With the Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton setting a 60m hurdles world record of 7.65, a historic milestone has been reached on Mondo : no less than 300 world records have been set on its athletics tracks.
The very first entry on the long list of landmarks in the sport started in 21 July 1972, nearly 48 years ago, when Franco Ossola, Luigi Benedetti, Pasqualino Abeti, Pietro Mennea sped to a world 4x200m record of 1:21.5 on the recently-installed track in Barletta, Italy.
The latest record came at just a few seconds after 9pm local time at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 when Charlton reduced the world record in the indoor event for the second time in three weeks.
Charlton’s feat came hard on the heels of the Dutch superstar Femke Bol reducing the 400m indoor world record to 49.17 one day earlier to move the Mondo milestone counter to 299.
The hydraulically banked Mondo Sportflex Super X 720 track installed at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, which was resurfaced in an eye-catching red and grey with alternating colors between lanes after its installation in November 2023, was praised as super-fast by competitors in all disciplines in Glasgow.
At 42% shock absorption, the Glasgow track was Mondo’s softest ever for a major event. Yet it produced overwhelmingly fast results, proving once and for all that Mondo is not fast because it is hard. Mondo is super soft and super fast.
The 19th edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships –with Mondo having supplied the track on 14 occasions – saw many other superlatives as well.
In addition to Bol and Charlton’s world records
were set during the three days in Scotland.
Six world records have already been set on Mondo tracks in four different countries in 2024, after another eight in 2023.
The outdoor season and the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games – with Mondo having been continuously a supplier to the world’s greatest sports event since 1976 – make us confident that many other extraordinary performances will be achieved on Mondo tracks.
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