!!!Eisstocksport

Austrian Curling (Eisstockschiessen); in Austria this game has been 
played since the early modern age, it is a popular past-time and 
competition sport; a game played on ice in the winter and on asphalt 
during the rest of the year ("Stocksport"); tournaments comprise 
regular team competitions and individual skills competitions in the 
disciplines of long or target shooting (on the tee) with "Eisstoecke" 
(ice stock). The Austrian curling association (Bund Oesterreichischer 
Eis- und Stockschuetzen (BOeE)) was founded in 1935 and comprises 
1,822 clubs with 113,958 members (as of 1993).

!Literature
K. Jeschko, Eisschiessen, 1971.


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