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First, it provides ample room for swimmers to spread their arms when performing certain strokes (the breaststroke and butterfly strokes both involve the arms swinging around to the side while being pretty flat relative to the surface). This requires sufficient width to prevent accidental collisions.
Second, it (along with the lane dividers) helps to reduce the cross-lane turbulence. One swimmer's wake can interfere with (or in some cases, even help) a swimmer in an adjacent lane.
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What is an Olympic pool size in length and width?
An Olympic swimming pool must be 50m long with a tolerance of 0.03m for 0.3m above the surface to 0.8m below the surface of the water. There is not such a tight tolerance on the width of an Olympic swimming pool which is 25m wide
In a 25m pool how many laps to swim 1300 yd?
In a standard 25m pool, that would be 52 lengths. In an olympic-sized 50m pool, 26.
What is a olympic pool dimension?
An olympic swimming pool is 2m deep, 50m long and 25m wide.
How many laps equal one mile in a pool?
70 in a 25yd pool/ 25m pool 35 in a 50yd pool/ 50m pool
What is the best pool length?
25m or 50m depends of the 50m pool has lyk a midway part time wall wichu can tak out then i wud go for 50 if not then 20m
What is the Measure of a swiming Olympic pool?
Olympic Sized/Long Course -- 50m Shortcourse -- 25m
What is the perimeter of the olympic swimming pool all around the pool?
492 feet or 150 meters, 50m x 25m.
What is a sport swimming pool?
Usually they mean a 50m or 25m pool which is rectangular and has a shallow and deep end with diving availability:)
How many kiloliters of water in an Olympic sized swimming pool?
about 100!
How many lengths swim in 1.2 mile?
39 lengths of a 50m pool 20 lengths of a 25m pool 43 lengths of a 50yard pool 22 lengths of a 25yard pool
How many laps in a normal size pool for a mile?
it depends on the size of the pool an olympic size pool (50m) would be about 33 lengths or a more common size pool is 25m which would be 66 lengths
What is the standard size of a lane for 25m pool?
one of many lanes in a competition pool is about 10 feet wide. though I have been in one lane pools of 8 foot width that work just fine. one reason for the extra width in the multi lane pool is that when in heavy use, there is some overlap of hands/arms and the width is useful to avoid collision. also, during competition, the lanes are wide so that swimmers cannot draft off of one another. hope this helps aloha
