English Institute of Sport, Sheffield

The English Institute of Sport – Sheffield

Main sports hall, home to Sheffield Sharks

The English Institute of Sport is a multi-sport facility in Sheffield, England. The facility designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects was opened in December 2003 at a cost of £24 million. Its main feature is a 200m indoor track, but it also hosts several other sporting arenas as well as a large gym and extensive sports medicine facilities. It is in the Lower Don Valley between the Sheffield Arena and Don Valley Stadium. It is managed by SIV (Sheffield International Venues).

The facility is the training venue of choice for a number of sports including: Athletics; Basketball; Boxing; Fencing; Futsal; Judo; Netball; Table Tennis; Volleyball. There are a many clubs which meet at the venue including City of Sheffield Athletic Club, Sheffield Sharks, City of Sheffield Arrows, Sheffield Sword Club, Concorde Netball Club, England Netball, and England Volleyball, as well as hosting snooker's main professional academy. The centre also often hosts sports days for local secondary schools.

The venue hosted the European Indoor Trails & UK Championships (Athletics) between the 14 – 15 February 2009.^[1] They also hosted the European Fencing championships in July 2011.^[2]

Since 2008, the venue has hosted qualifying matches for The World Snooker Championship, held in the nearby Crucible Theatre. Qualifying matches, previously held in Prestatyn, typically take place between late February and early March. Since 2010 the EIS host qualifying matches to all snooker tournaments as well as all PTC events.

2012 Olympics

The EIS-Sheffield was used by British Athletes to train for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In February 2015, it was announced that the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield would be incorporated into the Olympic Legacy Park on the site of the old Don Valley Stadium.^[3]

References

↑ "AVIVA Indoor Athletics - European Trials and UK Championships". Event Sheffield. 2008. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
↑ "European Fencing Championships 2011 incorporating the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships 2011". UK Sport. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
↑ http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1025175/high-profile-additions-made-to-olympic-legacy-park-in-sheffield

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Buildings in Sheffield, England

Civic and institutional	Central Library City Hall Cutlers' Hall Jessop Hospital National Union of Mineworkers headquarters Northern General Hospital Old Town Hall Royal Hallamshire Hospital Royal Infirmary Shrewsbury Hospital Town Hall

Commercial	Castle Market Crystal Peaks Digital Campus Dyson House 2 Haymarket Hillsborough Barracks Meadowhall Orchard Square St Pauls Tower Sheaf House Telephone House V1 Velocity Tower West.One

Educational	Alfred Denny Building Arts Tower Bioincubator Drama Studio Firth Court Goodwin Sports Centre Hicks Building Information Commons Octagon Centre Owen Building Pennine Centre Redvers House Sir Frederick Mappin Building University House

Industrial	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Beehive Works Brooklyn Works Butchers Wheel Cementation Furnace Cornish Place Globe Works Green Lane Works Leah's Yard Little Matlock Rolling Mill Moore Street electricity substation Sharrow Mills Shepherd Wheel Sydney Works Taylor's Eye Witness Works Well Meadow Street Crucible Furnace

Leisure and entertainment	Abbeydale Picture House Academy Birley Spa The Boardwalk Carbrook Hall The Cremorne Crucible Theatre Gatecrasher One Glossop Road Baths Hallam Tower Kelham Island Museum Leadmill Lyceum Theatre Millennium Galleries National Centre for Popular Music Old Queen's Head, Sheffield Odeon Sheffield Plug Sheffield Arena Showroom Cinema Weston Park Museum Winter Gardens

Religious	Churches in Sheffield Madina Mosque Wilson Road Synagogue

Residential	Birley Old Hall Broom Hall Burrowlee House Carbrook Hall Endcliffe Hall Fair House Farmhouse Fulwood Hall Hallfield House Hancock & Lant Tower Hillsborough House Leader House Loxley House Manor Castle Mount Pleasant Mylnhurst Norton Hall Oakes Park Old Bank House Onesacre Hall Parkhead Hall Park Hill Queen's Tower Regent Court Revell Grange Riverdale House Stumperlowe Cottage Stumperlowe Hall Sugworth Hall Tapton Hall The Towers Whiteley Wood Hall Whitley Hall

Sporting	Bramall Lane Don Valley Stadium English Institute of Sport Hillsborough Stadium IceSheffield Owlerton Stadium Ponds Forge Sandygate Road Ski Village

Transport	Bridgehouses station Crystal Peaks bus station Interchange Midland station Victoria station Wicker station

Other structures	192 Shoreham Street Cholera Monument Cobweb Bridge Lady's Bridge Park Square Bridge Tinsley Viaduct Totley Tunnel Wicker Arches

Lists of buildings	Brutalist apartment blocks Buildings and structures Listed buildings Pubs Tallest buildings and structures

Demolished buildings are shown in italics

Coordinates: 53°23′54″N 1°25′28″W / 53.39833°N 1.42444°W / 53.39833; -1.42444

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