Site Details
Address
Dorney Lakes,Boveney Road

Grid Reference
Dorney
Berkshire

Local authority
RB Windsor & Maidenhead

Sport England region
South East

Disciplines
Sprint Racing

Competitions and events
The site has held international or national competitions or events and is sustainable because the location provides the support and facilities necessary for that level of competition.

• New facility - few major competitions as yet but many planned.
• 2008 World Rowing Championships
• 2008/9 Canoe Sprint World

Training
The site has held national team or individual or group elite training for that sport or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable because the location provides the support and facilities necessary for that level of training.

• British sprint squad trained here pre Sydney Olympics

Scarcity
The site is important because of its scarcity or uniqueness value and because it cannot be re-created at a different location.

• Only 1 of 3 in the UK

Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.

• BCU Facilities Strategy 1999 - 2004 - will be identified as national centre

Physical characteristics
Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site.

• New 2Km flat water lake with 3 return lakes created by mineral extraction adjacent to River Thames. Possible white water in the future.

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