Seine-Maritime: a territory where sport is in full swing!

The complex, located 2 hours 30 minutes from Paris, 10 minutes from the centre of Le Havre and 15 minutes from the coast, is home to France’s oldest rowing club. It is a regular training base for many international rowers. In 2016, the French Women’s Rowing Team held its final training camp at the complex before the Head of the River Race in London. The complex is designed for elite athletes. It is practical, easy to access, and provides ideal rowing conditions whatever the weather. 

The Petit-Couronne Regional Youth and Sports Centre (CRJS) is located in Rouen, around 1 hour from Paris. The centre includes accommodation (60 rooms, 1-3 beds per room), a restaurant, and sports, treatment and recovery facilities. Neither too big nor too small, the centre can accommodate all specific requests.

Multisport complex renovated in 2017 with 4 sports halls: team sports, dancing/floor and equipment gymnastics/dojo. Standing in a prime location on the outskirts of 3 woods and Rouen city centre. A peaceful spot near the Eurocéane pool at the heart of the Les Coquets Sports Centre. Ideal for preparing for Olympic and Paralympic competition.

The Amable Lozai Stadium, opened in 2012, is a modern facility open to all users, located 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris. Its main pitch spans some 8,400 m². It also has: 2 artificial pitches, a covered seating area, a 406 m² covered stand for standing spectators, a locker room, a meeting room, a 37 m² gym, offices and a 45 m² building with showers and toilets.

The Salle des Docks Océane, which opened in 2000, is 2 hours from Paris. It is a versatile, modern facility open to all users. With various additional spaces (meeting room, team leader’s office, storage facility, VIP area, etc.), it is the ideal place for Olympic and Paralympic athletes to prepare for competition.

The Rabelais Gymnasium is situated in the Paul Vauquelin Multisports Complex, 15 minutes from Rouen city centre and right by the A150 motorway. The gymnasium has among the largest seating capacity in the Rouen urban area (600-seat fixed grandstands and up to 1,000 with mobile grandstands). It also boasts a wide variety of high-quality additional facilities (gym, club house, dojo, athletics track and gymnastics room). There are a further two gymnasiums adjoining the Rabelais Gymnasium, each with facilities measuring 40 m x 20 m. The complex is therefore ideal for preparing for competition in specific disciplines, as well as for more general preparation, with outstanding facilities and services.

Dojo 76, the departmental dojo, is located less than 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris and opened in 2006. It is a modern facility open to all users. The judo studio has six different combat areas, and the facility also boasts additional spaces (meeting room, offices, gym, sauna, medical centre, storage facility, etc.), making it the ideal place for Olympic and Paralympic athletes to prepare for competition.

The Espace du Littoral has a 22 m x 44 m court area plus the additional spaces required for elite preparation. The complex is on the outskirts of Le Havre, 1 hour 45 minutes from Paris.

Sotteville-lès-Rouen is home to Normandy’s only IAAF-approved athletics track. It has hosted a top-30 international meeting every year since 1986. It hosted the 2004 French Athletics Championships and the 2007 French Disability Sport Championships. The resident club has competed at the highest level in France for 25 years and is involved in the Olympic Solidarity programme. It could play an important supporting role for delegations, including the provision of medical services.

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The Michel Comont Gymnasium is the ideal place for high-level and elite athletes to prepare. The main room and various additional facilities meet the highest technical standards and are popular with the many professional teams who come here to train.

The Henri Wallon Sports Complex is a modern facility open to all users, located 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris. The complex has recently undergone a comprehensive programme of renovation works (opening on 11 September 2018). The 1,073 m² space features handball pitch and a basketball court, plus: grandstands (210 metres straight-line distance, 420 seats including 9 seats for disabled spectators), a large lobby (115 m2), a meeting room (41.8 m2), a lift, and changing rooms. 

The Joseph Guillemot Stadium, located 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris, boasts brand-new facilities that opened in 2019, plus a hockey pitch that was fully renovated in 2017. The complex is situated close to local amenities, including a shopping centre, restaurants, a hotel, a sports hall and a pool.

