Darius and GirÄ—nas Stadium

  • FBK Kaunas
  • Lithuanian national football team
  • Games of FBK Kaunas
  • Games of the Lithuanian national football team
  • Athletics Junior Championships 2005
  • U23 European Athletics Championships 2009
  • EAA Meeting Kaunas
  • Visit of Pope John Paul II in 1993

The S.Dariaus - and - S.Girėno Stadium ( Lithuanian S. Dariaus ir p Girėno stadionas ) is the national stadium in Lithuania Azuolynas ( German Oak Park ) of Kaunas. It offers 9,180 seats nowadays. In addition to the club team of FBK Kaunas and the Lithuanian national football team carries out their home games at the Stadium of S.Dariaus - and - S.Girėno sports complex.

History

After two years of construction, the stadium was opened with a track and field facility in 1925. From 1935 to 1936, the sports complex has been renovated and was named State Stadium. Then the carrier of the stadium had the length of 500 meters; the football field extended over nearly 120 meters. In 1939, in the immediate vicinity of the sports hall Kaunas ( Lithuanian: Kauno sporto Hale) inaugurated; the first sports hall in Europe, which was built specifically for basketball. The next renovation of the stadium followed in 1969 and lasted until 1979. In this, inter alia, the old wooden bleachers replaced by ranks of reinforced concrete; the lead in a semicircle around the interior. The track was shortened to the standard length of 400 meters. The spectator stands are located on the north, west and south sides.

After Unäbhängigkeit of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ( LiBr ) of the Soviet Union in 1990, the venue was named after the two Lithuanian pilots Darius and Stasys Steponas Girėnas 1993. They tried with an airplane in 1933 a non-stop flight from New York to Kaunas, passing through a crash killed shortly before the finish. On September 6 In 1993, Pope John Paul II to meet with young people in the stadium. In 1998, the stadium was brought through conversions ( individual plastic seats, renewal of track and field facility, etc.) to UEFA standards. For the Athletics Junior Championships 2005, a video wall on the open stadium side of the east with the dimensions 8.64 x 4.32 meter was installed. It is the largest and most advanced video scoreboard in the Baltic States. Were held in 2009 the U23 European Athletics Championships at the stadium in Kaunas.

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