Olympic swimming pool. And it's all about him

Sports swimming is one of the summer popular and most popular sports, second only to the queen of sports - track and field athletics in terms of the number of Olympic medals being played.

Drawing of medals takes place among female and male swimmers in freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, and complex swimming. The calendar of sports is determined by the European or International Swimming Federation. World and European championships are held, both world cups are short (25m pool) and long water (50m pool).

Olympic swimming pool. Basic requirements for the bowl

The Olympic Games and the World Championships in water sports, including sport swimming, in accordance with the FINA rules, are held in hydraulic structures having a length of 50 meters, a width of 25 meters, a depth of at least 2 meters .

The width of the Olympic pool is divided into ten tracks. Each of the isolated places has a width of 2.5 meters. The first and tenth tracks belong to auxiliary structures. The remaining eight are the main ones on which athletes compete.

All ten strips in the basin of the pool are divided among themselves by means of special separation floats. For the first and eighth tracks, the beginning and the end, 5 meters long on both sides, are marked by red floats, and the rest of the interval - garlands of green color. For the second, third, sixth and seventh tracks, the beginning and the end are marked by blue floats, and the rest of the interval is marked with floats of green color. The fourth and fifth tracks are the most prominent. They are often swim athletes, showing the best result. The beginning and the end at them are designated by floats of yellow color, and all other interval is allocated green.

Other parameters of the hydraulic structure of the Olympic type must also strictly comply with the regulations. So, the water temperature should be within 25-28 degrees. The indicator of illumination along the entire line of tracks must be at least 1500 lux.

Why is the length of the pool

The main and main part of the length of the meridian - a meter - was invented by the inhabitants of France. Its reference version is in a responsible custody in a suburb of Paris. As you know, the first Olympic Games of our era were organized and conducted thanks to the efforts and care of the French public figure, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

All the sports distances at the first Olympic Games of 1896 in Greece were not in pounds and miles, but in meters. The Olympic pool was not built for the competitions. Swimming competitions were organized in open water. Participants sailed along the Aegean Sea from the boat to the boat. After the first Olympics in Europe began to build pools for the Olympic distances. A hydraulic structure with a length of 25 or 50 meters better corresponds to any distance in sport swimming than a pool having a different length. In the history of navigation there were cases of erection and a 100-meter pool. The event occurred in the 20s of the last century in Holland. As a result, the sports achievements of the swimmers were unsatisfactory, and from the manners for the construction of the 100-meter Olympic pools were abandoned.

Olympic Pool in London - pool number one in Europe

After the London Summer Olympics in 2012, the majestic Olympic Pool took a worthy place as the leader among the hydraulic engineering structures in Europe. It accommodates more than 17 thousand spectators and fans. Outside, the Olympic pool resembles the shape of a sea stingray, so that from the first time it becomes clear to the spectators what kind of sport this sporting facility is designed for .

The project of the Olympic bowl was created by the architectural bureau named after Zakhi Khadid. In general, Hadid rarely builds his designs on the territory of England. But to the Olympic Games in 2012 I tried my best. Their beauty really amazes both spectators and athletes themselves. An unusual contour of buildings always attracts participants, and, of course, the pools themselves are original. In the Olympic Village there are two facilities for the swimming competition, as well as a swimming pool for jumping into the water, for synchronized swimming and for water polo. Perhaps that's why swimmers and other athletes managed to achieve their best results in Olympic Poolin London.

Sports complex in Luzhniki: in the service of Russians

The open-air pool of the Luzhniki sports complex was put into operation in 1956. For forty years it remained one of the main sports hydraulic structures of the former Soviet Union, where the competitions of high rank on water sports were held. On his blue tracks, most of the famous swimmers trained and went to victory: Victor Mazanov, Nikolai Pankin, Vladimir Salnikov and others. A special place in the history of the sports complex took place in 1980, when the Soviet national team won many medals of different sizes.

Olympic reserve pools for the average fan

"Pool for professional swimmers" - sounds important and attractive. Would you like to swim in it? Then please. For example, you can purchase an unlimited subscription to the Olympic pool in Moscow or the Olympic Sports Palace, located in the city of the regional subordination of the Moscow region. It's about Chekhov. The Olympic pool in Luzhniki has three baths. Two facilities of 50 meters in length and one pool for jumping into the water. The swimming pool in Chekhov also has a length of 50 meters and a unique, beautiful appearance. It was put into operation in 2010. You can swim where you like!

Subscription is valid for three months. Time for classes in the pool is unlimited. You can go swimming several times a day, at your discretion and at a convenient time. It will require only a medical certificate from the district doctor and a photograph measuring 3 * 4 cm.