The Wales National Pool in the Sketty

Sketty

Sketty is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward....

 area of Swansea

Swansea

Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...

, Wales

Wales

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, is a 50 metre swimming pool

Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...

 built to FINA

International Swimming Federation

Fédération Internationale de Natation is the International Federation recognized by the International Olympic Committee for administering international competition in the aquatic sports...

 standards. The facility, which also has a 25m x 9.5m training pool and 1,200 spectator seats, is used to train Wales' world class aquatic sports athletes and houses the headquarters of the Wales Amateur Swimming Association. While the pool is of Olympic length, its width of 21m is not sufficient to qualify as an Olympic standard pool.

The pool is one of five of British Swimming

British Swimming (organisation)

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's Intensive Training Centres (ITC), used to train swimmers for the London 2012 Olympics

2012 Summer Olympics

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. The facility was built with funding from Sport Wales, Swansea Council and Swansea University

Swansea University

Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...

and is built on the site of the university's sports centre.

External links

• Wales National Pool (official site)
• Denbigh Dragons visit the National Pool (Denbigh Swimming Club)