Bislett Stadium

Bislett Stadium
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View of the converted Bislett Stadium
Data
place	Louises gate 1 0168 Oslo , Norway
Coordinates	59 ° 55 '29 "  N , 10 ° 44' 0"  E Coordinates: 59 ° 55 '29 "  N , 10 ° 44' 0"  E
owner	City of Oslo
operator	City of Oslo
opening	Old stadium : 1922 New construction : 2005
Renovations	1935–1939, 1952, 2004–2005 (new building)
demolition	2004 (Old Stadium)
surface	Natural grass
costs	55 million euros (2005)
architect	Ole Sverre (1922) Frode Rinnan (1939) Arkitektfirmaet CF Møller Norge A / S (2005)
capacity	15,400 seats (football) 15,400 seats (athletics) 17,000 seats (concerts)
playing area	105 m × 68 m
Societies)
Lyn Oslo
Events
Games by Vålerenga Oslo (1944–1999) Skeid Oslo's games (2007–2012) Games of Lyn Oslo (2010, since 2014) European Athletics Championships 1946 1952 Winter Olympics speed skating competitions World speed skating championship 1925 , 1947 , 1949 , 1956 , 1959 , 1965 , 1967 , 1970 , 1972 , 1975 , 1979 , 1981 , 1983 European speed skating all-around championships 1951 , 1957 , 1960 , 1962 , 1964 , 1968 , 1976 , 1978 , 1982 , 1986 Bislett Games in the IAAF Diamond League (since 1965) Final in the women's NM Cup (since 2006) Concerts

The Bislett Stadium is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the St. Hanshaugen district of the Norwegian capital Oslo .

history

The original stadium was built between 1917 and 1922. It currently has seats for 15,400 spectators, 3,500 of them covered, and including 300 VIP seats and 250 seats for journalists and commentators. In the past, speed skating competitions also took place. It is the most famous sports stadium in Norway. Over a dozen world records in speed skating and over 60 world records in athletics have been set in the stadium. The sports facility was approved by the magazine Sports Illustrated in 5th place of the most beautiful sports facilities of the 20th century appointed.

In 2004 the stadium was demolished to make way for a new stadium. The construction company NCC Construction A / S carried out the new building ; who also built the Telenor Arena . The old six-lane running track was removed and an eight-lane athletics facility was replaced with the Polytan WS synthetic surface . The new stadium opened in summer 2005.

athletics

In 1946, the European Athletics Championships were held here from August 23rd to 25th . The Bislett Games athletics meeting has been held every year since 1965 . Only in 2004 the event had to move to Bergen due to the renovation.

Soccer

On June 24, 1953 lost Norway Bislett Stadium, the qualifying match of Group 1 for 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland with 2: 3 (2: 2) against the Saarland before 22,000 spectators. The match referee was Johan Bronkhorst from the Netherlands . Since 2006, the Norwegian women's soccer cup final ( NM Cup ) has been held in the Bislett Stadium.

Speed ​​skating

The railway was opened in 1909. The speed skating competitions of the 1952 Olympic Winter Games were held in Bislett . Between 1925 and 1986, thirteen speed skating all-around world championships and ten speed skating all-around European championships were held in the stadium . After the European speed skating all-around championship in 1986, the speed skating rink was closed.

this and that

The Norwegian writer Dag Solstad created a small memorial to the old Bislett Stadium in his novel Shame and Dignity (1994, 2007), which is set in Oslo:

“He [Elias Rukla] was just about to cross the street, first to the Bislett Bad, then past the stadium, when the aesthetic sight of the Bislett Stadium across the street caught his eye. Bislett is a really nice stadium, he thought. Art deco . An ornament for the city. Small, considering that it was the largest stadium in a European capital, but what a marvelous size. And then the strange acoustics, with their echo from the concrete walls, when enthusiastic roars met them and were thrown back again, he thought [...]. "

- Dag Solstad : shame and dignity . Zurich 2007, p. 62.

gallery

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  Bislett Stadium with speed skating rink around 1925

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  1952 Winter Olympics

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  Entrance 1 on Bislett plass

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  Grete Waitz 'plass in front of entrance 3

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  Entrance 3

and display information about the image

Panoramic view of the sports facility (2007)

See also

• Bislett Games
• Norwegian Women's Football Cup

Web links

Commons : Bislett Stadium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• bislettstadion.no: Official website of the stadium (Norwegian)
• Stadium on the Skeid Oslo website ( memento of 29 August 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bislettstadion.no: data on the stadium (Norwegian)
2. ↑ Stadium list in Sports Illustrated ( Memento from June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)