British Columbia
Backstroke Flags in British Columbia
In short
A&T Precision Works builds backstroke flags in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, so BC clubs are ordering from within their own province. Swim BC governs club competition here and BC School Sports governs the school system, both to Swimming Canada's 5.0 metre flag placement.
- Swim BC
- Provincial governing body
- 5.0 m
- From each end wall
- 1994
- Commonwealth Games, Saanich
SourcesSwimming Canada, Provincial PartnersSwimming Canada, Facility Rules & Guidelines
Who governs swimming in British Columbia
Swim BC is the provincial section of Swimming Canada and governs club competition across the province. School competition runs separately through BC School Sports, the governing body for secondary school sport in BC, originally organised in 1965 as the British Columbia Federation of School Athletic Associations.
Both operate under Swimming Canada's facility rules for sanctioned meets, which means the same flag geometry applies whether the meet is a club invitational or a school championship: flagged ropes 5.0 metres from each end wall, 1.8 metres above the water where the building allows it.
Where BC swims
Saanich Commonwealth Place on Vancouver Island holds a 50 metre competition pool, opened in 1993 as a venue for the 1994 Commonwealth Games. It remains one of the province's principal long-course facilities.
Most BC clubs, though, train and race in municipal recreation centres rather than purpose-built competition venues — buildings that were sized to their community rather than to a rulebook. Those pools are exactly the ones where measuring beats assuming, because their widths were never standardised.
Built here
The workshop is in Port Coquitlam, in the Lower Mainland. For BC clubs that means the shortest distance between where a flag line is made and where it gets hung, and it means questions about a specific pool can usually be answered from familiarity rather than from a form.
Common questions
- Do you supply backstroke flags in British Columbia?
- Yes. The workshop is in Port Coquitlam, BC, so British Columbia clubs and aquatic centres are ordering from within their own province.
- What flag placement does Swim BC competition require?
- Swim BC competition runs under Swimming Canada's facility rules: flagged ropes 5.0 metres from each end wall, and 1.8 metres above the water surface where the facility allows it.