Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre
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| Location | Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Coordinates | 33°51′18″S 151°4′5″E / 33.85500°S 151.06806°ECoordinates: 33°51′18″S 151°4′5″E / 33.85500°S 151.06806°E |
| Owner | States Sport Centre Trust |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Surface | Synthetic |
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| Opened | March 1998 |
| Construction cost | A$ 15.5m |
| Architect | Ancher Mortlock Wooley |
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Hockey NSW New South Wales Waratahs (AHL) (1998-present) New South Wales Arrows (AHL) (1998-present) |
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The Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre, also known as the State Hockey Centre of New South Wales is a multi-use stadium in Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1998 as part of Sydney Olympic Park sporting complex, having held matches for the field hockey events at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Its current capacity is 8,000 people, with seating capacity for 4,000. For the Sydney Olympic Games capacity was boosted to 15,000 through the use of temporary stands.
The Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre is a premier field hockey facility, with the governing body of hockey in New South Wales, Hockey NSW being based there. The Sydney representatives of both the male and female versions of the semi professional Australian Hockey League, the New South Wales Waratahs and the New South Wales Arrows both play their home games at the stadium. The stadium also hosted the field hockey at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in which the Kookaburras, the men's Australian national hockey team, won the bronze medal, and the Hockeyroos, the woman's Australian national hockey team won the gold medal for the third consecutive time.
At the Sydney Paralympic games in 2000, the Paralympic football 5 and 7-a-side games were played at the stadium. Other sports such as gridiron, touch football, Oztag and lacrosse have all been played at the stadium. The stadium has also been hired out by schools who require such a facility.
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