For children born from 2013 to 2023From 14 September 2026 to 20 June 2027Groups by age, classes by levelFederal swimming badge at the end of the season
Athlon Swimming School · since 1973
From age 3, in the water without a parent
For over 50 years Athlon has been the go-to swimming school for children in Talenti, on Via Ugo Ojetti, easy to reach from Montesacro, Bufalotta and Porta di Roma.
The groups are divided by age and the classes by level: within the same time slot the children are split into several courses, and an individual learning path is set for each one. The facility has been renovated, with spaces dedicated to children and parents.
Children born in 2021, 2022 and 2023 swim in the small pool, 12 meters long and 120 cm deep: there the child can touch the bottom. All the others in the large 25-meter pool.
Scuola Nuoto Bambini
The method
The Athlon Method
Fifty years of federal swimming school in four steps. First we build your child's relationship with the water; the results come from there.
01Settling in
The class is decided in the pool
The times are divided by age, and within the same time slot there are several courses and several instructors. Your child's class is set by watching them swim, and the instructor is assigned for good after the first week. Before then there is no instructor to know — the assignment has not yet been made — and the booking calendar doesn't show it: that information belongs to the adult activities, where classes are booked one by one. After the first week the assignment is final, and if you want to talk about it there is the Technical Director, whom you can book.
02Level
You change class without changing time
If during the season your child is ready for the next class, they move up: the time you had arranged stays the same. An individual learning path is set for each child.
03Progress
See where they are, and what they still need
In your account, under Swimming Badges, you'll find the badges achieved and the tests needed for the next level, updated about every two months. If you are already enrolled and want to talk about it with a person, you can book the Technical Director: we'll call you back.
04Swimming Badge
At the end of the season the path is completed
Swimming badge session in June, on dates announced by the club: a diploma from our Federal Swimming School and an updated record book. During the year there are the Trofeo Athlon competitions, and entry is optional.
Sessions and levels
The courses
Season 2026/27
Ages 3 to 13
Course duration
From 14 September 2026 to 20 June 2027
Age group
For children born from 2023 to 2013
Groups
The times are divided by age. Within the same time slot children are divided by level, and an individual learning path is set for each one
Progress
Visible in your account in the Athlon Club app
Swimming Badge
At the end of the season, the swimming badge of our Federal Swimming School is awarded
Competitions
During the year the Trofeo Athlon swimming competitions take place: entry is optional
How we are organized
Changing room assistance provided by qualified staff
From age 8, independent access to the changing room, without accompanying adults
For the youngest, a dedicated changing room with a parent accompanying them, up to roll call: the parent does not go into the pool
You can see them before you come: open the tour without leaving the page.
Large pool
Our 25-meter pool with 5 lanes.
Small pool
The 12 × 5 meter pool dedicated to the youngest, with a temperature between 30.3 °C and 30.8 °C.
Baby changing room
The changing room dedicated to the youngest, with access allowed up to age 8 and with an accompanying adult.
Older children's changing room
The changing rooms dedicated to children from age 8 upwards. Parents are not allowed in here.
Waiting area
The area dedicated to parents while they wait, with a 82" TV showing the pools, food & beverage and air conditioning.
Pool balcony
From here you can watch the class and see your child's progress.
Parents’ questions
What people ask us about Scuola Nuoto Bambini
Yes, and the way to do it is the membership itself: it is monthly and renews on the first of the month, so you can attend for a while and, if your child doesn't settle in, cancel — you are not tied to the whole season. To stop, just send an email to disdetta@athlonroma.it at least ten days before the first of the month. If you come back later, the joining fee must be paid again.
From the age of 6 yes: you need a certificate of fitness for non-competitive sports activity — issued by the pediatrician or family doctor — to be uploaded from the app (Home → Certificate, no longer by email) within 14 days of the start of the activity. Below that age it is not required. For competitive activities (Pallanuoto, Nuoto Agonistico) you need a competitive certificate instead, issued only by a sports doctor.
From age 3: Scuola Nuoto Bambini is for children born from 2013 to 2023. The youngest — those born in 2024, 2025 and 2026 — do Baby Nuoto, in the water with a parent. What counts is the year of birth, not the months: a child born in 2023 does swimming school even if they have not yet turned 3.
It depends on the year of birth, like the groups. Children born in 2021, 2022 and 2023 swim in the small pool, 12 meters long and 120 cm deep, with water at around 30.5 °C: there the child can touch the bottom. All the others, that is the older ones, swim in the large pool, 25 meters long and 140 to 240 cm deep, at around 28.3 °C.
Yes, up to age 8: we have a changing room for children with an accompanying adult, and only one accompanying adult is allowed in. You walk them up to the staff roll call: the parent never goes into the pool, and you watch the class from the balcony or the waiting room.
