High performance training SUNSHINE COAST The Sunshine Coast is one of WELCOME Sunshine Coast – Australia’s premier sports training destinations for pre 2020 Tokyo TO OUR the training camp Olympics training and acclimatisation. It offers ideal weather, great natural for champions and purpose built training facilities, SUNSHINE COAST world class sports services and beautiful beaches. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the Sunshine Coast, , Australia and invite your athletes, officials and supporters to consider our Sunshine Coast Pre Tokyo 2020 beautiful region as the perfect location for your next major training camp. Training facilities for 23 of the 33 sports at the 2020 Olympics The Sunshine Coast is the very best location for training and Queensland pre-competition acclimatisation leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sunshine Coast Similar temperatures: We are located one hour north of Brisbane International Airport, and Brisbane Gold Coast are connected via direct flights from Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. May: average high - 23° humidity 76% We boast a wonderful climate, some of the very best natural and built training facilities in the world as well as a laid back, relaxed, natural June: average high - 21° humidity 77% and welcoming atmosphere. July: average high - 21° humidity 73% The Sunshine Coast boasts a reputation of hosting very successful major sporting events and national and Same time zone: Only 1 hour ahead of Tokyo international teams for training camps.

In 2018, we proudly hosted over 500 athletes and officials from nine countries, training for Commonwealth Fast Facts glory. More importantly, one out of five athletes who trained here medalled and all officials effusively praised our facilities and welcoming community. The Sunshine Coast is also home to the reigning two-time Suncorp 7 hours of sunshine 300 days per year Super champions – the Sunshine Coast Lightning and the Pro-Racing Sunshine Coast team of the Australian Cycling Academy. A short 1 hour drive from the State’s capital Should your team or sports federations decide to utilise the Sunshine Coast or training camps, you will city, Brisbane receive the full support of Sunshine Coast Council who will appoint an officer to manage all aspects Sunshine Brisbane Airport linked to 55 Australian and of your requirements. This includes negotiating access to training venues, transport, accommodation, 125 international destinations communications, support and even connections to our world famous tourism attractions. Coast Abundance of short-term accommodation We look forward to welcoming you. for fans and athletes

Home to numerous unique tourist attractions and signature experiences

Brisbane 6113 hectares of environmental reserves and 3700 km of waterways

113 recreation parks and amenity reserves

Gold Coast Range of high standard sports facilities The Sunshine Coast can cater for elite training in 23 of the 33 different sports that will be featured at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Commonwealth Facilities suitable for Local training facilities Games Teams trained International Standard suitable for: on Sunshine Coast in: Competition training in: Aquatics   Archery  Athletics   Badminton   Baseball/Softball  Basketball   Boxing   Canoe  Cycling   Equestrian  An unrivalled training environment Fencing Football  Golf  The beautiful Sunshine Coast beaches • 14,000 businesses that can supply products or Gymnastics   and natural surrounds offer coaches, services to the sports industry Handball athletes and support groups a unique • 2000 full time equivalent local sports industry jobs on the Sunshine Coast Hockey   training environment and respite from the Judo rigors of training and the pressures of the • $442 Million per year economic contribution approaching competition. to the local economy generated by sports and Karate recreation Modern Pentathlon • 44 Major sporting events held on the Sunshine Rowing  Sunshine Coast boasts Coast in 2018 Rugby   • Training facilities for 59 different sports - 39 have • 500 athletes and officials from 9 countries, Sailing  national or international standard training facilities trained in 16 sports in preparation for the 2018 Shooting Commonwealth Games   • An Australian Institute of Sport accredited facility Skateboarding at the local University of the Sunshine Coast • 79 international athletes that trained on the Sport Climbing that is the training base for many visiting elite Sunshine Coast took home a medal from the 2018 international athletes Commonwealth Games. Surfing  • High performance gym facilities including state- Table Tennis  of-the-art testing lab and world class equipment, Contact us Taekwondo situated in The Sports Hub, Sunshine Coast For further information on High Performance Training Tennis  on the Sunshine Coast • Concentration of high calibre health and Triathlon   wellbeing practitioners located at the health Email precinct adjacent to the Kawana Sports Precinct Volleyball   [email protected] including Sunshine Coast Stadium Weightlifting   Wrestling   Capabilities - sports and venues

Athletics, Track Badminton Beach Cricket Football Golf Hockey Marathon and Field Volleyball (Outdoor) (Soccer) (Swimming)

VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE University of the Sunshine Coast Caloundra Indoor Stadium Mooloolaba Beach Elizabeth Daniels Sports Complex Sunshine Coast Stadium Pelican Waters Ballinger Pack Caloundra Aquatic Centre Athletics Track Sunshine Coast Badminton Centre Central Park Sports Complex Maroochydore Regional Football Twin Waters Cotton Tree Aquatic Centre University of the Sunshine Coast TEAMS HOSTED Complex MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Kawana Aquatic Centre MAJOR EVENT HOSTED MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Sports Stadium Team Scotland MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Australian Hockeyroos v USA Lake Kawana Australasian Police and Big Bash League Trial Matches MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Olympic Team Test Matches Team England Australian PGA Championships University of the Sunshine Coast Emergency Services Games (Sunshine Coast Smash) MAJOR EVENT HOSTED A-League Football Trial Matches PGA Professionals Championship Australasian Police and Olympic Pool Sunshine Coast Marathon National Junior Cricket Emergency Services Games Australasian Police and Australasian Police and Emergency Sunshine Coast Masters Special Olympics Queensland Emergency Services Games Championships Services Games Holden Scramble MAJOR EVENT HOSTED State Games ICC U19 World Cup TEAMS HOSTED National Premier League Games Championship Finals World Series Swims – Mooloolaba TEAMS HOSTED Team Scotland Special Olympics Queensland Greg Norman Junior Masters Australian Olympic Trials TEAMS HOSTED Team Isle of Man TEAMS HOSTED State Games Boxing Australasian Police and Home of the Australian Hobart Hurricanes Team St Helena Emergency Services Games Cycling Academy Tasmanian Tigers VENUE NZ U19 Development squad Shamrock Boxing Club Queen St Lawn Bowls Netball Football Sports Basketball TEAMS HOSTED (Oztag) Gymnastics VENUE Australian Rules Team Scotland VENUE VENUE Various Football (AFL) Cycling Maroochydore VENUE Sunshine Coast Stadium VENUE Multi‑Sports Complex VENUE (Road, MTB) Caloundra Indoor Stadium Maroochy Beach Gymnastics MAJOR EVENT HOSTED University of the Sunshine Coast Maroochydore Mulit Sports University of the Sunshine Coast VENUE MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Queensland District Sides Sports Stadium Complex Caloundra YMCA Sports Stadium Public Roads Tag World Cup Championships Caloundra Indoor Stadium Canoeing, Sunshine Coast Maroochydore Basketball Stadium Parklands MAJOR EVENT HOSTED MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Winter Bowls Carnival Kayaking, Kenilworth MAJOR EVENT HOSTED AFL pre-season game Queensland Club Gymnastics MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Dragon Boat Wooroi Forest Championships and Border NetFest School Sport Australia - National TEAMS HOSTED Queensland U18 Basketball Challenge Championships Racing Australian U21 Team Scotland Championships MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Netball Championships AFL Australian Masters VENUE Queensland Police & Emergency TEAMS HOSTED Team Niue National Carnival National Road Cycling Football Sports League Services Games Lake Kawana Team Isle of Man Championships ( Football) Team Scotland Special Olympics Queensland TEAMS HOSTED Velothon Sunshine Coast Team Isle of Man TEAMS HOSTED State Games MAJOR EVENT HOSTED VENUE Collingwood Home of Sunshine Coast Lightning Suncoast Spinners Tournament Australian Dragon Boat Federation Sunshine Coast Stadium TEAMS HOSTED Australian Diamonds Carlton (Wheelchair) National Championships IVF Va’a World Championships Home of the Australian Cycling MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Team Scotland Hawthorn Academy TEAMS HOSTED World Dragons Abreast Australian National Junior St Kilda Team Scotland Championships Championships GWS TEAMS HOSTED There was a measurable difference in the morale German Olympic Kayak Team Western Bulldogs of athletes that attended the Sunshine Coast Equestrian camp with those that went straight to the village.

VENUE People were really disappointed they did not get to Nambour Show Grounds join the pre-Games training camp. MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Irene Riach, Camp Director, Team Scotland Annual Sunshine Coast Showjumping and Equestrian event attracts Olympic competitors Capabilities - sports and venues continued...

Outrigging Rugby Sevens Sailing Surfing Table Tennis Triathlon Water Polo Wrestling

VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE VENUE Lake Kawana Sunshine Coast Stadium Various beaches Various beaches Caloundra Indoor Stadium Public roads Caloundra Aquatic Centre Caloundra Indoor Stadium Mooloolaba Beach Caloundra Rugby Union Club University of the Sunshine Coast Mooloolaba Beach Cotton Tree Aquatic Centre University of the Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast MAJOR EVENT HOSTED MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Sports Stadium Kawana Aquatic Centre Sports Stadium MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Sporting Fields Etchells Australasian Surfing Queensland Series MAJOR EVENT HOSTED University of the Sunshine Coast Va’a World Outrigger Sprint Titles Championships MAJOR EVENT HOSTED IRONMAN 70.3 Olympic Pool TEAMS HOSTED National Outrigger Sprint MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Etchells World Championships Australian Veteran Table Tennis World Championships 2016 Team Scotland Championships Championships Australasian Police and Emergency Special Olympics Queensland IRONMAN 70.3 Sunshine Coast MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Services Games State Games National Outrigger Marathons Mooloolaba Triathlon Australasian Police and Emergency Services Games TEAMS HOSTED Swimming TEAMS HOSTED International Water Polo Test Series Team Australia Women’s Team England Australian Sevens Training Camp USA v Australia (3 games) Team New Zealand VENUE Tennis Rowing Shooting Caloundra Aquatic Centre Cotton Tree Aquatic Centre VENUE Kawana Aquatic Centre VENUE Sunshine Coast Tennis Centre VENUE University of the Sunshine Coast North Arm Rifle Club, Various Volleyball Lake Kawana Olympic Pool Weightlifting, Davison Range Maroochy River Rugby Union Sunshine Coast Pistol Club Powerlifting, MAJOR EVENT HOSTED MAJOR EVENT HOSTED VENUE ATP Challenge Body Building MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Australasian Police and Caloundra Indoor Stadium VENUE MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Emergency Services Games Special Olympics Queensland VENUE Australian Masters Rowing University of the Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Stadium Australasian Police and Emergency State Games Championships Australia and New Zealand Sports Stadium Sunshine Coast Weightlifting Club Caloundra Rugby Union Club Services Games Swim Teams training camps GPS Schools Head of the River Championships University of the Sunshine Coast MAJOR EVENT HOSTED TEAMS HOSTED Sporting Fields TEAMS HOSTED TEAMS HOSTED International Rowing Camp Australasian Police and Team Scotland Team St Helena (Australia and New Zealand) Team Scotland Emergency Services Games Team Niue MAJOR EVENT HOSTED Team Wales Special Olympics Queensland Queensland Junior Rugby Union Team St Helena State Games Championships Team Singapore Australian Junior Rugby Union U15 and U17 Sunshine Coast has been an absolutely fantastic Championships Surf Sports (Surf Life Saving) partner for us, not only the Council but more TEAMS HOSTED VENUE VENUE Wallabies Training Camp importantly the people, the volunteers, the community. Various beaches Sunshine Coast Stadium They have come together not only for us but also Wises Rd Rugby League Precinct MAJOR EVENT HOSTED University of the Sunshine Coast the eight other countries who trained here. Scotland Sporting Fields Australian Surf Life Saving Championships hosted the Commonwealth Games four years ago Queensland Surf Life Saving MAJOR EVENT HOSTED and we know for the games to be successful that the Championships NRL South Sydney v Melbourne Australian Teams Championships community get behind it and feel involved in it and that Storm Nutri-Grain Iron Man Titles NRL South Sydney v NZ Warriors is what we’ve found here. Australasian Police and Police and Armed Forces Rugby Emergency Services Games Jon Doig, Chef de Mission, Team Scotland League Championships NRL Trial Matches TEAMS HOSTED Queensland New Zealand Sports medicine and health professionals

The Sunshine Coast is home to a diverse range of health professionals that have extensive experience working with elite Visitor experiences and professional athletes and coaches, and has a strong supply chain offering. Pristine beaches sit alongside tropical rainforest and This includes, amongst other things; nutritionists, The Sunshine Coast has an abundance majestic mountains, interspersed with villages steeped in psychologists, sports scientists, exercise For an elite level academy of short-term accommodation and history. As Queensland’s naturally refreshing destination, physiologists, physiotherapists, orthopaedic many factors have to be outstanding immersion and food the Sunshine Coast is a place where you will feel like a surgeons, osteopaths and podiatrists that have local from the moment you arrive. worked with the likes of the: taken into account - varied experiences, which will ensure a high With some of the largest profile sporting events calling • Australian Women’s Soccer Team (The Matildas) level of comfort and diversity of activity training terrain, quality of the Sunshine Coast home, the region also has a solid • Australian men’s Ultra Marathon team for athletes on short or extended stays. roads, access to airports, reputation for hosting a wide range of world and national • Australian PGA It offers a unique blend of relaxed beach sporting matches and championships, including: • Australian Rugby Union weather, local resources lifestyle and hinterland charm. • Tag World Cup • Australian Diamonds and support and of course, • ICC U19 World Cup • Australian Swimming teams a receptive community. The • Pan Pacific Masters • teams • World Dragons Abreast • Stanford University & University of South Florida – Sunshine Coast region ticks • Rip Curl Grom Search American football and Olympic teams all of these boxes! • NZ Rugby Union Premier Club Grade Rugby teams • Triathlon World Cup Matt Wilson, Sports Director • • NZ Blacksticks (Hockey) and NZ Basketball. Orica-Scott Cycling Team Ironman 70.3 World Championships • World Title Boxing bouts. Email [email protected] Training ontheSunshineCoast For furtherinformation onHighPerformance Contact us

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