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As a consequence of the pandemic, an extra edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships originally planned for 2020 will also be held in 2025 in Nanjing, China. It will be the first time since 2003 that the indoor and outdoor events will occur in the same year, before the indoor championships revert to an even-numbered year schedule in 2026.
The results of the event will determine qualification for the September 13–21 2025 World Athletics Championships, held in Tokyo, Japan. [4] Provided they achieved the World standard or are in the World Athletics ranking quota, the top two athletes in each event will gain a place on the Team USA World team.
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 67 meetings across Europe, North America, and Asia, nine of which comprise the highest tier of events labelled Gold.
The Gold-level meetings award extra World Athletics Rankings cross country placement points, which can be used to earn automatic qualification into the 10,000 metres track race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. [1] The Tour is also seen by some as a way to prepare for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships. [2]
The 2025 Athletics season will be the 125th season for the Athletics franchise, and it will be the franchise's first year in West Sacramento at Sutter Health Park as part of their temporary relocation following their recent departure from Oakland and prior to their move to Las Vegas in the next three seasons.
[5] [4] [9] In July 2022, Tokyo was selected by World Athletics to host the 2025 event, [2] after it scored the highest in the bid evaluation. The National Stadium in Tokyo will be the first major spectator event for athletics after the 2020 Summer Olympics were held behind closed doors in response with the then-still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic .
An unknown on the athletics scene, Roche-Kelly set the roads alight that year when she became the first woman to break the 7 1 ⁄ 2-hour barrier and win the Comrades Marathon in 7:18:00; well under the silver-medal cut-off of 7:30:00, and in the process shattering the women's record by more than an hour. Earlier that year she also became only ...
The 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour is the 26th edition of the global series of combined track and field event meetings organised by World Athletics. This is the third season to feature the three-tier World Tour format, dividing the meetings into three competition sub-groups: Gold, Silver and Bronze.