Athletics
Host of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, IAAF events and Athletic Canada’s national championships in addition to the prestigious Marathon de Montréal, Montréal is a leading international athletics destination. Montréal is renowned worldwide for its event-hosting experience, world-class venues, joie de vivre and hospitality, best-in-class organizers and as a training centre for world-class and Olympic champions such as Bruny Surin and Guillaume Leblanc.
We have done it before
Montréal has hosted the following signature athletics events as well as national and international competitions:
- 1979 IAAF Athletics World Cup
- 1992 and 1996 Athletics Canada
- Track and Field Olympic trials
- 1993 to 1996, 2007 Grand Prix d’Athlétisme de Montréal
- 2014-2019 Indoor Canadian Championships
- 2019 Canadian Track & Field Championships
- 2021 and 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Track & Field Trials
- Annually since 1990 – Marathon de Montréal
World-class athletics and events give Montréal the competitive edge
Montréal’s cutting-edge athletics venues
The Olympic stadium
Boasting a seating capacity of 56,000, the “Big O” hosted athletics competitions during the 1976 Olympic games and is an international venue suitable for large-scale athletics events.
Claude-Robillard Sports Complex
A world-class sports complex that hosts Athletics Canada events, it has a 400-metre outdoor track and equipment with 6,500 seats as well as a 200-metre indoor track with approximately 5,600 seats.
Montréal's ecosystem is real and vibrant
- Québec’s athletics sport federation is based in Montréal
- 30 athletics clubs based in Montréal, which have 1,800 members and thousands of volunteers, can support your events
- Sports Events Montréal, the City of Montréal and sport organizations work as one to support major sporting events
- Given its strong relationship with public funding partners, the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montréal and private corporations, Montréal knows how to secure public and commercial funding to support your events