This winter’s mammoth 62-meeting, four-level World Athletics Indoor Tour got underway at the end of last month. From just seven meetings in 2020, the tour has grown and now, for the second season in a row, it tripled his schedule.
Mondo athletics track have been chosen by around 30 meeting organizers who are part of the World Indoor Tour circuit; in particular regarding the Gold series, these are the locations that chose Mondo for their athletics tracks:
The first on this year’s Tour will be Asia’s top indoor meeting, the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes in the Kazakhstan capital on 27 January.
Already confirmed for the meeting are Sweden’s pole vault world record holder and reigning Olympic and world champion Mondo Duplantis as well as Ethiopia’s three-time world champion Gudaf Tsegay who, despite having won the 10,000m world title in Budapest last summer, is out to demonstrate her versatility and drops down distance dramatically to attack the world indoor record for the mile.
Performances at last year’s Asian Indoor Championships at the same venue showed that athletics fans could be witness some spectacular performances on Mondo’s renowned Sportflex Super X 720 athletics surface.
After Asia’s first ever World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting there will be stops in the Czech Republic and USA, but the four final stages of the Tour, now in its eighth year, will also be held on Mondo tracks.
The ORLEN Copernicus Cup in the Polish city of Torun on 6 February has become renowned as one of Europe’s top indoor meetings.
The Sportflex Super X athletics surface – the predecessor to the more recent Sportflex Super X 720 product line – in the Arena Torun famously had a previous life as the track on which the 2014 World Athletics Indoor Championships or the European Indoor athletics Championshiips 2021 were staged in nearby Sopot.
Nevertheless, the track’s qualities of shock absorption, vertical deformation and energy return remain as good as the day it was installed almost a decade ago.
The Sportflex Super X athletics track in the Arena Stade Couvert in Lievin, France, has delivered three amazingly middle-distance world records in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and there are high hopes that athletics history might be made for a fourth consecutive year at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais ‘Trophée EDF’on 10 February.
In 2023, Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais meeting was also notably ranked as the best indoor meeting in the world in terms of performances and, not surprisingly, the Lievin organisers are determined not to relinquish their pole position.
The day after Lievin, the Tour crosses the Atlantic and the 116th edition of the celebrated Millrose Games – the leading indoor meeting in North America – will take place on the Sportflex Super X 720 track installed in the Armory Track & Field Center in New York. Once again, the famed Wanamaker Mile will be the featured event.
The World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid 2024 meeting in the Spanish capital on 23 February will conclude this year’s Tour.
It will take place on the Gallur Municipal Sports Centre’s Sportflex Super X athletics track which has seen two world records in the last four years, notably Grant Holloway’s blistering 60m hurdles mark of 7.29 in 2021.
The Madrid meeting takes place barely two weeks before the gun goes on the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 from 1-3 March, which will also on a Mondo athletics track.