OREANDA-NEWS. May 23, 2013. In the frames of a working visit to Donetsk region a Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko has visited the Olympiyskyi sport complex where reconstruction activities are being completed.

Now the sport complex is the base for preparation of Ukrainian track and field athletes. Besides, during holding the World Championship in athletics which is to start in July, the stadium will become the main sport arena where the majority of events will take place.

During the World Championship in Donetsk on July 10-14 there will be played 120 sets of awards. It is planned that the miners’ capital will be attended by around 2 thousand sportsmen from 190 countries and a huge number of officials and representatives of international media. Entrance to all the events of the Championship will be free of charge. 

“In whole I am satisfied with gearing-up the stadium to the Championship. I consider Donetsk can win the right to become a European sport capital,” Kostyantyn Gryshchenko emphasized.

It should be noted that the sport complex was built fifty years ago. In various years there were held significant events on the stadium. There was European Championship in athletics among juniors and International match meetings between USSR and USA, USSR and German Democratic Republic in 1977. And in 1985 there was set a world record in high jump on the Olympiyskyi. Now the repair activities are being winded up on the stadium with UAH 38 mln spent. The sport complex’s readiness is 99%.