Tour Olympic Training Centre Papendal

Olympic Training Centre Papendal is an elite sports training location. With a wide range of accommodations. Something for every athlete. More than 400 elite athletes and top talents, both Olympic and Paralympic, use our top facilities on a daily basis. Papendal is the home base of the NOC*NSF.

Since 2009, Papendal has received the CTO (Centre for Elite Sports and Education) status. The fact that elite athletes can train, study and live full-time at the same location, makes a CTO unique. With limited travel time. We offer elite athletes and top talents a broad range of facilities and assistance so elite athletes can get the most out of themselves in their sport and study. Recently, the name of the centre has changed to TeamNL centre.

What will you be doing?
Our enthusiastic guides are pleased to tell you about Papendal. During the tour, you will visit various highlights of Papendal, such as the BMX track, the archery shooting range, the outdoor athletics track, outdoor view of the new training building of Vitesse and of course the multifunctional elite sports hall.

This state of the art multi-sports hall, the Arnhem hall, is one of the best in Europe when it comes to size and interior. During the tour, you will get the unique chance to take a look inside. The Elite sports restaurant is a highlight of the Arnhem hall. Functional elite sports nutrition is prepared purely and daily fresh here. By uniting nutrition science, sports dietetics and cooking practice, we provide our elite athletes with innovative basic nutrition.

Perhaps you will run into an Olympic athlete!