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  2. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    Olympic-sized swimming pool, used for Baku 2015 European Games. An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships.

  3. London Aquatics Centre - Wikipedia

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    The 50-m pool is 3 metres deep, like the one in the Beijing National Aquatics Center, in order to be fast. [3] Its floor can be moved to reduce its depth. [4] There are also moveable booms that allow its size to be changed. [2] The diving pool has platform boards at heights of 3 m, 5 m, 7.5 m, and 10 m and three 3m springboards. [5]

  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. 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 ...

  6. Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1994, the SOPAC was a major venue for the 2000 Summer Olympics as it hosted the swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, the medal events for water polo, and the swimming portion of the modern pentathlon competitions. [1]

  7. No world records have been set at the Olympic pool. Is it too ...

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    For perspective, a 3-meter (9.8 feet) pool is considered the optimal depth. At the U.S. trials in Indianapolis, where the portable pool installed in Lucas Oil Stadium was around 2.8 meters (9.1 ...

  8. 'Largest swim meet ever': How an Olympic swimming pool was ...

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  9. Swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    In an Olympic swimming pool each lane is 2.5 meters wide [25] and contains 10 lanes, thus making the pool 25 meters wide. Depth: The depth of a swimming pool depends on the purpose of the pool, and whether it is open to the public or strictly for private use. If it is a private casual, relaxing pool, it may go from 1.0 to 2.0 m (3.3 to 6.6 ft ...