Finger wrestling

The German Finger Wrestling Championship is a traditional rural sport played by Germans in Bavarian costumes since 1959. It is a sport where two men matched in age and weight sit and face each other over a table and thread their fingers into a leather band. Although the sport seems to look fun, the competitors of finger wrestling take this championship seriously. The 55th annual Finger Wrestling Championship was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2014. The origin of the sport, fingerhakeln in German, is unknown but there had been speculations that it was once used to settle arguments in the southern portion of Germany and nearby Austria.

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