{"id":612584,"date":"2025-05-30T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=612584"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:58:47","slug":"brisbane-to-kickstart-2032-olympic-games-buildup-with-bid-for-2030-pan-pacific-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brisbane-to-kickstart-2032-olympic-games-buildup-with-bid-for-2030-pan-pacific-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane To Kickstart 2032 Olympic Games Buildup With Bid for 2030 Pan Pacific Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Brisbane To Kick Start 2032 Olympic Games With A Bid For The 2030 Pan Pacs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brisbane\u2019s new National Aquatic Centre will face a race against time to be ready for a Swimming Australia bid to host the 2030 Pan Pacific Championships, which would officially kick start the buildup to the 2032 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While hosting rights for the combined sports World Aquatics Championships &#8211; 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But obviously the clock is ticking,\u201d Woodhouse told the <em>Courier Mail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur hope is things start moving reasonably quickly now so we can have the pool finished and operational by early to mid-2030, and that opens up the opportunity for a range of different events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt would be fantastic to hold (the Pan Pacs) in 2030 at the National Aquatic Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woodhouse said another major target event for the venue, to be built at the existing Centenary Pool venue sight at Spring Hill, would be to host the World Para Swimming Championships in 2031.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to four other international artistic swimming, diving and water polo events could also be lured to the venue in 2031.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These events would all be in addition to 2032 Olympic Trials being hosted at the Centre, and each sports\u2019 National Open Championships each year from the date it opens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe expect to host a lot of other domestic and other international swimming events over the years to come,\u201d Woodhouse said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe expect Brisbane to be to be sought after as an international aquatics venue for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane To Kick Start 2032 Olympic Games With A Bid For The 2030 Pan Pacs Brisbane\u2019s new National Aquatic Centre will face a race against time to be ready for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":612585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122075,10],"tags":[1417,2458,25031,13516,55],"class_list":["post-612584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-oceania","category-world","tag-dave-wharton","tag-ian-thorpe","tag-katie-ledecky","tag-rob-woodhouse","tag-tom-jager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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