Sport Week: Rowing venue at Rio 2016

Para rowing events at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games will be contested at the Lagoa Stadium, located in the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, one of the city’s famous landmarks in the south of the city centre.

The lagoon is overlooked by the famous Christ the Redeemer statue and the Tijuca forest.

The Lagoa Stadium can be reached via the Jardim de Alah station (about 830m from the venue) or Nosa Senhora da Paz station (1,400m). Both stations are accessible. There is also an accessible auxiliary shuttle service available that departs from Nossa Senhora da Paz Station.

Previous events hosted by the venue include the 2007 Pan-American Games and the 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships which served as a Test Event for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A new finish tower was also constructed for the 2016 Games. The venue is shared by the Olympic rowing and canoe competitions, and will also host the Para canoe events.

Para rowing events will be held Friday to Sunday (9-11 September).

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Editor’s note: Each sport on the Rio 2016 Paralympic programme will have a dedicated week of featured content published on paralympic.org. Every week a new sport will be featured and the series will run until September’s Games, helping the public understand more about the 22 sports being contested in Rio.

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Sport fans from around the world can now buy their Paralympic tickets for Rio 2016 from authorised ticket resellers (ATRs)

The IPC’s Global ATR is Jet Set Sports, and Rio 2016 tickets and packages can be purchased on the CoSport website.

Residents of Brazil can buy 2016 Paralympics tickets directly from the Rio 2016 website.

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