12th August 2013 11:47
This date in 12 months - Tuesday 12 August - will be the start of the European Athletics Championships, the first time the Swiss city has held the event.
Just mention the name Zurich in athletics terms and instantly a world record comes into the mind. Or perhaps just the unique style of celebrations from the fans in the Letzigrund Stadium, with their arm-waving 'whoosh' routine than grows into a loud finale.
Often the annual IAAF Grand Prix, Golden League or Diamond League meeting has taken on a mantle as a 'One-night Olympics' because of the attention of the event and the big names it would attract.
And so it is no surprise that now, even with a year to go, 30,000 tickets have already been sold for the European Athletics Championships.
The Letzigrund is one of the most iconic athletics venue in the world, with a staggering 25 world records having been set there.
It was rebuilt in 2007 with state-of-the-art facilities but it has lost none of its magic.
Some athletes are already plotting being there and wondering what they can achieve.
They include Jessica Ennis-Hill, the Olympic heptathlon champion, who is determined to regain the European title she won in Barcelona in 2010, while it could be one of the final times that Mo Farah, her British teammate, runs on the track. He has a career planned in the marathon but by Zurich he would be chasing a hat-trick of golds in the 5000m.
Farah is the only man to defend the title, having won in Barcelona in 2010 and Helsinki in 2012, and while he is aiming for a new career on the roads, the goal of even more history on the track at the event could be a tempting proposition.
The 5000m has such rich history in Zurich. The world record of 12:37.35 held by Kenenisa Bekele might have stood for more than nine years now but when his fellow legendary Ethiopian Haile Gerbselassie set the marks of 12:44.39 and 12:41.86, they both came at the Letzigrund.
The first of those world records was on August 16th 1995 and the second on August 13th 1997 and both will celebrate their anniversary during next year's European Athletics Championships which run between August 12-17.
In Zurich on Monday the excitement will grow with 12 months to go until the city welcomes 1400 athletes from 50 countries - and it should be six days to remember.