Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic Hall
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Zetra Olympic Hall |
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 Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Coordinates | 43 ° 52 '18.5 " N , 18 ° 24' 34.4" E |
| opening | 1983 1999 (reopening) |
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Concrete ice surface |
| architect | Lidumil Alikalfic |
| capacity | 12,000 seats |
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The Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic Hall (until 2010 Zetra Olympic Hall , also Zetra Ice Stadium or Zetra Arena ) is an ice rink in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian capital Sarajevo . It was originally built for the 1984 Winter Olympics .
history
Opening as an Olympic hall
The Olympic Hall was opened in 1983, the first major event to be held in the hall was the Junior World Speed Skating Championships in the same year. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1984 , ice hockey games and figure skating competitions as well as the closing ceremony took place in what was for the time “ultra-modern” hall with a copper roof .
From 1984 to 1991 the hall was the venue for various ice sports competitions, including an ice hockey C World Championship.
On July 28, 1991, shortly after the outbreak of the wars in Yugoslavia , a Yugoslav concert for peace took place in the Zetra Hall, which was attended by around 80,000 people in and around the hall.
destruction
The arena suffered several damage during the Bosnian War and was ultimately almost completely destroyed in a bombing in July 1992. The remains of the building were subsequently used as a morgue and as a warehouse for medicine and relief supplies. The stadium's wooden seats were also used to build coffins for civilians who were killed.
New building
After the end of the war, it was found that the foundations of the Olympic Hall were secure despite considerable damage to the building, so SFOR began to rebuild the stadium in September 1997. The International Olympic Committee contributed 11.5 million US dollars (the equivalent of 32 million German marks ) to the project, which was finally completed in 1999. In 2010 the hall was named after the late IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch for his efforts in the reconstruction . In the same year the hall hosted the summit for the installation of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe .
Air dome as an ice rink
A few years ago it was decided to expand the ice rink from the hall and to rebuild it in front of it and to cover it with an air dome. From then on, the Olympic Hall itself was used for various events, but no longer for the ice sport for which it was originally built.
In February 2012, the snow-covered roof structure of the ice surface collapsed in bad weather. An international children's tournament should take place the next day. Today the ice hockey clubs HK Bosna , HK Ilidža 2010 , HK Stari Grad , HK Sarajevo play their home games in the air dome.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yugoslavia War: "As if a part of my body burned" in Spiegel online from July 23, 2016
- ↑ Bob Ottum: Now Bring On The Torch. In: Sports Illustrated. cnn.com, March 14, 1983, archived from the original on February 9, 2009 ; Retrieved October 2, 2012 .
- ^ BJ Phillips: A little touch of Heaven. In: Time.com. Time Magazine, February 27, 1984, accessed October 3, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c Vicko Ivanković: Game over for Bosnian hockey? Eurohockey.com, February 13, 2012, accessed October 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Carolyn Braun, Marcus Pfeil & Danijel Visevic: Why does a war break out that nobody wants ?, SpOn, June 28, 2016. Accessed on January 12, 2019 at http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/jugoslawien-krieg- the-peace-concert-1991-in-sarajevo-a-1099958.html
- ^ Cnn.com, William Oscar Johnson: "The Killing Ground" in Sports Illustrated , February 14, 1994
- ↑ a b nato.int, David Taylor: "Zetra returns to the future" in SFOR Informer # 57, March 17, 1999
- ^ New York Times Online, Bonnie DeSimone: "1984: Sarajevo" in the New York Times, February 5, 2006
- ↑ a b cnn.com, Scorecard "Sarajevo 2010? Collateral Damage" Sports Illustrated, April 9, 1999
- ↑ James L. Graff: Guns Now, Butter Later. In: Time.com. Time Magazine, July 20, 1992, accessed October 3, 2012 .
- ^ New York Times Online, Richard Sandomir: "TV SPORTS; Goodwill Games Headed for Bosnia?" in the New York Times, July 7, 1999
- ^ Mark Milstein: "Sarajevo's Olympic Seats Are Now Coffin Boards" in the London Observer , August 5, 1993
Competition venues for the 1984 Winter Olympics
