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Tokyo has been chosen as host city for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, the game’s governing body reported on Thursday daily before the current year’s event starts in Eugene, Oregon a year later than planned due to COVID-19.
The event will get back to the site of last year’s Olympic Games in the year that the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) celebrates its century.
Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore had likewise offered for the titles, while Budapest will have the 2023 version.
“Within an extremely strong field of candidates Tokyo offered a compelling bid,” World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said after the decision of WA’s ruling Council.
“I hope this will be a shining light for Japan as they celebrate 100 years of the JAAF in 2025, by bringing world-class athletics back to the people in Tokyo.”
Tokyo held the occasion in 1991, featured by the unbelievable world-record breaking long leap duel between gold medallist Mike Powell and Carl Lewis, while it was additionally held in Japan in 2007 with Osaka hosting.
The Council likewise affirmed that following year’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia, the following two versions will be held in Medulin and Pula, Croatia (2024) and Tallahassee, Florida (2026).
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