Olympic Stadium

This article is about the show-piece stadia from various Olympic Games. For a list of stadia named Olympic Stadium, see Olympic Stadium (disambiguation).

The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track and field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words "Olympic Stadium" as part of their name. The Winter Olympic Games do not always have a central Olympic Stadium; however, some past games have. Early Winter Games often used figure skating venues as focal points and were designated as the Olympic Stadium, which usually hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.

Olympic Stadium may also be named a multi-purpose stadium which hosts Olympic sports.^[1]

A number of stadiums have been used in more than one Olympics, in those cities that have held the Games more than once. While only one (the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) has been the main stadium twice, a number, including both the Panathinaiko Stadio and the Vélodrome de Vincennes, have hosted events at subsequent Olympics. The London Games of 2012 were not opened and closed at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, the site of the 1948 Olympic Stadium, but instead at a new stadium in Stratford. Wembley was, however, the venue for some 2012 Olympic football matches. Likewise, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was the centrepiece stadium for the 1956, later hosted the first games of the Sydney 2000 football tournament.

Stadia

Image	Olympics	Season	Stadium	Native name	City	Country	New/old	Capacity	existing
	1896	Summer	Panathenaic Stadium	Παναθηναϊκό στάδιο	Athens	Greece	Existing	80,000	Yes
	1900	Summer	Vincennes Velodrome	Vélodrome de Vincennes	Paris	France	Existing	50,000	Yes
	1904	Summer	Francis Field		St. Louis	United States	Existing	19,000	Yes
	1908	Summer	White City Stadium		London	United Kingdom	New	68,000	No
	1912	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Stockholms Olympiastadion	Stockholm	Sweden	New	20,000	Yes
—	1920	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Olympisch Stadion	Antwerp	Belgium	New	12,771	Yes
—	1924	Winter	Olympic Stadium	Stade Olympique de Chamonix	Chamonix	France	New	45,000	Yes
	1924	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	Paris	France	Existing	45,000	Yes
	1928	Winter	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	Eisstadion Badrutts Park St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	St. Moritz	Switzerland	New		Yes
	1928	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Olympisch Stadion	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Existing, renovated	31,600	Yes
—	1932	Winter	Lake Placid Speedskating Oval		Lake Placid	United States	New	7,500	Yes
	1932	Summer	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum		Los Angeles	United States	Existing	101,574	Yes
	1936	Winter	Large Olympic Hill	Große Olympiaschanze	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Existing		Yes
	1936	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Olympiastadion	Berlin	Germany	New	110,000	Yes
	1948	Winter	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	Eisstadion Badrutts Park St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Existing		Yes
	1948	Summer	Wembley Stadium		London	United Kingdom	Existing	82,000	No
	1952	Winter	Bislett Stadium	Bislett Stadion	Oslo	Norway	Existing	20,000	Yes
	1952	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Olympiastadion Olympiastadion	Helsinki	Finland	Existing	40,000	Yes
