Kenya bids to host 2025 World Athletics Championship

Kenya on Tuesday confirmed its bid to host the 2025 world championship which if approved would bring the event to Africa for the first time.

Kenya has hosted the both the U-18 and U-20 World Championship in the last four years.

" We formally confirmed our bid to host the global championships on Friday, October 1 which was the deadline set by World Athletics,” Athletics Kenya boss  Jackson Tuwei told AFP.

“We organized 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 realized,” he said.

“We learned a lot of lessons in staging both events, and realistically it is our time to bring the biggest event.”

Kenya is up against high profile rival in it's bid to host the championship among them include Japan which hosted the delayed Olympic Games in July.

Morocco and South Africa are some of the African nation that have expressed interest in hosting the championship.

Eugene in Oregon USA is set to host the 2022 World Championships