Cido Arena is the largest multifunctional arena

Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...

 in Panevėžys

Panevežys

Panevėžys see also other names, is the fifth largest city in Lithuania. As of 2008, it occupied 50 square kilometers with 113,653 inhabitants. The largest multifunctional arena in Panevėžys is the Cido Arena...

, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

. It generally hosts cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

 track events, as well as basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 games, concerts. The basketball club BC Techasas

BC Techasas

BC „Techasas“ is the major basketball club of Panevėžys, Lithuania participating in Lithuanian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. On 15 April, 2011, BC „Techasas“ signed contract with Egidijus Dimša until the end of the season. The club had many financial problems at the 2011-2012...

, which currently competes in the domestic LKL

Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga

The Lietuvos krepšinio lyga is Lithuania's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of 12 teams.- History :...

 league, uses the facility for all of its LKL home fixtures. It was opened on October 24, 2008. It replaced Sports Palace Aukštaitija

Sports Palace Aukštaitija

Sports Palace Aukštaitija is an indoor sporting arena located in Panevėžys, Lithuania. The capacity of the arena is 2,000 people. It was formerly home to the KK Panevėžys basketball team, later renamed to BC Techasas of the premier domestic league LKL....

 as the home of BC Techasas. The arena boasts an indoor 250 m long olympic cycling track

Velodrome

A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights...

, the only one in the Baltic States

Baltic states

The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...

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The arena will host the Eurobasket 2011

Eurobasket 2011

EuroBasket 2011 was the 37th men's European Basketball Championship, held by FIBA Europe. The competition was hosted by Lithuania. This was the second time Eurobasket had been held in Lithuania, the country having also hosted the 1939 championship. FIBA Europe asserted that Lithuania managed to...

 Group A

EuroBasket 2011 Group A

Group A of the EuroBasket 2011 took place between August 31 and September 5, 2011. The group played all of its games at Cido Arena in Panevėžys, Lithuania....

 matches and the 2012 European Track Championships

European Track Championships

The European Track Cycling Championships are the set of European championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling and are regulated by the European Cycling Union...

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External links

• Official site