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The international governing body for athletics, World Athletics (formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations, previously abbreviated as the IAAF), is in charge of organizing the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, which will be held in China for the first time.

Where and When Will the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships Be Held?

The freshly constructed Nanjing’s Cube gymnasium in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park will host the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships from March 21 to 23. Due to COVID-19 pandemic laws in China, Nanjing had to cancel the hosting of the World Athletics Indoor Championships three times: in 2020, 2021, and 2023.

During the three days of competition, around 500 participants from about 120 countries are anticipated to vie for medals in 26 events. The 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing will feature 13 disciplines for men and 13 for women.

• 60m – women and men
• 400m – women and men
• 800m – women and men
• 1,500m – women and men
• 3,000m – women and men
• 60m hurdles – women and men
• pentathlon – women
• heptathlon – men
• high jump – women and men
• pole vault – women and men
• long jump – women and men
• triple jump – women and men
• shot put – women and men
• 4x400m relay – women and men

Check out the competition schedule at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_World_Athletics_Indoor_Championships#Schedule.

At the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, both national teams and individual participants will receive cash prizes as follows:

Individuals

• 1st US$40,000
• 2nd US$20,000
• 3rd US$10,000
• 4th US$8,000
• 5th US$6,000
• 6th US$4,000

Teams

• 1st US$40,000
• 2nd US$20,000
• 3rd US$10,000
• 4th US$8,000
• 5th US$6,000
• 6th US$4,000

Which Athletes Will Take Part in the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships?

Many athletes are already refining their preparations by competing in events like the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold series, but the names of the individuals who’ll be in Nanjing won’t be known until the qualifying window closes and nations choose their teams.

Athletes can qualify for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships using two different pathways: 50% of athletes must meet Entry Standards, while the other 50% must meet World Rankings (as of March 9, 2025). The qualifying window, which runs from September 1, 2024, to March 9, 2025, is when qualifying performances must be completed.

Features of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships

The tournament lasts for three days, and each discipline has its own dynamics embodied in the number of stages.

Some will start from Round 1 (60m, 400m…) while some will only have the final, such as the triple jump or pentathlon. Check out the schedule in the part of the text above. Day 2 (March 22) is the most packed with events: 17 (six in the morning session and 11 in the evening session).

Who’ll Win the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships?

Given that qualifications are ongoing, and we don’t know who’ll compete at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships yet, the favorites will be determined later on. In case they qualify for the competition in Nanjing, the Belgian male athlete Alexander Doom and Dutch female athlete Femke Bol will have a task to defend two gold medals each (the most gold medals in each category) from the previous edition, which took place in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2022. The US representatives took the most gold medals two years ago (6), followed by Belgium (3).

It makes sense that there are currently no odds available for this event. When the time comes, some top 5 offshore sportsbooks will undoubtedly offer betting on the winners, whether it’s who runs the fastest, jumps the highest, jumps the longest, and so on.

The World Athletics Indoor Championships were first held in Paris, France, in 1985 under the name World Indoor Games. In 1987, they changed their name to the IAAF World Indoor Championships. When the sports governing organization changed its name to World Athletics in 2019, the present name was adopted.

With an average viewership of over 133 million, broadcast coverage of the World Athletics Indoor Championships currently covers nearly 200 nations. These are the Birmingham 2018 numbers. Additionally, as World Athletics raises its online image, the three million web impressions that Portland 2016 produced are anticipated to increase rapidly.

Javier Sotomayor of Cuba and Chris Brown of the Bahamas have the most medals overall in the men’s competition history, as they won six each. Cuban Iván Pedroso has won the highest number of gold medals (5) between 1993 and 2001. As for women, Maria Mutola from Mozambique claimed the most medals overall (9) and most gold medals along with Natalya Nazarova of Russia: seven apiece.

On the World Athletics website and through international broadcasters, the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships will be aired live in several regions. Ahead of the events, watch the 2025 World Athletics Indoor events website, where TV information will be accessible.

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