Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex

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Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex
Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex
Location Totness, Suriname
Coordinates 5°53′02″N56°20′05″W / 5.883935°N 56.334854°W / 5.883935; -56.334854
Owner Coronie District
OperatorCoronie Sport Bond
Capacity 1,000
Surface Grass
Tenants
Corona
Coronie Boys
West United

Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex is a multi-purpose stadium in Totness, Suriname. It is home to SVB Eerste Klasse club F.C. West United. Former top flight clubs and Coronie Sport Bond (CSB) members F.C. Corona and S.V. Coronie Boys are also tenants of the stadium. [1]

The stadium was named after Letitia Vriesde, a female former track and field athlete from the Coronie District who became the first Surinamese sports person to compete at five Olympic Games. [2]

Location

The Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex is located in the Northwest of Totness on the Botromankiweg right off of the Oost-West Verbinding (English, East-West Connector), just west of the Coronie Airport. [3]

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References

  1. "Stadiums in Suriname". Worldstadiums.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. "Letitia Vriesde". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  3. "Letitia Vriesde Sportcomplex". Estadios.org. Retrieved 6 April 2016.

Coordinates: 5°53′02″N56°20′05″W / 5.883935°N 56.334854°W / 5.883935; -56.334854