The curtain came down on the 2024 Wanda Diamond League, with the Stade Roi Baudlouin in Brussels staging the two-day final on Friday and Saturday.
Mondo’s Sportflex Super X 720™ athletics track – upgraded in 2023, with the original Mondo track having been installed more than two decades ago in 2000 – helped produce many outstanding results across the 32 events contested in the Belgian capital. The superlatives achieved included five meeting records, three national records, and a women’s world U20 women’s record set by Ethiopia’s prodigious distance running talent, Medina Eisa.
In addition to the internationally famous Van Damme Memorial meeting that concluded the season, five more Diamond League meetings have been staged this summer in Stadia with Mondo athletics tracks, more than any other track provider.
2024 also saw Mondo supply the athletics tracks used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Rome 2024 European Athletics Championships and the Glasgow 24 World Indoor Championships, a testament to the fact that event organisers choose Mondo athletics tracks for their intrinsic qualities and the service that our company is accustomed to providing.
More than a million fans cheered on the world’s greatest athletes in person, who provided excitement and excitement, as well as striving for peak performance, at the three major championships and six major one-day meetings in 2024.
Hundreds of millions of people were glued to their TV screens and digital devices to watch the action unfold in stadiums equipped with Mondo athletics tracks.
During the last five months, the 2024 Diamond League meetings on Mondo tracks have generated an avalanche of records and other landmarks.Notable numbers on Mondo tracks during the 2024 Diamond League include:
World record plaudits in the six Diamond League meetings go to Swedish pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis, who cleared 6.24m in Xiamen and then 6.26m in the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, in between going over 6.25m at the Olympic Games.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon set a 1500m world record of 3:49.04 in Paris almost simultaneously, with Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh clearing 2.10m in the high jump in the French capital's Stade Charlety. Jakob Ingebrigtsen delivered a stunning 3000m performance in Silesia, running 7:17.55 to slice more than three seconds off the venerable former world record, which had stood for nearly 28 years.