By: Jackson

Enrichment 5 th Grade

Sports in Spain

• Sports are an important part of Spain.

• They play Futbol (soccer), Basketball, Tennis, Cycling, Handball, Water Sports, Golf, and Formula One.

Sports in Spain

• Futbol, known as Soccer to us, is Spain’s most popular sport.

• Spanish teams play in the La Liga League which is arguably the toughest competition in the world. Teams include FC Barcelona, Valencia, and Real Madrid.

• Every year all teams from Spain compete in the Copa Del Rey tournament. Real Madrid has won the cup a record 8 times, their most recent coming in 2010 where they beat rival FC Barcelona.

• Some of Spain’s best Futbol players are Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Christiano Ronaldo.

• In 2010, Spain won the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Futbol

• Spanish basketball teams compete in the Liga ABC, and compete in the FIBA world championships

• Some of their best teams are Real Madrid and FCB Regal.

• Some of the NBA’s best are from Spain including Ricky Rubio, and Pau Gasol.

• In 2011. Spain lost to Team USA in the FIBA finals in Turkey.

Basketball

• Spain tennis players compete in the Fed Cup, and on the WTA circuit.

• Rafael Nadal has won 10 Grand Slam titles (winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, or the U.S. Open), second most ever.

• Nadal is ranked #2 in the world, and David Ferrer is ranked at #4.

• Spanish tennis players have combined 115 titles since 1985.

Tennis

• Spanish cyclers compete in only three events, the Tour de France, the Tour of Spain, and the Tour of Italy.

• Current Spanish cyclists include Alberto Contador, who won the Tour de France last year, and Carlos Sastre.

• The Tour of Spain is the second oldest cycling event in the world.

Cycling

• Handball is a sport where two teams try to throw a ball into each other goal but you have to pass. If you have the ball you cannot walk or run.

• Spain competes in the IHF.

• Spain is ranked 9th in the world with 563 ranking points (Spain earns points by how well their teams compete in IHF tournaments).

• Spain got 3rd in 2011 and 1st in the 2008 Olympics.

Handball

• Spain competes in water skiing, jet-skiing, windsurfing, swimming, sailing, rowing, canoeing, kayaking, surfing, tubing, and water polo events.

• In water polo, Spain won silver in the 2009 FINA championships in Rome.

• In swimming, swimmer Genna Mengual won silver in the 2008 Olympics.

Water Sports

• Golf is arguably Spain’s second most popular sport.

• Over 20,000 courses in Spain.

• Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros has won the Masters twice and the British Open three times

• In 1997 Spain hosted the Ryder Cup, an international team tournament

Golf

• Formula One is a racing league similar to NASCAR, but the cars are shaped similar to drag cars.

• Formula One has 20 races going from March to November

• Fernando Alonso finished the season in 4th place with 257 points

• Valencia hosts one race in Formula One

Formula One

I used these sited to bring you this Power Point:

www.wikipedia.com

www.Justlanded.com

www.espn.com

www.eurobasket.com

www.npr.com

www.ihf.info

www.formula1.com

Bibliography

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