EUROSPORTSince 1976 After 2000

Every two year fixed eventYear Place Overall Winner1976 Karlsruhe Varese1977 Varese Varese1979 Luxembourg Varese1981 MOL MOL1983 Brussels 1 Varese1985 Bergen Varese1987 Brussels 2 Varese1989 Munich Varese1991 CULHAM Varese1993 Karlsruhe Karlsruhe1995 VARESE Brussels 11997 LUXEMBOURG Varese1999 MOL Luxembourg

Year Place Overall Winner2001 Brussels 3 Varese 2003 Bergen Varese2005 Munich 2007 Brussel 12009 Karlsruhe Brussels 12011 Frankfurt Brussels 32013 Alicante Alicante2015 Luxembourg 1 2017 Brussels 3 2019 Varese2021 MOL2023 Luxembourg 22024 Brussels 4

EUROSPORTA BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAMES

The first formal competition took place in 1976 and was the result of a joint initiative by T. van der Zee (then deputy director of Karlsruhe) and John Forster (from Brussels1 who invited Varese to Germany for a 3-day multi-sport competition.

Thanks to the success of the event and the enthusiasm generated, ideas became recommendations, which in turn became decisions, and in 1979 Varese offered to host what has since become a competition held every 2 years between all the European Schools. The name “Eurosport” was given to the competition in 1979 and has remained with it ever since.

( source: http://www.esmunich.de/ESMSSport/index.php)

EUROSPORTA BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAMES

Each school in turn has invited students from other schools to join them for a mixture of team and individual events in the senior age categories. Luxembourg, MOL, Brussels 1, Bergen, Brussels 2, Munich and Culham each hosted the competition once before it returned to Karlsruhe a second time.

At its meeting in May 2001 in Alicante, the Board of Governors of the European Schools decided to formally recognize Eurosport and to propose every second year a budget line covering part of the expenses of all future events.

Making Eurosport an integrated part of European Schools’ activities may be regarded as an important step for social and sporting interaction among the schools.

EUROSPORT History of the Trophy

The famous “Eurosport trophy” that the winning school keeps for two years was introduced in Culham in 1991 when Culham hosted Eurosport.