Text: Yangcheng Evening News, reporter Su Jing.
Photo courtesy of the venue.
Guangzhou ushered in the first real ice curling hall in South China! On the 9th, the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Pearl River Huanshizhen Ice Curling Hall was held in Hall 3 of the Guangzhou Gymnasium, and the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Curling Invitational Tournament then started, opening the curtain of the 10th National Public Ice and Snow Season in Guangdong. Ice and snow sports blossomed and bore fruit in the warm flower city, which means that Guangzhou is once again at the forefront of the "Arctic South Exhibition" strategy.
Xu Guoxun, second-level inspector of Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, Zhu Xiaoyi, deputy secretary general of Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, Fang Xudong, deputy director of Guangzhou Sports Bureau, Chi Jun, chairman of Guangzhou Zhujiang Industrial Group, and armin harder, chairman of the World Curling Tour, attended the opening ceremony of the curling hall.
Jointly built by Zhujiang Culture and Sports and World Curling Group, this real curling hall has three competitive tracks with international standards, two of which are standard tracks, one is a practice track, and the standard track is 45 45 meters, the practice track is 32 4 meters, the ice surface area reaches 600 square meters. Many citizens and tourists who have experienced it at the scene shouted "fun" and "enjoyable".
It is understood that the curling hall is equipped with fully automatic temperature control technology and professional and standardized team protection, which can meet the functional needs of event competition, professional training and mass sports, and has the professional ability to carry the training base of the Guangdong team, the formation and training of the Guangzhou team, and the ice and snow sports culture display base of primary and secondary schools in the city, so as to provide the citizens of South China with a real curling experience of international competition standards.
At the launching ceremony, the Guangdong Ice and Snow Sports Association awarded the plaque of the Curling Professional Committee of the Guangdong Ice and Snow Sports Association to the Guangzhou Zhujiang Huanshizhen Ice Curling Hall, and the first curling professional committee of the Guangdong Ice and Snow Sports Association was established. Li Chaozuo, Chairman of Pearl River Culture and Sports, and Ning Qi, President of Glacier Bay Ice and Snow, jointly represented the Pearl River Huanshizhen Ice Curling Stadium on stage and signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Hong Kong Curling Association of China and the Guangzhou Baiyun District Curling Development School, and the Affiliated Primary School of Guangzhou Peiying Middle School, respectively, which will strengthen the role of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as the main venue of the 2025 National Games and comprehensively promote the popularization of youth ice and snow sports in Guangzhou.
After the launching ceremony, Pearl River Culture and Sports, Guangdong Ice and Snow Sports Association, and Guangzhou Glacier Bay Real Ice Skating Sports*** co-hosted the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Curling Invitational Tournament, officially kicking off the 10th National Mass Ice and Snow Season Guangdong Station. Four professional curling teams, namely Hong Kong JUST Curling Club, Hong Kong Jinshang Road Curling Club, Pearl River World Curling Team and Guangzhou Glacier Bay Curling Team, competed on the same stage.