The Maria Lenk Aquatics Center is a center for aquatics sports in the City of Sports Complex, at Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The facility was inaugurated in the year 2007 and taken over by the Brazilian Olympic Committee in March 2008. The committee uses the venue for training Olympic and Paralympics athletes. The center is named in honour of the Brazilian swimmer Maria Lenk, one of the greatest Brazilian athletes who died three months before the inauguration. The total crowd capacity of the stadium is 8,000, the center being spread across an area of 42,000 square meters. The facility was considered to be one of the major assets.
This stadium was constructed to host the aquatics competitions such as swimming, synchronized swimming and diving competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games.
The venue also arranges training for coaches and officials and has facilities of a gym and small schools of water polo, diving, swimming and synchronized swimming. 
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