Today, on 7 April, the Sigulda Sports Centre at Ata Kronvalda Street 7a in Sigulda has been put into service after receiving all the necessary permits and approvals, so that the Sigulda Sports Centre can soon open its doors to the town’s residents and guests.

The Sigulda Sports Centre will offer people a wide range of opportunities for various sports activities. Its multifunctional sports hall will have the opportunity to train and organise competitions in basketball, volleyball, football, badminton and other sports. The hall contains adjustable stands with 200 seats and extra seats for spectators can be installed in the galleries on the second floor, ensuring that the new sports centre will be able to host sports fans on the occasion of major competitions. Thanks to our use of the very latest finishing materials, the acoustics in the sports hall are outstanding. The sports centre’s clients will have access to quality sports equipment, which meets the standards set by international sports federations.

Separate halls have been built on the second floor of the building for the gym, power lifting and fitness activities. Over 30 types of gym equipment for power training will be available to clients in the gym. For the benefit of professional athletes, a separate heavy athletics – weight lifting hall been established with apparatus for functional training. This sports infrastructure will increase Sigulda’s competitiveness as a world-class training base, as well as providing Latvia’s current and future Olympians with the opportunity to achieve new successes.

For the purposes of athletics training at the sports complex, a 100 metre long synthetic running track with six lanes and a special sports floor surface was built in accordance with the International Athletics Federation’s standards to provide a much-needed indoor training base for athletes.

The pride of the sports centre is the 25 metre long swimming pool with four lanes, as well as a special children’s swimming training pool with a depth of 80 centimetres, both of which have been long awaited by the district’s inhabitants. Alongside, on the 1st floor of the building, is a water attraction and leisure zone, containing a water attraction pool for kids, 40 metre long water slides, as well as hydro massage and cold water pools. In addition, visitors will have access to dry and damp saunas, steam and infrared saunas, and hydro massage showers.

The multifunctional sports and leisure building is connected to the erstwhile Sigulda City Secondary School building and stadium, where new stands with 200 seats have been built, in which spectators will be shielded from the rain and sun.

During the course of construction, several inspections and expert analyses of the building’s structures and systems were conducted, as stipulated in regulatory enactments. The biggest inspection consisted of an expert analysis of the building’s reinforced concrete cover, during which a mass of 26 tonnes was placed on the building’s inter-floor cover, in order to confirm its durability.