Budapest 2017 - 17th FINA World Championships
July 2017.
Budapest hosted the FINA Swimming World Championships 2017
Budapest, one of the most charming city crossed by Danube river, became the capital of swimming.
Balatonfüred and Budapest welcomed the 17th edition of FINA Swimming World Championships, where the top athletes of aquatic sports gave to all fans 17 days of thrilling emotions and amazing challenges: all the swim stars hit the scenes in swimming, open water swimming, synchro, waterpolo and diving competitions.
At this great occasion, Myrtha Pools completed 2 temporary pools: a warm up and a competition for artistic swimming.
Discover more, read the project decription below…
July 2017.
Budapest hosted the FINA Swimming World Championships 2017
Budapest, one of the most charming city crossed by Danube river, became the capital of swimming.
Balatonfüred and Budapest welcomed the 17th edition of FINA Swimming World Championships, where the top athletes of aquatic sports gave to all fans 17 days of thrilling emotions and amazing challenges: all the swim stars hit the scenes in swimming, open water swimming, synchro, waterpolo and diving competitions.
At this great occasion, Myrtha Pools completed 2 temporary pools: a warm up and a competition for artistic swimming.
Discover more, read the project decription below…
Myrtha Pools at the FINA Swimming World Championships 2017
The material of the two temporary pools starring the Championship were already in Budapest since beginning of 2017. During these last few months indeed, Myrtha Pools completed a 33x25x2 m pool and a 25x25x3 m.
The two pools were installed few months before the Championship in two different area of the city to compensate the lack of facilities available for athletes training to get ready for July’s challenges.
In fact, many of the existing pools in Budapest, were closed for maintenance and Myrtha Pools only managed to give the ideal solution.
Thanks to the fast track installation pace, hallmark of Myrtha Technology, the company was able to deliver to city of Budapest and athletes the appropriate location to gear up for such a special event.
Városliget park hosts the synchro swimming
At the end of April then, the two tanks were dismantled and temporarily re-installed as a training pool and a competition pool in the Városliget city park, UNESCO heritage.
Myrtha Pools signed also a temporary pool for high diving: a circular structure of 15 m diameter and 5.85 m depth, installed at Batthyány Square. The location was a really special one: an amazing view from the Danube sides, overlooking the Parliament, two of the most beautiful Budapest bridges and Buda Castle. This special Myrtha swimming pool laied on a custom-made platform – designed for the event – and was a unique solution with no parallel examples in the whole history of the company.
The high-diving pool
The high-diving pool represented for Myrtha an important challenge both in terms of the engineering and technology applied, as well as in terms of installation. In terms of design, the system developed by Myrtha Pools was specially engineered at the occasion to allow for a self-supporting structure, with a huge depth and beyond any common standard.
At the end of the event the pools have been dismantled to be permanently reinstalled in other facilities.
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