Poligras Paris GT zero

The Paris Olympics will be played on ‘Poligras Paris GT zero’ hockey turf. It is the world’s first and only carbon zero hockey turf and has also been FIH Innovation-certified for dry hockey. Hockey is a progressive sport, and the Poligras Paris turf has already been installed in 10 countries, showing that the global hockey community is embracing greater sustainability for the sport.

The Poligras hockey turf has FIH Global certification, which means that top level hockey, like the Olympics, will still choose to use the turf wet, but it has also been FIH Innovation-certified for dry hockey. For hockey around the world this unique ‘play wet / play dry’ crossover performance delivers great flexibility and many benefits. As the FIH transition elite-level hockey to dry surfaces, we see this as a very valuable feature of the Poligras Paris system. A club can now choose a carbon zero turf that provides Olympic quality when wet and performs better than a current sand-dressed turf when dry. That’s the best of both worlds.

The Paris turf features a new and proprietary friction-reducing technology called Turf Glide, which reduces friction and abrasion, allowing the turf to meet the FIH Innovation standards for dry hockey. Turf Glide not only means that when dry, the Paris turf plays better-than-sand, but also that less water is required to lubricate the turf for elite hockey. The Paris turf only requires 1mm of water across the surface to achieve Olympic level performance and meet FIH skin friction requirements.