SA Athletics Stadium is a comprehensive, modern athletics facility. Located only a few minutes drive from the Adelaide CBD, the athletics facility offers a national standard nine lane running track and field complex including training and warm-up areas, lighting, photo finish and modern timing equipment. The infield converts to a FIFA regulation sized quality turf pitch for soccer and other turf related sports. The stadium was formerly known as Santos Stadium under a sponsorship arrangement with

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is owned and operated by the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing, an agency of the Government of South Australia. Opened on

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, 1998, it replaced the

Olympic Sports Field The Kensington Oval is located on 344 The Parade, Kensington, South Australia. Now used primarily for cricket in South Australia, the venue was once Adelaide's premier athletics facility and known as Olympic Sports Field. Early history From an ...

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as Adelaide's premier

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venue, and has seating for 1,200 and a maximum capacity of 6,000. The track surface is Rekortan M99.https://tracks.insideathletics.com.au/track/adelaide/sa-athletics-stadium/ SA Athletics Stadium on the Athletics Track Directory The stadium is located on the edge of the CBD, in the Adelaide Parklands adjacent to

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, Adelaide's largest netball complex. The Stadium is home to Athletics South Australia, the South Australia Athletics League, City Bay Fun Run, the South Australian

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Association, and is regularly used by schools for sporting carnivals.

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