Deodoro Aquatics Centre, Sports complex in Deodoro, Brazil.
The Deodoro Aquatics Centre is a sports facility in Rio de Janeiro with multiple swimming pools, diving platforms, and training areas. The venue is designed to support competitive water sports and recreational activities for visitors of all levels.
The Deodoro Aquatics Centre was first built for the 2007 Pan American Games. It was renovated to host the swimming events of the modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The site is now closed.
The centre was built for the 2007 Pan American Games and later renovated for the 2016 Olympics, where its pool hosted the swimming leg of the modern pentathlon. The site is now closed, so the venue survives as a piece of Rio's major-event infrastructure rather than as a working club.
The venue stands in the Deodoro sports complex in the west of Rio de Janeiro, at coordinates -22.86180, -43.40359. The site is now closed, so the pool and the tiered blue and green spectator seats can no longer be visited; check locally before travelling there.
The venue was first built for the 2007 Pan American Games, then renovated to host the swimming leg of the modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The site is now closed, so the eight-lane pool and the blue-and-green spectator seats stand unused.
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