It is tradition for the FINA World Swimming Championship pool to be named after a famous swimmer and in Manchester YOU will be able to select which one of Great Britains Olympic Gold medal winning swimmers the pool will be named after via our online vote.
The list of nominees is Anita Lonsbrough, Adrian Moorhouse, Duncan Goodhew, David Wilkie and Judy Grinham. All are Great Britain’s surviving Olympic Gold medallists in the swimming pool.
Judy Grinham (nee Roe) won her gold in Melbourne at the 1956 Olympics in the 100m Backstroke.
Anita Lonsbrough won hers in the 200m breaststroke in Rome in 1960 and that was the start of a line of British breaststrokers as Wilkie, in the same event, won silver in Munich in 1972 but gold in 1976 at the Montreal Olympics.
Goodhew and Moorhouse both won the 100m breaststroke at the Olympics, in Moscow in 1980 and Seoul in1988.
From 9th-13th April 2008, the world’s best swimmers will converge on Manchester for the FINA World Swimming Championships.
Bringing 3 firsts to the city; the 5 day event will be the first World Swimming Championship of its kind to ever be staged in the UK and with 130 different countries confirming the entry of over 800 athletes this event is set to be the biggest World Swimming Championships ever! Two huge temporary pools will also be built in The Manchester Evening News Arena, which will be the first music and entertainment venue in the UK to host competitive swimming.The main World Swimming Championship pool will be a competition standard pool where all the action will take place with 8000 seats surrounding it. A second pool will be behind a curtain, invisible to the general public and will be for the athletes to warm up before they race and swim down after the race.
The public can vote for their favourite Olympian swimmer via the World Swimming Championships website at www.manchester2008.com
For more information on tickets for the event please go to: www.manchester2008.com/tickets
For bookings call Ticketmasters: 0871 230 9864 or book online. www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
