Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
Sports venue in Shanghai, China
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The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (Chinese: 上海东方体育中心), also known as the Shanghai Aquatic Sports Center, is a sports venue next to the Expo Park in Shanghai's Pudong New Area. It started construction on 30 December 2008, and was completed in late 2010. The total investment was two billion yuan.[citation needed]
5,000 (indoor swimming pool, seated)
5,000 (outdoor swimming pool, seated)
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| Address | Shanghai, China |
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| Coordinates | 31°9′34.44″N 121°28′22.33″E |
| Capacity | 18,000 (indoor arena) 5,000 (indoor swimming pool, seated) 5,000 (outdoor swimming pool, seated) |
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| Built | 2008–2011 |
| Opened | July 2011 |
Construction cost | yuan ¥2 billion USD $ 313 million EUR € 230 million |
| Architect | Gerkan, Marg and Partners |
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| Shanghai Skywalkers | |
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[1] is close to Huangpu River and near the Oriental Sports Center station on the Shanghai Metro.
Indoor stadium
The main venue at the sports complex is the Indoor Stadium, used for the home games of the arena football club Shanghai Skywalkers. 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[2] from 16 to 31 July 2011[3]
- 2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
- 2014 FINA Diving World Cup
- 2015 World Figure Skating Championships 23–29 March 2015[4]
- Road FC 27
- 2016 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational[5]
- 2017 League of Legends World Championship Semifinals[6]
- Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Playoffs
- KHL World Games 2026
- The International 2026 Playoffs
- Identity V Call of the Abyss IX Playoffs
Structure
The arena was designed by German architecture firm GMP. The facility sits on a man-made lake that connects to the Huangpu River.[7] The sport center's area is 34.75 hectares (85.9 acres); the floor space is 163,800 square metres (1,763,000 sq ft).[8][9] In the construction, the workers used 3,000 tons steel to build the architecture.
