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Asiad Main Stadium | |
 View of Stadium in June 2014 | |
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| Full name | Incheon Asiad Main Stadium |
|---|---|
| Location | 1048 Bongsu-daero Seo-gu Incheon South Korea |
| Coordinates | 37°32′51″N 126°39′57″E / 37.547418°N 126.665797°E |
| Owner | Municipality of Incheon |
| Capacity | 29,465 61,074 (2014 Asian Games)[2] |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 25 June 2011 |
| Opened | 1 July 2014 |
| Construction cost | South Korean won 496 billion USD $ 429 million |
| Architect | Populous[1] |
The Incheon Stadium, commonly known as the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium (Korean: 인천아시아드주경기장, romanized: Incheon Asiadeu Jugyeong-gijang), is a stadium located in Incheon, South Korea. Completed in July 2014, it is used mostly for athletics and was the main venue of the 2014 Asian Games. The stadium has been designed with an initial capacity of roughly 60,000 spectators. After the 2014 Asian Games, capacity was reduced to 30,000 spectators. The stadium has an oval running track enclosing a regulation-size soccer field. Outside, there's a tennis court, a subsidiary stadium, and the 1,415.13 m2 Yeonhui Cricket Ground.[3]
The main stadium was used for the opening and closing ceremony and athletics competitions of the 2014 Asian Games and 2014 Asian Para Games.[4][5] Utilizing the long linear landscape from South to North to actively connect to surrounding parks, and the natural continuity of the rooftops to facilitate the approach by spectators, in order to overcome the difficulty of approaching the long site while emphasizing the potential of the area. It attempts to depict the movements of people with the lines and soft curvatures of dancing in order to link with Seungmu (Buddhist dance), and to express dynamic movement with the tide and wind, which represent the sea of Incheon.
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- ^ Paralympic (17 October 2014). "Five Athletics Rivalries Incheon 2014". paralympic.org. Retrieved 10 November 2018.