With the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships looming up on the horizon as one of the highlights of the indoor season, anticipation is rising that once again the continent’s best athletes will rise to the occasion on a Mondo athletics track.
Dutch superstar Femke Bol, the European Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023, has already confirmed that she will be in action at the championships, wearing the host nation’s famous orange colours.
This year’s venue, the Omnisport Apeldoorn, features a banked track with a Mondo’s Sportflex Super X720 TM surface. The track is unusual in that it is an overlay of the original Mondo athletics track.
This same overlay system was used for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24, where 2 world records 5 championship records, 14 world-leading marks, 10 continental records, 54 national records and14 seasonal records worldwide were broken.
It is the 16th occasion in the last 19 editions of European Athletics Championships when Mondo have provided the main athletics track to the venue staging the event.
Mondo can now boast of having had the main track at the following European Athletics Indoor Championships since 1989, in no less than 14 cities and 10 different countries.
The last European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in two years ago in Istanbul’s Ataköy Athletics Arena, also had a Sportflex Super X720 TM track and saw 550 athletes from 47 nations go through their paces.
Spectators in the arena and athletics fans around the world witnessed a phenomenal pentathlon competition which saw Belgium’s Nafi Thiam break the world indoor record with 5055 points.
Thiam’s world indoor record was the 10th to be set at a European Athletics Indoor Championships on a Mondo track and there have also been a plethora of European indoor records as well.
Two other championship records were broken in Istanbul: Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran 3:33.95 to win the 1500m metres and Dutch women's 4x400m clocked 3:25.66 to take the gold medals. In addition, 39 national indoor records were broken.
The question is: who will provide the superlatives this time in Apeldoorn on a Mondo athletics track?