We welcome you to the 2012 European Championships at Telenor Arena in Karlskrona, Sweden 16-21 April |
• 50 participating countries
• 300 players
• 30 international umpires
• 100 delegates from 40-50 countries are participating in the congress
• Calculated audience: 10 000-15 000 persons
The European Championships will be held at Telenor Arena, with an area of 6 500 square meters, which contains: Ice rinks and event halls, tennis courts, badminton courts, boule grounds, a gymnastics hall, a sports hall, an artificial grass pitch and illuminated tracks.
Karlskrona is situated in the southern part of Sweden, at the mid-point in the southern Baltic Sea. In 1998, the maritime town of Karlskrona was named a Unesco World Heritage Site as an outstanding example of a planned naval port and maritime arsenal.
Karlskrona has 1 650 islands, rocky outcrops and islets. The archipelago was earlier a military area closed to foreign visitors, but since 1998 most of it has been opened to everyone.
There are 50 million people in the vicinity. Karlskrona offers a daily ferry communication with Poland and train communication with Denmark every hour. Karlskrona port - together with Karlshamn – ranks one of Sweden’s ten most important ports.