Olympic Rowing Stadium/Long Beach Marine Stadium
This rowing venue remains in use for training and competition nearly 100 years on from its construction. In 2028, it will stage the rowing and canoeing competitions.
The US Olympic rowing team, California State University Long Beach and the Long Beach Rowing Association are the venue’s most prominent users today. Recently registered as an official state historic site and now known as Long Beach Marine Stadium, it also hosts junior rowing programmes and is the home of the Southern California Speedboat Club, which stages races there, including the annual Long Beach Sprint Nationals. It was also the venue for the 1968 US Olympic rowing trials.
The centre was expanded in 2007 to accommodate new rowing programmes for young people and people with disabilities, and it has hosted a farmers’ market since 2008.
The venue for the rowing events at the 1932 Olympic Games, the stadium was built in 1925 in response to the lack of a venue that met the standards of the International Rowing Federation. After the Games, the marina was handed over to the City of Long Beach.