Eton Manor

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Eton Manor in April 2012

Eton Manor is a sports and leisure facility in London . It is located on Eastway in the Leyton district ( London Borough of Waltham Forest ), on the northern edge of the Olympic Park . The 27 acres near the Lea River is part of the Lee Valley Regional Park .

use

During the 2012 Olympic Games , Eton Manor served as a training center for water sports enthusiasts, with three 50-meter pools for swimmers and smaller pools for synchronized swimmers and water polo players. During the Paralympics 2012 , the facility was the venue for the wheelchair tennis tournaments. For this purpose, nine tennis courts were created by 2011. These are lined with temporary grandstands for 10,500 spectators, 5,000 of them in the show court .

After the Paralympics are over, Eton Manor will continue to be used by sports clubs. The Riverbank Arena , the venue of the Olympic hockey tournament, which has been reduced to 5,000 spectators , will find its permanent location here. The England Hockey Association applied to host the 2014 World Championships, with Eton Manor as the venue. The World Federation FIH gave Utrecht the advantage, but promised that London could perform a FIH tournament 2015 or 2016th The Leyton Orient football club expressed interest in the stadium in Eton Manor in 2011 and contacted the eventual operator, the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.

history

The name Eton Manor is derived from Eton College , which operated from the 1880s sports promotion projects to raise the standard of living in East London. In 1909 four former Eton students founded the Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sports fields. In 1913 they acquired the former Manor Farm in Hackney . In 1920 a former garbage dump in Leyton was acquired in order to be able to build further sports fields there. Known as The Wilderness, the sports center had facilities for soccer, rugby, cricket, tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, bowling, boxing, and athletics. In 1967 the club ceased its activities and the sports center remained largely unused from 2001 until it came into the focus of the organizers of the Olympic Games.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ England table bid for 2014 Hockey World Cups. British Broadcasting Corporation, October 19, 2010, accessed May 12, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Olympic Park loses bid to host 2014 Hockey World Cups. British Broadcasting Corporation, November 11, 2010, accessed May 12, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Leyton Orient move to Eton Manor is still a possibility it is claimed. Inside the Games, September 13, 2011, accessed May 12, 2012 .
  4. ^ A Brief History of the Eton Manor Boys' Club ( Memento from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '14 "  N , 0 ° 0' 54"  W.