On 1 July 1937 it was renamed to Deutsche Reichsauszeichnung für Leibesübungen and obtained the status as an official recognised decoration of the state.

[2] it has been approved and awarded by the President of Germany since 4 July 1958 and can be worn on Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei and Technisches Hilfswerk uniforms.

In 1993 the DOSB opened an international office called Ausland which allows non-Germans to organize, participate and obtain the DSA outside Germany, but only under supervision of an authorized Verein (sport organisation) and authorized Pruefer (judge); the decoration can be awarded to any person participating in the test.

In 2007, the letters changed from "DSB" ("Deutscher Sportbund") to "DOSB" (German Olympic Sports Federation).

One of: Stone- or shot-put, apparatus gymnastics, standing long-jump 50m- or 100m sprint, 25m swim, 200m bicycling, apparatus gymnastics High-jump or Long-jump, rope skipping, or leap frogging Certain disciplines may be substituted with sports badged from other sports.

In general the non German Prüfer are foreign citizens around the world with German origin or family; exceptions are known in Denmark, as a Danish National who was made judge for the Danish Emergency Management Agency, due to the fact that Denmark had no Sportsabzeichen-judges; another significant exception is in Italy where within the Italian Armed Forces the German Sport Badge become popular since 2003 and now there are 5 Italians holding the Prüfausweis (licence to be a judge).