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Eriksdalsbadet is the biggest swimming centre in
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The outdoor pool was built for the
1962 European Aquatics Championships The 1962 European Aquatics Championships were held in Leipzig, East Germany from 18 to 25 August 1962. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men). In the men's swimming program, the 100 m backstroke had been replaced by the 20 ...
. The new ''Eriksdalsbadet'' was built 1999 and was designed by architect Björn Thynberger.


Facilities

It has: *25 m swimming pool with a depth of mostly 2.5 m but it varies due to a specially-constructed raisable floor. Hosting
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and Arena Diving Champions Cup annually. *50 m pool (
Olympic size swimming pool An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championsh ...
) with a depth of 2.20 m at the edges and 2.60 m in the middle of the pool *50 m outdoor pool *bubble pools *learning pool *"Lilla bassängen", the small pool, also with a raisable floor, most commonly 90 cm deep *diving tower with 3.5 m and 10 m high platforms *an adventure world for children The water temperature is usually 27 degrees Celsius.
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Stockholmspolisens IF Stockholmspolisens IF is a Swedish sports club from Stockholm, Sweden, founded on 9 August 1914. Stockholmspolisens IF has departments in handball, basketball, football, judo, triathlon, swimming, diving, masters swimming, and water polo. From the ...
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SoIK Hellas SoIK Hellas is a sports club in Stockholm, Sweden, established on 14 May 1899 as Pastorns gossar ("The Preacher's Guys") by Katarina Parish Confirmation (Lutheran Church), confirmation priest Ernst Klefbeck, before changing name to SoIK Hellas in ...
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Stockholms KK Stockholms Kappsimningsklubb, commonly known as Stockholms KK or SKK, is a Swedish swimming club from Stockholm founded on 12 July 1895, who competes in swimming and water polo. The swimming club goes under the nickname ''Kappis''. The most famous ...
and
Spårvägens SF Spårvägens Simförening, commonly known as Spårvägens SF or Spårvägen, is a Swedish swimming club based in western Stockholm. The club is residing in Vällingbybadet, Spångabadet, Tenstabadet, Beckombergabadet, Husbybadet, Eriksdalsb ...
all use Eriksdalsbadet for training.


Security issues

After an increase of
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, the direction chose to institute gender segregated jacuzzi in 2016. That measure was found insufficient to stop the incidents as a group of boys harassed girls in the adventure bath and therefore extra security guards were hired and security cameras were installed. The sales of the annual memberships decreased 11% between February 2015 and February 2016. The local municipality stated that "the debate about sexual harassment at the premises", rather than the harassment itself, had decreased sales. In 2016, reports of possible sexual abuse in pools used by both men and women prompted officials at the Eriksdalsbadet to separate the pools by gender on certain occasions, with one for women and one for men. According to unit manager Sara Franzén Shilwan, Eriksdalsbadet takes all reports of abuse seriously, and "all incidents are reported to the police."


References

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