Olympic Hockey Centre (Rio de Janeiro)

Olympic Hockey Center (tentative)
Construction

Full name	Olympic Hockey Center
Location	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Capacity	10,000 (Main Court); 5,000 (Secondary Court)
Opened	2007
Renovated	2016
Tenants
2016 Summer Olympics (field hockey)
Website
Rio2016

The Olympic Hockey Center is a sports venue in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The centre was built for the 2007 Pan American Games before being renovated for the Olympic Field hockey competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1]

References

Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics

Barra Cluster	Carioca Arena 1 Carioca Arena 2 Carioca Arena 3 Future Arena Maria Lenk Aquatics Center Olympic Aquatics Stadium Olympic Golf Course Olympic Tennis Centre HSBC Arena Pontal Riocentro (four venues) Rio Olympic Velodrome

Copacabana Cluster	Copacabana Stadium Fort Copacabana Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon Marina da Glória

Deodoro Cluster	Deodoro Aquatics Centre Deodoro Stadium National Equestrian Center National Shooting Center Olympic BMX Centre Olympic Hockey Centre Mountain Bike Centre Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium Youth Arena

Maracanã Cluster	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange Maracanã Maracanãzinho Sambódromo

Football stadia	Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha Arena Fonte Nova Mineirão Arena Corinthians Arena da Amazônia

Olympic venues in field hockey

1908: White City Stadium 1920: Olympisch Stadion 1928: Old Stadion 1932: Olympic Stadium 1936: Hockey Stadion (final), Hockey Stadion #2 1948: Empire Stadium (medal matches), Guinness Sports Club, Lyons' Sports Club, Polytechnic Sports Ground 1952: Velodrome 1956: Hockey Field, Melbourne Cricket Ground (final) 1960: Campo Tre Fontane, Olympic Velodrome (final), Stadio dei Marmi 1964: Komazawa Hockey Field 1968: Municipal Stadium 1972: Hockeyanlage 1976: Molson Stadium, McGill University 1980: Dynamo Central Stadium, Minor Arena; Young Pioneers Stadium (final) 1984: Weingart Stadium 1988: Seongnam Stadium 1992: Estadi Olímpic de Terrassa 1996: Clark Atlanta University Stadium, Morris Brown College Stadium (final) 2000: State Hockey Centre 2004: Olympic Hockey Centre 2008: Olympic Green Hockey Field 2012: Riverbank Arena 2016: Olympic Hockey Centre

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