Glaspalast Sindelfingen

2004 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships is the first in a series of World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships (also called World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor, or WMACi) that were held following the success of both stadia and non-stadia World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships, This inaugural WMA Indoor Championships took place in Sindelfingen, Germany, from 10 to 14 March 2004. The main venue was Glaspalast Sindelfingen, : 1  which has a banked four-lane indoor track, : 1 : 16  where the turns are raised to neutralize the centrifugal force of athletes running the curves. Supplemental venues included Floschenstadion for throwing events and the tennis hall in Sportwelt VfL Sindelfingen for warming-up purposes. This Championships was organized by World Masters Athletics (WMA) in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the German Athletics Association (German: Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband, DLV) and Karl-Heinrich Lebherz. : 24 The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of athletics for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for masters athletics competition. The starting age had been 35 years for women and 40 years for men in previous editions of the Outdoor Championships, but the men minimum age was reduced to 35 at the General Assembly of the 2003 Outdoor Championships. A full range of indoor track and field events were held. In addition to indoor competition, non-stadia events included Half Marathon, 8K Cross Country, 10K Race Walk, and Weight Throw. In addition, Hammer Throw, Discus Throw and Javelin Throw were offered as exhibition non-stadia events for this inaugural Indoor Championships. : 22 

The Martinskirche (St. Martin's church) is the Lutheran main church in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was built in Romanesque style as a basilica with a flat wooden ceiling, then part of a monastery. Today, the church is also a venue of church music events.

Sindelfingen (Swabian: Sendlfenga) is a city in Baden-Württemberg in south Germany. It lies near Stuttgart at the headwaters of the Schwippe (a tributary of the river Würm), and is home to a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant.

Sindelfingen station (German: Bahnhof Sindelfingen) is a railway station in the municipality of Sindelfingen, located in the Böblingen district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of the Stuttgart S-Bahn and trains go at a frequency of two trains an hour in both directions. Across the street is the Sindelfingen central bus station, and in the opposite direction it borders the Mercedes-Benz plant. The shortest connection to the inner city of Stuttgart is via Böblingen. The other direction takes a b-line around the city over Renningen and Leonberg and eventually enters the city centre of Stuttgart from the north and will take considerably longer. The station and most of its tracks serves as a hub for freight trains from and to the plant. Trains with raw materials and auto parts coming in and cars going out to Bremerhaven for oversea shipment.

Maichingen is a village in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of the town of Sindelfingen.

Böblingen is a Landkreis (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Calw, Enz, Ludwigsburg, (district) Stuttgart, and the districts Esslingen, Reutlingen and Tübingen.

Magstadt is a town in the German Federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the district (Landkreis) Böblingen. It is located between Renningen and Sindelfingen.

Böblingen station is located on the Stuttgart–Horb railway (German: Gäubahn) and is at the start of the Rankbach Railway (Rankbachbahn) and the Schönbuch Railway (Schönbuchbahn). It is served by regional services and Stuttgart S-Bahn line S 1. Until 2002 it was served by Intercity-Express and Cisalpino services.

Böblingen Airport (German: Flughafen Böblingen) (IATA: PHM) was built in the mid-1920s for the city of Stuttgart in Germany. Bordered by Calwer Straße (K1073) and the E41, it lies northwest of Böblingen and south of the Daimler factory in Sindelfingen. An aircraft industry developed around this airfield, which was used by the military during the Second World War. On September 1, 1939 the airbase was the home station for the I/JG 52 (1st Group of Jagdgeschwader 52) which was flying the Bf109 E-1 fighter aircraft. On that day its strength was 39 aircraft.

Goldberg station is a railway station in the Goldberg district of the municipality of Böblingen, located in the Böblingen district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Böblingen (German pronunciation: [ˈbøːblɪŋən] ; Swabian: Beblenga) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are contiguous.

Sporthalle was an indoor arena located in Böblingen, Germany. It opened in 1966 and was torn down in 2008. Sporthalle had a capacity to hold 6,500 people. The venue played host to six team handball competitions for the 1972 Summer Olympics in neighboring Munich. Further, it served as one of two playgrounds for the FIBA EuroBasket 1971. It hosted indoor sporting events, trade shows, TV shows, music concerts and other events.