Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium

Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium (French: Stade d'eaux-vives Pau-Pyrénées) is the home training facility for the French national canoe slalom team.

The town of Pau has long been a center of activity for French canoe slalom.

The natural rapids in the center of town are still equipped with hanging slalom gates.

But the sport is increasingly conducted on artificial whitewater, and the presence in Pau of two Olympic medalists, Tony Estanguet and his older brother Patrice,[2] helped to make Pau the site of this new 11.7 million € facility.

The artificial channels are lined with boulders embedded in concrete, and the visible instream flow diverters are natural rocks, giving the course a natural appearance, similar to that of the nearby Parc Olímpic del Segre on the Spanish side of the mountains.

Map of the stadium