Sports Complex Meteor
Sports Complex Meteor (Ukrainian: Спортивний комплекс Метеор) is the biggest center of sports and cultural live in Dnipropetrovsk. The complex is a home to the Olympic and Paralympic teams of Ukraine with status national since October 10, 2001. Meteor belongs to the State Company "Production Union Southern Machine-building Factory of Makarov" (Yuzhmash) and Sports Club Meteor. Sports Club Meteor was established in 1962.
Composition
The complex includes:
- Stadium Meteor (1966)
- Palace of water sports Meteor (main pool)
- Ice Palace of Sports Meteor (1980)
- Machine-builder water sports facility (1958) is located in a remote location (Shevchenko City Park)
The Meteor is home to five sports schools four of which are the Olympic reserves and another one is a complex school that specialized in six sports.
SC Meteor Presidents
- 1962 - 1982 Anatoliy Haiduk
- 1982 - 1986 Yuriy Olkhovyk
- 1986 - 2009 Konstantin Vavilov
- 2009 - present Olga Dengina
Notable sports people
- Lyudmila Shevtsova - Olympian champion in athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres
- Yury Zaitsev - Olympian champion in weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Oksana Baiul - Olympian champion in figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Yevhen Braslavets and Ihor Matviyenko - Olympian champions in sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 470
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