Since 1988 there is something more that the citizens of Plovdiv are very proud of and this is the Regatta course. The rowing venue is part of the huge sports complex that is situated around it and that consists also of the Plovdiv stadium with 70 000 seats, that hosted the World Junior Athletics Championships in 1990, and the tennis complex. These are only the sports facilities of the complex, but there are also a lot of local sport clubs, a center for sport medicine and rehabilitation, and many cafes and restaurants that make the infrastructure complete and the complex the favorite recreation are of the Plovdiv people.
The regatta course Plovdiv is an artificial canal with total length of 2 300m, that was specially designed by the architect Valentine Marinov with chield consultant Svetla Otzetova to meet the contemporary requirements for staging major water sport events. The location of the course was estimated very recisely to be surrounded by the natural forests, offering fair and equal conditions in all lanes. In addition to that the direction of the course is East/West, which is parallel to the direction of the prevailing winds. However, the best demonstration for the qualiry of the rowing venue is the fast times that the Juniors recorded during the 1999 World Rowing Junior Championships – a result of the absolutely still weather.