武汉五环体育中心

Wuhan Five Rings Sports Centre sits at 45 Jinshan Avenue in Dongxihu District, where Jinshan Avenue meets Linkonggang Avenue. Built for the 7th Military World Games in 2019 and formerly called the Dongxihu Sports Centre, it covers about 207 mu, roughly 138,000 sqm, with some 144,000 sqm of floor space, arranged as a stadium, two indoor halls and an outdoor sports park. The complex reads as a flowing ribbon, its roof spreading like a phoenix in flight, laid out on a central axis with one core and two nodes in a triangular plan. The stadium seats 30,000 within 40,110 sqm and uses a mixed natural and artificial pitch; the arena holds 7,559 and the swimming hall 1,090. Structurally it was the first venue in mainland China to use a spoked-wheel cable-supported grid roof, developed from bicycle wheel geometry, which cuts steel consumption for a stadium of its size. During the Games it staged football, table tennis and water rescue; from 2019 to 2022 it was the home ground of Wuhan Yangtze River FC. Since then it has opened to the public and hosted four consecutive Mayday concerts plus shows by Jolin Tsai, Angela Chang and Westlife, alongside fitness programmes and sports training. Metro Line 6 has a Five Rings Sports Centre station about 260 m from exit D. The project cost about 1.99 billion yuan and was delivered as one of the newest venues of the Games, fitted with 5G and other new technology and surrounded by a public sports park that stays open to residents.