Wilfredo Toro Coliseum

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Wilfredo Toro Coliseum
Location Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
Capacity 3,000
Opened1990

Wilfredo Toro Coliseum (Spanish: Coliseo Wilfredo Toro) is a multi-sport indoor arena in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. It hosted some of the Taekwondo and Karate events for the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. [1]

The arena was opened in 1990 and named after local native Wilfredo Toro Vázquez, who was a former basketball player for the Atléticos de San Germán of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) during the 70's and 80's.

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References

  1. "Mayagüez 2010 - Sitio Web oficial de los XXI Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe - Mayagüez 2010". Archived from the original on February 26, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)