Editing Brunssum (section)

==Sports==
{{Main|SV Limburgia}}
One of the local [[Association football|football]] teams is [[SV Limburgia|BSV Limburgia]], formerly known as SV Limburgia, which competes at an amateur level.  As SV Limburgia, the club competed in the [[Eredivisie]] (Honorary Division) at various times and finished first in 1950.  Upon the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands in 1954, SV Limburgia had little success and was relegated to the lowest level of [[Royal Dutch Football Association|Dutch football]], [[Tweede Divisie]] (Second Division).

The annual [[Parelloop]] ten kilometer [[road running]] race is held in Brunssum.  [[Micah Kogo]] from [[Kenya]] won the race in 2009, breaking the [[World records in athletics|world record]] for that distance.<ref>IAAF, March 29, 2009: [http://iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=49996.html Kogo breaks World 10 km record in Brunssum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214032433/http://iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=49996.html |date=2012-02-14 }}</ref>