Centre sportif des Courtilles

Centre sportif d'Asnières-sur-Seine, commonly known as Centre sportif des Courtilles, is a multisports facility located in the Paris suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
It is part of the Cité des Courtilles, a social housing residential area located in the northern part of Asnières,[4] which also includes a shopping district, Centre commercial des Courtilles,[5] and used to include an eponymous school.[4]

Centre sportif des Courtilles
Full nameCentre sportif d'Asnières-sur-Seine
Address1 boulevard Pierre de Coubertin
LocationAsnières-sur-Seine, France
Public transitAsnières-Genevilliers–Les Courtilles
Tramways in Île-de-France Île-de-France tramway Line 1
Surface27,650 m2[1]
Construction
Built1962[2]–1975[3] (core facilities)
Years active1964–present

The project's first phase, in the early 1960s, consisted of a gymnasium and a swimming pool. It was stretched to the south in the early 1970s with the construction of an ice rink. A tennis park was built in its center in the mid-1970s.[4]
A boxing gym, a fencing hall, an archery range and a soccer training pitch were later fit out in the complex's facilities.[6]

Piscine et gymnase des Courtilles
Piscine et gymnase des Courtilles
Main venueGymnase des Courtilles
Capacity:
625 (seated)
800 (total)[2]
Other sports facilitiesPiscine Franck Esposito
Construction
Opened27 November 1964
(inauguration ceremony)[3]
ArchitectJean-Claude Dondel and Roger Dhuit[4]
Main contractorsGroupement Rheims et Debout
Tenants
Asnières Volley 92

The northern part of the Sports Center consists of two adjoining buildings, which together formed the first phase of the development.[4]

Gymnase des Courtilles

The gymnasium is the home court for five-time French volleyball Champions Asnières Volley 92, which also acted as the volleyball section of Paris Saint-Germain between the 1992–93 and 1994–95 seasons. During those years, the team split its games between Gymnase des Courtilles and Halle Georges Carpentier in Paris.[7]

Piscine Franck Esposito

The aquatic center opened to the public in the summer of 1964. A formal inauguration ceremony was held in November of that year, attended by Olympic medallist Christine Caron and ministers Maurice Herzog and Christian Fouchet.[8] Initially just called Piscine des Courtilles, it underwent an extensive renovation in 2003, expanding it from two to four pools ranging from a paddling area to a 25-metre pool. On that occasion, it took the name of FINA World Championship and Olympic medallist Franck Esposito.[9]

Ice rink
Patinoire olympique
d'Asnières-sur-Seine
Capacity1421 (seated)
2239 (total)[10]
Field size60 × 30 metre
Opened19 October 1970[3]
Tenants
Castors d'Asnières (1972–present)

Patinoire olympique d'Asnières-sur-Seine, commonly known as Patinoire des Courtilles, is a multisports venue located in the southern part of the Centre sportif des Courtilles. It is named after and primarily known for its main hall which houses the city's permanent ice rink, although other activities are hosted by the venue's secondary facilities.
Plans for the new building were approved in 1966[4] and it opened in 1970.[2] It features a 60 × 30 metre Olympic-sized track, with seating for 1,421 spectators. It is the home ice for semi-professional ice hockey team Castors d'Asnières.
It hosted the French Figure Skating Championships on three occasions (1976, 1982 and 2003), in addition to hosting the French Ice Dancing Championships in 1973, when the event was still held as a standalone fixture. It also hosted the French Short Track Speed Skating Championships in 1999.[11]

Boxing

The ice rink building also houses a boxing gym, managed by the local Asnières Boxing Club, a member of the French Boxing Federation. In June 2014, former cruiserweight World Champion Jean-Marc Mormeck fought the first fight of his short-lived comeback in the main hall of the Patinoire olympique.[12]

Tennis des Courtilles

Following the ice rink's entry into service, the outdoor area between it and the swimming pool/gymnasium to the north was set aside for tennis. The new Tennis des Courtilles was inaugurated on 27 September 1975.[3]
Originally designed for eight courts featuring both carpet (Matéflex) and clay, the facility was converted to a low-maintenance asphalt surface in the mid-1980s,[4] and scaled back to two courts with the remaining area used for a recreational synthetic soccer pitch.[6]

References
  1. "Centre Sportif des Courtilles". gymnase.fr. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  2. Bilan de l'activité des sous-commissions (PDF) (Report). Commission consultative départementale de sécurité des Hauts-de-Seine. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. Répertoire numérique de la série I – police, hygiène publique, justice (Report). Ville d'Asnières-sur-Seine. December 1998. p. 4. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  4. Répertoire numérique de la série M – édifices communaux, monuments et édifices publics (Report). Ville d'Asnières-sur-Seine. January 1999. pp. 40, 75–79. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  5. E.P. (19 April 2002). "La ministre du Logement en campagne dans le quartier nord". leparisien.fr. Groupe Amaury. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  6. "Ensemble des équipements sportifs d'Île-de-France". iledefrance.fr. Conseil régional d'Île-de-France. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  7. "Volleyball : saison 1992 – 1993". paris-canalhistorique.com. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  8. "Asnières, une ville d'eau". ASnières-sur-Seine : histoire et patrimoine. City of Asnières-sur-Seine. 2009. pp. 104–105.
  9. "Un champion inaugure la piscine d'Asnières". leparisien.fr. Groupe Amaury. 23 November 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  10. "Historique – Asnières". hockeyfrance.com. Fédération Française de Hockey sur Glace. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  11. "Historique des Titres". short-track.fr. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  12. Horbez, Maxime (26 June 2014). "Jean-Marc Mormeck vs Tamas Lodi : Mormeck soigne son retour". melty.fr. EEPLE. Retrieved 10 January 2022.

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