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İlkadım Athletics Stadium () is a
track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
facility located in
Ä°lkadım Ilkadim is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 333,518 (2022). It is located on the coast of Black Sea. The district has an altitude of 5 meters.It is also the most populous dist ...
district of
Samsun Province Samsun Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 9,725 km2, and its population is 1,368,488 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasy ...
, northern Turkey. It was renovated for the 2017 Summer Deaflympics. The stadium is situated at Liman Mah., Atatürk Boulevard 93 in İlkadım. The athletics stadium was built in place of a former 1,500-seat football stadium, which was built in 1958. The old stadium was renovated and brought to
IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport ...
standards by adding a synthetic-surface track in 2001. The area for athletics events totaled to . With the modernization and expansion of
Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium is a football stadium in Tekkeköy, Samsun, Turkey. It was opened in 2017 with a seating capacity of 33,919 spectators. It is the home ground of Samsunspor which plays in the Süper Lig. It replaced the club's former ho ...
, the old stadium was converted into an athletics-only stadium in April 2010 that caused public reaction. By November 2014, the old stadium, which did not meet the requirements any more, was demolished to make place for a modern athletics stadium. The projected cost of the construction was around ₺ 20 million (approx. US$8.5 million). The stadium was built for the
2017 Summer Deaflympics The 2017 Summer Deaflympics (), officially known as the 23rd Summer Deaflympics (), is an international multi-sport event that took place in Samsun, Turkey from July 18 to July 30, 2017. 3,148 athletes from 97 countries competed in 18 sports with ...
. The venue has a seating capacity for 2,000 spectators, including 100 for VIP, 200 for media members, 200 for accredited sportspeople and 100 for physically handicapped people.


International events hosted

The venue hosted athletics events of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics.


References

Sports venues in Samsun Athletics (track and field) venues in Turkey Sports venues completed in 1958 1958 establishments in Turkey İlkadım {{Turkey-sports-venue-stub