Dantebad is an aquatics venue located in the greater

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

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area. During the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 19 ...

, it hosted preliminaries for the

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with th ...

competition. The venue was considered as host for the

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and diving competition when Munich was awarded the games in 1966, but was not up to standards for

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who only allowed those competitions to be indoors.

References

1972 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 176–7, 212–3.
1972 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 3. p. 325. Venues of the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo venues Indoor arenas in Germany Sports venues in Bavaria Buildings and structures in Munich {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub