The Apeldoorn Arena that recently hosted the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships once again demonstrated that Mondo athletics tracks are where history is made.
The four days of action saw a stunning collection of records across the 29 events contested in the Dutch city.
This year’s venue, the Omnisport Apeldoorn, featured banked athletics track with a Mondo’s Sportflex Super X720 TM athletics surface.
The athletics track – the home of indoor athletics in the Netherlands since 2008 which has seen 10 other indoor meetings contested in a packed eight-week period since the middle of January – is unusual in that it’s recent renovation and installation in August 2024 incorporates an overlay of the original Mondo athletics track.
However, the Apeldoorn indoor athletics track has proved hugely popular with all parts of the athletics family, combining durability to accommodate grassroots participants with the features required to help elite athletes excel.
The speed of the straight on which the sprinters went through their paces particularly caught the eye at the championships, especially when Switzerland’s Ditaji KAMBUNDJI flew to a European record of 7.67, moving up to equal second on the world all-time list.
The Mondo athletics track drew plaudits not just from Kambunji but from many of the other 600 athletes in Apeldoorn, including the men’s 60m winner Jeremiah Azu.
It is the 16th occasion in the last 19 editions of European Athletics Indoor Championships when Mondo has provided the main athletics track for the championships.
Mondo can now boast of having supplied the main athletics track at the following European Athletics Indoor Championships since 1989, taking in no less than 14 cities and 10 different countries.
The next European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Valencia’s Palau Velódrom Lluís Puig from 4-7 March.
The stadium also staged the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Track and 2008 World Athletics Indoor Championships and currently has a Sportflex Super X720 TM athletics track.
The eyes of the athletics world – with many of the Apeldoorn winners and medallists confirming they will make the long trek to China to conclude their winter campaign – now shifts focus from the continental to the global stage.
The 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships will be staged at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Sports Park between 21-23 March.
With the venue’s athletics track and the athletics equipment also being provided and installed by Mondo – Sportflex Super X720 TM also being the chosen product – the championships will be the 15th since they were inaugurated in 1987 to be staged on a Mondo athletics track.