The Edgar Centre will be the main venue for next month's National Summer Games in Dunedin.
The five sports being staged there are basketball, bocce, indoor bowls, powerlifting and equestrian.
There will be 1597 team members - 1161 athletes and 436 coaches and managers - in Dunedin for the event.
A total of 615 competitors will use the Edgar Centre. The largest individual sport
will be basketball, with 253 competitors. There are 140 playing indoor bowls, 83 in bocce, 67 in equestrian and 36 in powerlifting.
The Edgar Centre was opened in 1994 and has more than 600,000 people visiting each year. There were 650,000 in the past financial year.
''It's a busy place, for sure,'' general manager Blair Crawford said. On some occasions, 12 different sports are played at the venue at the same time.
''It was originally planned to support netball, and tennis,'' Crawford said.
''But new sports like futsal and roller derby have joined in. I don't think, in their wildest dreams, the founding committee envisaged that the other sports would be bigger than netball or tennis.''
In the past two months, five major tournaments have been held at the centre, including
New Zealand wrestling and netball championships, as well as a motor show and concerts.
Other venues being used for the games are Moana Pool (swimming, 353 competitors), Bowl Line (tenpin bowling, 306), Chisholm Park (golf, 47) and the Caledonian Ground (athletics, 212, and bowls, 63).
There are 46 clubs contesting the event. Otago has the biggest group, of 117 competitors, coaches and managers. Canterbury is next with 108.
Five colleges are competing, the smallest being Halswell College, of Christchurch, with four athletes.
