Cul­ture, leisure and sport

Aim­ing high

Sport­ing high­lights through­out the year come cour­tesy of F.C. Hansa Ro­s­tock, the bas­ket­ballers from EBC Ro­s­tock with the Ro­s­tock Sea­wolves, and the vol­ley­ballers from SV Warnemünde.

Other suc­cess­ful teams in­clude the hand­ballers from HC Em­por Ro­s­tock, the ice-hockey-play­ing Pi­ra­nhas, and the Nasenbären (in­line hockey). The city also boasts a long tra­di­tion of ath­let­ics and short track speed skat­ing.

And how could we for­get Ro­s­tock’s sail­ing precinct, with its many com­pe­ti­tions and re­gat­tas, the most fa­mous of which is the ‘Warnemünder Woche’. Hanse Sail, mean­while, is one of the world’s largest gath­er­ings of tra­di­tional sailors and mu­seum ships. The mar­itime folk fes­ti­val is held every year on the sec­ond week­end of Au­gust.

For jog­gers, Ro­s­tock of­fers an ex­ten­sive range of events, most no­tably the Ro­s­tocker City­lauf (city run) in May and the `Hella Marathon Nacht` in Au­gust. Both runs fea­ture starters from some 15 na­tions.

Sport­ing tal­ent in Olympic and Par­a­lympic sport are trained in 19 dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines at the city’s two elite sports acad­e­mies, the CJD Ro­s­tock and the Hein­rich Schütz Re­gional School. The Olympiastützpunkt Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern sports com­plex, mean­while, is home to the na­tional sports cen­tres for row­ing, sail­ing and div­ing, as well as the Goal­ball Par­a­lympics train­ing base.