Pre-Games training
Welcome to Medway, the ideal training base for Olympic and
Paralympic teams ahead of the London 2012 Games.
Medway, located in England's south-east and just 30 minutes from
Olympic Park, is home to some of the UK’s top specialist sporting
facilities.
It offers five facilities that have been approved by LOCOG as
official Pre Games Training Camps for 16 Olympic sports and eight
Paralympic sports.
The jewel in the crown of these facilities is Medway Park,
Medway's new government-funded Centre of Sporting Excellence.
Medway Park can officially cater for 13 Olympic sports on one
compact site, making it the seventh largest approved multi-sport
training venue in the UK.
It has a proud reputation for hosting international sports
events.
Watch the Medway Park promotional
film presented by javelin star Steve Backley (www.spaghettiweston.com/).
To discuss holding a training camp in Medway, please contact us
on 00 44 (0)1634 338255 or email 2012@medway.gov.uk
Medway's approved training Olympic camp sports
are:
archery; athletics; badminton;
basketball; boxing; fencing;
football; gymnastics – artistic; gymnastics - rhythmic; indoor volleyball; judo; modern
pentathlon; table tennis; taekwando; trampolining; wrestling.
Medway's approved training Paralympic camp sports are:
athletics; boccia;
goalball; judo;
sitting volleyball; wheelchair basketball; wheelchair fencing; wheelchair rugby.
The technical merit of Medway's sporting facilities and the
ancillary facilities that surround them make Medway an ideal,
compact training venue for international competitors in the
build-up to 2012.
Medway is also ideally located for easy access to other approved
training facilities in the south east.
Find out more about Medway's approved training camp facilities
and support services below:
In addition, Medway can boast two further specialist sporting
facilities that could provide first-class training facilities for
teams, but which have not been included in LOCOG's official list of
training venues.
If you want to learn more about Medway as a sporting and visitor
destination, see our pre-Games training camp video, Welcome To
Medway.
You can also download a copy of our pre-Games
training camp guide (pdf 3,664KB). To use the guide you will
need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have it on your computer,
please use our advice
page.
For full technical listings for each facility, please refer to
the official London 2012 training camp
guide
