Wales National Pool

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Wales National Pool (Welsh: Pwll Cenedlaethol Cymru) in the Sketty area of Swansea, Wales is a 50 metre swimming pool built to FINA standards. The facility, which also has a 25m x 9.5m training pool and 1,200 spectator seats, is used to train Wales'' world class aquatic sports athletes and houses the headquarters of the Wales Amateur Swimming Association. While the pool is of Olympic length, its width of 21m is not sufficient to qualify as an Olympic standard pool.The pool is one of five of British Swimming''s Intensive Training Centres (ITC), used to train swimmers for the London 2012 Olympics. The facility was built with funding from the Sports Council for Wales, Swansea Council and Swansea University and is built on the site of the university''s sports centre.... Mehr