Olympiastützpunkt Westfalen, Olympic training center in Dortmund, Germany.
The Olympiastützpunkt Westfalen is a support and service facility for elite athletes and coaches, headquartered at Strobelallee 60A in Dortmund, near the Signal Iduna Park. It covers 28 Olympic sports and eight Paralympic disciplines, with additional sites in Bochum, Kamen, Warendorf, Münster and Winterberg. Its Dortmund sports centres include the Eissportzentrum Westfalen, a rowing performance centre, a shooting performance centre and the Helmut-Körnig-Halle.
Olympic training centres were set up in 1987 in conurbations with good sports facilities or sports-science institutes. The Westphalia centre itself dates from 1994, when the Ruhr-Ost and Warendorf Münsterland centres merged. On 1 January 2019 its sponsorship passed to the Landessportbund NRW, and the Dortmund site has been called Olympiastützpunkt NRW/Westfalen im Landessportbund NRW e.V. since then.
The center's name links it to the Landessportbund NRW, which has run all three NRW Olympic training centers since 1 January 2019; the Dortmund site is led by Thomas Friedhoff. It also works with elite sport schools, including the Sportinternat Dortmund at the WIHOGA and the NRW-Sportschule Dortmund, and with the Winterberg boarding school.
The headquarters is at Strobelallee 60A in Dortmund, next to the Signal Iduna Park; further training centres in the city are the Eissportzentrum Westfalen, the rowing and shooting performance centres and the Helmut-Körnig-Halle. Sections also exist in Bochum, Kamen, Warendorf, Münster and Winterberg. The service is aimed at squad athletes and coaches, not at general visitors.
The center's headquarters sits at Strobelallee 60A, right next to Signal Iduna Park, and it also runs facilities at the ice sports center, the rowing performance center, the shooting center and the Helmut-Körnig-Halle. Thomas Friedhoff leads the site, which has been run by the Landessportbund NRW since 1 January 2019.
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