The National Athletics Championships were held at the Tokyo National Stadium: the results on the track provided by Mondo
The Mondo athletics track in Tokyo’s National Stadium, the centrepiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, is still propelling athletes towards superb performances as demonstrated by the 109th edition of the Japanese National Championships, which were held from 4-6 July.
Designed as a test event ahead of this year’s World Athletics Championships, which will be in little more than two months’ time from 13-21 September, no less than 108 personal bests were produced from close to a thousand athletes in action over the three days of the championships.
The athletics track was specifically developed for the 2020 Olympic Games – which were eventually held the following year due to the global pandemic – in a unique shade of red before being constructed and installed between August and November 2019.
The nine-lane National Stadium has 19,900 square metres of Mondo athletics track which converts into approximately 235 tonnes of surfacing product.
Six years later, it is still one of the most outstanding athletics tracks in the world and was instrumental in Tokyo being chosen in July 2022 to stage this year’s World Athletics Championships.
The leading performances at this year’s Japanese National Championships from athletes hoping to make the host nation’s team for the World Athletics Championships Included:
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games there was a stunning set of superlatives.
Expectations are high that a similar array of feats will be produced on the Mondo athletics track during the nine days of action at the forthcoming World Athletics Championships.