"Those were the best days of my life," sings Bryan Adams in Summer of ‘69.

June.These were to be the first major championships to feature the German Democratic Republic (East Germany

enjoyed her breakthrough year in 1969 ©Getty ImagesMiddle distance runner Jurgen May had represented East Germany

in the previous European Championships but had defected in 1967 and was now selected by West Germany

Nine years ago the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) asked a sample of over 2,000 UK people what was the most Iconic Moment in the previous 25 years of British women’s sport. Top choice was the gold-medal performance in the ice dance at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. 

Calgary 1988 individual figure skating champions Brian Boitano of the United States and Katarina Witt of Germany

Norway's Johannes Thinges Bø completed a hat-trick of victories in Nové Město today by winning the 15 kilometre mass start race at the International Biathlon Union World Cup.

lead by 116 points ahead of Russia’s Alexander Loginov.The next World Cup will go ahead in Oberhof in Germany

Sochi 2014 Olympic champion Jørgen Graabak finished top of the podium today at the last International Ski Federation Nordic Combined World Cup of the year in Ramsau am Dachstein.

Norway’s run of success by winning a finish line sprint against Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek of Germany

Tickets have gone on sale for next year's Women's World Curling Championship in Silkeborg.

Olympic champions will be among the teams in action in Denmark ©Getty ImagesRussia, United States, Germany

Eva Samkova won the second International Ski Federation Snowboard Cross World Cup race in Cervinia after finishing second to rival Lindsey Jacobellis yesterday.

 In the men's event yesterday's winner Martin Noerl of Germany could only manage bronze today.He

 The World Cup circuit has a break for Christmas now, before continuing in Feldberg in Germany from

Toni Soderholm has been named as the new head coach of the Germany men's ice hockey team.

including at three World Championships.He won world silver with the Finns in Moscow in 2007.His role with Germany

Germany won a shock silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang this year.They stunned world champions

following overtime to the neutral Olympic Athletes of Russia team.At May's World Championship in Denmark, Germany

The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) has announced the hosts for three major goalball tournaments in 2019.

Tokyo 2020 in Fort Wayne in the United States.The European Championships will be held in Rostock in Germany

The World Floorball Championships top scorer Matthias Hofbauer has announced his retirement from his national team Switzerland, which won bronze this month in Prague. 

 He became top scorer at the 2016 event in Riga in a fixture against Germany.

National track cycling coach Detlef Uibel has been named coach of the year by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). 

trial at this year's UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn - one of three victories for Germany

Ryoyu Kobayashi underlined his claim to being the world’s best ski jumper at the moment with a towering victory at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Ski Jumping World Cup in the Swiss resort of Engelberg.

Karl Geiger of Germany, who celebrated his first FIS Ski Jumping World Cup win yesterday, finished just

standings with 400 points.Lundby is second with 278 points and Russia’s Lidiia Iakovleva third with 262.Germany

Italy and Sweden secured relay victories as the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Hochfilzen concluded.

line four seconds off the pace to finish as the runners-up.There was a larger gap to third place, with Germany

Norway’s 17-year-old Vilda Nilsen earned her third cross-country gold medal in three races at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland on a day of sprint events.

States won the women sprint C, sitting category, from Norway’s Birgit Skarstein, with Andrea Eskau of Germany

Germany’s Olympic champion Francesco Friedrich won the second of the four-man bobsleigh races at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation’s second World Cup of the season in Winterberg.

Walther second on 425 and Lochner  third on 410.The next IBSF World Cup is also set to take place in Germany

Edwina Tops-Alexander became the first winner of the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix at the inaugural Prague Playoffs.

riding Chianti’s Champion, also finished on four penalty points, with a time of 64.91.Daniel Deusser of Germany