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+380 56 741 1032

Sports Complex Meteor

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Makarova St, 27А, Dnipropetrovs'k, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, 49000

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Open today · 6AM–10PMThursday6AM–10PMFriday6AM–10PMSaturday6AM–10PMSunday6AM–10PMMonday6AM–10PMTuesday6AM–10PMWednesday6AM–10PMSuggest an edit

Sports Complex Meteor (Ukrainian: Спортивний комплекс Метеор) is the biggest center of sports and cultural live in Dnipropetrovsk. The complex is a home to the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status national since October 10, 2001. Meteor belongs to the State Company "Production Union Southern Machine-building Factory of Makarov" (Yuzhmash) and Sports Club Meteor. Sports Club Meteor was established in 1962.

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Composition

The complex includes:

  • Stadium Meteor (1966)
  • Palace of water sports Meteor (1970, main pool)
  • Ice Palace of Sports Meteor (1980)
  • Machine-builder water sports facility (1958) is located in a remote location (Shevchenko City Park)

    • The Meteor is home to five sports schools four of which are the Olympic reserves and another one is a complex school that specialized in six sports.

    SC Meteor Presidents

  • 1962–1982: Anatoliy Haiduk
  • 1982–1986: Yuriy Olkhovyk
  • 1986–2009: Konstantin Vavilov
  • 2009–present: Olga Dengina

    • Notable sports people

  • Lyudmila Shevtsova – Olympian champion in athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres
  • Yury Zaitsev – Olympian champion in weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  • Oksana Baiul – Olympian champion in figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  • Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko – Olympian champions in sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 470

    • References

    Sports Complex Meteor Wikipedia
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