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.

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

• 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

• Bassin de plongeon, Olympic Park (Montreal), host of diving for 1972 Summer Olympics, "complètement modernisé".^[5]

France

• Piscine des Tourelles, Paris, aquatics venue for the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Germany

Olympic Swimming Stadium in Berlin

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

Platform	Image	Facility	Location	Note
10 meter platform		Schwanseebad	Weimar
			Bünde
*10 meter platform in Rheingau			Rheingau
			Berlin
			Magdeburg
10 meter platform		Delfinoh Freibad	Nordhorn
10 meter platform		Ulla-Klinger-Halle ("Westhalle")	Aachen	[6]

Hungary

High diving platform in Budapest

• High diving facility in Budapest
• Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest
• Danube Arena, Budapest
• Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen

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.^[7][8]

Monaco

• Rainier III Nautical Stadium, whose saltwater Olympic-size swimming pool has 1, 3, 5, and 10m diving platforms.

Netherlands

Eindhoven

• 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

Hamar

• Ankerskogen svømmehall, in Hamar, Hedmark
• Oslo^[9]

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.^[10]

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:

Image	Facility	City	State	Note
	Alabama Aquatic Center, University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	Alabama	[11]
	James E. Martin Aquatics Center, Auburn University	Auburn	Alabama	[12]
	NAU Aquatic and Tennis Complex, Northern Arizona University	Flagstaff	Arizona	[13]
	Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, Arizona State University	Tempe	Arizona
	Hillenbrand Aquatic Center, University of Arizona	Tucson	Arizona
	California Aquatic Center, University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	California
	Clovis West Aquatics Center, Clovis West High School	Fresno	California	[14][15]
	Spieker Aquatics Center, University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California
	Uytengsu Aquatics Center, University of Southern California	Los Angeles	California	Built for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Updated 2014.[16]
	Marguerite Aquatic Center, Mission Viejo Nadadores	Mission Viejo	California	^[citation needed]
	Riverside Aquatics Complex, Riverside City College	Riverside	California	[17]
	Rose Bowl Aquatics Center	Pasadena	California
	Santa Clara International Swim Center, Santa Clara University	Santa Clara	California	^[citation needed]
	Maas Diving Center, Avery Aquatic Center, Stanford University	Stanford	California	[18]
	USAFA Cadet Gymnasium, United States Air Force Academy	Colorado Springs	Colorado	[19]
	University Center Swimming Pool, University of Miami	Coral Gables	Florida	[20]
	Coral Springs Aquatic Complex	Coral Springs	Florida	[21]
	Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex	Fort Lauderdale	Florida	[22]
	Stephen C. O'Connell Center Natatorium, University of Florida	Gainesville	Florida	[23]
	YMCA Aquatic Center	Orlando	Florida	[24]
	Morcom Aquatics Center, Florida State University	Tallahassee	Florida	[25]
	Coach Herb McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech	Atlanta	Georgia	[26]
	Gabrielsen Natatorium, University of Georgia	Athens	Georgia	[27]
	Moss Farms Aquatic Center	Moultrie	Georgia	[28]
	Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex, University of Hawaii	Honolulu	Hawaii	[29]
	Olympic Swimming Complex	Lava Hot Springs	Idaho	Private[30]
	Portage Park Pool	Chicago	Illinois	10M IS CLOSED SINCE 2019 [31]
	Meineke Pool	Schaumburg	Illinois	10M open until August 13 during summer.
	Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center, Indiana University	Bloomington	Indiana	[32]
	Hoosiers' Outdoor Diving Facility, Indiana University	Bloomington	Indiana	[32]
	IU Natatorium, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis	Indianapolis	Indiana	[33]
	Boilermaker Aquatic Center, Purdue University	West Lafayette	Indiana	^[citation needed]
	Iowa Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, University of Iowa	Iowa City	Iowa	^[citation needed]
	Robinson Natatorium, University of Kansas	Lawrence	Kansas	[34]
	Lancaster Aquatic Center, University of Kentucky	Lexington	Kentucky	^[citation needed]
	Ralph Wright Natatorium, University of Louisville	Louisville	Kentucky	[35]
	LSU Natatorium, Louisiana State University	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	[36]
	United States Naval Academy Aquatic Center, Lejeune Hall, United States Naval Academy	Annapolis	Maryland	[37]
	Kennedy Shriver Aquatic Center	Bethesda	Maryland	[38]
	Germantown Indoor Swim Center	Boyds	Maryland	^[citation needed]
	Canham Natatorium, University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan	^[citation needed]
	Jones Natatorium, Eastern Michigan University	Ypsilanti	Michigan	^[citation needed]
	Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center, University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	Minnesota	^[citation needed]
	Shaw Park Aquatic Center	Clayton	Missouri
	Mizzou Aquatic Center, University of Missouri	Columbia	Missouri	[39]
	City of St. Peters Rec Plex	Saint Peters	Missouri
	Bob Devaney Sports Center, University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Lincoln	Nebraska
	Sonny Werblin Rec Center, Rutgers University	New Brunswick	New Jersey	[40]
	DeNunzio Pool, Princeton University	Princeton	New Jersey	[41]
	University at Buffalo Pool, University at Buffalo	Buffalo	New York	^[citation needed]
	Nassau County Aquatic Center, Eisenhower Park	Long Island	New York	[42]
	Crandall Pool, United States Military Academy	West Point	New York
	Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion, Duke University	Durham	North Carolina	^[citation needed]
	Greensboro Aquatic Center	Greensboro	North Carolina
	Robert F. Busbey Natatorium, Cleveland State University	Cleveland	Ohio	^[citation needed]
	Ron O'Brien Diving Well, Ohio State University	Columbus	Ohio	^[citation needed]
	Beeghly Natatorium, Youngstown State University	Youngstown	Ohio	[43]
	The Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center, Miami University	Oxford	Ohio
	Tualatin Hills Aquatic Center, Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District	Beaverton	Oregon	^[citation needed]
	Hidden Hollow Swim Club	Media	Pennsylvania	[44]
	Pitt Pool, University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	^[citation needed]
	McCoy Natatorium, Pennsylvania State University	State College	Pennsylvania	[45]
	Allan Jones Aquatic Center, University of Tennessee	Knoxville	Tennessee	[18]
	Student Aquatic Center, University of Tennessee	Knoxville	Tennessee
	Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, University of Texas at Austin	Austin	Texas	[46]
	Texas A&M Natatorium, Texas A&M University	College Station	Texas	^[citation needed]
	Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium, Southern Methodist University	Dallas	Texas	[47]
	Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, The University of Houston	Houston	Texas	[48]
	Com Aquatics	Midland	Texas	^[citation needed]
	Northside ISD Swim Center	San Antonio	Texas
	Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center	Salt Lake City	Utah
	Christiansburg Aquatic Center Virginia Tech	Blacksburg	Virginia	[49]
	Liberty Natatorium, Liberty University	Lynchburg	Virginia	Planned for completion in 2017.[50]
	Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center	Federal Way	Washington	[51]
	Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center	Brown Deer	Wisconsin	[3]
	Soderholm Family Aquatic Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison	Wisconsin	[52]
	The Aquatic Center at Mylan Park, West Virginia University	Morgantown	WV	Opened officially in November 2019

See also

• List of swimming pools in Hungary
• List of swimming pools in Sweden

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