The Nabeul Bir Challouf Indoor Sports Complex is an
indoor sporting arena located in
Nabeul
Nabeul (; ; Tamazight: ⵏⴰⴱⴻⵍ) is a coastal town located in northeastern Tunisia, on the south coast of the Cape Bon peninsula and surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on both sides. It is the first seaside resort in Tunisia. It is know ...
,
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
, with a capacity of 5,000 spectators. It is the home of the
Tunisian basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
club
Stade Nabeulien
Stade Nabeulien is a Tunisian professional basketball club from Nabeul. The club competes in the Championnat National A. Notable players of the team include senior men's Tunisian national basketball team members Mohamed Hdidane, Nizar Knioua, ...
.
Events
The Nabeul Sports Complex was built specifically to host some of the
2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women
The 2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women(Arabic: 2005 بطولة العالم لكرة السلة للسيدات تحت 19 سنة) took place in Tunisia from 15 to 24 July 2005. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Feder ...
matches and also hosted many
2005 World Men's Handball Championship
The 2005 World Men's Handball Championship was the 19th team handball World Championship. It was played in Tunisia from 23 January to 6 February 2005.
The winner of the gold medal was Spain, Croatia took silver and France won the bronze.
Venu ...
matches. It has since became the home of the Stade Nabeulien Basketball team.
The complex is used for other sports, including
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
,
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
,
wrestling
Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...
,
karate
(; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ), also , is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tī'' in Okinawan) un ...
,
judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...
and
taekwondo
Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...
and also hosts politics events and concerts.
See also
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List of indoor arenas in Tunisia
The following is a list of indoor arenas in Tunisia, with a capacity of at least 1,000 spectators. Most of the arenas in this list have multiple uses such as individual sports, team sports as well as cultural events and political events.
Curren ...
References
External links
Some photos
Indoor arenas in Tunisia
Basketball venues in Tunisia
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