India to host maiden World Athletics Continental Tour event on August 10, 2025
The Hindu
India to host maiden World Athletics Continental Tour event in Bhubaneswar, showcasing potential before World Championships in Tokyo.
India will host its maiden World Athletics Continental Tour event — a bronze-level global meet — in Bhubaneswar on August 10 next year, the national federation said on Sunday (December 15, 2024).
The announcement was made by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) while releasing the competition calendar for 2025.
The Continental Tour is an annual series of track and field competitions held under the aegis of World Athletics and it forms the second tier of international one-day meetings after the prestigious Diamond League.
"The Continental Tour will be a good opportunity for the Indian team to showcase their potential on home ground before the World Championships in September," AFI President Adille Sumariwalla said.
The meet will be a chance for Indian athletes to earn world ranking points (category C) in home conditions for the 2025 World Championships to be held in Tokyo from September 13-21.
The bronze level Tour meet is below the gold and silver levels. This will be the first global athletics meet to be hosted by India after the international permit meets, held in the country in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
India has also hosted World Half Marathon Championships in 2004 in New Delhi.
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