Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium

Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium
Construction

Location	Lake Placid, New York, United States
Capacity	30,000
Surface	Grass
Built	1939
Opened	1945 (football) 2003 (equestrian)
Tenants
1980 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

The Olympic Cauldron

Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium is an equestrian stadium in Lake Placid, New York, USA. The opening ceremonies to the 1980 Winter Olympics were organized in a temporary stadium built next to it, which held 30,000 spectators.

References

1980 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 78–81.

Winter Olympic stadiums

Stade Olympique de Chamonix (Chamonix 1924)
St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink (St. Moritz 1928)
James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink (Lake Placid 1932)
Große Olympiaschanze (Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936)
St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink (St. Moritz 1948)
Bislett Stadium (Oslo 1952)
Stadio Olimpico Del Ghiaccio (Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956)
Blyth Arena (Squaw Valley 1960)
Bergiselschanze (Innsbruck 1964)
Olympic Stadium (Grenoble 1968)
Makomanai Open Stadium (Sapporo 1972)
Bergiselschanze (Innsbruck 1976)
Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium (Lake Placid 1980)
Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium (Sarajevo 1984)
McMahon Stadium (Calgary 1988)
Théâtre des Cérémonies (Albertville 1992)
Lysgårdsbakken (Lillehammer 1994)
Nagano Olympic Stadium (Nagano 1998)
Rice-Eccles Stadium (Salt Lake City 2002)
Stadio Olimpico di Torino (Turin 2006)
BC Place (Vancouver 2010)
Fisht Olympic Stadium (Sochi 2014)
Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium (Pyeongchang 2018)
Beijing National Stadium (Beijing 2022)

Venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics

Intervales Ski-Hill Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex Cross Country Biathlon Center Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bob and Luge Run Olympic Center Arena James B. Sheffield Speed Skating Oval Whiteface Mountain

Coordinates: 44°15′47″N 73°57′53″W / 44.262937°N 73.964765°W / 44.262937; -73.964765

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