page_title: List of German inventions and discoveries
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: List of German inventions and discoveries / Sport
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context_page_description: German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in Germany or abroad by a person from Germany. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.
  Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator; Paul Nipkow, who laid the foundation of the television with his Nipkow disk; Hans Geiger, the creator of the Geiger counter; and Konrad Zuse, who built the first fully automatic digital computer and the first commercial digital computer. Such German inventors, engineers and industrialists as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Otto Lilienthal, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Hugo Junkers and Karl Benz helped shape modern automotive and air transportation technology. Aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun developed the first space rocket at Peenemünde and later on was a prominent member of NASA and developed the Saturn V Moon rocket.
context_section_description: c. 1790: Balance beam by Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
  c. 1810: Horizontal bar, parallel bars, rings and the vault apparatus by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who is often hailed as the "father of modern gymnastics"
  1901: Modern bodybuilding by Eugen Sandow
  1906: Schutzhund, a dog sport that tests a dog's tracking
  c. 1910: Loop jump in figure skating by Werner Rittberger
  1917–1919: Handball by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz, and Erich Konigh in Berlin
  1920: Gliding by Oskar Ursinus
  1925: Wheel gymnastics by Otto Feick in Schönau an der Brend
  1936: The tradition of the Olympic torch relay by Carl Diem and Alfred Schiff in Berlin
  1946: Goalball by Sepp Reindle
  1948: Paralympic Games by German-born Ludwig Guttmann
  1954: Modern football boots with screw-in studs by Adolf (Adidas) or Rudolf Dassler (Puma)
  1961: Underwater rugby by Ludwig von Bersuda in Cologne
  1963: Grass skiing by Josef Kaiser
  1970: Penalty shoot-out in football by Karl Wald
  1989: International Paralympic Committee in Düsseldorf
  1993: Jugger in Heidelberg
  2000: Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM)
  2001: Speed badminton by Bill Brandes in Berlin
caption: A handball game in progress
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