Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium
| Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium (domestically: Kamaishi Unosumai Fukkō Stadium ) |
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| The main stand of the Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium in August 2018 | |
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| place | Dai 18 Chiwari-5-1 Unosumai-chō, Kamaishi , Iwate Prefecture , Japan
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 19 '40 " N , 141 ° 53' 32" E |
| owner | Kamaishi City |
| start of building | April 27, 2017 |
| opening | 19th August 2018 |
| First game | August 19, 2018 Kamaishi Seawaves - Yamaha Júbilo (Rugby Union) |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 4878000000 ¥ (around 40.87 million € ) |
| capacity | 16,000 places (Rugby Union World Cup 2019) 6,000 places (permanent) |
| playing area | 130 × 80 m |
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The Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium ( engl. ) Is a Rugby - Stadium in the Japanese coastal city of Kamaishi , Iwate Prefecture on Honshu . The facility is also known as the Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium . It was built as one of twelve venues for the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup . It has 16,000 seats for the World Cup thanks to additional grandstands. It will permanently offer 6,000 seats. It is the only new building for the tournament at a cost of 4.878 billion ¥ (around 40.87 million € ), incl. The 987 million ¥ (around € 8.2 million) for the expansion for the World Cup. In Japan it is called Kamaishi Unosumai Fukkō Sutajiamu ( Japanese 釜 石 鵜 住居 復興 ス タ ジ ア ム , literally "Kamaishi Usunomai Reconstruction Stadium"). It is located in the north of the city near the mouth of the river of the same name in the district of the same name Unosumai-chō and forms the Unosumai sports park ( 鵜 住居 運動 公園 Unosumai undō kōen ).
history
Kamaishi has long been the center of the Japanese steel industry . There was u. a. a steel mill owned by Nippon Steel . The group sponsored the rugby team Nippon Steel Kamaishi . The club won the championship of the Japan Company Rugby Football Championship, played from 1948 to 2003, in 1976 and continuously from 1978 to 1984. In the heyday of the team, more spectators came to the games than the city had residents. In 2001 the club was dissolved and replaced by the Kamaishi Seawaves , currently resident in the second-rate Top Challenge League . The severe Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 with the following tsunami destroyed thousands of houses, shops and the fishing fleet in Kamaishi . 1,145 of the 35,000 inhabitants were killed.
After Japan was awarded at the end of July 2009, Kamaishi was selected as one of the World Cup venues in March 2015. Around two years later in April 2017, construction work began on the former site of the Kamaishi elementary and middle school. The inauguration took place on August 19, 2018 with the rugby game between the Kamaishi Seawaves and Yamaha Júbilo (24:29) in front of over 6000 visitors. It is a sign of hope for the hard hit city. The investment in the stadium was not without controversy, as the last residents of the city could not move from the emergency shelters to regular housing until 2019 .
The stadium is a possible venue in Japan's bid for the 2023 Women's World Cup .
Games of the Rugby Union World Cup 2019 in Kamaishi
One game took place in the new stadium:
Due to Typhoon Hagibis , the game between Namibia and Canada scheduled for October 13, 2019 had to be canceled.
Web links
- kamaishi-stadium.jp: Official website (Japanese, English)
- rugbyworldcup.com: Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium (Japanese, English, French, Spanish)
- City of Kamaishi: Rugby no machi ("City of Rugby") (Japanese, English, Chinese, French, Korean)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium. In: kamaishi-stadium.jp. Retrieved September 20, 2019 (Japanese, English).
- ↑ a b Justin McCurry: Rugby World Cup stadium opens as a symbol of 'hope' in tsunami-hit Kamaishi. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , August 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Tsunami-ravaged Kamaishi to host Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup matches. In: stuff.co.nz. March 3, 2015, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ^ George Ramsay: How the Rugby World Cup has brought hope to one Japanese City. In: edition.cnn.com. CNN , September 12, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ TotalRugby Team: Destroyed by the tsunami, hope returns to Kamaishi with the Rugby World Cup. In: totalrugby.de. August 7, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ^ Namibia v Canada match canceled, Hanazono and Kumamoto matches go ahead. rugbyworldcup.com, October 13, 2019, accessed October 13, 2019 .