Velodrome Neo Faliro
The Velodrome Neo Faliro was used for track cycling and tennis competitions during the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 .
The initiator of these first modern Olympic Games and Secretary General of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Pierre de Coubertin , had tried to develop plans for a cycling track in Paris . But the Greek Crown Prince Konstantin , whose family came from Denmark , ordered the plans in Copenhagen for a cycling track built in the suburb of Ordrup on the occasion of the World Track Cycling Championships in 1896 in order to have them rebuilt. The track in Neo Faliro , a district of Piraeus , had a cement pavement and banked curves, was 333.33 meters long and offered space for 7,000 spectators. The velodrome was built within three months for 104,000 drachmas. The site was made available by the Athens-Piraeus Railway Company. In the interior there were two tennis courts on which the Olympic tournament was held.
The Velodrome was later used as a football stadium and renamed the Karaiskakis Stadium in 1964 . The stadium was demolished in 2003 and rebuilt as a pure soccer stadium, where, among other things, the soccer tournament of the 2004 Olympic Games took place.
Individual evidence
- ↑ One drachma corresponded to the value of 0.81 Reichsmarks in 1890, (see: https://archive.today/20120526220522/http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/muenzen_deutsches_reich.htm ), so that the Radrennbahn around 85,000 Reichsmarks cost.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , pp. 29 and 39.
Competition venues for the 1896 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′ 47.2 " N , 23 ° 39 ′ 52.2" E