Melbourne 2006 - Competition swimming pools for the 18th Commonwealth Games

March 2006. The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) has hosted, from March 15th, 2006 to March 26th the official competitions of the 18th edition of the Commonwealth Games, that are disputed every four years in one of the nations or of the countries that belong to it. For the city of Melbourne it has been the most relevant sporting event, after the Olympic Games in 1956, with the participation of over 6,000 athlets, coaches, sporting officers, from 71 Countries, and a turnout of more than one million spectators.

In MSAC, presently the largest sports centre by far in all the Southern hemisphere, Myrtha Pools have built the tank for the swimming competitions: a Myrtha Ceramic 2 pool, 52x25x2.8 m, equipped with bulkhead. The Myrtha structure, obtained thanks to the use of very high quality materials and equipped with a possibility of millimetric adjustment, allows the athletes to reach high speeds thanks to the design of the overflow gutter, that, besides being very capacious, absorbs the wave created by the swimmer without any return.
Witness the fact that, like in Montreal in 2005, also in Melbourne the successes for the athletes have been a lot: in its first months of activity, in the pool of the MSAC, that already in the month of February had been venue of the Australian trials of qualification to the Commonwealth Games, 53 records, of which as much as 6 are world records, have been beaten.
Yet again a Myrtha Pools record!