	1956	Winter	Olympic Ice Stadium	Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Existing, renovated	12,000	Yes
	1956	Summer	Melbourne Cricket Ground		Melbourne	Australia	Existing	100,000	Yes
—	1960	Winter	Blyth Arena		Squaw Valley	United States	New	8,500	No
	1960	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Stadio Olimpico	Rome	Italy	Existing	65,000	Yes
	1964	Winter	Bergiselschanze		Innsbruck	Austria	Existing	12,000	Yes
	1964	Summer	Olympic Stadium	国立霞ヶ丘陸上競技場	Tokyo	Japan	Existing	57,363	Yes
	1968	Winter	Olympic Stadium	Stade Olympique	Grenoble	France	Temporary	60,000	No
	1968	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Estadio Olímpico Universitario	Mexico City	Mexico	Existing	83,700	Yes
—	1972	Winter	Makomanai Open Stadium	真駒内屋外競技場	Sapporo	Japan	New	30,000	Yes
	1972	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Olympiastadion	Munich	West Germany	New	80,000	Yes
	1976	Winter	Bergiselschanze		Innsbruck	Austria	Existing		Yes
	1976	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Stade Olympique	Montreal	Canada	New	66,308	Yes
	1980	Winter	Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium		Lake Placid	United States	Existing	30,000	Yes
	1980	Summer	Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium	Гранд Арена Центрального стадиона имени Ленина	Moscow	Soviet Union	Existing	103,000	Yes
	1984	Winter	Olympic Stadium	Olimpijski stadion	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	Existing	50,000	Yes
	1984	Summer	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum		Los Angeles	United States	Existing	93,607	Yes
	1988	Winter	McMahon Stadium		Calgary	Canada	Existing	38,205	Yes
	1988	Summer	Olympic Stadium	올림픽주경기장	Seoul	South Korea	Existing	69,950	Yes
—	1992	Winter	Theatre of Ceremonies	Théâtre des Cérémonies	Albertville	France	Temporary	35,000	No
	1992	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc	Barcelona	Spain	Existing	70,000	Yes
	1994	Winter	Lysgårdsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena	Lysgårdsbakkene hoppanlegg	Lillehammer	Norway	New	35,000	Yes
	1996	Summer	Centennial Olympic Stadium (Turner Field)		Atlanta	United States	New	85,000	Yes^[2]
	1998	Winter	Nagano Olympic Stadium	長野オリンピックスタジアム	Nagano	Japan	New	30,000	Yes
	2000	Summer	Stadium Australia		Sydney	Australia	New	114,714	Yes
	2002	Winter	Rice-Eccles Stadium		Salt Lake City	United States	Existing	45,017	Yes
	2004	Summer	Olympic Stadium	Ολυμπιακό Κεντρικό Στάδιο Αθήνας "Σπύρος Λούης"	Athens	Greece	Existing	71,030	Yes
	2006	Winter	Olympic Stadium	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Turin	Italy	Existing	28,000	Yes
	2008	Summer	Beijing National Stadium	国家体育场	Beijing	China	New	91,000	Yes
	2010	Winter	BC Place Stadium		Vancouver	Canada	Existing	54,500	Yes
	2010 Youth	Summer	The Float@Marina Bay	Pentas Terapung Teluk Marina	Singapore		Existing	30,000	Yes
	2012 Youth	Winter	Bergiselschanze		Innsbruck	Austria	Existing		Yes
	2012	Summer	Olympic Stadium		London	United Kingdom	New	80,000	Yes
	2014	Winter	Fisht Olympic Stadium	Олимпийский стадион	Sochi	Russia	New	40,000	Yes
	2014 Youth	Summer	Olympic Stadium	南京奥林匹克体育中心	Nanjing	China	Existing	61,443	Yes
	2016	Summer	Maracanã Stadium	Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Existing, renovated	88,992	Yes
	2018	Winter	Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium	횡계 올림픽 파크	Pyeongchang	South Korea	Temporary	50,000	Not Yet Built
	2020	Summer	Olympic Stadium	国立霞ヶ丘陸上競技場	Tokyo	Japan	Existing, replacement	80,000	Yes

