Ice Palace Alau

Ice Palace Alau
Ледовый Дворец Алау

Data
place	Qabanbay Batyr Ave 47 Jesil, Nur-Sultan , Kazakhstan
Coordinates	51 ° 6 '17 "  N , 71 ° 24' 18"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '17 "  N , 71 ° 24' 18"  E
architect	Bertus Butter
opening	2011
capacity	7000
Extensions	two 30 × 60 m ice hockey rinks
Website	www.alau.info
special
construction	Hall (tempered)
surface	Natural ice
Track length	400 meters
Altitude	348 meters
Curve radii	26/30 meters
Total points	375,367 points
Events
Winter Asian Games 2011 , World Cups , Kazakh Championships

The Alau Ice Palace ( Russian Ледовый Дворец Алау; Kazakh Алау мұзайдыны Сарайы) is an ice rink in the Jesil administrative district of Nur-Sultan , Kazakhstan .

The hall is part of a 40,000 m² complex that provides further sports halls, a hotel and a block for conferences. In addition to the speed skating facility, the multi-purpose hall offers space for curling , ice hockey , figure skating and short track, which is spread over two 60 × 30 meter ice surfaces located in the inner field of the oval.

In 2010 the hall was opened with the Kazakhstan Cup in December. Two months later the 7th Asian Winter Games took place here. In the 2011/12 season , the World Cup made its first stop in the capital of Kazakhstan .

Events

Ice Palace Alau at night

Sprint World Championship	2015
Asian championships	2012
World cup	2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14
Other Events	Winter Asian Games 2011

Track records

Women

route	athlete	time	date	competition
0500 m	Sang-Hwa Lee	0 37.27	November 29, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
1000 m	Brittany Bowe	1.14.10	February 28, 2015	Sprint World Championships 2015
1500 m	Christine Nesbitt	1.56.10	November 25, 2011	World Cup 2011/12
3000 m	Martina Sáblíková	4.03.28	November 25, 2011	World Cup 2011/12
5000 m	Martina Sáblíková	6.59.88	November 29, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
Team Pursuit (6 rounds)	Canada Ivanie Blondin Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	2.58.40	December 2, 2012	World Cup 2012/13
All-around	athlete	Points	date	competition
2 × 500 m	Jing Yu	076.090	January 31 - February 6, 2011	Winter Asian Games 2011
Sprint MK	Brittany Bowe	149,600	February 28 - March 1, 2015	Sprint World Championships 2015
Mini MK	Tatjana Sokirko	167.978	March 11-12, 2011	Winter Youth Games 2011
Small MK	Miho Takagi	164.521	January 7th - 8th 2012	Asian Championships 2012

Not or no longer held in international competition.

• As of March 1, 2015
• Sum of the individual routes broken down to 500 m (500, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters): 195.554 pts.

Men

route	athlete	time	date	competition
00500 m	Pavel Kulischnikow	00 34.56	February 28, 2015	Sprint World Championships 2015
01000 m	Shani Davis	01.08.66	November 30, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
01500 m	Denis Yuskov	01.45.06	November 29, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
03000 m	Wouter Olde Heuvel	03.39.36	November 26, 2011	World Cup 2011/12
05000 m	Sven Kramer	06.13.83	November 25, 2011	World Cup 2011/12
10,000 m	Jorrit Bergsma	12.50,40	December 2, 2012	World Cup 2012/13
Team Pursuit (8 rounds)	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Jorrit Bergsma Koen Verweij	3.41.27	December 1, 2012	World Cup 2012/13
All-around	athlete	Points	date	competition
2 × 500 m	Joji Kato	070,000	January 31 - February 6, 2011	Winter Asian Games 2011
Sprint MK	Pavel Kulischnikow	138.325	February 28 - March 1, 2015	Sprint World Championships 2015
Mini MK	Andrei Pak	153.114	December 27-28, 2011	Kazakh Junior Championships 2012
Small MK	Nikita Stavtsev	157.520	March 11-12, 2011	Winter Youth Games 2011
Big MK	Seung-Hoon Lee	153.746	January 7th - 8th 2012	Asian Championships 2012

Not or no longer held in international competition.

• As of March 1, 2015
• Sum of the individual routes broken down to 500 m (500, 1000, 1500, 5000, 10000 meters): 179.813 pts.

See also

• List of the fastest speed skating rinks in the world

Web links

Commons : Alau Ice Palace  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.alau.info (en, ru, kk)
• The Alau Ice Palace on speedskatingnews.info
• Pictures from the Alau ice skating complex on www.flickr.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ isu.sportcentric.net ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Communication No. 1807 (July 29, 2013)  
2. ↑ ^{a b} speedskatingnews.info Eispalast Alau