Kenya’s bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships was unsuccessful after the World Athletics Council chose Tokyo, Japan, to host the event.
The 228th World Athletics Council Meeting in Oregon, USA, also saw the Council announce that the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships will be held in Medulin and Pula in Croatia, and the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships will be held in Tallahassee, Florida.
Tokyo beat out competition from Nairobi, Poland, and Singapore, with the announcement coming ahead of this year’s event, which begins on Friday in Eugene, Oregon.
The 2023 edition will be held in Budapest.
It means that four years after staging the pandemic-delayed Olympic games in an empty arena, Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium will be able to host a major athletics event in a packed venue.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe thanked all the cities who took the time and effort to prepare bids, showing their commitment to athletics. He reinforced the Council’s wish that all of them continue to discuss future opportunities to host World Athletics events.
“Within an extremely strong field of candidates to host the World Athletics Championships 2025, Tokyo offered a compelling bid,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.
“I hope this will be a shining light for Japan as they celebrate 100 years of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) in 2025, by bringing world-class athletics back to the people in Tokyo.”
Tokyo last hosted the World Championships in 1991, when American long-jumper Mike Powell broke Bob Beamon’s long-standing 1968 record with a leap of 8.95m (29ft 4.4in).
The Council also confirmed that following next year’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia, the next two editions will be held in Medulin and Pula, Croatia (2024) and Tallahassee, Florida (2026).
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