“Sports Central – Where Athletes Come To Play” CITY OF THUNDER BAY POPULATION: 120,000+ WHY THUNDER BAY? • One of Canada’s Best Outdoor Cities • Regional Centre for Northwest Ontario • Excellent sports facilities and affordable accommodations • International Airport • Friendly, accessible community • Skilled volunteers and inspired spectators with a SUCCESS STORIES passion for sports A proven track record for championship sports events. • Northern hospitality where athletes take centre stage 2024 Ontario Winter Games (Pending) World Taijiquan Championships 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts 2020 Manitoba Ontario Quebec Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Canadian WUSHU Championships 2019 Winnipeg TELUS Cup – Canadian Midget Hockey Championships 2018 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling – Tour Challenge 1 Hour Flight | 8 Hou r D 2 Hour F Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships riv light e | 1 6 H ou Canadian Firefighters Curling Championships r D ri ve 2017 U-18 IBAF Baseball World Cup U-16 Canadian Alpine Ski Championships Thunder Bay is located in the geographical 2016 centre of Canada on the northwest shore of Can-Am Police-Fire Games Lake Superior, 45 minutes from the USA border. PGA TOUR Canada – Staal Foundation Open 2015 Canadian Cross-Country Ski Championships CONNECTING TO THE CENTRE OF CANADA PGA TOUR Canada – Staal Foundation Open Thunder Bay International Airport is the third busiest airport in Ontario. MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES YQT • Air Canada, Westjet, Porter & Flair (Domestic) Advantage Daily connections, 16 to Toronto and 4 to Winnipeg No trip to Thunder Bay is complete withoutCo pyright © Free Vector Maps.com • Bearskin Airlines & Wasaya Airways (Regional) experiencing these iconic attractions. Daily connections, Northern Ontario and Northwestern Ontario • The Sleeping Giant • Terry Fox Monument All roads connect to Thunder Bay – Trans Canada • Fort William Historical Park Highway (east-west) and Highway 61 (south). Drive • Kakabeka Falls FIRST RATE FACILITIES AFFORDABLE Thunder Bay offers a wide range of venues to host most sports events: ACCOMMODATIONS Fort William Gardens – 3,371-seat, multi-purpose facility Events Big or Small (hockey, curling, figure skating); new video scoreboard & digital upgrades. • 2400 guest rooms (73 accessible) Thunder Bay Tournament Centre – A twin-pad arena with seating for 1,100 in with 3200 beds at 40 hotels/motels the main arena and 300 in the second pad. Full service lounge located between the competition areas. Next to full service conference hotel with 89 rooms. • Seven full service hotels with banquet/meeting facilities plus 13 other branded properties. Port Arthur Stadium – 5,400-seat, natural-grass baseball facility, lights & scoreboard; two additional world-class lighted • Residences at Lakehead University diamonds at Baseball Central. (1,000 rooms for late spring, summer events) Fort William Stadium – Multi-use facility with 400m track • Accommodations are within a 5 to 20 minute and artificial turf field for football & soccer. drive of the airport and sport venues Chapples Park Stadium – 1,000-seat, natural-turf premier soccer stadium; two adjacent practice fields. WHEREVER YOU DECIDE TO STAY, Canada Games Complex – 77m eight-lane pool, diving towers, spring boards, indoor track & squash courts. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ASSURED Lakehead University – Four connected multi-use indoor facilities. OF WARM HOSPITALITY AND The Fieldhouse – 15,000 sq. ft. gym for varsity basketball and volleyball. COMFORTABLE LODGINGS. The Hangar – 50,000 sq. ft. pro-grade artificial turf field with 200m track. Upgraded 50m, eight-lane swimming pool. Wolf Den – 30,000 sq. ft. multipurpose gym – new build (2020). Lappe & Kamview Nordic Centres – X-ski facilities with over 45 km of groomed trails combined. St. Ignatius / St. Patricks – Two new (2017) FIFA certified turf fields with 400m tracks at local high schools. Soccer, football, ultimate, track & field. OTHER VENUES • Two Alpine ski/snowboard areas with 25-plus runs. • Three curling clubs with 20 sheets of ice. • Lighted outdoor tennis facility with nine hard courts (Tennis Centre). • 18-hole championship golf course; additional three 18-hole venues. • Three FIFA standard artificial turf venues. • Expanded 20k mountain bike trails – (IMBA Ride Centre standard 2023) CHOOSE THUNDER BAY FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT! A skateboard plaza and outdoor skating rink / splash Tourism Thunder Bay – CEDC is proud to support pad are a sample of the the hosting of successful championship events experiences you’ll discover on providing bid support to local sports organizations the Lake Superior waterfront and funding through the CEDC Municipal at Prince Arthur’s Landing Accommodation Tax (MAT) Event Fund. featuring the new Delta Hotel. UNIQUELY CONTACT THUNDER BAY John Cameron Tourism Development Officer MARCH Sleeping Giant Loppet sleepinggiantloppet.ca Email: [email protected] Phone: 807-625-3231 | Cell: 807-631-3032 MAY Firefighters Ten Mile Road Race Web: visitthunderbay.com/sports 10mileroadrace.org AUGUST XTERRA Sleeping Giant Off Road Festival elementracing.ca.