Chief of State : Pr Hans-Adam II Head of Government : Mr Klaus Tschütscher Minister/ Secretary of State/ Chairman of agency responsible for sports : Mr Hugo Quaderer Chairman of the National Olympic Committee : Mr Leo Kranz Chairman of the National Sports Confederation : -
Land surface : 160 km²
Population : 0,03 million
Capital : Vaduz
Language : german
Currency : swiss franc
GDP per capita ($PPP) :
Budget of State (2009): CHF 660 Mio. Budget of the ministry responsible for sports:
CHF 4,9 Mio. Principal financing source for sport: State National sports federations : 42 Sports people member of a club : 15’000
National and international political priorities in the sports sector (2009) The State of Liechtenstein is supporting and promoting sporting efforts already in school. There the pupils are having volunteer sports classes in adition to regularly held ones and special sporting events as sports camps and school sports-days. For the sporting life in general, the State is providing infrastructure and giving financial help to the communities and others to build sports installations. Sports clubs and sports organizations are getting financial support in order to help to ensure their existence. All this is completed by the very important and successful program „Youth and Sport“, which is realized in collaboration with Switzerland. Another field of sports that is supported by the government is high-performance sport. Here support is given to athletes, who have an amateur status as well as to semi-professionals or professionals, who are competing with the best in Europe and worldwide.
Organisation of sport in the country (2009) The government is on the the top of the public organization of sport. Within the government, the Ministry for sport is responsible for all matters concerning sport. When dealing with specific questions, but also general ones, the government is asking his advisory board. This is a commission, a group of experts, whose opinion is the very important for the decision-making process of the government. The advisory board is helped by the office of youth and sport, which carries out their decisions and the decisions of the government, as well as the program „Youth and sport“. Last but not least the office of school with its activities has to be mentioned as part of the public organization of sports.
Results of the last Olympic Games Summer Games (Beijing, 2008) Total of available medals: 0 Total of won medals: 0 ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold: 0; Silver: 0; Bronze: 0 Winter Games (Turin, 2006)
Total of available medals : 0 Total of won medals: 0 ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold: 0 ; Silver: 0 ; Bronze: 0
World champion in 2009 (including non olympic sport): Tina Weirather,
2. Place Juniore-WM 2009
Giantslalom
Günther Wohlwend
3. Place WM 2009, Kickbox WAKO +94 kg
European champion (in 2009): Michael Bühler,
1. Place Juniore-EM 2009 Shortcarving
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