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Federal state unitary enterprise Sport South

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The Federal State Unitary Enterprise Southern Federal Sport Training Centre (Sport South) was established in April 2006 and reports to the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy.

Sport South is the only multi-functional centre for training national teams for summer and winter sport disciplines in Southern Russia. The complex provides full-cycle training for athletes and, owing to the unique climate in the city of Sochi, can operate year round.

The centre has complete facilities for:

• training and orientation camps in track and field, yachting, weight-lifting, football, rugby, cycling and archery;

• general physical training and rehabilitation camps for boxing, taekwondo, judo, track-and-field and for winter sports such as bobsled, skeleton, short track, skating, figure skating, freestyle, sled sports (sled and naturbahn), downhill skiing and snowboard;

• orientation camps for paralympic teams in the following disciplines: sport for the deaf (track and field), sport for the blind (judo, football), football for cerebral palsy sufferers, sport for locomotor impairment (track and field, biathlon).

In addition, Sport South is the largest venue in the south of the country for amateur sport and physical fitness and recreation events.

Sport South includes the following team sport, physical education and recreation facilities:

• the central stadium (opened in 1966), 10,200 capacity;

• weight-lifting centre (opened in August, 2009);

• yachting club (operating since 1980); harbor with an area of 10,500 sq m, 50 yacht capacity;

• hotel complex including the Parus Hotel equipped for disabled people in wheelchairs.

In 2009, Sport South hosted 59 training orientation camps in 15 sports. In 2010, the centre provides services for 26 summer and winter sports federations, it has organised 42 competitions of various levels.