René-Hologne stadium, Municipal stadium in Vesoul, France
René-Hologne stadium is a multi-sports ground on rue Pierre-de-Coubertin in Vesoul. It has a synthetic football pitch 105 by 68 metres, a second synthetic pitch, and an athletics track with eight jump areas and four throwing areas. The 2006 main stand, designed by Philippe Thouveny, seats over 1,000 and is built of water-repellent concrete with a three-dimensional frame and laminated glass railings.
Laid out in the 1920s as the stade des Allées, it took its present name around 1950 in honour of René Hologne, mayor of Vesoul in 1941-1942, Resistance member and president of the Racing-Club Vésulien, who died in deportation in 1944. A first stand was built in 1963; a 400-metre athletics track, a timing tower (1995) and four 400-lux floodlight masts followed in 1986. The synthetic pitch was renewed in 2003 and 2018, and the concrete tribune honneur by architect Philippe Thouveny was added in 2006.
The stadium is named after René Hologne, mayor of Vesoul in 1941-1942 and a Resistance member who died in deportation in 1944; he had presided over the Racing-Club Vésulien in the 1930s. The honour stand built in 2006 bears the inscription "Vesoul" on its seats. The athletics club Groupe Athlétique Haut-Saônois, based here, once counted wheelchair racer Julien Casoli, T54 world, European and French champion, among its members.
The stadium is on rue Pierre-de-Coubertin in the Stade district, about a kilometre east of Vesoul town centre, next to the English garden and the Durgeon river. A 350-space car park adjoins it, and buses on lines 1, 7 and D9 of the VBus network stop nearby. The site sits within a larger sports complex with tennis courts and other pitches.
The stadium is named after René Hologne, mayor of Vesoul in 1941-1942 and a Resistance member who died in deportation in 1944; he had presided over the Racing-Club Vésulien in the 1930s. The ground was first called stade des Allées, after the nearby Allées Neuves promenade laid out in 1770.
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