For Paris 2024, Mondo has developed and installed a new track surface featuring Ellipse Impulse technology designed to enhance performance. This is the third time Mondo has renovated the track at the Stade de France.

MONDOTRACKâ„¢ with Ellipse Impulse technology is the new track surface optimized to further enhance athletic performance through a combination of absorption, uniform energy release and redefined spring behaviour.

The new track model is the result of the valuable collaboration with the Polymers Engineering Laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Milan (PolyEngLab) through careful FEM analysis and virtual modelling algorithms that led to the design of a new geometry of the prefabricated track surface, subject of a patent.

The objectives of this collaboration were to prevent injuries, by designing a surface that could accumulate sufficient energy to reduce the strain on the joints, and to increase the athletes’ performance.

The key to the innovation lies in the new geometry of the subfloor, which now uses elliptical shapes. This allows the track to respond smoothly and dynamically to every step, leap or throw, significantly improving the absorption and return of the energy.

Elliptical-profile honeycombs have a greater deformation capacity than hexagonal-profile honeycombs, due to their more flexible shape, the absence of edges, and the larger contact surface area.

The sustainable Mondo track at the Stade de France

In line with its mission to create sustainable athletic tracks, MONDOTRACKâ„¢ uses renewable and recycled materials, such as natural rubber and materials from end-of-life industrial supply chains.

Production is done through low-carbon processes and the use of renewable energy, minimising waste.
Mondo’s journey towards a sustainable athletics track began with an analysis of gas emissions of the Mondotrack used since the London 2012 Olympic Games.

From this analysis emerges a new formulation for the production of the athletics track that includes up to 50 per cent by weight of recycled or renewable ingredients, thus saving on the use of virgin materials of fossil origin.

The result was the development of a new compound for athletics tracks that incorporates mollusk shells, typical of the Mediterranean, rich in calcium carbonate, a material frequently used in resilient flooring.
This project came to life thanks to a collaboration with the Nieddittas company, a fishermen’s cooperative founded in Arborea and now a Sardinian leader in mussel farming and fishing. Mondo and Nieddittas have created an eco-sustainable supply chain that transforms a residue into a resource.

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