Sapporo Dome
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The Sapporo Dome (札幌ドーム Sapporo Dōmu?) is a stadium in Sapporo, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball and football (soccer), and is the home field of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in baseball and Consadole Sapporo in football.
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Sapporo Dome opened in 2001 and holds 42,831 people. This stadium hosted some games during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
The Dome hosted the opening ceremonies to the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on February 22 and hosted the closing ceremonies of the championships on March 4. It also made history as being the first venue where both indoor and nighttime skiing events took place for the the first time on a world championship or Winter Olympic Games level with competitions in the cross country skiing sprints (men's and women's individual, and men's and women's team) and the cross country portion of the 7.5 km sprint event in the nordic combined. In order to generate snow, the stadium will use its turf conversion hovering system to facilitate the snow making process for the skiing competitions.[1] The opening ceremony featured Maki Ohguro, a local artist from Sapporo, a Japanese drum performance, other performances paying traditions to local customs.[2] For the championships, seating capacity will be reduced to 30,000.[3]
The cross country individual sprints took place on February 22, 2007 with victories going to Jens Arne Svartedal (men's) and Astrid Jacobsen (women's), both from Norway[4]. The cross country team sprints and the cross country portion of the nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event took place on February 23, 2007 with the men's team sprint going to the Italian duo of Renato Pasini and Cristian Zorzi,[5] the women's team sprint going to the Finnish duo of Riitta-Liisa Roponen and Virpi Kuitunen,[6] and the nordic combined 7.5 km sprint going to Finland's Hannu Manninen.[7]
Perhaps the Dome's most unusual feature is that it has two entirely different playing surfaces. Baseball games are played on an artificial turf field, while football games are held on a grass pitch that slides into and out of the stadium as needed. Some other stadiums that feature sliding pitches are the Gelredome in the Netherlands, Veltins-Arena in Germany and University of Phoenix Stadium in the United States; however, unlike these three facilities, the Sapporo Dome has a fixed roof.
[edit] Details
- Name: Sapporo Dome ("Hiroba")
- Capacity: 42,831
- Home Teams: Consadole Sapporo, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
- Completed: March 2001
- Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan
- Building Area: 53,800 m² Total Floor Area:(Open Arena) 97,503 m²
- Roof Diameter: 245 m Stand Inclination: Max. 30° angle
[edit] See also
Other domed stadiums in Japan:
- Ōita Stadium or "Big Eye" in Oita Prefecture
[edit] References
- ^ FIS Newsflash Edition 112. January 31, 2007.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Eurosport.com victories for Svartedal and Jacobsen - Accessed February 22, 2007.
- ^ Eurosport.com report on Italy's victory - Accessed February 23, 2007.
- ^ Eurosport.com news on Finland's win - Accessed February 23, 2007.
- ^ Eurosport.com results on Manninen's win - Accessed February 23, 2007.
[edit] External links
- (English) Dome website
- (English) Football Stadium in Japan - Sapporo Dome
| Venues of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan | |
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| Busan | Daegu | Daejeon | Gwangju | Incheon | Jeju | Jeonju | Seoul | Suwon | Ulsan | |
| Japan | |
| Kashima | Kobe | Miyagi | Niigata | Ōita | Osaka | Saitama | Sapporo | Shizuoka | Yokohama | |
