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List of Olympic venues in water polo

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The Seine in Paris hosted the first water polo competitions at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

The Swimming Stadium hosted the water polo events for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre hosted the water polo events for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

For the Summer Olympics, there are 34 venues that have been or will be used for water polo. Debuting in 1900, the first venues took place similar to that of the swimming events.^[1] By the 1908 Games, the first water polo venue not located on a river or a lake took place.^[2] It was not until the 1920 Games that a separate venue was created for the aquatic venues.^[3] 1948 was the first Olympics in water polo took place both indoor and in more than one venue.^[4]^[5] The first separate water polo venue that was not connected to other aquatic venues was at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[6]^[7]

Games	Venue	Other sports hosted at venue for those games	Capacity	Ref.
1900 Paris	Seine	Rowing, Swimming	Not listed.	^[1]
1904 St. Louis	Forest Park	Diving, Swimming	Not listed.	^[8]
1908 London	White City Stadium	Archery, Athletics, Cycling (track), Diving, Field hockey, Football, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Rugby union, Swimming, Tug of war, Wrestling	97,000.	^[2]
1912 Stockholm	Djurgårdsbrunnsviken	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Rowing, Swimming	Not listed.	^[9]
1920 Antwerp	Stade Nautique d'Antwerp	Diving, Swimming	Not listed.	^[10]^[11]^[3]
1924 Paris	Piscine des Tourelles	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	8,023	^[12]
1928 Amsterdam	Olympic Sports Park Swim Stadium	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	4,440	^[13]
1932 Los Angeles	Swimming Stadium	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	10000	^[14]
1936 Berlin	Olympic Swimming Stadium	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	20,000 during 1936 Games.	^[15]
1948 London	Empire Pool (final)	Boxing, Diving, Swimming	12,500	^[4]
1948 London	Finchley Lido	None	Not listed.	^[5]
1952 Helsinki	Swimming Stadium	Diving, Swimming	12,500	^[16]
1956 Melbourne	Swimming/Diving Stadium	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	6,000	^[17]
1960 Rome	Piscina delle Rose	None	1,850	^[18]
1960 Rome	Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto (final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	20,000	^[19]^[20]
1964 Tokyo	Tokyo Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool	None	3,000	^[6]^[7]
1968 Mexico City	Francisco Márquez Olympic Pool (final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	15,000	^[21]
1968 Mexico City	University City Swimming Pool	None	4,993	^[22]
1972 Munich	Dantebad	None	3,200	^[23]
1972 Munich	Schwimmhalle (final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	9,182	^[24]
1976 Montreal	Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard	Handball	2,755 (Water polo) 4,721 (Handball)	^[25]
1976 Montreal	Olympic Pool (final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	10,000	^[26]
1980 Moscow	Swimming Pool - Moscow	None	10,500	^[27]
1980 Moscow	Swimming Pool - Olimpiysky (final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming	13,000	^[28]
1984 Los Angeles	Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool	None	5,000	^[29]
1988 Seoul	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming	8,000	^[30]
1992 Barcelona	Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc	Diving	6,500	^[31]
1992 Barcelona	Piscines Bernat Picornell (final)	Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming	10,000	^[32]
1996 Atlanta	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming	15,000	^[33]^[34]
2000 Sydney	Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre (women's matches)	None	3,900	^[35]
2000 Sydney	Sydney International Aquatic Centre (women's final and men's final)	Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming	10,000 (17.000 during 2000 Games)	^[36]
2004 Athens	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre	Diving, Swimming, Synchronized swimming	11,500 (larger pool)	^[37]
2008 Beijing	Ying Tung Natatorium	Modern pentathlon (swimming)	4,852	^[38]
2012 London	Water Polo Arena	None	5,000	^[39]
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre	Diving, Synchronized swimming	6,500	^[40]
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Olympic Aquatics Stadium (finals)	Swimming, Synchronized swimming	18,000	^[41]
2020 Tokyo	Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center	None	5,000
2024 Paris	Paris La Défense Arena (finals)	Swimming	15,220
2024 Paris	Paris Aquatic Centre	Diving, Synchronized swimming	5,000
2028 Los Angeles	Long Beach Convention Center Lot	Synchronized swimming	Not listed.
2032 Brisbane	Brisbane Live (finals)	Swimming	17,000
2032 Brisbane	Brisbane Aquatics Centre	Diving, Synchronized swimming	4,300

References

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^ ^a ^b 1900 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine pp. 17-18. Accessed 14 November 2010. (in French)

^ ^a ^b 1908 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine pp. 32-5, 40. Accessed 5 October 2010.

^ ^a ^b Sports-reference.com profile of Men's water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

^ ^a ^b 1948 Summer Olympic official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine pp. 43, 49. Accessed 19 October 2010.

^ ^a ^b 1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine p. 49. Accessed 19 October 2010.

^ ^a ^b 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.]

^ ^a ^b 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 121. Accessed 31 October 2010.

^ Spalding's report of the 1904 Summer Olympics. Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine pp. 229, 231. Accessed 4 October 2010.

^ 1912 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 211-7, 221-2. Accessed 5 October 2010.

^ Sports-reference.com profile of Diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

^ Sports-reference.com profile of Swimming at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

^ 1924 Olympic official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 438-40, 443-4, 499 (in French).

^ 1928 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-08 at the Wayback Machine pp. 193, 205-9, 277.

^ 1932 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 68, 79, 83.

^ 1936 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 150-3, 498. Accessed 17 October 2010.

^ 1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine pp. 47–9. Accessed 21 October 2010.

^ 1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine pp. 41-2. Accessed 25 October 2010.

^ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. pp. 75-6. Accessed 28 October 2010.

^ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. pp. 62-4. Accessed 28 October 2010.

^ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. p. 661. Accessed 28 October 2010.

^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. p. 72. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)

^ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. p. 79. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)

^ 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 176–7, 212-3. Accessed 8 November 2010.

^ 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 184-7. Accessed 8 November 2010.

^ 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 118-23. Accessed 14 November 2010.

^ 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 66-75. Accessed 14 November 2010.

^ 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 55-7. Accessed 18 November 2010.

^ 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 72-5. Accessed 18 November 2010.

^ 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 147-9. Accessed 24 November 2010.

^ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 164. Accessed 1 December 2010.

^ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 185-8. Accessed 6 December 2010.

^ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 181-4. Accessed 20 July 2011.

^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 540. Accessed 9 December 2010.

^ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 448, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010.

^ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 378. Accessed 17 December 2010.

^ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 386. Accessed 16 December 2010.

^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 201, 207, 227, 231. Accessed 22 December 2010.

^ "Yingdong Natatorium of National Olympic Sports Center". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-10. Retrieved 2008-08-10.

^ London2012.com profile of the Water Polo Arena. Archived 2011-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.

^ Rio2016.com profile of the Maria Lenk Aquatics Ctr. Archived 2016-07-03 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 4 July 2016.

^ Rio2016.com profile of the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Archived 2016-07-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 4 July 2016.