07 October 2021 | Athletics

Kenya has confirmed it has submitted a bid document to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

Nairobi has hosted both the world under-18 and under-20 world championships 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 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.”

It will be the first time the World AthleticsChampionships will be hosted on the continent since the first event in Helsinki, Finland during 1983.

USA's former world and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin wants Kenya to host the event after recently competing at the Kip Keino Classic meeting in Nairobi's Kasarani stadium.

"To have Kenya host a World Championships here would be a great opportunity," he told BBC Sport Africa at last month's event.

"You have so many champions and so many great Kenyan runners. I think the world should be able to see where they come from, how hard they work and what makes them the athletes they are."

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