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2. Diving platform - Wikipedia

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   In platform diving, the diver jumps from a high stationary surface. The height of the platforms – 10 metres (33 ft), 7.5 metres (25 ft) and 5 metres (16 ft) – gives the diver enough time to perform the acrobatic movements of a particular dive. There are additional platforms set at 3 metres (9.8 ft) and 1 metre (3.3 ft).

3. List of diving facilities - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. List of swimming pools - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Manchester Aquatics Centre - Wikipedia

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   A traversable boom allows separation into two 25 m (82 ft) length pools, one of which can be varied in depth from floor level to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in). The training pool's ceiling is in the shape of two long waves representing waves on water. A 25 m (82 ft) diving pool (ground level) with movable floor to allow a maximum depth of 5.1 m (17 ft).

6. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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   If the pool is used for Olympic Games or World Championships, then the minimum depth is increased to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in). [3] Whereas the Water Cube pool used for the 2008 Olympics was 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) deep, the temporary pool used in 2024 was only 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in), which commentators suggested made for slower race times.

7. Diving (sport) - Wikipedia

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   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.