Lee Valley White Water Center
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The Lee Valley White Water Center (initially called Broxbourne White Water Canoe Center) is a canoe slalom park near the town of Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire , about 30 kilometers north of London . It's located in Lee Valley Park.
The canoe slalom competitions were held here at the 2012 Olympic Games . For this purpose, temporary stands were built for 12,000 spectators. The 2015 Canoe Slalom World Championships were also held here. A 300 m long competition course with an average gradient of 1.8% was built. There is also a 160 m training and warm-up course and an artificial lake for the pumping system.
The whitewater facility was completed in December 2010. It was the first newly built and completed venue for the 2012 Olympic Games. Since April 2011, the facility has been open to the public as an amusement park and also functions as a training center for the British national team.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ London 2012 slalom canoeing venue opens at Waltham Cross. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; accessed on April 14, 2011 . 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 17.9 ″ N , 0 ° 0 ′ 56.2 ″ W.
Competition venues for the 2012 Summer Olympics
