SPECTO Athletics® measures Long Jump and Triple Jump in Kalevan Kisat

Paavo Nurmi Stadium and SPECTO Athletics are ready for Finnish National Championships.

The Finnish top-athletes are competing from Thursday 13th Aug to Sunday 16th Aug in national championships of athletics, called Kalevan Kisat. At Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku we’ll see top level athletes and results and among them high-tech performance tracking. Angular Velocity, a Finnish sports technology company is measuring the speeds, angles and distances of the performances with LIDAR-based technology.

In Kalevan Kisat SPECTO Athletics® -system tracks athletes in long jump and triple jump. The performance data of these disciplines can be seen also in Yle’s live broadcasting from Paavo Nurmi Stadium.

The future of SPECTO Athletics® involves also much more than laser beams on the track. Kristian Törnqvist, the director of R&D of Angular Velocity, sees that the result of the concentrated development of AV Team will change the spectator’s experience in the future.

"SPECTO Athletics® brings the phases of an athlete’s performance to the spectator’s full view in a modern way so that they can see what they can’t otherwise see and get new insights. We are developing a mobile application as a second screen offering more performance data than tv can offer", Törnqvist tells.

The mobile application is in test phase during the autumn events. It will be published during the first half of 2021. Kristian Törnqvist is looking forward to the additional features brought by the app.

"The SPECTO data in the app is very interesting and gives so many insights of the disciplines that for me it is difficult to select my favorite. The app is much more than getting the data from athletics: it is also comparing the results and athletes, supporting them and interacting with other fans", Törnqvist describes the incoming app.