World Swimming Center 86

This sports complex in the Community of Madrid was, in its day, the largest swimming center in the world, occupying an area of ​​23.674,49 m². It was conceived to house the V Swimming World Championship 1986, held between May 13 and 23. Since then, she has won awards such as the Gold medal to the best swimming facility, awarded by the "National Pool" of Washington in 1986 and National award to the best sports quality in 1989. In addition, was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest complex dedicated to swimming and Silver Medal as the best High Performance Center.

The architects Pérez de Arozamena and Joaquín Pujol they were the fathers of a project that, in its day, garnered numerous international awards for its surprising technical innovations, unusual more than thirty-five years ago. Among them, the inclusion of a pressure bubble device for the jumping area, which cushions jumpers' falls by up to 60%; prestressed concrete beams, which fly over the indoor pool and appear in the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest made in Spain to date or the wood and glass dome that offers a peculiar and characteristic image, both from the outside and inside. inside the facility. In addition, the building works, as a whole, in an "intelligent" way, by means of a computer that automatically controls and regulates the different maintenance systems of the installation.

All these characteristics made it possible for the M-86 to be the scene of numerous high-level competitions, both national and international. Besides of Swimming World Championship, the Center has housed, uninterruptedly, the eighteen editions of the "International Jumping Tournament Community of Madrid" (1986-2003) included since 1995 in the Jumping Grand Prix of the International Swimming Federation, the Junior World Jumping Championship 1999 in the Latin Swimming Cup or the preliminary phase of the 1st World Water Polo League in 2002.

Also notable are the various Spanish Championships in the four disciplines (swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming) as well as the different territorial competitions organized by the Madrid Swimming Federation. In addition, in 2004, it hosted the European Swimming Championships, which forced a renovation of its facilities to adapt them to the regulations of this type of competition, especially after eighteen years since the World Championship was held.

Since its start-up, this facility has sought to combine high-level competition with the promotion, development and improvement of basic sports, especially when competitive swimming in our country lacked the popular repercussion of other sports disciplines. The Madrid Swimming Federationthrough swimming campaign, you have created a project of promotion and teaching of this sports activity among the population of Madrid, which includes learning and improvement courses for children, adults, the elderly, babies or pre-mothers, as well as other complementary activities such as gymnastics or bodybuilding, initiation courses to competition or club training.

In terms of results, the design of its glasses has set numerous records, both in the world and European or national. Six were the female records that they beat each other in the 1986 World Cup; five of them were signed by swimmers from the former East Germany and the sixth by Romanian Tamara Costache, gold medalist in the 50-meter freestyle specialty. As for the jumping specialty, the North American Greg Louganis became two-time world champion and the Chinese high jumpers dominated the medal table in a competition that beat the jumper participation record. Regarding the national participation, the Madrilenian Juan Carlos Vallejo and the Catalan Sergio López beatrespectively national records 200 meter freestyle and 200 meter breaststroke.

In addition, the M-86 has been the scene of another 151 national records. Among the most outstanding, those harvested by the Spanish swimmer of Russian origin Nina Zhivanevskaya, who on April 8, 2000 broke the first female world record in the short history of the Swimming Center, since no woman had traveled, until then, the 50 meter backstroke in a time of 28'69".

On May 29, 1998, the Higher Sports Council granted these facilities the degree of Swimming Sports Technification Center, in its four modalities: swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming, making it the benchmark for aquatic activity in the Community of Madrid. The Sports Modernization Program currently being developed by the Madrid Swimming Federation and the Community of Madrid encompasses several objectives and actions, integrated into the National Sports Modernization programs promoted by the Higher Sports Council and the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation.

The facilities that make up this sports center are:

• Outdoor pool with 8 lanes (with textile cover)

• 10 lane pool (with concrete deck)

• Outdoor Splash Baby Pool

• Reception glass slides

• Children's outdoor recreational pool

• Indoor diving pool

• Jumping pool/indoor baby pool.

• Indoor Learning Pool

• bodybuilding gym

• multipurpose gym

• sports classroom

• Changing rooms and showers

• Cafeteria-restaurant

• Offices

• Machine room

• Boiler room

With date December 3, 2013, the expansion works of the "World 86" Swimming Center concluded. The main objective of this work was to provide a educational center for technical athletes that would allow to eliminate urban displacements and optimally reconcile their sports and academic training.

The works consisted of the construction of a new building with a total area of ​​2.726,90 m², occupying the space of the old summer cafeteria, and developing on three levels, being connected to the current building by the ground and semi-basement floors. The new teaching space houses an area for trainers, physiotherapy and changing rooms. On the ground floor and semi-basement there are areas for multipurpose use, such as a dining room and cafeteria, a flexible use room with capacity for 100 people and two changing rooms linked to the summer campaign or to the different competitions. The total amount of the works amounted to €5.172.618,66.

The educational center came into operation during the 2014-2015 school year, with an occupation of 120 technical students. The General Directorate of Heritage was asked to assign the semi-basement floor, the cafeteria and the rest of the building's dependencies to the Community of Madrid.

SEMI-GROUND PLANT - Changing rooms

La Semi-ground plant It houses a block of changing rooms for users of the summer campaign and another block for the exclusive use of athletes from the Technification Center.

GROUND FLOOR – Access, cafeteria and assembly hall

En ground floor the areas for public use are located, with a new cafeteria-restaurant connected to the existing hall, which will free up the space occupied by the current one, and a space for flexible use for teaching activities, meeting room, etc., with capacity for more than 100 people. 

• Main access

• Main hall

• Toilets

• classroom 1 (for plastic) 23,78m²

• Classrooms 2 and 3, 68,15m² each (can be joined together in a single space of 136,3m² for use as an assembly hall)

• Dining room-cafeteria of 326,73m², for all users of the Swimming Center, with the possibility of making the dining area independent (125m² approximately) for the exclusive use of technical athletes (students of the educational center).

FIRST FLOOR – Classrooms

La First floor It is intended for the teaching activity of the athletes of the Technification Center. It has adaptable classrooms for different configurations. These are the detailed spaces:

• Toilets
• classroom 4 from 21,66 m²
• Classrooms 5, 6 and 7, of 22,41 m² each
• classroom 8 from 27,22 m² Classrooms 4 to 8, divided from each other by mobile partitions, can be joined in different combinations to configure larger spaces, or in a single space of 116,11m².
• classroom 9 from 35,70 m²
• Classrooms 10, 11 and 12, of 35,16 m² each
• classroom 13 from 34,55 m² Classrooms 9 to 13, divided from each other by mobile partitions, can be joined in different combinations to configure larger spaces, or in a single space of 175,73m2.
• classroom 14 (computer) 34,62 m²
• Laboratory from 27,62 m²
• Office 1 (Head of studies) of 16,05 m²
• Address from 19,70 m²
• Secretariat from 18,45 m²
• Teacher's room from 28,48 m²
• Office 2 (tutorials and APA) of 17,00m²
• file / photocopier from 3,40 m²