Sala Polivalenta
Encyclopedia
Sala Polivalentă is a multi-purpose hall in Bucharest
, Romania
, located in Tineretului Park
. It is frequently used for concerts, indoor sports such as tennis
, gymnastics
, dance
, handball
, volleyball
, weightlifting, judo
, boxing
, mixed martial arts
and professional wrestling
. The hall was opened in 1974 but was recently renovated. It has a maximum seating capacity
of 12,000 for concerts and 6,000 for handball.
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, located in Tineretului Park
Tineretului Park
Tineretului Park is a large public park in southern Bucharest .-History:The park, which was created in 1965 and planned by the architect Valentin Donose, was designed as the main recreational space for southern Bucharest, an area which was heavily developed during the 1960s and...
. It is frequently used for concerts, indoor sports such as tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, dance
DanceSport
Dancesport denotes competitive ballroom dancing, as contrasted to social or exhibition dancing. It is wheelchair dancesport where at least one of the dancers is in a wheelchair....
, handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, weightlifting, judo
Judo
is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
, boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
, mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
and professional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
. The hall was opened in 1974 but was recently renovated. It has a maximum seating capacity
Seating capacity
Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, both in terms of the physical space available, and in terms of limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats...
of 12,000 for concerts and 6,000 for handball.
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Sporting Events
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title match between the champion Leonard DorofteiLeonard DorofteiLeonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.-Amateur highlights:...
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- 2006 EHF Challenge CupEHF Challenge CupThe EHF Challenge Cup is an official European Handball Federation competition for men's clubs of Europe and takes place every year. Before 1999/2000, it was called EHF City Cup....
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title match between Adrian DiaconuAdrian DiaconuAdrian Diaconu is a Romanian professional boxer, living and fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
and Chris Henry, an event promoted by Don King TV - 2009 European Weightlifting Championships2009 European Weightlifting ChampionshipsThe 2009 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Bucharest, Romania from 3 April to 12 April 2009. It was the 88th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896.-Men:- Women's events :- Medals tables :...
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Final between CS Oltchim Râmnicu VâlceaCS Oltchim Râmnicu VâlceaCS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea is a Romanian women's handball club from Râmnicu Vâlcea, that plays in the Liga Naţională and in the EHF Women's Champions League....
and Viborg HKViborg HKViborg HK is the name of a Danish handball club from Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and European handball since the beginning of the 1990s...
. - 2010 EHF Cup Winners' Cup Semifinal between Steaua MFA Bucureşti and BM GranollersBM Granollers-Stadium Information:*Name: - Palau D'Esports*City: - Granollers*Capacity: - 6,500*Address: - C/. Voluntaris'92 núm. 1.-Famous players:...
- 2010 World Men's Handball Championship from Sweden 2011 - European qualification2011 World Men's Handball Championship European qualificationThis page describes the European zone qualifying procedure for the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship.- Seeding :The draw for the qualification round was held on the 6th of August 2009 at the EHF headquarters, in Vienna. Sweden , and France , are directly qualified...
Play-off between RomaniaRomania national handball teamThe Romania national handball team is the national handball team of Romania. Controlled by the Romanian Handball Federation it represents Romania in international matches....
and RussiaRussia national handball teamThe Russia national handball team is the national handball team of Russia and is controlled by the Handball Union of Russia. Russia is designated by IHF and EHF as the inheritor of the record of USSR until 1990 and the Unified Team during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.-History of handball... - 2011 WWE presents: WrestleManiaWrestleManiaWrestleMania is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced annually in late March or early April by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut...
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and many more)