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Winter Sports Center of Germany
2 Gold, 8 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver went to Thuringia. But Thuringia is not only home to the German winter sports elite, it also offers a broad variety in recreational activities to its visitors.
The Biathlon World Cup takes place every year in Oberhof, also hosting a number of other sports events every year.
Hiking and Nordic Walking along the famous Rennsteig, hot air balloon drives are normal summer activities. Special events, such as a mountainbike tour several hundred meters below ground in the old salt mine of Sondershausen is one of the more exceptional ones. You can find more information on the website of Tourism Thuringia.
Erfurt is home to the famous ice-skating-center, named after famous Erfurt speed-skater Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, winner of Olympic Gold Medals in Alberville (1992) and Nagano (1998), as well as 19-times world champion. The facility is well known by European Ice Skating celebrities, using it for their training camps.
In winter, Nordic and downhill skiing, ski jumping and bob sledging are available to the experts as the beginners alike. But exceptional events, such as the "Wok-WM" (take the ride down the bob-sledge-track in a Chinese cooking-dish) or the Biathlon World Cup take place anually in Oberhof, also home to the famous all-year training-center for cross-country-skiing, the Ski-tunnel.