Theinphyu 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]
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| Location | Theinphyu road, Yangon, Myanmar[1] |
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| Coordinates | 16°49′16.73″N 96°11′12.58″E / 16.8213139°N 96.1868278°E |
| Owner | Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs |
| Capacity | 5,300 |
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| Myanmar Lethwei Federation | |
History
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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.[3] For the final fight, the stadium was highlighted in the feature documentary La Fosse aux Tigres.[14][7]
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
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edit- ^ "ကျပ်သန်းတစ်ထောင်ကျော် ကုန်ကျမည့် ကန်ပတ်လမ်းမှ သိမ်ဖြူကွင်းအနီးသို့ဖြတ်ပြီး လမ်းသစ်ဖောက်လုပ်ခြင်းမှာ ပြည်သူ့ဘဏ္ဍာငွေ ဖြုန်းတီးခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း မင်္ဂလာတောင်ညွန့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်က တိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်တွင် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ကန့်ကွက်". Eleven Sports (in Burmese). 31 May 2018.
- ^ "Lethwei Fight Yangon Myanmar". Global Gaz. 28 May 2019.
- ^ a b "And Still: Dave Leduc Retains Openweight Lethwei Crown". Lethwei World. 18 December 2018.
- ^ "နိုင်ငံတကာရိုးရာလက်ဝှေ့စိန်ခေါ်ပွဲ မြန်မာပြည်ချန်ပီယံ ထွန်းထွန်းမင်း ကနေဒါလက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံ မက်သရူးကို အလဲထိုး". NPE (in Burmese). 27 May 2015.
- ^ Hlaing, Kyaw Zin (13 October 2015). "Question answered". Myanmar Times.
- ^ Matthew Carter (4 December 2018). "Dave Leduc vs Tun Tun Min 3: The Biggest Fight In Lethwei History". Lethwei World.
- ^ a b Kyaw Zin Hlaing (18 December 2018). "Fight of the decade ends in a draw". Myanmar Times.
- ^ Arthur, Richard (15 December 2018). "Lethwei star Tun Tun Min's road to redemption". Fox Sports Asia. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Sports Clubs & Associations - Myanmar Boxing Federation". Yangon Directory. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Joe Henley (28 January 2018). "Burmese bare-knuckle kick-boxing goes mainstream as foreigners discover ancient combat sport". South China Morning Post.
- ^ Ophelia Bearcat (26 August 2016). "Get your kicks at a Myanmar lethwei class". Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021.
- ^ Kyaw Zin Hlaing (27 May 2015). "A 'Golden' opportunity". Myanmar Times.
- ^ "Malaysian weightlifters fall flat in Yangon". The Star. 14 December 2013.
- ^ Andrew Whitelaw (15 December 2018). "Lethwei star Tun Tun Min's road to redemption". Fox Sports Asia.
- ^ Leon Jennings (1 February 2020). "WLC: BATTLEBONES – NAIMJON TUHTABOYEV WINS MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE". Asian Persuasion MMA.
- ^ "အားကစားနှင့်ကာယပညာသိပ္ပံကျောင်း(ရန်ကုန်)မှ COVID 19 ကာကွယ်ရေး၊ ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရေး၊ ကုသရေးလုပ်ငန်းများအား ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ထားရှိမှု". Sped Myanmar (in Burmese). Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ Thiha Aung (23 March 2020). "Authorities prepare Thein Phyu indoor stadium to quarantine COVID-19 suspects". Eleven News Myanmar.
- ^ Nan Lwin (23 March 2020). "Myanmar Prepares Quarantine Centers as Official COVID-19 Count Remains at Zero". The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် စက်ရုပ်ပြိုင်ပွဲမှာ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအသင်းက ပထမဆုရရှိ". Duwun Myanmar (in Burmese). Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ "Press Conference Park Royal မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ပထမဦးဆုံး". Mizzima Burmese (in Burmese). Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ "တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ဒိုင္း တပ္မေတာ္(ၾကည္း၊ ေရ၊ ေလ) ေဟာ္ကီၿပိဳင္ပြဲဖြင္႕လွစ္". Cinds Myanmar (in Burmese). 1 October 2020.