10- 8 for swimming and two outside lanes to keep the backsplash down
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∙ 2010-02-07 18:39:52There are 10 lanes in an olympic swimming pool
10
Typically 10 lanes.
In a normal Olympic Pool there are 10 lanes. I'm not too sure what a semi Olympic pool is!
8
8 or 6
to keep the swimmers in there own lanes
The dimensions of an Olympic pool are required to be 25 meters by 50 meters. PCH=NOT 10
An Olympic swimming pool usually has 8 lanes, but sometimes has up to 16.
An olympic size swimming pool has 10 lanes however only the middle 8 lanes are used for competition, with the outside two lanes being used to prevent the swimmers' waves bouncing off the walls
The definition of an Olympic size swimming pool is 10 lanes each 2.5 meters wide, however to prevent the outside lanes being disadvantaged by having to compete with the waves bouncing off the sides of the pool only the middle 8 lanes are ever used.
2.5 meters