HIGH PERFORMANCE SPORTS CENTRE IN MONTEMOR-O-VELHO

TRAINING & TECHNICAL AREA

The High Performance Sports Centre in Montemor-o-Velho includes the Nautical Centre, anchored on the banks of the valley between Formoselha and Montemor, and the Athletics Track for the Triathlon training. This track, which is downstream on the right bank, reinforces the functional profile of the Padre Estêvão Cabral riverbed associated with sports practice and consolidates the articulation between the infrastructures supporting High Performance sport and the urban space of the town.

SUPPORT AREA

The state-of-the-art facilities are composed of a gym designed for High Performance training and equipped with the latest and best equipment to increase training performance; a jacuzzi that through its system of pumps and water jets allows muscle toning after exercise, reduces pain through the release of endorphins, and with temperatures starting at 38 degrees water exerts a relaxing feeling on the body that makes rest longer and more repairing.

SPECIFICATIONS

You can also count with a training room with capacity for 100 trainees and with multimedia equipment to guarantee the best conditions for training sessions. It has 100 chairs with writing tables, 10 retractable tables and a meeting table with chairs; 3 technical offices that can be used by coaches and managers to plan the training or to organise tournaments; a multipurpose room usually used as a catering area in the biggest events, placed on a highest level and with a balcony overlooking the track.

OTHER TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT

• Finish tower: located on the finish line of the nautical track, it is a spot for observation of the athletes, used by the judges to verify if the athletes are following the rules; it has a photo-finish system;
• 2 medical offices both equipped with an automated external defibrillator;
• 1 room for anti-doping control;
• Control tower at 200m, 500m and 1000m: the distances you can race in this nautical track, which has control towers at those distances;
• Cycle path and technical track: available along the nautical track, allowing the coach to follow the athletes along the 2000m;
• 16 hangars: of 24x6m each, to store boats and other materials, each having fixed L-shaped brackets and the possibility of placing removable brackets for the correct storage of boats;
• 3 catamarans with motor for 2 people each;
• Mechanical start system for canoeing;
• Buoys;
• Metallic structure;
• Pneumatic cables and compressors.