Athletics: Certificates and guidelines for the infrastructure

Track and field events require certified surfaces and must orient themselves to further guidelines that also affect the stadium infrastructure. A current push will open up the existing indoor facilities for creative as well as cost-effective formats.

The World Athletics federation (in short: World Athletics) formulates a specific catalogue of requirements for the infrastructure of all competition classes. In athletics, with its many disciplines and extensive mobile and stationary sports equipment, an almost unmanageable wealth of details is described. And the higher the level of competition, the higher the demands on the precision of markings and fixtures. At the same time, the competition facilities of international championships and meetings are larger, and warm-up facilities must also be available here. To achieve worldwide infrastructural consistency and thus ensure fair competition in which fractions of a second correspond to the same distances on all lanes, WA issues certificates above and beyond the national federation guidelines and construction standards.