August 1995. Vienna hosts the European Swimming Championships, but in Prater Bad swimming pool Complex there are no suitable stands to receive the numerous public that follows water polo. Having learnt of the temporary pool built in Rome for the World Championships of the preceding year, the Municipality of Wien proposes to Myrtha Pools to build a pool on the athletics track of the well-known Prater Stadion, equipped with 50,000 indoor seatings. Also in this case the time available for the installation was very short, being the stadium already booked for a rock concert till July 9th; besides it was not possible to build masonry works of any kind, since the pool had to rest entirely on the surface of the athletics track. In any case, the installation was completed on July 22nd. The pool was equipped with complete water filtration and disinfection system, heating system and circular balance tank. The sand floor was positioned on a geotextile surface to preserve the athletics track.
At the end of the Championships the disassembly was immediate: the Prater, in fact, hosted a week later an international football match. The components of the pool were used afterwards for the realization of a tank, installed in another place in a traditional and definitive way.
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