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Francisco Márquez Olympic Pool: Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Water polo (final) Indoor pool: 15,000 [20] 1972 Munich: Schwimmhalle: Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Water polo (final) Indoor pool: 9,182 [21] 1976 Montreal: Olympic Pool: Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Water polo (final) Indoor pool: 10,000 [22] 1980 Moscow ...
The Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc (English: Montjuïc Municipal Pool) is a sports venue situated in the Olympic Ring in Barcelona. The venue consists of two swimming pools: a pool for diving and a 25m outdoor pool. It hosted the diving events and the water polo preliminaries for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Olympic Pool: Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo (final) 10,000 [20] 1980 Moscow: Swimming Pool - Olimpisky: Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo (final) 13,000 [21] 1984 Los Angeles: Olympic Swim Stadium: Swimming, Synchronized swimming: 16,500 [22] 1988 Seoul: Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50-metre (164-foot) swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The centre, designed by architect Zaha Hadid as one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics , was used for the swimming , diving and ...
Canberra Civic Pool. Canberra Olympic Pool: Opened in 1955 in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, this was the first 10-metre diving platform tower built in Australia. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre: host to the 2000 Olympic Games diving events and provides an ongoing venue for diving competitions with diving towers and ...
It has a 50 m indoor Olympic pool (2m depth), a 50 m outdoor Olympic pool (4m to 2m in depth), a 25 m lap pool, and a 25-metre diving pool with .5, 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 m diving boards and platforms. North Sydney Olympic Pool (1936), North Sydney , designed in Inter-War Free Classical style with art deco-style decorations, hosted the swimming and ...
Points on pool depths in connection with diving safety: most competition pools are 5 m deep for 10 m platform and 4 m deep for 5 m platform or 3 m springboard. These are currently the FINA recommended minimum depths, however some pools are deeper. The deepest diving pool in Europe is in Ponds Forge International Sports Centre at 5.85 m.
Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" [1] for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive (such as somersaults and twists).