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. The venue consists of three swimming pools: a 50m indoor pool, a 50m outdoor pool, and a pool for diving. It hosted the

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events, synchronized swimming events, the

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final, and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon event for the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

. The swimming pools are for public use and are open all year long.

History

The venue, named after the Catalan swimmer and founder of the Spanish Swimming Federation Bernat Picornell i Richier, was built to host the 1970 European Aquatics Championships. In 1990, refurbishment works began for the 1992 Olympics; the main changes were that the training pool was covered and that temporary grandstands were installed, boosting the capacity to more than 10,000 spectators. Since the 1992 Olympics, the outdoor swimming pool, with capacity for 3,000 spectators, has hosted several Spanish and Catalan swimming championships as well as the synchronized swimming events for the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. In 2013, it hosted the water polo events for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, since the city of Barcelona repeated as host ten years later.

References

1992 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. pp. 181–4.

External links

Official site
Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics Bernat Picornell Sports venues in Barcelona Olympic modern pentathlon venues Olympic swimming venues Olympic synchronized swimming venues Olympic water polo venues {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub

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