天河游泳馆

The Tianhe Natatorium stands inside Tianhe Sports Centre at 299 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, and was completed in 1987 as one of the three principal venues built for the Sixth National Games. The building has 23,000 square metres of floor area, spans 62 metres from north to south and runs 118 metres from east to west, with seating for about 3,000 spectators. Inside are a 50-metre competition pool built to international standards, a standard training pool and a 21 by 21 metre diving pool, with the main pool three metres deep, so that swimming, artistic swimming, water polo and diving can all be staged and trained for. Poolside timing and scoring equipment, lighting, sound and spectator galleries complete the hall. Water polo at the 2010 Asian Games was played here from 13 to 25 November. After the Games the natatorium became part of the centre's public fitness offering, running swimming lessons, artistic swimming and water polo programmes; it reopened in 2022 and takes bookings through the Quntitong platform. Sitting in the heart of the Tianhe commercial district, it is within walking distance of Metro Line 1's Tiyu Xilu and Tianhe Sports Center stations and is one of the busiest public indoor pools in the district. The natatorium, stadium and gymnasium enclose the centre's main plaza, which handles crowd distribution on event days and keeps spectators away from training groups. Every year on 8 August, National Fitness Day, the natatorium joins other public pools in Guangzhou in offering free admission, with places booked in advance through the Quntitong platform; ordinary weeks mix subsidised sessions with standard ones, and youth swimming courses are added during the summer holidays.