The importance of sport geography

Sport is a crucial segment of human culture and it also serves as a social-economic environment. Geographic also belongs to this context. Sport performances closely relate to our geographic environment which interacts with both geography and nature. It is known that geography plays a crucial role in humans’ genetics as well as the development of our biological functions. Sports also supported us by taming the forces of nature, fighting off distances and conquering height and depth. Actually geographic environment is indispensable for all of us to stay alive. Its elements that affect humans’ life are amplified by sports (M. Bánhidi, 2011).

Competitions, trainings and sport-recreation activities are organised in space and time and their relationships are revealed and dealt with within the realm of geo-science. Following from this, sport also exists within space and time being the cause effect of geographical environments and their interrelationships. “Geography should also be focusing on geography assuming that the process of serving people’s active recreation and enjoyment does not appear homogenously. For the analysis of the differences a model rooted in geography can be the best solution” (J. Farkas 1998).