Germany

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Fast Fact! The population of Germany is: 81,471,834: eighty-one-million, four-hundred and seventy-one- thousand, eight-hundred and thirty-four.

Germany's famous for 2012 athelete is Ronny Weller: He has won one gold medal, two silvers and one bronze medal in wheightlifting.

Germany has won 1,548 medals in the Olympics. These include: 503 gold, 519 silver, and 526 bronze. Quite a lot!

Fast Fact! Germany's currency is: euros and cents: seventy-one pence in a Euro.

Germany's Olympians are:

1 Birgit Fischer - won 8 gold medals in 6 different Olympic Games in kayaking.

2 Reiner Klimke - won 6 gold medals in 5 different Olympic Games in equestrian.

3 Isabell Werth - won 5 gold medals in 4 different Olympic Games in equestrian.

4 Claudia Pechstein - won 5 gold medals in 4 different Olympic Games in speed skating.

5 Carl Schuhmann - the first great German Olympian, won 4 gold medals in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Games in Athens.

Olympic cheats: In 1970 east Germany's Olympic coaches fed the athletes drugs: they said it was vitamins. Winning however using the drugs resulted in side effects: the athletes suffered from organ damage and other particularly nasty things. Not nice!. [|click here] for twenty-four more cheats.

Broken olympic records: Germany Only one!

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Shot Put || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">22.47 m || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ulf Timmermann || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[image:orkneyolympics/de-ddr.gif width="50" height="33"]]East Germany (GDR) || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1988 Seoul || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">September 23, 1988 ||



Germany has been secluded from the london olympics, 2012. The sports Germans are good at, at the Oympics are:


 * Canoeing
 * Judo


 * Fencing
 * Equestrian
 * Swimming


 * Triathlon
 * Weightlifting
 * Modern Pentathlon


 * Cycling (cross country)
 * Feild hockey.