All Synthetic in Melbourne

Mentone Girls’ Secondary College in Melbourne’s south has a four lane synthetic track laid around the school’s oval. The track is a Spurtan sandwich system and was constructed in 2019 following a $200,000 grant from the Victorian government’s ‘Pick my Project’ funding. A 100m straight is an extension of the track, and has a long jump pit at one end. Read more…

The St Kevin’s College Tooronga Sports Fields features an eight lane semi-circular 200m track. The track was officially opened on 17 June 2017. The venue features a two long jump its on the high jump D, a shot put circle and enclosed discus cage. The venue is managed by St Kevin’s College, a prestigious Melbourne independent school. Read more…

The Bundoora RMIT Sports Centre in Melbourne’s northern suburbs features a four lane synthetic grass track with a synthetic soccer infield. The venue is managed by RMIT University. Read more…

Bundoora Secondary College is located in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and features a four lane 388m track. The 400m start in lane 3 is just past the finishing line. There is a long jump pit located on an extension of the back straight, in the opposite direction to running. Read more…

Toorak College is an independent girls school located at Mount Eliza in Melbourne’s south. The school laid a six lane synthetic track with a synthetic hockey infield in 2017. The only field event facility at the venue is a single long jump pit.   Read more…

The Croydon Athletics Track is located at Town Park, Croydon in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. The venue is managed by Maroondah City Council. Read more…

Edwardes Lake Park is located in Reservoir in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. An athletics track has existed at the site since at least the 1950s, when a cinder track replaced the grass track that was present. A rubberised asphalt track was laid in 1970, which was replaced by a Spurtan BV synthetic track in June 2020. The track features its shot Read more…

Edwin Flack Reserve is located in Berwick in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. The venue was established in the early 1990s and was originally known as Berwick Recreation Reserve. It was renamed in 1996 to honour the centenary of Edwin Flack winning Australia’s first gold medals at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Flack maintained a dairy property in Read more…

Olympic Park Oval is located on the site of Melbourne’s former Olympic Park track, which was demolished in 2011. Olympic Park Stadium was the spiritual home of Australian athletics from its opening as a training venue for the 1956 Olympics, until its last meet, the 2011 Australian Championships. The oval that replaced it was opened in 2013 and is primarily Read more…

Willinda Park is located in Greensborough in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. The track is located on the former site of market gardens. It was originally constructed as a 300m grass track in 1967, before being upgraded to a rubberised bitumen surface in 1974. It was resurfaced in 1984 and 1992 before a polyurethane track was laid in 2000. It Read more…