Bağcılar Olympic Sport Hall () is ğcıa multi-purpose indoor sports complex with Olympic standards located in Bağcılar district of Istanbul, Turkey.

Its construction began in 1998 and the sport hall was inaugurated on March 20, 2001 in presence of the Belgian action films actor and former martial arts sportsman Jean-Claude Van Damme. The sports complex is owned by the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul. The main hall of the building is suitable for sports events such as basketball, volleyball, badminton, wrestling, handball, tennis, gymnastics, weightlifting, boxing, martial arts, fencing, table tennis and indoor soccer. It offers a seating capacity for 1,300 people. Additionally, there are also 8 halls for fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate, table tennis (2 halls), aerobics, gymnastics, weightlifting, boxing and wrestling. Its covered parking lot has a capacity of 800 cars.

Bağcılar Olympic Sport Hall

International sport events hosted

July 25–30, 2006 European U17 Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling Championships October 19–21, 2007 5th World Junior and Cadet Karate Championships October 22–25, 2007 European Junior Badminton Ranking Championship October 24–28, 2007 European U17 Badminton Team Championships September 8–11, 2011 The 1st and Greatest Asian Martial Arts Olympiad Competitions

Bağcılar Olympic Sport Hall

Architecture

The sports complex with the dimensions of is a mono bloc construction built on an area of having a total covered area of . The six-storey building is covered by a double-curved roof having the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid made in space frame system. The appearance of the building is a rectangular form in natural stone with a dome designed as two merging thin-shell structures rising up through it.

Bağcılar Olympic Sport Hall

References

External links

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

Sports venues in Istanbul

Indoor arenas in Turkey

Sports venues completed in 2001

Basketball venues in Turkey

Handball venues in Turkey

Bağcılar

2001 establishments in Turkey