The Esbjerg Athletic Stadium (), is an athletics stadium located within Esbjerg Idrætspark in

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport city and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban area, urban population of 71,554 (1 January ...

, Denmark.

History

The Esbjerg Idrætspark (sports park) was founded in 1926 and a football pitch, with a running track and area for shot put, high jump, pole vault and long jump, opened on 22 September 1929. In 1948, Esbjerg Athletic Stadium was constructed and opened inside the sports park. Meanwhile, during 1951, the reconstruction of the football stadium began. A

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track was located around the centre arena of the athletics stadium between 1951 and 1969 and it was the venue for final of the

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in 1960, 1966 and 1968. In 1983, the athletics club built a clubhouse and two years later the cinder track was converted into a synthetic surface. In 1993, it became Denmark's first eight lane athletics track.

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