Capacity 21,000 | Opened 1896 | |
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Location Hill Street, Wanganui, New Zealand Operator Cooks Gardens Trust Board Surface Grass field, synthetic athletics track Address Whanganui, 4500, New Zealand Similar Waimarie, Kowhai Park, Whanganui Regional Museum, Royal Wanganui Opera Ho, Sarjeant Gallery | ||
Cooks Gardens is a multi-purpose stadium in Wanganui, New Zealand. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches, athletics and cycling. The main stadium, known as westpac stadium is able to hold 20,700 people with 3,500 covered seats.
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History
Cooks Gardens use as a sporting facility commenced in 1896. Since then Cooks Gardens has been the venue of a number of the world’s historic sporting occasions. One of these occasions was on 27 January 1962 when tens of thousands of spectators crammed into Cooks Gardens to witness athlete Peter Snell break the world record for the mile.
In 1996 a multimillion-dollar re-development of Cooks Gardens took place. This included an all-weather synthetic 400m athletic track, the first wooden cycling velodrome in New Zealand, and a new grandstand.
Redevelopment of Cooks Gardens was completed in 2004 with the construction of two further grandstands