Sport Nature Guyane : Edmard Lama Stadium

Centre disciplines

Football Athletics

Description

The Dr Edmard LAMA municipal stadium, located at the foot of the Mahury plateau, near the Vidal Mondélice site and in the heart of the "Georges OTHILY" eco-district brings together a set of high-level sports facilities. It has a grassed field of honor, an athletics track classified at international level Class 1 IAAF, a weight room, two annex football fields, one of which is lit synthetic and a straight line. athletics. The whole constituting a main stadium for athletics and a warm-up stage for illuminated athletics.

Special features

Complex of excellence allowing the practice of Football, Athletics and Rugby on the same site, without the need for long trips. It also has double positions – two starting lines and two separate areas for the high jump. Through its accessibility, it offers remarkable potential for the development and promotion of disabled athletics. Its proximity to the Vidal Mondélice site for its fitness trail and the development of the eco-district for its pedestrian paths adds value to it for mixed sports practice at all levels.

Known for

In June 2014, on the eve of the opening of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Edmard Lama Stadium hosted an international women’s football match, opposing the French team 4th in the FIFA ranking, to that of Brazil 6th of this same classification.

In June 2016, the 1st edition of the Amazonian Challenge, an international athletics meeting in which athletes broke their records and obtained their qualification for the Olympic Games in RIO.

World-class performance:

– Gina BAS in the 200m women 23”13 of the GAMBIA

– Greaux KYLE in the 200m 20’’58 from Trinidad and Tobago

Optional extras

Meeting room Internet access Ice bath Equipment available for private use Secure storage area Infirmery Floodlit facilities International airport nearby Hospital nearby Physiotherapy room Weights room Film screening room