Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Swimming center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the venue for swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo at the 2016 Summer Olympics. For venues for aquatics in previous Olympic games, see List of Olympic venues in swimming.
The Olympic Aquatics Stadium (Portuguese: Estádio Aquático Olímpico) was a temporary aquatics center in the Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro. The venue hosted the swimming events, Synchronized swimming finals and water polo finals at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the para-swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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Location | Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Coordinates | 22.980746°S 43.394918°W / -22.980746; -43.394918 |
Capacity | 14,997 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | Q2 2014 |
Opened | April 8, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04-08) |
Construction cost | $38 million |
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