TrHackathon (AthTech Challenge)

Augmented Reality visualization of a track and field competition

Revolutionizing Athletics Through Technology

AthTech presents TrHackathon, a global virtual innovation challenge calling upon the brightest minds in technology and sports to transform how fans experience athletics. This competition brings together data scientists, developers, designers, and any technology/athletics enthusiasts to create groundbreaking solutions that will shape the future of athletics in all its disciplines.

We're seeking visionary concepts that leverage emerging technologies to enhance fan engagement, athlete performance understanding and competition visualizations. Whether through immersive XR experiences, AI-driven analytics, wearable integrations, novel ways of linking data, or novel data visualizations, your ideas will help evolve athletics.

Built on Top of Real Competition Data

Participants will be provided with a dataset from last year's European Championships that will be available in the official TrHackathon repository. Furthermore, they also can consider external libraries, APIs and data sources, or any other technologies.

We ❤️ Innovative Ideas

We welcome ideas of projects to cover any area of innovation in athletics competition, including:

Don't see your idea here? Don't worry, we welcome all innovative concepts.

What to deliver at the end of the project

Participants are expected to generate a proof-of-concept for a solution, product, or service to increase the efficiency of competition management, fan engagement, or any other aspect contributing to the sport's digitalization.

The project must be (briefly) documented in a website, PDF, presentation, or code repository 'readme', available on the web. If the project contains software, we recommend to include a link to the source code in a Github repository or similar.

The documentation about the proof-of-concept must include at least the following sections that will support an objective evaluation: Abstract with the summary; Description of the project with use cases, challenges that solve, etc.; Innovation, with creative and unique aspects of the solution; Impact, including the potential of the project to transform athletics experiences (and who will benefit); Feasibility, with the description of if the idea is realistic or what is needed to create it.

The Process

  1. Register your interest by starting a thread in the forum and tell us about your ideas. This does not commit you to going ahead.
  2. Be ready for an interim check-in around 14 July. We can either meet you online 1:1, or you can give a short 5-minute update during a public online meeting, as you prefer.
  3. Submit your project by 1st September.
  4. Be ready for an on-screen presentation to the judges in the first two weeks of September.

The Prize

The winning team will receive 2 tickets to the next European Championships (Birmingham, UK, 2026); and one person will be invited to present at AthTech, with all expenses (from within Europe) covered by European Athletics.

Data & Tools for the Challenge

The projects may use any of the data available in the official TrHackathon repository. Participants may also use their own and public external sources or tools (e.g., WikiData and OpenStreetMap), complying with the applicable licenses and use terms.

These projects must explicitly mention any other data sources, and also any tools and libraries used.

Important Dates

Questions? Just drop a message in the dedicated thread in the forum