Otago rugby players, and visitors to the province, will have
a new challenge when they play at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The lowest part of the stadium's roof will be 30m high near
the edge of the field, and the highest kick mapped during
games when the Carisbrook Stadium Trust did its research on
the issue was about 29.4m.
Whether the rugby union will give extra points for hitting
the roof is unknown, but the stadium's designers are
comfortable the clearance is enough.
The roof's height will rise to 35m at the centre of the
field.
To put the matter into perspective, trust development
director Darren Burden said the top of the rugby posts at
Carisbrook were 16m from the ground.
"You would have to go twice the height of the Carisbrook
posts," he said, so it would take something of a super-boot
to clear that height.
The roof height at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was 33m,
he said.
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