Athletic Stadiums

[Kuvvaci]

Could you please show your important athletics stadium?
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Turkey

Istanbul Olympics 81k


Izmir 63k
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we have just two big size internationaly used athletics stadiums. A new 30k in Şanlıurfa is u/c and for Mersin, one is planned.

[en1044]

all i can think of is maybe Franklin Field in Philadelphia, home of the Penn Relays. Other than that, we really dont care for big track and field stadiums.

52k

[mavn]

The Netherlands

The FBK Stadium(Fanny Blankers-Koen, 4 times gold medalist at the '48 Olympics) in Hengelo. It hosts the annual FBK-games. Our biggest international Athletics meet. It has 15000 seats.



The 1928 Olympic stadium. It was recently redeveloped to it's original shape. It's host to the Dutch national athletics championships and the Amsterdam Marathon (start and finish). It has a capacity of 22,500

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Athletics isn't big over here.

[Kuvvaci]

Originally Posted by en1044

all i can think of is maybe Franklin Field in Philadelphia, home of the Penn Relays. Other than that, we really dont care for big track and field stadiums.

52k

don't you use LA Collesium for athletics anymore?

[en1044]

Originally Posted by Kuvvaci

don't you use LA Collesium for athletics anymore?

no just college football, unless LA gets the olympics again.

[mavn]

Originally Posted by en1044

all i can think of is maybe Franklin Field in Philadelphia, home of the Penn Relays. Other than that, we really dont care for big track and field stadiums.

52k

Lovely sightlines... I guess the second tier is left empty at an athletics meet?

[N1V1]

Koning Boudewijnstadion (50.000). Also used for the well-known Memorial van Damme, a golden league-meeting.

[Kuvvaci]

yes it was the last race of the season a few days ago.

[fenway58]

Hayward Field Capacity 10,500


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Field


the man that gave the world nike.

William J. "Bill" Bowerman rip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bowerman

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Germany

Olympiastadion, Berlin

http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/G...on_Berlin.html

Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart


easyCredit-Stadion (Franken-Stadion), Nürnberg

http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/G...dionneu_I.html

Südweststadion, Ludwigshafen


Ludwigsparkstadion, Saarbrücken


Rosenaustadion Augsburg


Rest is under 30,000

[Kuvvaci]

You forgot Münic.

[www.sercan.de]

Olympiastadion, München

http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/G..._Muenchen.html


BTW, capacity of
Atatürk Olympiyat is 75,486
and
Izmir Atatürk is 54 960

[carlspannoosh]

Some nice stadiums but many of them have been mainly used for football.

[Kuvvaci]

they are multi used stadiums. For example Stutgart stadium will host European Athletics Championship.

[carlspannoosh]

The European Championships don't happen very often. Athletics alone could not sustain this stadium.Its much more often used for football, yet the fact that it is designed to cater for athletics compromises it. Its not worth compromising the design of a football stadium with an athletics track on the off chance that you get either the euro, world championship or Olympics but all too often that seems to be what happens in Europe.

[Kuvvaci]

yes they are mostly used for football, but athletics is not a sport wich is practiced often, unlike team sports.

[Kuvvaci]

one of my favourites: Stade Louis II Monaco

[NeilF]

Disturbingly, this really is the best we have.

Belfast, Northern Ireland:

Mary Peters Track:

[NickRivers]

I think that in Spain these are the two best athletics stadiums (both UEFA's 5-Stars)...


Estadio Olímpico de La Cartuja - Sevilla (57,619)









Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys - Barcelona (55.926)





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[Bigmac1212]

I do believe the University of Washington's Husky Stadium (located in Seattle) is still a track & field stadium. Does the facility hold any relays?