Toa Payoh Swimming Complex

The Toa Payoh Swimming Complex is located in the heart of a residential community in Singapore. Located at 301 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 319392, Toa Payoh Swimming Complex[1] is within walking distance from Toa Payoh MRT station. It is closed half day for maintenance on Tuesday. Operating hours are from: Tuesday: 2:30pm – 9:30pm, Wednesday to Monday: 8am to 9:30pm. Together with the Toa Payoh Sports Hall, the Swimming Complex is one of many public swimming complexes operated by the Singapore Sports Council. The swimming complex itself consists of five pools, of which three are meant for public use (a wading pool, a teaching pool and a training pool) while the other two in a separate section of the complex are used extensively for elite training by the national teams in the sports of water polo, synchronised swimming and diving.

Photographed on 26 August 2006

Toa Payoh Swimming Complex has played host to the National Schools’ Swimming Championships for many years and, since March 2006, has been hosting the synchronised swimming event of the Asian Swimming Championships.

Most notably, the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex was the venue for the aquatics (diving) event for the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics Games that took place in Singapore in 2010.


References

  1. Toa Payoh Swimming Complex by Singapore Sports Council

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