Düsseldorf will be represented with four locations: taekwondo, judo and table tennis will be held in the Castello, triathlon in the Medienhafen, 3×3 basketball on the Burgplatz and gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics in the PSD Bank Dome. The sports facility for archery is still in clarification.
Andrea Milz, State Secretary for Sport and Volunteering of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: “With the finals, a wonderful multi-sports event is coming back to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. With our seven sports facilities in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, we are happy to give top-class German sport a big stage – in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as on ARD and ZDF on national television.”
Axel Balkausky, ARD sports director: “The finals are an integral part of the 2023 sports summer. We are pleased to be able to show numerous German championships on TV and online together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the top Olympic sport in Germany and our partner ZDF.”
Thomas Fuhrmann, head of ZDF’s main editorial department for sports: “The finals are an integral part of our sports reporting and our task of depicting the sporting diversity in Germany. With the fourth finals, we are creating a media platform for top-class German sport in all its breadth.”
Hagen Boßdorf, Managing Director of Finals GmbH: “This is the third time that we have planned and implemented this successful multi-sports event together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The finals have found their place in the German sports and media calendar. We will continue to work on further development in 2023 together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the top sports associations as well as ARD and ZDF.”
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