Kenya has officially tabled a bid to host the 2025 athletics world championships.
After a successful world under-18 event in 2017 and the recent world under-20 world championships, Nairobi has placed itself in a prime position to hold the event but faces stiff competition from other cities including Tokyo which recently hosted the Olympic games.
"We formally confirmed our bid to host the global championships on Friday October 1 which was the deadline set by World Athletics," Athletics Kenya chief Jackson Tuwei told AFP.
"We organised two very successful world junior championships at the Kasarani stadium in 2017 and in August 2021, where a number of world records and personal bests were realised," he said.
"We learnt a lot of lessons in staging both events, and realistically it is our time to bring the biggest event."
Africa has never hosted the World Athletics (WA) premier showpiece, which was first contested in Helsinki, Finland in 1983.
Cabinet secretary for sports Amb. Amina Mohammed first announced the country's bid for the 2025 world championships in Doha in September 2019, after World Athletics said the global event would be held on a rotational basis across continents.
By AFP