Medway Park
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Medway Park is the area’s new flagship multi-sport facility and has been approved as a pre-Games training camp venue for 13 Olympic sports. These are:
It has also been approved for eight Paralympic sports including:
The creation of Medway’s regional centre of sporting excellence is an £11million project, including £5million from the Thames Gateway and £3million from the University of Kent at Medway. The plans are designed to deliver benefits both for 2012 and beyond. They will benefit the sporting elite and the community at large and meet the needs of the burgeoning Universities at Medway campus and the new Mid-Kent College development. The first phase in this ambitious scheme centres on the site of the existing Black Lion Leisure Centre, where work is already well underway. |
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By 2009, Medway Park will offer:
a new purpose-built 12-court sports hall suitable for national competitions;
a new gymnastics centre alongside the existing Jumpers Rebound Centre, so that Medway can offer world-class training and facilities in all gymnastic sports;
a new eight-lane athletics track;
a dedicated martial arts centre;
a 25m swimming pool;
weights, strength and conditioning facilities;
100-station health and fitness facility;
a new sports science and sports therapy suite.
Medway Park can also offer the following ancillary facilities to support a pre-Olympic training camp:
a conference room with audio-visual playback equipment;
fully-intergrated disabled access and changing rooms;
secure, lockable storage;
doping control area;
private team office;
medical treatment room;
rest area.
Medway Council's Portfolio Holder for Community Services, Cllr Howard Doe, said: "This is an exciting phase in our project to develop the growth of sport in Medway. We want to encourage young people to participate in sport and Medway Park will raise their aspirations."
Medway Park will be hosting the Modern Pentathlon World Cup in 2010 and is one of only nine training camp facilities for modern pentathlon to be selected by London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
Medway Park forms an integral part of Chatham's bid to become a World Heritage SIte. For more information on the bid, visit www.chathamworldheritage.org.uk.
Location
Medway Park (formerly known as the Black Lion Leisure Centre)
Mill Road
Gillingham
Kent ME7 1HF