Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre

The Parque Aquatico Maria Lenk is a sports pool in the Barra da Tijuca district of Rio de Janeiro on the edge of the former Olympic Park. It opened in 2007 for the Pan American Games and is named after the Brazilian swimming pioneer Maria Lenk, who died aged 92 in April 2007 and in the 1930s became the first South American woman to compete at the Olympics. The hall seats 6,500 and contains a 50-metre competition pool plus a diving tank. At the 2016 Games it hosted diving, synchronised swimming and the Paralympic swimming events. Today the arena serves as a training centre for Brazilian national squads and opens to spectators for selected events.