Copper Box (London)

United Kingdom / England / Westham / London
 sports venue, arena, olympic venue, basketball court, public toilet, fast food restaurant

The Handball Arena is located at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. It will be used for the handball preliminaries and quarter finals and modern pentathlon fencing and shooting events of the 2012 Summer Olympics and goalball during the 2012 Summer Paralympics. The arena has a seating capacity of 6,500, and the lower of the two tiers will be retractable. It was constructed from July 2009 to May 2011.
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Coordinates:   51°32'39"N   -0°1'12"E

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