Colodrum Plovdiv

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Colodrum Plovdiv
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Colodrum Plovdiv (2016)
Data
place BulgariaBulgaria Plovdiv , Bulgaria
Coordinates 42 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  N , 24 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  N , 24 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
owner City of Plovdiv
opening August 2015
architect Sanders Dauma
capacity 4800-7500, depending on the purpose
The interior

The Kolodrum Plovdiv ( Bulgarian Колодрума ) is a multifunctional hall with a cycle track in Plovdiv, Bulgaria .

description

The hall is 9,845 square meters and has facilities for volleyball , handball , basketball and other sports as well as numerous function rooms. The cycling track in the form of an asymmetrical oval meets the international standards of the World Cycling Association UCI : It is 250 meters long, seven meters wide and is made of Siberian spruce . The hall is also used for concerts.

The building was designed by the Dutch architect Sanders Dauma , who also built the halls for the cycle tracks in Athens and Manchester .

history

The plan to build a covered cycle track came from the Plovdiv cycling club Tsar Simeon . The association worked with a construction company. He made the property owned by the association, on which the academy stadium and a concrete cycling track were located, available free of charge, and the company began building residential buildings around the planned hall in order to finance it. In 2007 the first groundbreaking took place during the tour of Bulgaria , in January 2008 the actual construction work began and the old stadiums were demolished. The project should be completed within two years.

After about two years, the work was interrupted because the construction company went bankrupt in the course of the euro crisis . By then, the metal structure for the roof had been created. In March 2011, the Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankow promised financial support for the project. As a result, the cycling club had to sell the location to the state, which passed the hall on to the city as operator. The Kolodrum Plovdiv was opened in August 2015. It is the second largest event location in Bulgaria after the Arena Armeec Sofia in the capital Sofia and the only closed cycle track in the Balkans .

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Kolodrum was converted into a field hospital with 300 beds in March .

The European Railway Championships are planned to be held in Plovdiv in October 2020 .

Events (selection, until 2019)

Sports

Concerts

Web links

Commons : Kolodrum Plovdiv  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Plovdiv Bulgaria. In: cyclingtrack.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
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  4. ↑ Колодрум Пловдив. In: kolodrumplovdiv.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Corona crisis: Plovdiv velodrome becomes a field hospital. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 19th ITF Taekwon-Do World Championship. In: 19wtc.itfbulgaria.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Крис Норман от Smokie с концерт в. In: dariknews.bg. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (Bulgarian).
  8. ↑ Shine A Light Europe 2019. In: bryanadams.com. January 28, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .