Austrian Federal Sports Organization

Austrian Federal Sports Organization
JurisdictionAustria
HeadquartersInnsbruck
PresidentLH a.D. Hans Niessl
Official website
www.bso.or.at

The Austrian Federal Sports Organization (German: Österreichische Bundes-Sportorganisation, BSO) is the Austrian Federal Government department responsible for the promotion of sports. It administers the means of promoting elite-level sports, and distributes these to its members.

It generally consists of two kinds of members:

  • Professional associations - those are the country wide unions of individual sport associations of a kind of sport
  • Governing bodies - those are the sports organizations of the individual political parties
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