Gloria Sports Arena – Belek, Turkey

Purpose-built for elite training yet welcoming to active holiday-makers, Gloria Sports Arena (GSA) is Turkey’s largest multi-disciplinary performance hub. Spread across 105 000 m² of pine-backed coastline, the campus fuses three integrated zones—indoor, outdoor and aquatic—so athletes can roll from high-tech cryo chambers to sunlit sprint lanes in a single warm-up. The outdoor complex features a World Athletics-rated 400 m track with in-field football and rugby pitches, eight flood-lit tennis courts and FIBA-spec basketball, handball and volleyball courts. Inside, a two-storey strength lab stacks Eleiko platforms beside Olympic rings, climbing walls and a dedicated gymnastics hall, while the indoor arena hosts full-court games and an eight-lane 50 m pool for all-weather sets. The aquatic centre’s second Olympic pool lies outside, paired with a 25 m diving/warm-up tank, giving swim squads lane choice year-round. Recovery science is equally advanced: altitude rooms, underwater treadmills, physio suites and a massive sports-medicine centre sit metres from spacious, Wi-Fi-flooded guest rooms and buffet stations calibrated for macro control. Cyclists and triathletes join guided coastal rides, paddleboarders stroke calm lagoon water before breakfast, and evening seminars dissect data from the on-site motion-analysis lab. With more than 50 Olympic and emerging sports catered for, lightning-fast transfers to Gloria Golf Club and the sand-trimmed Mediterranean, GSA lets competitors and committed amateurs live, train and rest in one friction-free bubble.