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WINTER SPORTS FACILITIES

Winter sports facilities include facilities for skiing, toboggan, speed skating, ice hockey, ball hockey, figure skating, biathlon, bobsleigh, skeleton, snowboard, curling.

These include ice rinks and fields:

-for speed skating;

-ice hockey;

-figure skating;

-short track;

-curling;

-ball hockey;

-mass skating.

The standard size of the rink 30 × 60 m allows you to place a field for ice hockey, figure skating on an ice pad, short track or mass skating. It is recommended to make 6 m off height to bottom of structures. The ice structure may additionally have a small ice rink of 10 × 15 m or a large-size rink of 30 × 15 m.

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Structures of rinks with artificial ice are divided for training (without places for commercial spectator) and demonstration events for competition

venues and paid spectacular events. Training and demonstration rinks may be specialized or universal. Specialized skating rinks are intended for one sport. Universal rink structures are for alternate use for different types of sports (for figure skating, ice hockey, or short track, for ball hockey or mass skating, etc.). Universal sports equipment can be used not only for winter sports.

Demonstration facilities are divided into sports and demonstration rinks for sporting events only innovations and performances on ice, and multifunctional halls ice rinks for both ice, culture tour, mass and public events.

Multifunctional rink are designed universally transformable for alternating competitions innovations in various sports or cultural and spectacular or public events.

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Demonstration sports facilities by number of spectators fall into three categories:

-small ice rinks with the number of seats up to 2000 spectators;

-average ice rinks with a capacity from 2000 to 6000 spectators;

-multifunctional ice rinks with a capacity of more than

6000 spectators.

Halls of indoor skating rinks (ice rinks and fields) should be located on the ground floor with the entry of trucks.

In convenient connection with the rink, a room should be provided

for two machines of ice care sized 9 × 6.5 m, 3.9 m high. Openings for leaving the room to ice should have a height of not less than 2.4 m and a width of not less than 3.5 m.

Skating rinks with artificial ice and speed skating tracks cams shall include all engineering and technical rooms, required for ice surface creation: compressor for freon installations; channels for diverting water into the rain channel sewage.

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