Track and Field Facilities

Indoor and outdoor athletic facilities that feature a multi-lane, synthetic-surface track, runways for the pole vault, jump pits for the long and the triple jump, a steeplechase and space for throwing events. A standard outdoor track is in the shape of a stadium and has at least eight lanes. A standard indoor track is designed similarly to an outdoor track, but is shorter in length and has between four and eight lanes. Often, the bends of an indoor track will be banked to compensate for the small turning radius and, because of space limitations, meets held at indoor facilities do not include many of athletics events typically contested outdoors.