Hall beneath
the world-famous tent-shaped roof will start on an upbeat note with a lively
opening celebration and culminate in an equality impressive colsing ceremony.
Approximately 130 international trains arrive daily at Munich's Central Rail
Station, a junction for inner- European rail connections as well as for the
intercity and Eurocity networks.
The Bavarian capital is radilly connected to the European road systems by six
motorways which can be reached largely via circular roads.
The inner city is joint to the outskirts by means of eight suburban fast train
lines which run every 10-20 minutes. Currently, there are six subways in Munich.
One subway (U3) runs directly from the city centre to the Olympic grounds. The
Olympic Park is additionally serviced by buses and trams.
The entire Olympic grounds are situated on an urban motorway (Mittlerer Ring)
which offers a smooth arrival and depature to the corresponding motorways.
Altogether 4.000 parking spaces are available in the area immediately
surrounding the Olympic stadium. Parking facilities for an additional 20.000
vehicles are found in the vicinity of the Olympic Stadium.
A motor transport pool effective during the Karate World Championships will
ensure the smooth and comfortable transport of officials between hotels and
the Munich Olympic Park.
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The Olympic Park
The Olympic tent roof has become the new landmark of the capital of Bavaria
since the Games of 1972. The grace and bold elegance of the roof covering
74.800 square meters of the total area are up to now symbols of the cheerful
and pulsating life of these olympic grounds.
The Olympic Hall
Munich's Olympic Hall is the jewel of the Olympic Park. When sold out, up to
13.500 people can enjoy whatever event is being offered. Whether concerts, the
most diverse types of sporting events, or large exhibitions, there are few
sites which can offer so much and such variety.
Technical Data
Architect:
Günter Behnisch and Partners
Karate in Germany
Karate - which just came to Germany in the mid-fifties - is becomming more
and more popular. The German Karate Federation (DKV) today numbers more than
120.000 karateists and is the "Number One", the by far largest associsation in
Germany for this Far-Eastern sport. Integrated into the German Athletic
Federation (DSB), Karate is practised in all 16 federal Länder.
Additional Facilities
Munich and sport - sport and Munich - a symbiosis which at the latest since
the 1972 Olympic Games has become a concept which has made the Bavarian capital
Gemany's number one city of sport.
The General Programme
Munich, the Olympic city, is not only perfectly equipped to offer all athletes,
officials and guests of the large karate festival a hearty welcome and to
guarantee a pleasant stay in Munich. The brilliance of the 1972 Games was also
decisively influenced by the cultural variety and the scenic beauty of the
Bavarian capital. This will also undoubtedly be extremely influential in the
international awarding of the world title bouts to the entrant city Munich.
Traffic Connections and Motor Transport Pool
With the new airport Munich II - one of the largest airports in the world and
which is situated 30 minutes by car from the city centre - Munich, the
Bavarian capital, is optimally integrated into the international traffic
systems.
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