Lausanne, Switzerland: On the current Nationwide Associations Summit and FIH Government Board (EB) assembly held in Muscat, Oman, FIH’s world associate Polytan gave an in depth replace on the continued works and analysis to develop a dry turf for hockey that satisfies the elite efficiency and athlete security standards set by the FIH.
The members had been positively impressed by the progress made when it comes to sustainability, specifically, the 40% discount of water consumption from the Rio 2016 to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games. Moreover, an additional substantial discount will happen on the Paris 2024 Olympics. Different achievements such because the carbon-zero floor for Paris (Poligras Paris GT Zero), manufactured from 80% biobased materials (sugarcane) had been additionally praised.
The lately accomplished FIH Hockey5s World Cup was performed on dry turf, representing the primary main worldwide hockey event undertaken on such a floor. This supplied an essential alternative to check dry hockey surfaces in a heat, dry local weather and, crucially, to get suggestions from athletes, coaches and officers.
Based mostly on this suggestions, while the efforts in direction of growing dry turf will proceed, there’s a necessity to decide now on the turf that will probably be used on the 2026 FIH World Cup, as a result of procurement timelines and with the intention to guarantee optimum preparations each for the co-organizers and the taking part groups.
Subsequently, the EB has determined that the 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup will probably be performed on watered turf.
FIH has knowledgeable the Dutch and Belgian Hockey Associations, the co-hosts, of this choice.
On the similar time, the EB made clear the significance of the continued works and analysis to scale back the quantity of water wanted, and transfer in direction of totally dry turf. On this regard, the learnings from the 2024 FIH Hockey5s World Cup and future tournaments that will probably be performed on dry turf will probably be crucial.
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