Birmingham has today exposed four indoor arenas in the Birmingham as well as Solihull area that will play a critical function in providing its commonwealth games 2022 bid. These venues were chosen complying with cautious evaluation of commonwealth games Federation guidelines concerning athletes’ needs, the technical specifications, seating capability as well as Games-time logistics.
As part of the choice process, the quote committee looked carefully at exactly how to utilise Birmingham’s riches of existing sports venues as well as facilities, ensuring connectivity as well as accessibility as well as maximising spectator numbers.
Central to Birmingham’s quote is the internationally-recognised NEC, located on a site which likewise includes the Genting Arena with a integrated overall of 200,000sqm, it is the UK’s, as well as one of Europe’s, largest indoor facilities. The NEC has outstanding public transfer links to central Birmingham as well as new street station as well as Birmingham worldwide Airport, in addition to being found in the heart of the UK’s motorway network.
The NEC has expertise in routinely holding major events, including: Crufts, the UK’s largest consumer event with 160,000 visitors annually; spring Fair, the UK’s largest Camiseta Inter Milan trade show; skills Show, the nation’s largest skills, apprenticeships as well as careers event; and Horse of the Year Show.
Three of the NEC’s largest halls will hold Boxing, Judo, Table Tennis as well as freestyle Wrestling. Halls 1, 4 as well as 5 have been chosen to offer an ideal configuration, producing a compact multi-sport location needing very little develop requirements. The NEC, part of the NEC Group, brings with it practically 2,000 workers offering event administration expertise, as well as robust back of home facilities as well as facilities.
The NEC group has over forty years’ experience, operating 750 major events as well as drawing in seven million visitors each year. In addition to the NEC, the group likewise handles the Genting Arena, which will hold Badminton, as well as the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham’s city centre, which will hold creative as well as Rhythmic Gymnastics.
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Phil Mead, Managing Director, NEC group Arenas as well as member of the Birmingham 2022 steering Group, said:
The NEC group is one of the world’s leading location operators as Camiseta Leicester City well as has been producing unforgettable online experiences for over forty years. Over that period, we have proven our capability to provide by holding over sixty worldwide sports events such as world as well as European indoor Athletics Championships, Davis cup tennis, Yonex All England Badminton Championships, European as well as world Gymnastics Championships, worldwide Netball as well as world BMX Championships, however in all that time Birmingham has not had the possibility to hold a major multi-sport event. We believe the time is best now.
We have a Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Arabia Saudita riches of great venues prepared as well as able to provide world-class events for 2022 including the NEC, Genting Arena as well as Barclaycard Arena as well as we are currently gearing as much as hold the IAAF world indoor Athletics championships in 2018 which even more demonstrates our credibility as well as capability.
We have likewise invested considerably into our venues in recent years to set us aside from our competitors. We saw at the London 2012 Olympics exactly how a major indoor location might effectively hold several sports events as well as exactly how the public as well as athletes thrived on the chance to experience so numerous sports in close proximity with a compact games proposition. We can provide this as well as much more as well as believe Birmingham is the only city that can provide this for 2022. Not only that, however with interesting advancement across the city as well as our own ambitious plans to add new physical assets as well as leisure content, which will develop on the opening of Resorts world Birmingham on the NEC site, there will be even much more on offer for visitors.
Birmingham as well as Solihull have a variety of indoor arenas as well as seminar facilities, drawing in millions of visitors to the city each year. In addition to the NEC, Birmingham will likewise utilize the complying with venues:
Barclaycard Arena will hold creative as well as Rhythmic Gymnastics
Genting Arena will hold Badminton
Symphony Hall will hold Weightlifting as well as Para Powerlifting
These four existing indoor venues alone will offer spectators with much more than 500,000 chances to view the action during games time.
Ian Ward, deputy Leader Birmingham City Council as well as Chair, Birmingham commonwealth games steering Group, said:
We have carried out a extensive process to determine the venues which satisfy the Games’ technical demands as well as guarantee we satisfy the athletes’ as well anull
