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List of diving facilities

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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.

University of Washington, 1915

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

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 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

Auster Wellnessbad
  • Auster Wellnessbad / Graz Eggenberg, Graz, Austria[4]

Brazil

Centro Aquático Maria Lenk

Canada

France

Germany

Olympic Swimming Stadium in Berlin
  • Olympic Swimming Stadium, Berlin, which hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics's swimming and diving competitions.
  • Others:
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Hungary

High diving platform in Budapest

India

  • 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

Netherlands

Eindhoven

Norway

Hamar

Sweden

Lysingsbadet, Västervik
  • Lysingsbadet, Västervik, diving platforms of two heights

Switzerland

Bellerive, Lausanne
  • Bellerive, Lausanne
  • Hallenbad Oerlikon (Zurich), with diving boards and platforms at 1/3/5/7.5/10 meters of height.[9]

United States

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.
Diving at Fleishhacker Pool

Current facilities include:

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See also


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