Other major events

Venue	City	Events
Olympic Stadium	Amsterdam	2016 European Athletics Championships
Panathenaic Stadium	Athens	1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis'	Athens	1983, 1994 and 2007 UEFA Champions League Final, 1997 World Championships in Athletics, WRC Acropolis Rally SuperSpecial Stage 2005 and 2006, 2006 IAAF World Cup
Centennial Olympic Stadium	Atlanta	1999 World Series and 2000 MLB All-Star Game (as Turner Field)
Beijing National Stadium	Beijing	2015 World Championships in Athletics
Olympic Stadium	Berlin	2006 FIFA World Cup Final, 2009 World Championships in Athletics, official opening game of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2015 UEFA Champions League Final
Olympic Stadium	Helsinki	1983 and 2005 World Championships in Athletics
Olympic Stadium	London	2017 IPC Athletics World Championships and 2017 IAAF World Championships in Athletics
Wembley Stadium	London	1966 FIFA World Cup Final, UEFA Euro 1996 Final, 1992 European Cup Final, 2011 UEFA Champions League Final, 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, annual FA Cup Final
White City Stadium	London	1934 British Empire Games
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	Los Angeles	Super Bowl I (1967), Super Bowl VII (1973), 1959 World Series, and second game of the 1959 MLB All-Star Game
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	1992 Cricket World Cup Final, 2006 Commonwealth Games, annual AFL Grand Final
Estadio Olímpico Universitario	Mexico City	1955 Pan American Games
Olympic Stadium	Montreal	1982 MLB All-Star Game; many Grey Cups; 10 matches in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, including the final; nine matches in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
Luzhniki Stadium	Moscow	2013 World Championships in Athletics, 2008 UEFA Champions League Final, 2018 FIFA World Cup Final
Olympic Stadium	Munich	1974 FIFA World Cup Final, 1979 European Cup Final, UEFA Euro 1988 Final, 1993 and 1997 UEFA Champions League Finals
Bislett Stadion	Oslo	1946 European Athletics Championships
Lysgårdsbakken	Lillehammer	FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
Vélodrome de Vincennes	Paris	1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1974 Tour de France closing stage
Stade Olympique de Colombes	Paris	1938 FIFA World Cup Final
Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro	1950 FIFA World Cup Final, 2000 FIFA Club World Championship Final, 2007 Pan American Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Final and 2014 FIFA World Cup Final
Stadio Olimpico	Rome	1977 and 1984 European Cup Finals, 1987 World Championships in Athletics, 1990 FIFA World Cup Final, 1996 and 2009 UEFA Champions League Final
Olympic Stadium	Seoul	1986 Asian Games, 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup finals
Fisht Olympic Stadium	Sochi	2018 FIFA World Cup
Stockholm Olympic Stadium	Stockholm	1958 European Athletics Championships; 2001, 2002 and 2004 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden
Stadium Australia	Sydney	2003 Rugby World Cup Final, annual NRL Grand Final
Olympic Stadium	Tokyo	1958 Asian Games, 1991 World Championships in Athletics, Intercontinental Cup and 2019 Rugby World Cup Final
Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Turin	1934 European Athletics Championships
BC Place	Vancouver	Two Grey Cups (2011 and 2014); nine matches in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, including the final

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympic venues.

↑ Olympic Stadium. Big Olympic Encyclopedia. Moscow 2006.
↑ After the 1996 Paralympics, the stadium was reconfigured (as planned) into the baseball-specific Turner Field. It is scheduled to be demolished in 2017 after the Atlanta Braves, the stadium's main tenant since its reconfiguration, move into a new stadium in Cobb County, Georgia.^[3]
↑ "Atlanta to demolish Turner Field". ESPN.com. Associated Press. 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-12.

External links

Olympic Past & Future Stadiums - BALLPARKS.com
Summer Olympic Stadiums (Stadia) 1896 - (2020) on Google Maps (select "Sat View")

Summer Olympic stadia

Winter Olympic stadiums

Chamonix 1924 St. Moritz 1928 Lake Placid 1932 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 St. Moritz 1948 Oslo 1952 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Squaw Valley 1960 Innsbruck 1964 Grenoble 1968 Sapporo 1972 Innsbruck 1976 Lake Placid 1980 Sarajevo 1984 Calgary 1988 Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Nagano 1998 Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 Vancouver 2010 Sochi 2014 Pyeongchang 2018

Olympic venues

General

Summer Games

Alphabetical	1–9 – A B C D–E F–G H–I J–K L M–N O P Q–R S T–V W–Z

Sport	Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Demonstration events Discontinued events

Years	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Winter Games

Alphabetical	1–9 – B C–G H–K L M N–R S T–Z

Sport	Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Short track speed skating Skeleton Ski jumping Snowboarding Speed skating Demonstration events

Years	1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018