Editing Saxony (section)

===Sports===
[[File:Red Bull Arena Panorama cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)|Red Bull Arena]] in [[Leipzig]]]]
In 2020, there were 4,447 registered sports clubs of various disciplines with over 600,000 members in Saxony.<ref>{{Cite web|last=E-Mail|first=Annegret Müller Referentin Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / Pressesprecherin +49 341 21631-14|title=Pressemitteilungen|url=https://www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/?tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Bid%5D=654&tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Baction%5D=show&tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Bcontroller%5D=PressManagement&cHash=0cd8f0d3dda23366d10ae368459b0d50|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Landessportbund Sachsen|language=de|archive-date=10 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710223203/https://www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/?tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Bid%5D=654&tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Baction%5D=show&tx_ifabprins_pressmanagement%5Bcontroller%5D=PressManagement&cHash=0cd8f0d3dda23366d10ae368459b0d50|url-status=dead}}</ref> The most popular sport in Saxony is [[association football|football]]. With [[RB Leipzig]] there is one Saxon team playing in the [[Bundesliga]] as well as the European [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]]. Leipzig is notable for a longstanding football tradition, a Leipzig [[1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig|team]] having been the first national football champion in German history. Another popular sport is [[handball]] with [[SC DHfK Leipzig Handball|SC DHfK Leipzig]] playing in the [[Handball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]. On a local level sports such as [[table tennis]], [[cycling]], [[mountaineering]] and [[volleyball]] are popular.

====Rock climbing====
{{see also|Saxon Switzerland climbing region}}
Saxony prides itself to have been one of the first places in the world where modern recreational rock climbing was developed. [[Falkenstein (Saxon Switzerland)|Falkenstein]] rock in the area of [[Bad Schandau]] is considered to be the place were the German rock climbing tradition started in 1864.

====Winter sports====
The Ore Mountains in southern Saxony are a traditional center for winter sports, and there are a number of training facilities for the German Winter Olympics team in the region.  Thus, climate change poses a certain threat to the development of the region's winter sports industry. 

The ski resort of [[Oberwiesenthal]] is the highest town of Germany, at an altitude of 900 m, though the surrounding mountains do not reach the same height as those found in the alpine areas of [[Southern Germany]].