English Institute of Sport, Sheffield
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Full name | English Institute of Sport Sheffield |
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| Address | Coleridge Road, S9 5DA |
| Location | Sheffield, England |
| Coordinates | 53°23′54″N 1°25′28″W / 53.39833°N 1.42444°W |
| Owner | Sheffield City Council |
| Operator | Everyone Active[1] |
| Public transit |  Y TT Arena / Olympic Legacy Park |
| Construction | |
| Opened | December 2003 |
| Architect | FaulknerBrowns |
The English Institute of Sport is a multi-sport facility in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its main feature is a 200m indoor track, but it also hosts several other sporting arenas as well as a large gym and extensive sports medicine facilities. It is located in the Lower Don Valley between the Sheffield Arena and Don Valley Bowl.
Sports
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The facility is the training venue of choice for a number of sports including athletics, basketball, boxing, fencing, futsal, judo, netball, table tennis and volleyball.
There are many clubs which meet at the venue including City of Sheffield Athletic Club, Sheffield Futsal Club, Sheffield Stormers Netball Club Sheffield Sword Club, Concorde Netball Club, England Netball, and England Volleyball, as well as hosting snooker's main professional academy. The centre also often hosts sports days for local secondary schools.
History
[edit]The venue hosted the European Indoor Trials & UK Championships (athletics) between 14 – 15 February 2009.[2] They also hosted the European Fencing championships in July 2011.[3]
Since 2007, the venue has hosted qualifying matches for the World Snooker Championship, with the main stages held in the nearby Crucible Theatre. Qualifying matches, previously held in Prestatyn, typically took place between late February and early March but are now held in April. Since 2010 the EIS also hosted qualifying matches to snooker tournaments as well as all the now defunct PTC events.
The EIS-Sheffield was used by British Athletes to train for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In February 2015, it was announced that the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield would be incorporated into the Olympic Legacy Park on the site of the old Don Valley Stadium.[4]
The venue was one of the three selected to host matches in the 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/english-institute-of-sport-sheffield/. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "AVIVA Indoor Athletics - European Trials and UK Championships". Event Sheffield. 2008. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "European Fencing Championships 2011 incorporating the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships 2011". UK Sport. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "High profile additions made to Olympic Legacy Park in Sheffield".
- ↑ "RLWC coming to more venues than ever before". Rugby League World Cup 2021. 9 July 2022. Archived from the original on 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
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