Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park

Canoe slalom course

View of the canoe slalom course

The Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park is a sports facility in the Shunyi district of Beijing that was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics . On the race track competitions were in rowing and canoe racing discharged. In addition, the canoe slalom competitions and open water swimming were held on the site . The rowing competitions were also held at the Shunyi rowing and canoeing park at the 2008 Summer Paralympics .

Construction work on the Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park, located approx. 13 km northeast of the international airport , began in the first half of 2005 and ended on July 28, 2007. The heavily forested park in the north extends over around 800 hectares and includes a regatta course in the southern part with a separate side channel for warming up and a whitewater facility to the west . This makes Shunji Park the first Olympic sports facility to date to have both a racing track and a whitewater course. There are 1,200 permanent seats. For the Olympic Games there was space for a further 25,800 spectators in temporary seats, and there was a further 10,000 standing room.

Problems arose during the 2008 Olympic Games due to strong algae growth . However, the algae were removed with boats so that the competitions were hardly affected, but some athletes in canoe racing competed with modified control fins to prevent the algae from getting stuck and thus losing time.

In 2007, the Shunji Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park hosted the Junior World Rowing Championships as a test competition. After the Olympic Games, the sports facility was to be used primarily for swimming and as a park. However, they are rarely used today and are partly left to their own devices.

Web links

Commons : Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Olympic rowing and canoeing park Shunyi on beijing2008.cn ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Article about the Olympic rowing and canoeing park Shunyi on beijing2008.cn ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shunyi Rowing-Canoeing Park delivered. In: beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on September 25, 2012 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . 
2. ^ The rusted remains of the Olympic Games. In: zeit.de. April 12, 2012, accessed on January 10, 2016 (Figure 11 shows the dry whitewater canal). 
3. ↑ Sisi Chen: A Tale of Two Parks: Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. In: Blog on beijing-kids.com. July 26, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Stephen Chen: New uses found for some Beijing Olympic games venues. South China Morning Post, August 10, 2013, accessed January 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. In: Beijing Government website. Retrieved January 10, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′ 50 ″  N , 116 ° 41 ′ 10 ″  E