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List of diving facilities

<noinclude> </noinclude>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, 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 clearance above the highest diving board or platform, so that divers do not hit a ceiling structure.

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. 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.

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.

Australia

  • 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 / Graz Eggenberg, Graz, Austria

Brazil

Canada

  • , at the Montreal Olympic Pool (Olympic Park Sports Centre; ), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Indoor venue with a dedicated diving pool measuring 20.7&nbsp;m × 20&nbsp;m with a depth of 4.8–5.2&nbsp;m. Equipped with two 1&nbsp;m springboards and two 3&nbsp;m springboards, and platforms at 3&nbsp;m, 5&nbsp;m, 7.5&nbsp;m and 10&nbsp;m. Venue statistics list 13 springboards in total (11 flexible, 2 fixed) and four platforms of varying heights. Built for the 1976 Summer Olympics and in continuous use since 1976. The centre reopened on 25 May 2015 after an 18-month refurbishment to modernise the 1976 facilities. World Aquatics notes the 2015 renovation brought the centre into compliance with international standards. The centre also supports indoor high diving with platforms at 20&nbsp;m, 18&nbsp;m and 15&nbsp;m. The centre continues to host elite events, including the World Aquatics Diving World Cup – Montreal (26 February1 March 2026).

Croatia

  • The Kantrida Diving Well, part of the Kantrida Swimming Pool Complex in Rijeka, features a 20 x 25 x 5M diving pool with 10M, 7.5M, 5M, and 3M platforms, as well as 1M (one fixed, three removable) and 3M (three fixed) springboards, all compliant with FINA standards. Opened in 2011, this seafront outdoor venue has a summer spectator capacity of 378 and regularly hosts international diving competitions.

France

Germany

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

Hungary

India

Monaco

Netherlands

New Zealand

  • West Wave Pool and Leisure Centre – Henderson, Auckland. Indoor venue with a diving pool equipped with two 1&nbsp;m and two 3&nbsp;m springboards, and a tower with 5&nbsp;m, 7.5&nbsp;m, and 10&nbsp;m platforms. The centre hosted the swimming and diving competitions at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

Norway

Sweden

  • Lysingsbadet, Västervik, diving platforms of two heights

Switzerland

  • Bellerive, Lausanne
  • Hallenbad Oerlikon (Zurich), with diving boards and platforms at 1/3/5/7.5/10 meters of height.
  • Gartenbad St. Jakob near Basel: 1/3/5/7.5/10 meters

United Kingdom

This section lists selected aquatic centres in the United Kingdom with verified diving platforms of 10 meters, commonly used for training and competitions.

  • London Aquatics Centre – Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Indoor venue with a dedicated diving pool (25&nbsp;m × 21&nbsp;m) featuring a moveable floor with a maximum depth of 5&nbsp;m. Equipped with platforms at 10&nbsp;m, 7.5&nbsp;m, 5&nbsp;m, 3&nbsp;m and 1&nbsp;m, plus one pair of 1&nbsp;m springboards and two pairs of 3&nbsp;m springboards. Completed in 2011 for the London 2012 Games and reopened to the public on 1 March 2014; hosts national and international competitions.

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.

Current facilities include:

Current facilities with 10M Platforms removed or closed include:

See also

References