The 2027 European Athletics Indoor Championships will take place in the Spanish city of Valencia, and once again the championships will be on a Mondo athletics track. The decision was announced by the sport’s continental governing body European Athletics on Friday (April,19).
It will be the second time that the most prestigious and important continental indoor championships in the world will be staged in Valencia after also being held there in 1998.
The 998 European Athletics Indoor Championships were memorable for producing two world indoor records: Ukraine’s Anzhela Balakhonova clearing 4:45m in the women’s pole vault and Great Britain’s Ashia Hansen reaching 15.16m in the women’s triple jump.
The Mediterranean city was also the host for the 2008 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
As with these two previous major indoor championships in Valencia, the venue will once again be the Luis Puig Velodrome, one of Spain’s premier indoor athletics facilities, which has a Mondotrack™ track.
Mondo tracks have been used in the venues for the last three European Athletics Indoor Championships – Glasgow 2019, Torun 2021 and Istanbul 2023 – and will also be used for the next two: Apeldoorn in March 2025 and now Valencia in 2027.
To date no less than 15 of the last 18 European Athletics Indoor Championships have been staged on Mondo tracks since The Hague in 1988.