Vikingskipet

Public skating at Vikingskipet: the next 7 days

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Built as an upside-down Viking ship for the 1994 Olympics

Vikingskipet was built as the arena for speed skating, figure skating and short track at the 1994 Winter Olympics, and its design was made public in 1991. It is shaped like an upside-down Viking ship, 250 metres long, 110 metres wide and 36 metres high. Biong & Biong and Niels Torp Arkitekter gave it load-bearing glued-laminated timber arches with a longest span of 96 metres, and no timber span had ever been longer.

The 1994 Games, where Johan Olav Koss was crowned with three gold medals and three world records, remain the high point, and Vikingskipet and the neighbouring Hamar OL-Amfi have hosted a long run of international championships since.

Speed skaters and skating clubs now use the hall as their permanent training arena and the national team holds camps there. HIL bandy trains in what is called Norway's only indoor bandy hall, and Norway's largest indoor second-hand and antiques market has been held here every spring and autumn since 1995.

Before you head out.

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