Thein Pyu Stadium Explained

Stadium Name:Thein Pyu Stadium
Location:Thein Pyu road, Yangon, Myanmar[1]
Coordinates:16.8213°N 96.1868°W
Owner:Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs
Tenants:Myanmar Lethwei Federation
Seating Capacity:5,300

Thein Pyu Stadium (Burmese: သိမ်ဖြူအားကစားကွင်း) is a Lethwei stadium located in Yangon, Myanmar.[2] It is the most notorious Lethwei stadium in all of Myanmar and counts over 5,300-seats.[3] The Stadium is operated by the Myanmar Traditional Lethwei Federation and is the venue choice for most national and international level Lethwei events.[4] [5] In 2018, the stadium was host of The biggest fight in Lethwei history opposing Dave Leduc vs. Tun Tun Min.[6] [7] [8]

History

Since the 1990s, the Myanmar Traditional Lethwei Federation, has been a holding an office at the stadium under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar.[9] The stadium complex hosts the Phoenix Letwhei Gym,[10] a local gym also used to train and prepare fighters before they compete inside the venue.[11]

Since 1996, the stadium has been hosting the Golden Belt Championship tournament.[12]

During the 2013 SEA Games held in Myanmar, the venue was used for weightlifting competitions.[13]

On December 18, 2018, the stadium was the chosen venue for all matches of the notorious trilogy between Dave Leduc and Tun Tun Min. For the final fight, the stadium was highlighted in the feature documentary La Fosse aux Tigres.[14]

On January 31, 2020, the World Lethwei Championship held an event for the first time at Thein Pyu at the occasion of WLC 11: Battlebones.[15]

In March 2020, all Lethwei events were cancelled in Myanmar due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[16] [17] The Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar decided to prepare quarantine centers across the country. The Thein Pyu Stadium was transformed into a makeshift quarantine center for Myanmar nationals returning from foreign countries.[18]

On June 1, 2019, Myanmar's first Robotics competition organized by the Myanmar RoboLeague was help inside the stadium and the Yangon team won the first place.[19]

On February 12, 2016, a charity wrestling tournament in collaboration with MTLF and Pro Wrestling Zero1 was held at Thein Pyu to fund the restoration of flood-affected areas.[20]

In 2020, the opening game of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy & Air Force) Field Hockey Tournament was held at the Thein Pyu artificial grass hockey stadium in Yangon. On behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of the Tatmadaw Min Aung Hlaing, the regional commander gave an opening speech. The two opposing teams were Yangon Regional Military and the team representing the Nay Pyi Taw Regional Military.[21]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ကျပ်သန်းတစ်ထောင်ကျော် ကုန်ကျမည့် ကန်ပတ်လမ်းမှ သိမ်ဖြူကွင်းအနီးသို့ဖြတ်ပြီး လမ်းသစ်ဖောက်လုပ်ခြင်းမှာ ပြည်သူ့ဘဏ္ဍာငွေ ဖြုန်းတီးခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း မင်္ဂလာတောင်ညွန့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်က တိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်တွင် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ကန့်ကွက်. 31 May 2018. Eleven Sports. Burmese.
  2. News: Lethwei Fight Yangon Myanmar. 28 May 2019. Global Gaz. en.
  3. News: And Still: Dave Leduc Retains Openweight Lethwei Crown. 18 December 2018. Lethwei World.
  4. News: နိုင်ငံတကာရိုးရာလက်ဝှေ့စိန်ခေါ်ပွဲ မြန်မာပြည်ချန်ပီယံ ထွန်းထွန်းမင်း ကနေဒါလက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံ မက်သရူးကို အလဲထိုး. 27 May 2015. NPE. Burmese.
  5. News: Question answered. Hlaing. Kyaw Zin. 13 October 2015. Myanmar Times.
  6. News: Dave Leduc vs Tun Tun Min 3: The Biggest Fight In Lethwei History. Matthew Carter. 4 December 2018. Lethwei World.
  7. Web site: Fight of the decade ends in a draw. Kyaw Zin Hlaing. 18 December 2018. Myanmar Times. en.
  8. News: Lethwei star Tun Tun Min's road to redemption. Arthur. Richard. 15 December 2018. Fox Sports Asia. https://web.archive.org/web/20181218011543/https://www.foxsportsasia.com/combat-sports/998320/lethwei-star-tun-tun-mins-road-to-redemption/. 18 December 2018.
  9. Web site: Sports Clubs & Associations - Myanmar Boxing Federation. 19 August 2020. Yangon Directory.
  10. Web site: Burmese bare-knuckle kick-boxing goes mainstream as foreigners discover ancient combat sport. Joe Henley. 28 January 2018. South China Morning Post. en.
  11. Web site: Get your kicks at a Myanmar lethwei class. Ophelia Bearcat. 26 August 2016. Myanmar Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20210219213458/https://www.mmtimes.com/lifestyle/22155-get-your-kicks-at-a-myanmar-lethwei-class.html. 19 February 2021. en.
  12. News: A 'Golden' opportunity. Kyaw Zin Hlaing. 27 May 2015. Myanmar Times. en.
  13. Web site: Malaysian weightlifters fall flat in Yangon . The Star . en . 14 December 2013.
  14. Web site: Lethwei star Tun Tun Min's road to redemption. Andrew Whitelaw. 15 December 2018. Fox Sports Asia. en.
  15. Web site: WLC: BATTLEBONES – NAIMJON TUHTABOYEV WINS MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE. Leon Jennings. 1 February 2020. Asian Persuasion MMA. en.
  16. Web site: အားကစားနှင့်ကာယပညာသိပ္ပံကျောင်း(ရန်ကုန်)မှ COVID 19 ကာကွယ်ရေး၊ ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရေး၊ ကုသရေးလုပ်ငန်းများအား ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ထားရှိမှု. 17 September 2022. Sped Myanmar. Burmese.
  17. Web site: Authorities prepare Thein Phyu indoor stadium to quarantine COVID-19 suspects. Thiha Aung. 23 March 2020. Eleven News Myanmar. en.
  18. Web site: Myanmar Prepares Quarantine Centers as Official COVID-19 Count Remains at Zero. Nan Lwin. 23 March 2020. The Irrawaddy. en.
  19. Web site: ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် စက်ရုပ်ပြိုင်ပွဲမှာ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအသင်းက ပထမဆုရရှိ. 17 September 2020. Duwun Myanmar. Burmese.
  20. Web site: Press Conference Park Royal မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ပထမဦးဆုံး. 17 September 2020. Mizzima Burmese. Burmese.
  21. Web site: တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ဒိုင္း တပ္မေတာ္(ၾကည္း၊ ေရ၊ ေလ) ေဟာ္ကီၿပိဳင္ပြဲဖြင္႕လွစ္. 1 October 2020. Cinds Myanmar. Burmese.

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