Sports Complex Meteor ( uk, Спортивний комплекс Метеор, translit=Sportynvyi kompleks Meteor) is the biggest center of sports and cultural live in

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

, Ukraine. The complex is a home to the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status ''national'' since October 10, 2001. Meteor belongs to the State Company "Production Union Southern Machine-building Factory of Makarov" ( Yuzhmash) and Sports Club Meteor. Sports Club Meteor was established in 1962.

Composition

Dvorec vodnih vidov sporta Meteor Dnepropetrovsk

The complex includes: *

Stadium Meteor Meteor Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Dnipro, Ukraine. It is part of the Sports Complex Meteor and is a home of the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status ''national''. Overview It is used for various Olympic sports and ...

(1966) * Palace of water sports Meteor (1970, main pool) * Ice Palace of Sports Meteor (1980) * Machine-builder water sports facility (1958) is located in a remote location (Shevchenko City Park, Monastyrskyi Island) The Meteor is home to five

sports school A sports school (russian: Детско-Юношеская Спортивная Школа, ДЮСШ) is a type of educational institution for children that originated in the Soviet Union. Sports schools were the basis of the powerful system of ph ...

s four of which are the Olympic reserves and another one is a complex school that specialized in six sports.

SC Meteor Presidents

* 1962–1982: Anatoliy Haiduk * 1982–1986: Yuriy Olkhovyk * 1986–2009: Konstantin Vavilov * 2009–present: Olga Dengina

Notable sports people

* Lyudmila Shevtsova – Olympian champion in

athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres The women's 800 metres middle distance event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 6 and September 7. This was the return of the event for the first time since 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriol ...

* Yury Zaitsev – Olympian champion in

weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics The weightlifting competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. The clean and press was dropped from the included lifts after the 1972 games in Munich, due to disagreement over proper for ...

* Oksana Baiul – Olympian champion in

figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics figure skating competition was held at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre. Qualifying As the host country, Norway automatically qualified spots to the 1994 Olympics. In 1992, however, the Norwegian Olympic Committee announc ...

Yevhen Braslavets Yevhen Anatoliyovych Braslavets ( uk, Євген Анатолійович Браславець; born 11 September 1972 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 class at t ...

and

Ihor Matviyenko Ihor Matviyenko (born May 17, 1971 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, together with Yevhen Braslavets. He also competed ...

– Olympian champions in sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 470

External links

Official website
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