The Hamou Boutlélis Sports Palace (), famously called Palais des Sports (), is an indoor sports

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located in

Oran Oran () is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria, after the capital, Algiers, because of its population and commercial, industrial and cultural importance. It is w ...

, Algeria. The official seating capacity of the arena is 5,000.

History

The hall was opened in December 1960 in Medina Jedida, a neighborhood of Oran under the

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period. It hosted many events, the most important were the 1988

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, the

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and the qualification tournament of the

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Sports hosted

Collective sports

Futsal, Handball, Basket-ball, Volley-ball.

Individual sports

Martial arts (Karate, Judo, Kickboxing ...etc.), Boxing, Gymnastic.

References

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