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Ginásio do Maracanãzinho

Maracanãzinho Gymnasium
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Maracanãzinho
Maracanãzinho.jpg
Exterior view of the Maracanãzinho, November 2007
Full name Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso
Location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Coordinates 22°54′50.08″S 43°13′45.60″W / 22.9139111°S 43.2293333°W / -22.9139111; -43.2293333Coordinates: 22°54′50.08″S 43°13′45.60″W / 22.9139111°S 43.2293333°W / -22.9139111; -43.2293333
Owner Superintendência de Desportos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Capacity 11,800
(Futsal)
Record attendance 35,000
(1954 FIBA World Championship Medal Round match: USA – Brazil 62–41)
Field size 40x20 m
Surface 800m²
Construction
Broke ground April 1954
Opened September 24, 1954
Renovated October 2003 – June 30, 2004
2007
Closed October 2003
Reopened June 30, 2004
Construction cost 97 million R$
(2003 renovations)
Architect Galvão, Bastos, Azevedo and Carneiro, Herzog & de Meuron (restoration)
Main contractors Prolar S.A.
Odebrecht (restoration)
Tenants
Brazil women's national volleyball team
Flamengo Basketball (NBB) (2008–2009)

Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso (Portuguese: Ginásio do Maracanãzinho), sometimes called just Maracanãzinho ("Little Maracanã" or "Mini Maracanã"), is an indoor arena located in Maracanã in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is used mostly for volleyball. Its formal name, Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso, honors a former Clube de Regatas do Flamengo president. The capacity of the arena is 11,800 and it was opened in 1954. It stands next to the Maracanã Stadium.

Maracanãzinho's construction started on April 13, 1954 and lasted for only five months. It was built by Construtora Prolar S.A. The architects were Rafael Galvão, Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos, Orlando Azevedo and Antônio Dias Carneiro, the engineer was Joaquim Cardoso.

The gymnasium was inaugurated on September 24, 1954, with that year's Men's Basketball World Championship, for which it had a capacity for 25,000 spectators. The arena also hosted the 1963 event of the same competition, with the home team, coached by Kanela taking the gold medal, its second Men's Basketball World Championship in a row.

During the 1950s and the 1960s, the Miss Guanabara and Miss Brasil beauty pageants were held in Maracanãzinho.

During the 1960s and the 1970s several national and international music festivals were held in the gymnasium.

The 1960 and 1990 Men's Volleyball World Championship was held in Maracanãzinho.

At the age of 32, Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira became the first female singer to fill the Maracanãzinho Gymnasium in 1981.


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