Oxford German Olympiad 2025: SPIEL UND SPORT 
The winning entries
The results for our 13th Oxford German Olympiad are in! We received a vast number of entries this year, and our panel of judges found it extremely hard to pick the winners from such a vast amount of excellent entries. A big thank you to all participants and their teachers.
Winning entries will be uploaded over the next few days.
Note: some links lead to external webpages (YouTube etc.) or downloadable files.
Years 5 and 6 (age 9-11):
1. Draw a map for a Schatzsuche (treasure hunt) and label the locations and things that are hidden there.
Winner (joint): William Pearson
Winner (joint): Tanishka Chandorkar
Winner (joint): Cyrin Baroudi
Winner (joint): Hetarth Mitesh
Winner (joint): Margot Taylor
Runner-up (joint): Hajar Mohammad
Runner-up (joint): Samir Vadgama
Runner-up (joint): Aiza Imran
Highly Commended: Ryan Hans
Highly Commended: entrant does not want to be named
Highly Commended: Pradynesh Vummana
Highly Commended: Amrit Kaur
Highly Commended: Sofia Aldecoa
Highly Commended: Ishvarjot Singh
Commended: Sienna-Leigh Bates
Commended: Diya Chana
Commended: Aayra Juneja
Commended: Sienna Khambatta
Commended: Emma Firetto-Ball
Commended: Annabelle Shaw
Commended: Charles Tuthill
Commended: Miyah Mai Mamach Mayambu
Commended: Aditya Guru Murthy
Commended: entrant does not want to be named
2. Invent a Spielzeug (toy) you would enjoy playing with and draw it, labelling its parts.
Winner: Peony Jackson
Winner: Alfie Kimberlin
Winner: Lisa Schlackow
Runner-up: Izabel Price
Runner-up: Milan Wu
Runner-up: Edward Golding
Runner-up: Amber Patel
Highly Commended: Eva Mitu
Highly Commended: Aryan Arora
Highly Commended: Dahlia Giles
Highly Commended: Isabelle Clasby
Highly Commended: Callum Bank
Commended: Isabella Odemann
Commended: Henry Domberger
Commended: entrant does not want to be named
Commended: entrant does not want to be named
Commended: Mei Guo
3. Draw a comic strip of a Sportfest (sports day) with at least 20 words.
Winner: Ben Bonser-Levey
Runner-up: Abigail Akinboboye
Highly Commended: Saskia Sheldon
Highly Commended: Matilda Lane
Highly Commended: Spencer Read
Highly Commended: Etienne Durodie
Years 7 to 9 (age 11-14):
1. Create a new Brettspiel (board game) for four players and explain how to play it, in writing or in a video.
Winner (joint): Anaya Patel
Winner (joint): Simra Sayeed
Winner (joint): Danielle Griffith-Nmaju
Runner-up (joint): Rugved Gogawale
Runner-up (joint): Una Robinson
Runner-up (joint): Atiya Kabir
Runner-up (joint): Mariia Slobodyanyuk
Runner-up (joint): Meryl Basoa
Highly Commended: Hannah Hunt
Highly Commended: Ama Owusu
Highly Commended: Aarabi Annamalai
Highly Commended: entrant does not want to be named
Highly Commended: Sona Shah
Highly Commended: Said Belguesmia
2. Pick your favourite sportsperson and create a comic strip about their life or a special event in their life.
Winner (joint): Yo'Elle Eric-Odoi
Winner (joint): Amity Li
Winner (joint): Alice Dow
Winner (joint): Kanishk Ghanate
Runner-up (joint): Rohan Talari
Runner-up (joint): Esme Brown
Runner-up (joint): Cléo Koelsch
Runner-up (joint): Eleanor Carver-Escritt
Highly Commended: Sadie Collins
Highly Commended: entrant does not want to be named
Highly Commended: Elena Lund
Highly Commended: Katerina Burdulea
Highly Commended: Maggie Li
Highly Commended: Zaid Siddiqui
Commended: Eleanor Terry
Commended: Priya Mahil
Commended: Lily Bey
Commended: Emily Hunt
Commended: Charlotte Wang
Commended: Zara Ogbagrgsi
Commended: entrant does not want to be named
3. Write an essay on the topic "Meine Lieblingsrolle" about a theatre or film part you have actually played or imagine playing.
