Venue

The Tourelles pool in Paris introduced the 50 m course that became the Olympic standard, with Johnny Weissmuller starring in three...

The Empire Pool beside Wembley Stadium hosted aquatic events at the 1948 London Games after opening for the 1934 Empire Games. Its...

The Schwimmstadion in the Berlin Reichssportfeld hosted swimming, diving and water polo at the 1936 Games in an outdoor bowl of st...

The Helsinki Swimming Stadium was finished for the 1940 Games that war cancelled, then finally hosted Olympic swimming and diving ...

The outdoor Melbourne Olympic Pool staged Dawn Fraser and Murray Rose titles at the 1956 Games, the first Olympics held south of t...

The Stadio del Nuoto on the Foro Italico hillside hosted swimming at the 1960 Games amid marble statues from the 1930s sport forum...

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, built for Tokyo 1964, paired a dramatic suspension roof with an Olympic pool and arena and hosted swimm...

The Munich Olympic swimming hall sits under the park famous tent roof landscape and staged Mark Spitz seven gold medal swims at th...

The Montreal pool sat at the foot of the stadium tower whose inclined design became one of the most photographed venues of the 197...

The Picornell pools on Montjuic hosted swimming and water polo at the 1992 Barcelona Games, part of the hillside cluster of venues...

The Georgia Tech pool hosted 1996 Olympic swimming and diving under a roof fitted with a large photovoltaic array, then a novelty ...

The Sydney aquatic centre in Olympic Park staged Ian Thorpe and Inge de Bruijn heroics at the 2000 Games before crowds around 17,5...

Marine Messe in Fukuoka staged the 2001 world championships where Grant Hackett set his 1500 m record, and returned as a world cha...

The IU Natatorium opened in 1982 on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus and became one of the most used t...

Molitor opened in 1929 with indoor and outdoor pools ringed by art deco terraces in bright color schemes. It closed in 1989, was s...

The Icebergs pool sits at the south end of Bondi Beach with waves regularly washing over its edge, attached to a winter swimming c...

The Hajos complex on Margaret Island in Budapest opened in 1930, designed in part by Alfred Hajos, the 1896 champion who became an...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame opened on the Fort Lauderdale waterfront in the mid 1960s as a museum, archive and aquatic...

The Water Cube wrapped the 2008 Olympic pool in ETFE bubble cushions that glow at night, and its deep, wide gutters contributed to...

The London Aquatics Centre carried a sweeping roofline by Zaha Hadid over two 50 m pools and a diving well, built for 2012 with te...

The Tokyo Aquatics Centre rose in the Ariake district as a permanent 50 m venue for the postponed 2020 Games, seating around 15,00...

The Maria Lenk park hosted diving, water polo and synchronized swimming at Rio 2016 in an outdoor setting close to the Barra clust...

The vast La Defense Arena, home of Racing 92 rugby, was emptied and fitted with temporary pools for the 2024 Olympic swimming and ...

The Duna Arena opened on the bank of the Danube in Budapest in 2017 to host the world championships that year, and it staged the e...