2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships

The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships is re-scheduled to be held from 21 to 23 March 2025 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China at the newly built Nanjing's Cube gymnasium in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park.[1][2] This would be the city's first hosting of the event although it staged the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

19th World Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates21–23 March 2025
Host cityNanjing, China
VenueNanjing's Cube at Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park
Events26

Nanjing was originally due to host an edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in 2020, then in 2021, and then again in 2023, with all these dates having to be postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic regulations in China.[3][4] The 2022 edition took place in Belgrade, Serbia and the 2024 edition will be held in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Bidding process

On 26 November 2017, delegations from the three candidate cities made their presentations at the 212th IAAF Council Meeting: Nanjing, Serbia's capital Belgrade and Toruń, Poland. Nanjing won the bid for the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[5]

Venue

The facility, a brand new purpose-built gymnasium at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park known as Nanjing's Cube will be the centrepiece of the event. Construction started in September 2017 and is due to be completed in time for the event. The venue for track and field and swimming are located in Block A of the park and to the east is the Yangtze River complex. It will provide catering and hotels as well as security work for the event.[6]

References
  1. "World Indoor Athletics Championships 2023 in China postponed to 2025 due to COVID-19". Firstpost. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  2. "World Athletics Council competition decisions announced". World Athletics. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  3. "World Athletics to postpone World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2020". World Athletics. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  4. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2023 to be postponed". World Athletics. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  5. "Nanjing is Awarded 2020 World Indoor Championships – IAAF Council, Day 2". IAAF. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  6. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2020 Organising Committee". www.worldathleticsnanjing2020.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
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