Shanghai Oriental Sports Center Indoor Arena

The Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre (

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: 上海东方体育中心), also known as the Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center, is a sports venue that started construction on December 30, 2008, and was completed in late 2010. The center has an indoor arena named Indoor Stadium seating 18,000, an indoor swimming pool seating 5,000, and an outdoor swimming pool also seating 5,000. The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center is close to

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, next to Expo Park in

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. The total investment was two billion yuan. The center is situated near the Oriental Sports Center station on the

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Indoor stadium

The main venue at the sports complex is the Indoor Stadium, used for the home games of the

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. It has a capacity of 18,000 and it is used for various events, like arena football, speed skating, basketball, mixed martial arts, figure skating, swimming and eSports.

Notable events

* 14th World Aquatics Championships from July 16–31, 2011 *

2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships The 2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between March 9 and 11, 2012 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also runs world cups and champion ...

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23–29 March 2015 *

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27 * 2016 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational * 2017 League of Legends World Championship Semifinals

Structure

The arena was designed by German architecture firm

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. The facility sits on a man-made lake that connects to the Huangpu River. The sport center's area is ; the floor space is . In the construction, the workers used 3,000 tons steel to build the architecture.

References

External links

Shanghai 2011: Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
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