No: at Scuola Nuoto Bambini the parent never goes into the pool, not even on the first days or if the child is afraid. Only the staff are in the water with the children; you hand your child over at roll call and watch from the balcony or the waiting room. The course where the parent gets in the water with the child is Baby Nuoto, for children born in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
The courses are divided by age group. Within the same time slot there are several courses: during the season, children are placed in the course best suited to their learning progress.
You can go up to the balcony above the pools, wait in the dedicated waiting room near the changing rooms, or wait in the outdoor area.
No: the group is fixed. Day and time are chosen at enrollment and stay the same for the whole season, and with the twice-a-week option there are two fixed groups. Classes are not booked one by one: the only booking you make is the make-up class, when a class is missed. If you need to change group permanently, there is the course change request.
Not before the start: the instructor is assigned for good after the first week of the course, based on how your child swims, so that every child ends up in the right class for their level. Before then the assignment has not been made, and you won't find it in the booking calendar — that shows who teaches a class that is booked, which for the Swimming School is only the make-up class. After the first week, the person to talk to about the instructor and the class is the Technical Director, whom you can book: we'll call you back.
Yes: first cancel the missed class from the app, in the Junior section, then book the make-up class — in your child's same age group — starting from three days before. There are no make-up classes in the first week of the course or in the Swimming Badge week at the end of the year, and they must be used by the end of the season, 20 June: they do not carry over to the following year.
Not just for them
Plenty of activities for you too
The club is open all day, and these are the activities we recommend to anyone who brings a child here. The times are on the timetable, from early morning to evening.
In a minute you'll get the Guest Pass link from desk@athlonroma.it, at . If you had already started, it's the same link as before, with what you had already done.
In the link, choose who to activate it for, you or a child aged 13 to 17, and see right away who can have it. Then complete your details, choose the start day and how to pay. You have 30 days to activate it.
Can't find it? Check your spam folder too.
Would you like us to call you back?
If you'd rather do it together: choose when, and we'll call you while you activate it.
Open a request for information or assistance: our Support Team takes it on and replies within minutes.
Need an answer right away? Ask the assistant: it answers in real time on any information — memberships, times, rules, procedures and everything about the Athlon world.
Step 1 of 3
What would you like to talk about?
Choose the area: the next questions change, so we don't ask you any unnecessary ones.
Step 2 of 3
What are you interested in?
You can choose more than one. Then tell us what you'd like to know.
Assistance request
Tell us what you need.
We recognize you: you have an active membership, so we won't ask for your details again. Write your request and the front desk will take care of it.
Area:
Step 3 of 3
Your details.
We need them to reply to you, and to recognize you if you write to us again.
Step 2 of 3
Your child is already with us.Your children are already with us.
Your profile already includes your child: we’ll email you the link that opens the app, with the groups still available and the prices.Your profile already includes your children: we’ll email you the link that opens the app, with the groups still available and the prices.
Tell us about your child.
These are the details we use to point you to the right group for their age range.
Step 3 of 3
And about you.
We need them to create your account on the portal: from there you can see all the available groups and the costs.
We need them to create your account on the portal, which you use to book classes whenever you like.
You're already registered with us
Your profile exists.
The request for the junior courses has reached the front desk. Your email is already registered with the club, so you don't need a new account: you log in to the Athlon Club app with your email, no password.
Log in to the app with this email and open the Junior section.
Choose the child: you'll see the groups with spots available for their year of birth.
Tap Enroll in this group and complete the signature and payment.
Log in to the Athlon Club app and open the Junior section.
Tap Add a family member and fill in their details.
Confirm: your child appears in the Junior section, ready to be enrolled.
Request sent
We'll be in touch.
It has reached the front desk and a person will reply, usually by the next working day.
We've emailed you how to enroll in Baby Nuoto. The rest — pool, times, who goes in the water with them — is best explained in a conversation.
How to enroll is in your email. To place them in the right group, we need a word with whoever looks after them.
Your assistance request is at the front desk with your profile attached, so no one will ask you for your details again. A person will reply, usually by the next working day.
Would you like us to call you back?
Choose when: a quarter of an hour, and we'll call you.
The trial is an assessment in the water, during a real training session. Choose the group: the years of birth help you recognize it.
Answer honestly: the trial is done together with the group, and a level different from the group's doesn't take twenty minutes to show in the water — it shows right away.
Swimming school first
Better to start from the course.
To join this group you need all the technical skills of the required level: it's the level the group already trains at, and anyone who starts further behind spends the season catching up instead of having fun.
Scuola Nuoto Bambini is exactly the place to reach that level — groups by age, an assigned instructor and progress you can check — and moving on from there to competitive swimming is something we do every year.
