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Facilities and Equipment of Swimming

This document summarizes swimming facilities and equipment used for competition. It outlines that competition pools for world championships must be 50 meters long and 25 meters wide with 10 lanes. It also describes the requirements for other pools that host events under FINA regulations, including the minimum width and depth. The document also lists the key swimming equipment used, including swimsuits that seek to improve on bare skin for speed, swim caps that keep hair out of the way to reduce drag, and goggles that keep water and chlorine out of swimmers' eyes.

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Facilities and Equipment of Swimming

This document summarizes swimming facilities and equipment used for competition. It outlines that competition pools for world championships must be 50 meters long and 25 meters wide with 10 lanes. It also describes the requirements for other pools that host events under FINA regulations, including the minimum width and depth. The document also lists the key swimming equipment used, including swimsuits that seek to improve on bare skin for speed, swim caps that keep hair out of the way to reduce drag, and goggles that keep water and chlorine out of swimmers' eyes.

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FACILITIES AND

EQUIPMENT OF SWIMMING
SWIMMING FACILITIES
COMPETION POOLS
- World championship pools in long coursemust be 50 - Other pools which
meters long and 25 meters wide, with ten lanes hostevents under
labeled zero to nine (one to tenin some pools) FINAregulations are
- Zero and nine (one and ten) left emptyin semi- required tomeet but not all
finals and finals. of thisrequirements.
- The lanes must be at least 2.5 meters wide. - Many of these pools
- The pool must have a minimum depthof two meters. haveeight, or even six,
instead often lanes and
some will be 25meters long,
making themshort courses.
SWIMMING EQUIPMENTS

1. SWIMSUIT
- Competitive swimwear seeks to improveupon bare skin for a speed
advantage andcoverage.
- In 2009, FINA rules and regulations bannedsuits which go above the
navel or below theknee for men and suits which extend past
theshoulders or cover the neck for women.
2. SWIM CAP
- A swim cap keeps theswimmer’s hair out of the wayto reduce drag.-
Caps may be made of latex,silicone, spandex or lyca.
3. GOGGLES
- It keeps the water andchlorine out of theswimmer’s eyes.- Goggles may
be tinted tocounteract glare at outdoorpools.

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