ACOG - Venues - IBM

Lake Lanier

This popular weekend recreation destination for Atlantans is located near Gainesville, Georgia, 55 miles (88 km) northeast of Atlanta. ACOG is putting in place an Olympic rowing and canoe/kayak sprint venue at the lake that will feature permanent spectator seats, temporary seats, a permanent cabling system, a permanent finish tower and permanent line markers which will retract into the lake during non-competition periods to allow continued recreational use activities. Two permanent boat houses, boat ramps and docks, a permanent storage building for buoys, markers and other competition-related gear and a temporary day village for athletes are also being built at Lake Lanier by ACOG. All permanent facilities will be given to the City of Gainesville and Hall County.

Seating Diagram - Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier: A History
Gainesville-Hall '96 Prepares for Worldwide Audience


Site of:Rowing, Canoe/Kayak - Sprint
Dates:Rowing: 21 - 28 July
Canoe/Kayak - Sprint: 30 July - 4 August
Location:55 miles (88 km) north of downtown Atlanta
Seating Capacity:20,000
Accessibility:
Completion Date:Summer 1995

Rowers at the Lake Lanier rowing venue. Lake Lanier rowing venue boathouse.

WeatherWeather - Lake Lanier



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.