Maria Lenk Aquatic Center

Maria Lenk Aquatic Center

Coordinates: 22°58′28″S 43°23′16″W / 22.97444°S 43.38778°W / -22.97444; -43.38778

Maria Lenk Water Park at 2007 Pan American Games

The Maria Lenk Aquatic Park (Portuguese: Parque Aquático Maria Lenk) is an aquatics centre that is part of the City of Sports Complex, in Barra da Tijuca, part of the investments of the city Rio de Janeiro to host the swimming, synchronized swimming and diving competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games. The name of the water park is a tribute to the Brazilian swimmer Maria Lenk, who died less than three months before its inauguration.

The water park, designed in accordance with established parameters and specifications of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), partially covered and is composed of an Olympic swimming pool, an indoor heating and a tank for diving.

The complex has the capacity to receive about 8,000 people. The construction area is 42,000 square meters. The facility has also been designed according to the specifications required to achieve the Para Pan American Games of 2007, as well as environments and equipment ready to receive people with special needs.

It became, as of March 2008, to be administered by the Brazilian Olympic Committee, which has been involved in training for Olympic and Paralympic athletes, coaches and officials, as well as courses, conferences, workshops, gym and small schools of swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming. Until now, the year 2009, the BOC did not do any sports activity on the site.

The lack of sports activities on site has been reinforcing the theory that the complex was a white elephant funded by taxes from the state government of Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] However, the park, as well as other facilities built for the achievement of the Pan American Games, is one of the major assets of the city's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics it will host the water polo and diving competitions.

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