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Country Fact Sheet

LUXEMBOURG


Chief of State : Grand-duc Henri
Head of Government  : M. Jean-Claude Juncker
*Minister/ Secretary of State/ Chairman of agency responsible for sports : M. Romain Schneider
Chairman of the National Olympic Committee   : M. Marc Theisen
Chairman of the National Sports Confederation : M. Denis SCUTO

Land surface : 2 586 km²
Population : 0,5 million
Capital : Luxembourg
Languages : luxembourgish, french, german
Currency : euro
GDP per capita ($PPP) : 81800$(2010)

Budget of State (2010): 9.85 Milliards €
Budget of the ministry responsible for sports  : 40,080 millions €
Principal financing source for sport: State and private sponsors
National sports federations : 55 Federations , 1800 clubs
 Sports people member of a club : 95000 persons

National and international political priorities in the sports sector (2011)

    - Promotion of competitive and top-level sports
    - Promotion of leisure sport
    - Measures in favor of volontary work
    - Anti-doping policy

Organisation of sport in the country (2011)

As in the past : The Luxembourgish Olympic and Sporting Committee is the central body of sport. The state is the subsidiary authority which is pre-eminently in charge of the funding of recognized sports federations activities and legislative measures
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Results of the last Olympic Games : no medals
Summer Games (Beijing, 2008)

Total of available medals:
Total of won medals: ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold:  ; Silver: ; Bronze:
Winter Games (Turin, 2006)

Total of available medals :
Total of won medals: ( … th by gold ranking)
Gold:  ; Silver: ; Bronze:

World champion in 2010(including non olympic sport):

nothing

European champion (in 2009):

nothing

Links :
Ministère : www.sport.public.lu/

 National Olympic Committee: : www.cosl.lu/

Sports director :

M. Guy Fusenig
Commissaire du Gouvernement à l’éducation physique et aux sports
B.P. 180
L-2011 Luxembourg

EPAS contact:

Nom : M. Jean Krantz
Titre : Conseiller de gouvernement
Adresse :B.P. 180 L-2011 Luxembourg
Tel. : +352 247 83417
Fax : +352 247 83440
Courriel : jean.krantz@sp.etat.lu

Last updated : 10 December 2011