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Ice hockey is a sport that is gaining popularity in India. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ice hockey is played mostly in places like Ladakh , Uttarakhand , West Bengal , Sikkim , Arunachal Pradesh , Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in the north of India, where cold weather occurs and the game can be played outdoors. [ 4 ]
Ice skating is popular in North India in places like Ladakh, Kashmir and Shimla where cold weather occurs and it is possible to skate outdoors. Much of India has a tropical climate, hence in the rest of the country, ice skating is limited to the few artificial rinks available. [1] An ice skating festival is organised in Shimla every year.
This is a list of indoor arenas in India that have been used for major indoor matches. The minimum capacity is 1,000. The minimum capacity is 1,000. Indoor arena
The Ice skating and Ice hockey arena has a seating capacity of 2,000 and the ice skating rink area is 60M by 30M, in which about 100 to 150 persons can skate every hour. It also has an Olympic size (50 by 25 Meters) fully air conditioned swimming pool, basketball courts and a cafeteria inside the complex.
Rajnandgaon International Hockey Stadium is hockey stadium located in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh. [1] [2] The stadium is Chhattisgarh's first international astroturf hockey stadium [3] and second largest after Raipur Stadium. [4] It is spread over an area of nearly 9.5 acres, and built at an estimated cost of 22 crores. [5]
A portion of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the world's largest naturally frozen "ice rink" or skating trail. An example of an ice skating trail, or "rink", is the Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, estimated at 165,600 m 2 (1,782,000 sq ft) and 7.8 km (4.8 mi) long, which is equivalent to 90 Olympic-size skating rinks.
Ice hockey is played at the facility and there is an informal competition known as the Kenyan Ice Hockey League. Games are played on Wednesdays which are known as "Ice Hockey Wednesday". The rink hosted a "local tournament for schools" on April 24, 2015, which was billed as the "First Ice Hockey Tournament in East & Central Africa".
International standard ice hockey rink of Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. Hockey rinks in the rest of the world follow the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) specifications, which are 60.0 by 30.0 metres (196.9 ft × 98.4 ft) with a corner radius of 8.5 metres (27.9 ft).