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Sandford Parks Lido is a Grade II Listed heated outdoor swimming pool in Cheltenham, England The lido consists of a 50-metre main pool (with reserved lanes), a children's pool, and paddling pool. The main pool is heated to 24-26 °C and children's pool to 30 °C.
The Cheltenham Trust is a registered charity that manages several cultural and leisure venues in the spa town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.. It manages Cheltenham Town Hall, The Wilson (Cheltenham) the town's Art Gallery and Museum, Pittville Pump Room and Prince of Wales Stadium and the Leisure @ sports centre and swimming complex.
U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS), founded in 1970, is a national membership nonprofit [1] supporting masters swimming in the United States.The program began when the first National Masters Swimming Championships were held on May 2, 1970 at the Amarillo Aquatic Club pool with a few dozen swimmers.
Like most of Cheltenham's historic parks and gardens, Pittville Park was originally enclosed by railings, and private to the residents and subscribers to the spa. The park was formally opened to the public on 25 April 1894, a few years after Cheltenham Borough Council had bought the Pittville Estate. Central Cross Drive café
The European Short Course Swimming Championships (variously referred to informally as the "Short Course Europeans" or "European 25m Championships") are a swimming meet, organized by LEN. The meet features swimmers from Europe, competing in events in a short course (25-meter) pool. The meet has traditionally been held in the beginning of December.
Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
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He trained with other members of the British team in the Ponds Forge swimming complex in Sheffield. In 1998 Leon invented the 5255b; a back 2.5 somersaults, 2.5 twists [8] [9] which at the time was the World's most difficult dive with a tariff of 3.8. Following a rule change in 2009, the dive now carries a tariff of 3.6. [10]