Tbilisi Sports Palace
| Tbilisi Sports Palace | |
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| Tbilisi Sports Palace (August 2010) | |
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 Tbilisi , Georgia
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 43 '10.5 " N , 44 ° 46' 46.6" E |
| owner | Logic Group Ltd |
| operator | Logic Group Ltd |
| opening | May 12, 1961 |
| Renovations | 2007 |
| surface |
Concrete parquet |
| capacity | 9,450 seats (basketball) 11,000 seats (concert) |
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The Sports Palace Tbilisi ( Georgian თბილისის სპორტის სასახლე , English Tbilisi Sports Palace ) is a multi-purpose hall in the Georgian capital Tbilisi . The arena was opened in 1961 and is used for basketball , boxing , futsal , judo , handball and tennis as well as for concerts and other events.
history
The hall was opened on May 12, 1961 and should initially only play basketball. For this purpose, the sports palace was to serve as a venue for the club BK Dinamo Tiflis. This is still used by the association to this day. The building was designed by Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Yuri Kasradze, Temo Japaridze and David Kajaia. In 2007 the sports palace was renovated. The whole building was renovated so that the roof was changed and new seats were installed. The arena was sold to Logic Group Ltd in 2007 . A 30-year contract was signed so that Logic Group Ltd owns the rights to the arena until 2037.
Events
So far, the arena has mostly hosted basketball events and concerts. The first international event in the multi-purpose hall was the 1965 European Basketball Championship . Moscow and Tbilisi organized these together, but at that time still under the flag of the Soviet Union . In 2013 Georgia was allowed to host the European wrestling championships on its own for the first time . In 2015 the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival was added. At the end of September 2017, the European Women's Volleyball Championship was held together with Azerbaijan in the Sports Palace .
In addition to these sporting events, concerts were also held here. The famous Russian singer Alla Borissowna Pugacheva and the Georgian pop singer Lela Tsurtsumia have already performed here . In 1990 British rock singer Ian Gillan also performed here .
Web links
- Tbilisi Sports Palace ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tbilisi Sports Palace. UEFA , January 15, 2013, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Renovated Sports Palace ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)