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"We had a really successful Olympics, working with 15 sports and helping to win 24 medals"
STADIUM BECOMES FIRST UK OLYMPIC TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR
ABOVE: Sheffi eld Hallam University City Athletics Stadium
Sheffi eld Hallam University and Sheffi eld City Council are teaming up to make the Sheffi eld Hallam University City Athletics Stadium (SHUCAS) the UK’s fi rst stadium fi t ed with technologies used to support Team GB at London 2012. Advanced systems, including video-tracking and
timing, will be available for use by schools, running clubs and anyone using the stadium at Woodbourn Road. Sheffi eld Hallam has allocated £125,000 from its
Higher Education Innovation Funds to an 18-month project to exploit the systems developed by the University's Centre for Sports Engineering Research. The City Council has allocated a further £25,000 from its new Athletics Development Fund to pay for the high-tech equipment, which could be replicated at other sites across the city. The project will also fund a worker to promote use of the stadium by local people. Professor Steve Haake, director of the research centre,
said: “We had a really successful Olympics, working with 15 sports and helping to win 24 medals. We created video capture systems, smartphone apps and simple-to-use software to improve performance. We want to install them in Sheffi eld for everyone to benefi t – an Olympic legacy if you like.”
The project also has partners in Adidas, the English
Institute of Sport, Nova International (the organisers of the Great North Run and Great Yorkshire Run) and the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, making up a total of £250,000. Councillor Isobel Bowler, Cabinet Member for Culture,
Sport and Leisure at Sheffi eld City Council, said: “It is great news that there is going to be £150k of funding for this new venture – especially given that part of the funding will provide for promoting athletics to the communities around the stadium. I’m also pleased that the project has received the backing of the city’s athletics clubs. "The partnership with Sheffi eld Hallam University and
the city’s athletics clubs, which led to Woodbourn Road stadium being improved and re-opened as the Sheffi eld Hallam University City Athletics Stadium, is an excellent example of diff erent organisations working together for the benefi t of the city. I look forward to seeing this groundbreaking technology being put to good use here and across Sheffi eld in the months to come.” The project will start this summer and fi nish in
summer 2015, with design and installation taking place over the next few months. UB
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