The Sotteville-lès-Rouen Wrestling Centre is one of two centres in Rouen and the surrounding area. The resident club, SSCC, has organised an international open for the past 10 years and hosts warm-ups for athletes competing in the nearby (temporary) official combat area in the stadium’s multisports room, which has a capacity of up to 1,000 spectators. The resident club has competed at the highest level in France for 10 years. Through exchanges with international athletes, SSCC is renowned around the world. The men’s team, crowned French D1 champions in 2017, includes two well-known names: world champion and Olympic wrestler Mélonin Noumonvi, and Moroccan international Choucri Attafi. The club could play an important supporting role for delegations, including the provision of medical services.
The spacious, leafy stadium where the centre is located includes a soft-surface 4 km jogging course through well-preserved rustic surroundings.

A self-contained, men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics room (1,256 m²), opened in 2014, with Gymnova men’s and women’s gymnastics equipment, including a fast-track tumbling piste and landing pits beneath all items of equipment for training. The floor was upgraded in 2018. The complex has an 850-seat stand, meeting rooms, a 135 m² gym and a 140 m² motor skills room that can be accessed from the main room, plus a sauna, weight-lifting equipment and an anti-doping testing facility.
Temporary equipment can be installed on the 400 m² outdoor grass area.
 

The Alain Guilloit Aquatic Centre is situated close to the motorway, just 1 hour 40 minutes from central Paris. The centre boasts a number of pools, including a 50-metre outdoor pool that has been used a training venue by several Olympic champions including Hugues Duboscq and David Abrahard. There are also pools of other sizes and depths for specific activities, plus two gyms – including one dedicated cardio room and a separate weight room. There is also a jacuzzi, sauna and solarium for athletes to recover. 

The Les Cotonniers Gymnasium, in the city centre, is an outstanding facility that makes the ideal base for high-level and elite preparation.

Located less than 2 hours from Paris, the Pierre Mendès France gymnasium inaugurated in 2017 is a modern piece of equipment accessible to all. Its complementary spaces (meeting room, evolution room, storage space) make it an ideal centre for Olympic and Paralympic preparation. 

The St Exupéry Complex, just a few minutes from Rouen city centre, stands in landscaped grounds and is the ideal base for preparation and performance. The facilities include:

- outdoor facilities: 2 football pitches, artificial baseball field

- indoor facilities: 1 hall (40 x 20 m), 1 hall (18 x 24 m), 1 athletics track, 1 sports hall, 1 training hall, 1 boxing studio, 1 dojo, 1 motor skills room.
 

The UFR STAPS Gymnastics Centre is located on the Mont-Saint-Aignan campus, 10 minutes from the centre of Rouen. The centre includes a gym, 2 gymnasiums (type C), 2 dance studios with wooden flooring, a dojo and a 150-capacity amphitheatre, all interconnected. The gymnastics room has 4 cameras linked to 4 screens, providing different angles of view during training in each area. Most of the gymnastics equipment is Gymnova-branded with short ropes, and there are two pieces of most items of equipment. There is one latest-generation Janssen floor. The room has lead ropes above the asymmetric bars and fixed bar, a long elasticated rope for the rings, a horizontal lead rope on the acrobatic, and a 4-piece lead rope on the large trampoline.

The Guy Boissière Sports Centre (pool & skating rink complex) is located in peaceful surroundings on an island in the heart of Rouen, just 15 minutes from the city centre. Just 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris, it boasts outstanding facilities that make it the ideal place for Olympic and Paralympic athletes to prepare for competition.

The shooting range is located in Parc Signa, 15 minutes from the centre of Rouen and right by the A150 motorway. Parc Signa is a haven of greenery surrounded by forest, with various outdoor sports and leisure facilities that delegations can use to practise shooting in peaceful, natural surroundings. It is the ideal place for outdoor physical preparation.

The Kindarena Sports Centre, less than 1 hour from Paris, was opened in September 2012. It is a modern facility suitable for high-level athletes across a range of disciplines. The centre has hosted various official competitions, including international tournaments in handball (Golden League, 2017 World Championship), tennis (Davis Cup matches), volleyball (World League) and basketball, plus French championships in gymnastics, judo, table tennis, badminton and other sports. With outstanding hosting and training facilities plus various additional spaces (meeting room, team leader’s office, storage facility, etc.), it is the ideal place for Olympic and Paralympic athletes to prepare for competition.

This facility, located 180 km from Paris, has plenty of outstanding technical features, including high-quality surfacing, coated bends, a raised track for improved drainage, and excellent lighting. With various other sporting and recovery facilities nearby, it is the ideal place to prepare for high-level competition.