In what many pundits described as one of the best World Athletics Indoor Championships in recent memory, three days of action saw some spectacular performances in the Kujawsko‑Pomorska Arena Toruń.
Mondo’s Sportflex™ Super X 720 athletics track at the Polish venue helped produce no less than two world short track records and an avalanche of other awesome marks.
Pride of place among the superlatives goes to Swiss multi-eventer Simon Ehammer, who regained the World Athletics Indoor Championships heptathlon title he had previously won in 2024.
Ehammer lived up to expectations that he could challenge Ashton Eaton’s world short track heptathlon record of 6645 points, which the great American set on another Mondo athletics track at the 2012 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
After two days and seven events, Ehammer improved that record by 25 points to 6670, with a series which included four personal bests in individual disciplines.
Other highlights in Toruń included:
The World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 were the 17th time in 22 editions that the championships have been staged on a Mondo athletics track.
In Toruń, it was also announced that the next two World Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Bhubaneswar, India in 2028 and then Astana, Kazakhstan in 2030.
Both of the host venues – the Kalinga Indoor Athletic Arena in Bhubaneswar and the Qazaqstan Indoor Track and Field Arena in Astana – currently boast of having Mondo’s Sportflex™ Super X 720 athletics track installed.
The presence of Mondo athletics tracks was a key feature of the two successful bids for the forthcoming editions of the championships.