Youth Arena

Youth Arena
Arena da Juventude
Location Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Coordinates 22°51′34″S 43°24′15″W / 22.8594685°S 43.4040642°W / -22.8594685; -43.4040642
Capacity 5,000 (2,000 permanent seats)[1]
Opened 2016
Tenants
Basketball and Modern Pentathlon fencing events for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Wheelchair fencing events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Youth Arena (Portuguese:Arena da Juventude) is an indoor arena in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue will host the Basketball and Fencing events for the Modern Pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the wheelchair fencing events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[2][3]

Footnotes

  1. "Two more Rio 2016 Games venues unveiled in Deodoro Olympic Park". Rio 2016. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  2. "Youth Arena". Rio 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. "Rio 2016: palco do basquete, Arena da Juventude começa a ganhar forma". GloboEsporte.com (in Portuguese). 5 June 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.

References

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