IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/semchp/978-1-4614-8905-4_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Estonia

In: Comparative Sport Development

Author

Listed:
  • Lennart Raudsepp

    (University of Tartu)

  • Vahur Ööpik

    (University of Tartu)

  • Peeter Lusmägi

    (Estonian Olympic Committee)

Abstract

Sport organization in Estonia needs to be seen in light of certain cultural and political changes that started at the end of 1980s and the beginning of 1990s when the independence of Estonia was restored. Beginning with the Estonian Sports Congress II held in 1989, the approach characteristic to European countries has primarily been followed in regard to building the Estonian sport system. There is balanced cooperation between the state and the sports organizations and a broad, well-organized, and competent network of sports organizations has developed. State and local government bodies acknowledge the importance of the social, health-enhancing, and economic role of sport in the society. Sports organizations are independent of the state in their decision making, and they have the right to financial or material support in order to realize their objectives. Sport financing in Estonia is basically provided by three sectors: the public sector, the voluntary sector, and the private sector. Estonian athletes have been successful at the international level, but the Estonian sports system as a whole still has room for improvement. Only 36 % of adults and about a half of schoolchildren are regularly physically active, i.e., doing physical exercise for at least 30 min at least twice per week.

Suggested Citation

  • Lennart Raudsepp & Vahur Ööpik & Peeter Lusmägi, 2013. "Estonia," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Kirstin Hallmann & Karen Petry (ed.), Comparative Sport Development, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 33-45, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-1-4614-8905-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8905-4_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-1-4614-8905-4_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.