| Kisakallio Sport Institute | |
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 The Kisakallio Sport Institute in November 2017 | |
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The Kisakallio Sport Institute, (Finnish: Kisakallion Urheiluopisto) is a sport institute founded in 1949[1] in the village of Karnainen in the city of Lohja, Finland. Strategic main sports taught at the institute include basketball, canoeing and kayaking, rowing, rhythmic gymnastics and aesthetic group gymnastics, acting as a nationwide coaching centre for the sports.[2]
A core part of the coaching centre is the thorough and diverse development of general motoric skills throughout the sports. Kisakallio acts as a training and accommodation facility for canoeers and kayakers, rowers, artistic gymnasts, footballers, volleyballers, basketballers, floorballers, figure skaters, group skaters, curlers, shooters, orienteers, taekwondo practitioners, dancers, ice hockey players and ringette players. Kisakallio also hosts several sports camps for people of all ages.
Kisakallio has diverse premises and services for sport clubs, companies and schools. The institute area hosts a ball game hall (renovated in 2013, floor surface about 1000 square metres), a practice hall (completed in 2011, about 1000 square metres of taraflex surface), a tennis hall with four courts (completed in 2011), an all-year-round green astroturf football field (completed in 2008, size about 55 × 95 metres), a skills hall (an Olympic arena for rhythmic gymnastics, completed in 2009), an ice hall (completed in 2002), a stadium for small games, a health club, an outdoor tennis court, a curling alley, a disc golf track and a hall for artistic gymnastics. The institute is located on the shore of the Lohjanjärvi lake, which allows it to offer canoeing and kayaking and rowing in summer as well as a skating track in winter.
The institute offers accommodation for 700 people. The apartment hotel Katajarinne 1&2 (built in 2008) has 40 rooms (two to five people per room), Katajarinne 3&4 (built in 2011) has 32 rooms and Campus (built in 2003) has accommodation for 60 people. Koivupiha and Rantarinne were built in the 1970s and have been renovated in 2009. The institute also offers dealership villas completed in 2011.
- ^ "Kisakallion lyhyt historia" [A brief history of Kisakallio]. kisakallio.fi (in Finnish). 2008. Archived from the original on 4 January 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ "Kisakalliosta Koripalloliiton valmennus- ja harjoituskeskus – Susi Training Center avautuu kesäksi".