Montreal 2005, 11th FINA World Swimming Championships
July 2005.
For the first time in history, a North American city, Montreal, hosted FINA World Championships.
To stage the event, the City and the Organizing Committee renovated the historical Pavillon des Baigneurs on Île Ste-Hélène, adding a marvellous new swimming complex. In all, 7 new Myrtha pools (3 permanent and 4 temporary) have been built on the site, in Parc Jean-Drapeau, where 2,500 athletes and 300,000 spectators attended the Championships.
For this most prestigious event, Montreal chose Myrtha; not only for the temporary pools, where Myrtha boast an impressive record of achievements and an experience unique in the world, but also for the permanent pools. These are the 3 Olympic level pools that have replaced the ageing concrete structures and which have been designed to provide sport and fun to all Montrealers for years to come.
As permanent pools, Myrtha built the main 50m competition pool for swimming, a 50 m warm-up pool, including a freeform area to be eventually used for leisure purposes for the Montreal community, and a diving pool, provided with Safety air cushion.
Two of the four temporary pools were installed for Artistic Swimming competitions and warm-up, the other two hosted water-polo matches and warm-up activities.
Myrtha Pools and its exclusive technologies allowed the athletes to attain excellent results and to break 9 World Records and set an astounding 25 Championship records.
After the competition, the temporary swimming pools were dismantled and permanently installed elsewhere.
The two water polo pools have been reinstalled as a 50m competition pool and a diving pool in the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. The Artistic Swimming pool’s components have been used for the refurbishment of the 50m competition pool at the Olympic Complex RIO in Montréal.
July 2005.
For the first time in history, a North American city, Montreal, hosted FINA World Championships.
To stage the event, the City and the Organizing Committee renovated the historical Pavillon des Baigneurs on Île Ste-Hélène, adding a marvellous new swimming complex. In all, 7 new Myrtha pools (3 permanent and 4 temporary) have been built on the site, in Parc Jean-Drapeau, where 2,500 athletes and 300,000 spectators attended the Championships.
For this most prestigious event, Montreal chose Myrtha; not only for the temporary pools, where Myrtha boast an impressive record of achievements and an experience unique in the world, but also for the permanent pools. These are the 3 Olympic level pools that have replaced the ageing concrete structures and which have been designed to provide sport and fun to all Montrealers for years to come.
As permanent pools, Myrtha built the main 50m competition pool for swimming, a 50 m warm-up pool, including a freeform area to be eventually used for leisure purposes for the Montreal community, and a diving pool, provided with Safety air cushion.
Two of the four temporary pools were installed for Artistic Swimming competitions and warm-up, the other two hosted water-polo matches and warm-up activities.
Myrtha Pools and its exclusive technologies allowed the athletes to attain excellent results and to break 9 World Records and set an astounding 25 Championship records.
After the competition, the temporary swimming pools were dismantled and permanently installed elsewhere.
The two water polo pools have been reinstalled as a 50m competition pool and a diving pool in the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. The Artistic Swimming pool’s components have been used for the refurbishment of the 50m competition pool at the Olympic Complex RIO in Montréal.