 Frankfurt´s professional sports men and women are always in the top league whether they compete in basketball, ice hockey, soccer or rugby, but the city also cheers on its ordinary citizens as well as the pros. The city´s excellent sports and leisure facilities leave people hardly any choice but to stay on the run. Frankfurt residents are especially active in the summer months, for example, on Tuesday evenings when about 2,000 rollerbladers take part in a Night Skating event. Or on May 1, when thousands of pedal pushers join the traditional Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop bike race (formerly called the Rund um den Henninger-Turm).
And more than 2,000 triathletes show their stamina by swimming, cycling and running in one event in Germany´s leading Ironman event in July. This burst of energy even carries on into October when over 12,000 runners race across the entire city in the Frankfurt Marathon. Some 160,000 Frankfurt residents stay fit as members of more than 460 sports and leisure clubs in the city that are part of the Sportkreis Frankfurt sports association.
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