List of diving facilities
This is a list of diving facilities, especially those including 10-meter diving platforms. This is usually the last feature of an athletics complex required for training and competition in the full program of Olympic swimming and diving. In the United States, a 10-meter platform is required for full NCAA competition,[1] although two schools may hold a dual NCAA meet at a facility lacking one if both schools agree. Organizations that set standards for diving facilities include FINA which governs international competitions, and, in the United States, NFHS, NCAA, and USA Swimming. A typical requirement for indoor facilities is that they must provide 5 metres (16 ft) clearance above the highest diving board or platform, so that divers do not hit a ceiling structure.[1]
The competitive sport of diving has included the 10-meter dive as an Olympic event since the 1904 Summer Olympics. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards had been built in London, England. The first diving competition was held in 1885, in Germany.[2] In the first Olympic diving competition in 1904, American George Sheldon won gold in platform diving. Women's diving in the Olympics started with Women's diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics, won by Greta Johansson.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Charles_Walker_on_high_dive_during_Junior_Day_festivities%2C_University_of_Washington_%284724288323%29.jpg/220px-Charles_Walker_on_high_dive_during_Junior_Day_festivities%2C_University_of_Washington_%284724288323%29.jpg)
Training for Olympic diving competition requires 10-meter diving facilities, which are scant in some parts of the world. For example, the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, built in 1979 as a YMCA facility, is one of only two Olympic-sized pools in Wisconsin that can host large events, and it is the only facility in the southeast Wisconsin region with 10-meter diving platforms.[3]
Australia
[edit]![Canberra Civic Pool](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Civic_Pool%2C_Canberra%2C_ACT.jpg/220px-Civic_Pool%2C_Canberra%2C_ACT.jpg)
- 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 springboards. See Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- Adelaide Aquatic Centre: Built in 1969 houses an international standard diving tower and springboards on a purpose-built diving pool.
Austria
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Auster_Wellnessbad.jpg/220px-Auster_Wellnessbad.jpg)
Brazil
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Centro_Aqu%C3%A1tico_Maria_Lenk.jpg/220px-Centro_Aqu%C3%A1tico_Maria_Lenk.jpg)
- Centro Aquático Maria Lenk (built 2007), host of diving events of 2007 Pan American Games and of 2016 Summer Olympics. Now part of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park.
Canada
[edit]- Bassin de plongeon, Olympic Park (Montreal), host of diving for 1972 Summer Olympics, "complètement modernisé".[5]
France
[edit]- Piscine des Tourelles, Paris, aquatics venue for the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Germany
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Berlin_Olympic_swimming_venue.jpg/250px-Berlin_Olympic_swimming_venue.jpg)
- Olympic Swimming Stadium, Berlin, which hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics's swimming and diving competitions.
- Others:
Platform | Image | Facility | Location | Note |
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10 meter platform | ![]() |
Schwanseebad | Weimar | |
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Bünde | |||
*10 meter platform in Rheingau | ![]() |
Rheingau | ||
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Berlin | |||
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Magdeburg | |||
10 meter platform | Delfinoh Freibad | Nordhorn |
Hungary
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/2017_World_Aquatics_Championships_Budapest_-_High_Diving_%2816%29.jpg/220px-2017_World_Aquatics_Championships_Budapest_-_High_Diving_%2816%29.jpg)
- High diving facility in Budapest
- Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest
- Danube Arena, Budapest
- Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen
India
[edit]- Diving pool at Mahatma Gandhi Swimming Pool, Dadar West, Mumbai, is a separate 25 by 21 metres (82 ft × 69 ft) diving pool with 1m and 3m boards, 5m, 7.5m and 10m platforms.[6][7]
Monaco
[edit]- Rainier III Nautical Stadium, whose saltwater Olympic-size swimming pool has 1, 3, 5, and 10m diving platforms.
Netherlands
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Diving_tower_at_the_2008_EC.jpg/220px-Diving_tower_at_the_2008_EC.jpg)
- Eindhoven, host of diving for 2008 European Cup (athletics) (mainly in France)
- Olympic Sports Park Swim Stadium, Amsterdam, aquatics venue for 1928 Summer Olympics, demolished following the Olympics in 1929.
Norway
[edit]Sweden
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Lysingsbadet%2C_V%C3%A4stervik%2C_Sweden.jpg/220px-Lysingsbadet%2C_V%C3%A4stervik%2C_Sweden.jpg)
- Lysingsbadet, Västervik, diving platforms of two heights
Switzerland
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Piscine_de_Bellerive_Lausanne_%281%29.jpg/220px-Piscine_de_Bellerive_Lausanne_%281%29.jpg)
- Bellerive, Lausanne
- Hallenbad Oerlikon (Zurich), with diving boards and platforms at 1/3/5/7.5/10 meters of height.[9]
United States
[edit]Notable historic facilities in the United States, which are no longer existing, include:
- Diving platforms and springboards at the salt-water, public Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco. The facility opened in 1925 and was closed in 1971.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/VIEW_OF_ORIGINAL_JUMPING_TOWER_AND_SPRING_BOARDS_-_Fleischhacker_Pool_and_Bath_House%2C_Sloat_Boulevard_and_Great_Highway%2C_San_Francisco%2C_San_Francisco_County%2C_CA_HABS_CAL%2C38-SANFRA%2C136-20.tif/lossy-page1-220px-thumbnail.tif.jpg)
Current facilities include:
See also
[edit]- List of swimming pools in Hungary
- List of swimming pools in Sweden
References
[edit]- ^ a b "How to Design a World-Class Diving Venue". January 5, 2015.
- ^ Per History of Swimming / The History of Swimming Pools, itself citing Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ a b "Schroeder YMCA Swim/Dive Team - About WSAC". www.teamunify.com. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ^ 10 Meter Diving - Graz Eggenberg: 10-meter diving just for fun?, 2011 Youtube video.
- ^ "Bassin de Plongeon". Parc Olympique. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ Mahatma Gandhi Olympic Swimming Pool
- ^ "Mahatma Gandhi Swimming Pool".
- ^ File:Svømmestevne 1916 - no-nb digifoto 20160215 00514 NB NS NM 02828.jpg 1916 diving in Oslo, is this 10 m?
- ^ "Hallenbad Oerlikon - Stadt Zürich".
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