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The 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour is the tenth edition of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the highest series of international indoor track and field meetings.. The tour returns with the same number of meetings as the previous year, with 54 meetings across Europe, North America, and Asia, nine of which comprise the highest tier of events labelled Gold.
The World Athletics Indoor Tour, formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour, is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. [1] It was designed to create a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.
The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships was rescheduled 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.
Wyatt D. Wheeler is a reporter and columnist with the Springfield News-Leader. You can contact him at 417-371-6987, by email at wwheeler@news-leader.com or X at @WyattWheeler_NL .
The process to found World Athletics began in Stockholm, Sweden, on 18 July 1912 soon after the completion of the 1912 Summer Olympics in that city. At that meeting, 27 representatives from 17 national federations agreed to meet at a congress in Berlin, Germany, the following year, overseen by Sigfrid Edström who was to become the fledgling organisation's first president.
The 2020 IAAF World Indoor Tour was the fifth edition of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the highest series of international track and field indoor meetings. The Tour retains seven events for 2020, six in Europe and one in the United States. All six 2019 meetings returned, although the order of the meetings has been rearranged from 2019, and ...
Chase Foster Jackson OLY (née Ealey; born July 20, 1994) is an American track and field athlete who competes in shot put and discus throw.She won the gold medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in women's shot put, [2] [3] which made her the first American woman to win a shot put world title at the World Athletics Championships.
The Ultimate Championships was devised by World Athletics to ensure that the sport had a global championships for elite athletes towards the end of every track year. Unlike the primary World Athletics Championships or Olympic Games, but similar to the Diamond League final, the event consists only of direct semi finals and finals.