Located in the heart of a residential community together with the Toa Payoh Sports Hall, the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex is one of many public swimming complexes operated by the Singapore Sports Council.

The swimming complex itself consists of 5 pools, of which 3 are meant for public utilisation (a wading pool, a teaching pool and a training pool) while another 2 in a separate section of the swimming complex is used extensively for elite training by the national teams in the sports of water polo, synchronised swimming and diving.

Toa Payoh Swimming Complex has played host to the National Schools’ Swimming Championships for many years, and since March 2006, has been hosting the synchronised swimming event of the Asian Swimming Championships.

Most notably, the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex was the venue for the Aquatics (Diving) event for the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics Games that took place in Singapore in 2010.