Sportforum Hohenschönhausen

Sportforum Hohenschönhausen is a multi-purpose sports complex in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, Germany, that includes facilities for speed skating, athletics, cycling, and other sports.

Ice sports arena

A 400 m speed skating indoor arena opened on 17 November 1986 and was the first covered speed skating oval in the world, one day prior to Thialf in Heerenveen which hosted the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men later that season. There is another hall that is primarily used for ice hockey which was the home arena of Eisbären Berlin. That arena has a seating capacity for 4,695 people.

Speed skating track records

• 500 m (m): 34.85; Jeremy Wotherspoon, 14 March 2003
• 500 m (w): 37.52; Jenny Wolf, 6 November 2009
• 1000 m (m): 1:08.53; Shani Davis, 6 November 2009
• 1000 m (w): 1:15.04; Christine Nesbitt, 11 March 2012
• 1500 m (m): 1:44.47; Shani Davis, 8 November 2009
• 1500 m (w): 1:54:88; Jorien ter Mors, 8 December 2013
• 3000 m (m): 3:46.17; Håvard Bøkko, 25 October 2008
• 3000 m (w): 4:00.75; Martina Sáblíková, 6 November 2009
• 5000 m (m): 6:09.76; Sven Kramer, 17 November 2006
• 5000 m (w): 6:59.26; Martina Sáblíková, 10 February 2008
• 10000 m (m): 13:09.06; Sven Kramer, 10 February 2008
• team pursuit (m): 3:40.79; Netherlands, 19 November 2006
• team pursuit (w): 3:01.03; Canada, 11 March 2012

Stadium

The Dynamo Stadium at the Sportforum

Football club Berliner FC Dynamo plays its home matches at the Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum located onsite. Built in 1970, it has a capacity of 10,000 spectators (~2,000 seats). The stadium was renovated in 2005–06 to include fences and player tunnels required to meet security standards.

See also

• SC Dynamo Berlin
• SV Dynamo

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sportforum Hohenschönhausen.

• DESG
• skatebase.com

External links

• Sportforum Berlin - City of Berlin (German)

Coordinates: 52°32′26″N 13°28′58″E / 52.540645°N 13.482837°E / 52.540645; 13.482837