Thialf

Heerenveen Flyers ( irregularly since 1967 )

Speed ​​Skating European and World Championships, World Cup

The Thialf is an ice stadium in Heerenveen, which was opened in 1967 as the open-air arena. Was named the stadium after Thialfi, a servant of the god Thor in Norse mythology. In 1986, the rink was covered, since find 12,500 spectators in Thialf place.

She was next to the ice rink Jaap Edenbaan in Amsterdam and De Scheg in Deventer, the third ice rink in the Netherlands. The opening was a year after the Sports Forum Hohenschonhausen who are now the first Eisschnelllaufhalle the world was. The conditions in the Thialf are, at least in terms of the way past times better. Despite its altitude, at sea - level ( plains -Bahn ) Thialf is ranked four out of the list of fastest speed skating track in the world.

The arena is mainly used for speed skating competitions. Thanks to the good climate conditions inside the hall, the arena was long considered the fastest ice in the world, as reflected in the numerous world records that were set up after its opening in Thialf. Only with the construction of new ice rinks in Calgary and Salt Lake City in 1988, the stadium lost this status because in the higher arenas in North America dominates a lower air pressure and are therefore to make better competition conditions.

With the exception of the first World Cup season 1985/86 Heerenveen was mindestends once a year hosts a World Cup. The Thialf get away with it until the end of the 2014 season on 42 World Cup sweeps. The upcoming second Sports Forum Hohenschonhausen comes to "only" 23 dates.

The Dutch Eredivisie team Heerenveen Flyers Hockey carries on the area contained inside the stadium from important games, but usually occurs in the complex associated with side hall, the Thialf IJsstadion on.

In addition to the 400 meter track, the hall has four other ice inside which can be reached via a tunnel. These are a 333-meter narrow-gauge railway, a hockey field with 30 x 60 meters, a 30 x 30 meter ice rink for beginners and a set up for the sport Curling area of ​​60 x 30 meters.

Nieuw Thialf

For several years, the Thialf competition from new faster ice rinks is facing exposed. Equipped with the latest technology warehouses in Kolomna ( Kometa ) and Inzell ( Max Aicher Arena) scratching their influence Thialf in Europe. The considerations were asking whether the hall should be modernized or equal to a new hall, as part of a sports park, to be built. In March 2011, adopted a working group of the KNSB that the hall should be built.

The Nieuw Thialf to be built at the Abe Lenstra stadium about three kilometers north of the Thialf. The cost of the project is estimated at 100 million euros. 58.5 million for the construction and installation of the hall, 12 million for an adjacent Hockey Hall 14.5 million for infrastructure and 15 million for further planning.

Events

1999 2012

1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2010

1985, 1989, 1996, 2006, 2008, 2011

1970, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013

1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91, 1991/ 92 1992/93 1993/94 1994/95 1995/96 1996/97 1997/98, 1998 / 99, 1999/2000, 2000/ 01, 2001/ 02, 2002/ 03, 2003/ 04, 2004/ 05, 2005/ 06, 2006/ 07, 2007/ 08, 2008/ 09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 2013/14

Team 2009 World Championships, European Championships 2011

André Rieu, Gloria Estefan, Thunderdome, Tina Turner, TOTO, Trance Energy, UB40, Whitney Houston

Track Records

The Thialf one of the fastest speed skating track in the world.

Women

Not or not played in international competition.

  • As of March 24, 2014
  • Sum of up to 500 m down broken individual routes (500, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters): 193.396 points
  • WB - world record

Not or not played in international competition.

  • As of March 24, 2014
  • Sum of up to 500 m down broken individual routes (500, 1000, 1500, 5000, 10000 meters): 178.623 points

Established world records

  • List of the most recent five set out in the Thialf indoor world records in speed skating.

Unofficial best.

Old Thialf Stadium

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With the construction of the third ice rink in the Netherlands started in 1966. Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands inaugurated the train one on 14 October 1967. In the winter season 1982/83 the East German Andrea Beautiful - Mitscherlich over 5000 meters world record run at the all-around championship with Europe 7.40,97. In multiplayer battle, they finished in first place and was European champion. With 177.669 points this has also been the first official world record in the summary as little more fight.

Not or not played in international competition.

  • As of September 18, 2013
  • Sum of down to 500 m broken individual routes (500, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters): 216.263 points

Not or not played in international competition.

  • As of September 18, 2013
  • Sum of down to 500 m broken individual routes (500, 1000, 1500, 5000, 10000 meters): 201.584 points
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