Editing Bayreuth (section)

===Sport===
Over 60 clubs offer just under one hundred sports. The most successful club in the town presently is the Bayreuth Air Sports Community with its gliding team: in 2002 and 2015 the pilots won the Federal Gliding League, and they also won the IGC-World League in 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/league.html?r=total&c=C0&sc=&rt=olc&ltp=first&st=olc-league&sp=2015| title = Final result IGC-World League 2015}}</ref> The street hockey team of the Hurricans Bayreuth have been German runners-up three times (1998/2004/2006) and champions five times (1996/1997/2001/2005/2007). The basketball team of [[Medi Bayreuth]] plays in the [[Basketball Bundesliga]] (division 1), the HaSpo Bayreuth handball team, the footballers of [[SpVgg Bayreuth]] and the volleyball players of [[BSV Bayreuth]] each play in their respective Bavarian League. The ice hockey team, [[EHC Bayreuth]], plays in the [[DEL2]], the second highest ice hockey league in Germany.

Bayreuth had its sporting heyday in the late 1980s and early 90s. The basketball team, [[Steiner Bayreuth]], were twice German Cup winners (1987/1988 and 1988/1989) and in the 1988/1989 season they also won the German championship. The hockey team of Bayreuth's swimming club (SCC) was twice champions of Second Division South and also played for a year in the Hockey League. At the time that the [[table tennis]] team of Steiner Bayreuth was also first class<ref>founded in 1970 by Horst Steiner (*1949) Zeitschrift [[Deutscher Tischtennis Sport|DTS]], 1989/6 dts regional/Süd p.5</ref> (since 1983 2nd Division, in 1984/85, 1986/87 and 1987/88 1st Division,<ref>Zeitschrift [[Deutscher Tischtennis Sport|DTS]], 1984/6 p.32</ref> 1988 relegated<ref>Zeitschrift DTS, 1988/5 p.12</ref> and the team has played for many years in the 2nd Football Division. The table tennis players of the [[1. Bayreuth FC]] played in the 1st Division from 1994 to 1997.

In 1999 the World [[Glider (sailplane)|Glider]] Championships took place in Bayreuth.