Stade Maurice Trélut, Sports stadium in Tarbes, France
Stade Maurice Trélut is the rugby ground of the Tarbes sports complex in the Ormeau-Figarol district. Its main stadium has one large all-seater main stand housing the club facilities, two other seated stands and an area of terracing, with a sweeping dark roof carried on thin vertical poles above green lower seats and a red band. A smaller single-stand stadium with 1,200 seats and standing areas on three sides serves football.
The stadium has been the home ground of Stado Tarbes Pyrénées rugby since 1969, after hosting Stadoceste tarbais matches until that club merged with CA Lannemezan in 2000. It is named after Maurice Trélut, a former Stadoceste player and the first president of the Armagnac-Bigorre committee in 1912, later mayor of Tarbes from 1935 to 1944, who died in deportation at Buchenwald in February 1945 and was named Righteous Among the Nations by Israel.
The stadium has been the home of Stado Tarbes Pyrénées rugby since 1969, and its name honours Maurice Trélut, a former Stadoceste player who was the first president of the Armagnac-Bigorre committee in 1912. Trélut, mayor of Tarbes from 1935 to 1944, died in deportation at Buchenwald in February 1945 and was named Righteous Among the Nations by Israel for putting Jews in touch with the director and nuns of the Tarbes hospital; his name is inscribed at the Yad Vashem memorial.
The complex sits in the Ormeau-Figarol district of Tarbes and holds all-weather training pitches, an indoor sports hall, tennis courts, social club buildings and parking areas. The main rugby ground has one large all-seater main stand housing the club facilities, two other seated stands and one area of terracing; the smaller football ground has a single 1,200-seat stand with standing room on the other three sides.
The stadium hosted an international youth rugby championship match between France and Ireland in 2014. This event demonstrated the venue's role in welcoming major sporting competitions beyond domestic fixtures.
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