Tašmajdan Stadium
| Taš | |
| Full name | Tašmajdan Sports and Recreation Center |
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Belgrade,  Serbia
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| Owner | City of Belgrade |
| Operator | J.P. SRC Tašmajdan |
| Type | sports and recreation center |
| Capacity | 10,500 (football) 5,878 (basketball) 2,000 (ice hockey) ... |
| Opened | 1954 |
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| www.tasmajdan.rs | |
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| Coordinates | 44°48′33.08″N 20°28′21.73″E / 44.8091889°N 20.4727028°E | ||||||||||
| Capacity | 2,500 | ||||||||||
| Opened | 25 June 1961 | ||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 44°48′32.87″N 20°28′23.55″E / 44.8091306°N 20.4732083°E | |||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 2,000 | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 13 December 1968 | |||||||||||||||
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Tašmajdan Sports and Recreation Center (Tašmajdan SRC; Serbian: Спортско-рекреациони центар Ташмајдан (СРЦ Ташмајдан) / Sportsko-rekreacioni centar Tašmajdan (SRC Tašmajdan)), commonly known simply as Taš (Serbian Cyrillic: Таш; Taš literally: Tash), is a sporting and recreational center located in the city of Belgrade, Serbia, which was founded by the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in 1958. At within the center located of the outdoor Tašmajdan Stadium, the Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, the Pionir Ice Hall and a complex of outdoor and indoor swimming pools.
Built with white stone from Brač island, and opened on 24 January 1954, by mid 2000s the stadium began showing signs of structural deterioration. Architect Mihajlo Janković, was awarded the Belgrade's October award for architecture, the highest city award at the time, for the Tašmajdan project. Originally, the sports complex started as the ice factory, where people could by the so-called "hygienic ice".
Some of the best known happenings in the venue include: EuroBasket Women 1954, first Miss Yugoslavia contest in 1957 (won by Tonka Katunarić), 1957 World Women's Handball Championship (the inaugural world women championship), concerts of Alexandrov Ensemble in 1958 and later in the 1960s and 1970s of Mazowsze, Elton John, Ray Charles and Tina Turner and ice hockey matches with over 10,000 spectators. Yugoslav national tennis team played the Davis Cup matches in 1956 in Tašmajdan and the curiosities held in the facility include the chess with live figures, the football matches played by the Zastava 750 cars and the first Spanish corrida in Europe outside of Spain, when Luis Miguel Dominguín performed. Tašmajdan hosted the first FINA World Aquatics Championships in 1973.
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