Mondo S.p.A. is an Italian company best known for manufacturing and installing

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and other athletic surfaces. The company was founded in 1948 in

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by Edmondo Giovanni Stroppiana, who used part of his name to name the organization. Mondo has supplied track and field surfaces for the last ten

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. The company also produces commercial rubber flooring for schools, hospitals, office buildings, and more.

History

After Edmondo Giovanni Stroppiana founded Mondo in 1948, the company began making adhesives to repair the inner tubes of bike tires. In addition, Mondo also manufactured rubber balls for Pallapungo, an Italian handball game. In 1950, the company got its break by winning a contract to produce 500,000 promotional Pallapungo balls for Ferrero S.p.A. As the company grew, they began to expand their product line into floors. In 1961, Mondo supplied flooring for the 100th anniversary of

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. In 1972, they won their first contract to install the first track at the Italian National Olympic Committee, which began their foray into providing athletic surfaces for the Olympic Games. In 1980 they became the official supplier of the

Moscow Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

and have been so consecutively since the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992 all the way through the most recent

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Olympic Games. Today, Mondo is an official supplier for more than 100 sports-related associations and organizations including

IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...

National Soccer Coaches Association of America The United Soccer Coaches (formerly known as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)) is an organization of American soccer coaches founded in 1941. It is the largest soccer coaches organization in the world, with more than 3 ...

and

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and sells products in nearly 200 countries. The company has manufacturing

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in its home country of

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, as well as

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, and the U.S. supplying sports surfaces, contract flooring, sports balls, and luxury yachts.

References

Sporting goods manufacturers of Italy {{Italy-company-stub