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The Olympic Stadium located in Berlin’s neighborhood Westend is one of the world’s largest track and field stadiums. It has been newly built for the Olympic Games 1936 to substitute the old German Stadium (Deutsches Stadion).
Great honor for the ISTAF: The oldest track and field meeting in the world was already awarded before the pandemic with the "World Athletics Heritage Plaque" of the athletics world federation - now the plaque could be mounted in the Olympiastadion...
This list contains stadiums with at least a 45,000 capacity that include facilities for athletics events.
Since renovations in 2004, the Olympiastadion has a permanent capacity of 74,475 seats and is the largest stadium in Germany for international football matches. The Olympiastadion is a UEFA category four stadium. Besides its use as an athletics stadium, the arena has built a footballing tradition. Since 1963, it has been the home of the Hertha BSC.
The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) is an annual track and field athletics meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was first held in July 1921 at the Deutsches Stadion, which was replaced from 1937 by the Stadium of the 1936 Olympic Games.
The BLV is the central access point for track and field in Berlin and organizer of the ISTAF Berlin and INDOOR ISTAF, the most popular and traditional athletics meetings in Germany.
The International Stadium Festival Berlin is one of the largest one-day athletics meetings in the world. Every year, more than 50,000 spectators cheer on the world's 200 best track and field athletes in the 16 official disciplines at the Olympiastadion.
