Basketball arena
| Basketball arena | |
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| Aerial view of the basketball arena in June 2011 | |
| Data | |
| place |
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Stratford , London , United Kingdom
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 32 '55 " N , 0 ° 0' 50" W |
| operator | LOCOG |
| start of building | 2010 |
| opening | 2011 |
| surface | parquet |
| costs | 40 million euros |
| architect |
WilkinsonEyre KSS Design Group |
| capacity | 12,000 seats |
| Events | |
The basketball arena was a temporary sports hall in London that could hold 12,000 spectators. It was located in the district of Stratford ( London Borough of Newham ), in the north of the Olympic Park , right next to the Olympic village .
history
Preparatory work began in October 2009. After 15 months of construction, the hall was completed in June 2011. During the Olympic Games in 2012 , the basketball preliminary round and the handball finals took place here. At the Paralympics 2012 , the hall was the venue for the tournaments in wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball ; the capacity was reduced to 10,000 places.
After the competition was over, the basketball arena was dismantled. It is therefore the largest temporary facility in Olympic history. The hall is to be set up again at a different location. Rio de Janeiro , the venue for the 2016 Olympic Games, was named as a possible interested party . However, those responsible there abandoned this plan because they did not consider it feasible.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basketball arena. (No longer available online.) FIBA , archived from the original on July 14, 2016 ; accessed on July 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Work completed on basketball arena for London 2012. Bloomberg Businessweek, June 9, 2011, accessed February 5, 2012 .
- ↑ Construction starts on Basketball Arena as Scottish Minister visits the Olympic Park. (No longer available online.) LOCOG October 23, 2009, archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; accessed on May 15, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rio descarta usar ginásio de Londres nos Jogos de 2016. (No longer available online.) Gazeta do Povo, June 26, 2012, archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; Retrieved August 6, 2012 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Competition venues for the 2012 Summer Olympics
