Singapore WCH Arena to hold athletes’ allure

Article posted by Coliseum, June 25^th, 2025

Image: World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025

The 2025 World Aquatics Championships officially have a pool with the new 4,800-capacity World Aquatics Championships Arena (WCH Arena) unveiled recently in Singapore at the Singapore Sports Hub.

‘SWIM SWAM’ stated that the facility will be home to a few large aquatics events in the coming months.

The World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for six aquatic disciplines: Swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. The Championships are staged by the World Aquatics (based in Lausanne, Switzerland), the international federation recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in water sports.

The 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the 22^nd edition of the World Aquatics Championships, will be held in Singapore from July 11^th-August 3^rd, 2025. Originally to be held in Kazan, Russia, the Championships were relocated to Singapore on February 9^th, 2023 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is the first City in Southeast Asia to host the World Championships.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the international, non-Governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas it is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Singapore Sports Hub is a sports and recreation district in Kallang, Singapore. The Sports Hub is a 35-hectare public-private partnership (PPP) that is anchored by the new 55,000-capacity National Stadium and the existing 12,000-capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium, and also incorporates a new aquatics facility, an indoor sports hall, a water sports center, public sports facilities, and retail.

Maintained Mark Chay, Co-Chair, Singapore 2025 Organizing Committee, “The young aquatics athletes from Southeast Asia will inaugurate the WCH Arena followed by the professional athletes competing in the World Aquatics Championships and our Masters athletes participating in the World Aquatics Masters Championships.”

‘SWIM SWAM’ further stated that with 4,800 permanent seats the arena comes in just under the permanent capacity of some of the recent World Championships sites. The Danube Arena in Hungary and the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha (Qatar) both have 5,000 permanent seats.

The swimming fans will also be pleased to know that the pool has a depth of three meters which matches the World Aquatics’ recommendation when it comes to the pool depth. This should assuage any concerns about the pool depth which was a major conversation during the 2024 Olympics due to the 40,000-capacity La Défense Arena’s (Nantarre, France) depth of 2.15 meters.

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, was an international multisport event held in France from July 26^th-August 11^th, 2024.

The Paris Olympians will see one familiar sight with the starting blocks which are the exact same model that was used at the Games last year.

Only Swimming and Artistic Swimming competitions will be held in the new arena. The rest of the events will be evenly spread out between Palawan Beach in Singapore and the 3,000-capacity OCBC Aquatic Centre.

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