Lancaster Park

About

Lancaster Park is a public recreational park with facilities for community sport in Waltham, a suburb of Christchurch in New Zealand. It was re-opened in June 2022. The facilities at the park were previously known as Jade Stadium and AMI Stadium due to commercial naming rights, and they were used as a sports stadium. The AMI stadium closed permanently due to damage sustained in the February 2011 earthquake and was demolished in 2019. Previously the stadium was the venue for various sports including rugby union, cricket, rugby league, association football, athletics and trotting. It is perhaps best known for being the track where Peter Snell broke the world record for 800 metres and for 880 yards in a single race in 1962. It had also hosted various non-sporting events including concerts by Pearl Jam in 2009, Bon Jovi in 2008, Roger Waters in 2007, Meat Loaf in 2004, U2 in 1989 & 1993, Tina Turner in 1993 and 1997, Dire Straits in 1986 and 1991, and Billy Joel in 1987. However the stadium was primarily a rugby and cricket ground and was the home of the Crusaders rugby union team, who compete in Super Rugby, and the Canterbury cricket team. Its capacity was 38,628.

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