English Institute of Sport, Sheffield

(Redirected from EIS Sheffield) Multi-sport facility in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

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The English Institute of Sport is a multi-sport facility in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The facility designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects was opened in December 2003 at a cost of £24 million. Its main feature is a 200m indoor track, but it also hosts several other sporting arenas as well as a large gym and extensive sports medicine facilities. It is in the Lower Don Valley between the Sheffield Arena and Don Valley Bowl. It is managed by SIV (Sheffield International Venues).

Sports

The facility is the training venue of choice for a number of sports including athletics, basketball, boxing, fencing, futsal, judo, netball, table tennis and volleyball.

There are many clubs which meet at the venue including City of Sheffield Athletic Club, Sheffield Sharks, Sheffield Futsal Club, Sheffield Sword Club, Concorde Netball Club, England Netball, and England Volleyball, as well as hosting snooker's main professional academy. The centre also often hosts sports days for local secondary schools.

History

The venue hosted the European Indoor Trials & UK Championships (athletics) between 14 – 15 February 2009. They also hosted the European Fencing championships in July 2011.

Since 2008, the venue has hosted qualifying matches for the World Snooker Championship, with the main stages held in the nearby Crucible Theatre. Qualifying matches, previously held in Prestatyn, typically took place between late February and early March but are now held in April. Since 2010 the EIS also hosted qualifying matches to snooker tournaments as well as all the now defunctPTC events.

The EIS-Sheffield was used by British Athletes to train for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In February 2015, it was announced that the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield would be incorporated into the Olympic Legacy Park on the site of the old Don Valley Stadium.

The venue was one of the three selected to host matches in the 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.

References

"AVIVA Indoor Athletics - European Trials and UK Championships". Event Sheffield. 2008. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
"European Fencing Championships 2011 incorporating the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships 2011". UK Sport. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
"High profile additions made to Olympic Legacy Park in Sheffield".
"RLWC coming to more venues than ever before". Rugby League World Cup 2021. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.

External links

Official Site
City of Sheffield AC website Archived 18 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine
England Basketball website
Amateur Boxing Association of England website
Sheffield Sword Club website
England Netball website

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v t e 2021 Rugby League World Cup venues
Men's and Women's*	Bolton - University of Bolton Stadium Coventry - Coventry Building Society Arena Doncaster - Eco-Power Stadium Huddersfield - John Smith's Stadium Hull - MKM Stadium‡ Leeds - Elland Road Leeds - Headingley‡ Leigh - Leigh Sports Village London - Emirates Stadium Manchester - Old Trafford‡ Middlesbrough - Riverside Stadium Newcastle - Kingston Park Newcastle - St James' Park Sheffield - Bramall Lane St Helens - Totally Wicked Stadium Warrington - Halliwell Jones Stadium Wigan - DW Stadium‡ York - York Community Stadium†
Wheelchair	London - Copper Box Arena Manchester - Manchester Central Sheffield - English Institute of Sport
*unmarked: Men's RLWC only, ‡: Men's and Women's RLWC, †: Women's RLWC only

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