Winner: Isabelle Mowla
Runner-up (joint): Ellise Shakeel
Runner-up (joint): Alise Lipska
Highly commended: Sophia Davies
Highly commended: Saisha Rathi
Commended: Khepra Deligny
Years 10 and 11 (age 14-16):
1. Develop a proposal in German for a video game, presenting it with drawings, photos or in video format.
Winner: Evie Smith
Runner-up: Alexander Kuznetsov
2. Design a set of word puzzles to test your friends on their German vocabulary (e.g. crossword, word search).
Winner: Avishag Tietjen
Runner-up: Erik Knutsson
Highly Commended: Zoe Vosloo
3. Write profiles of two inspiring athletes at the Olympic Games in Paris, one of whom competed in the Olympics and one in the Paralympics.
Winner: Zi Xuan (Alison) Zeng
Runner-up: George Karageorgis
Years 12 and 13 (age 16-18):
1. Write a proposal for a new sport to be included in the Olympic Games.
Winner: Amadea Bingham
Runner-up: Leo Jacobs
Highly Commended: Maya Shah
Commended: Ceci Bates
2. "E-Sport oder echter Sport?" Create a conference brochure with keynote papers, workshops and activities.
Winner: Sahana Karthik
Runner-up: Carlo von der Tann
3. Research the history of the 'Violin of the Shoah' or another historic instrument and tell the story of who played it, where, and when, from the perspective of the instrument.
Winner: Advika Rao
Runner-up: Shion Nakamura Crilly
Highly Commended: Lenny Hare
Commended: Elizabeth Shepherd
Open Competition for Groups or Classes (2-4 participants)
1. Make a video of yourselves playing a piece of music and explain what is special about it and why you enjoy playing together.
Winner: Aarna Tiwari, Emma Yu
Runner-up: Liliana Bracken, Dahlia Chadha
2. Make a video of yourselves demonstrating your favourite sport and explaining its rules to an alien.
OR
Invent a new sport with its own rules, equipment and how to score points, and present it in a video.
Winner: Hugh Bailey, Lydia Cazzalini, Joel Perl-Thethi, Zahra Hasanbasoglu
Runner-up: Maria Symeonidis, Christina Symeonidis
3. Create a concept for a game show, including rules, rounds and prizes, and present it as a brochure or a video.
Winner: Shion Nakamura Crilly, Gabriel Amiaka, Marcus Denny
Runner-up: Emilia Muzzi-Hall, Samuel Christie
Discover German - Taster Competition (participants with no prior experience of studying German)
Years 5 and 6: Draw a picture of the best ever Spieltruhe (play-chest) filled with all your favourite games, and label them.
Winner: Eddie Hamman
Runner-up: Isabelle Graham-Wilson
Years 7 to 9: Create a Wortsuche (word search) or Kreuzworträtsel (crossword) with at least 10 German words for different sports OR different musical instruments.
Winner: Evie Cherry
Runner-up: Charlotte Piggin
ROUND 2
Gedenktage und Jubiläen
TASK:
Entrants should choose one of the following three topics:
1) "Der 8. Mai 1945: Das Kriegsende aus der Perspektive von ..."
Write a story in German from the perspective of a child and/or animal, evoking how they experience the effects of the Second World War and its end (300-400 words).
2) Design a conference proposal and programme in German on the following topic:
"Deutschland 1945 and 2025: Eine Konferenz zum 80. Jahrestag der Beendigung des 2. Weltkriegs in Europa am 8. Mai 2025" (max. 3 sides of A4).
3) Create a podcast or video in German reading your favourite poem by the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) and EITHER explain why you chose that poem OR read a poem created by yourself in response to it. Choose a poem from one of the selections provided here:
Winner: Eden Sung
Runner-up: Amelia Mowla
3rd prize (joint): Mark Ugarov
3rd prize (joint): Ryan Cheng
Camden House Book Proposal
Task:
Submit a book proposal for a book that would fit the profile established by Camden House in German studies. In association with Camden House.
Winner: Byron Spring
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!
The Oxford German Network is grateful for the support of the following:
Founding Partners:
Jesus College, Oxford
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Magdalen College School, Oxford
BMW Group Plant Oxford
The Oxford German Olympiad is generously supported by Lidl GB.
Donor of the German Classic Prize: Jonathan Gaisman QC
The Oxford German Network gratefully acknowledges
the generous support of ALL and ISMLA to the Oxford German Olympiad 2018
Additional prizes have been generously donated by the following:
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Blackwell UK Ltd.
Camden House (Boydell & Brewer)
Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom
German Embassy London
Goethe Institut, London
Oxford University Press
Penguin Books
The Oxford German Network would like to thank the Bodleian Libraries for permission to use the Blackwell Hall in the Weston Library.
