World Athletics Indoor Championships
Bi-annual global indoor track and field competition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The World Athletics Indoor Championships are a biennial indoor track and field competition served as the global championship for that version of the sport. Organised by the World Athletics, the competition was inaugurated as the World Indoor Games in 1985 in Paris, France and were subsequently renamed to IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1987. The current name was adapted with the name change of the sports governing body in 2019.
World Athletics Indoor Championships | |
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Status | active |
Genre | Athletics World championship |
Date(s) | varying |
Frequency | biennial |
Country | varying |
Inaugurated | 1985 (1985) |
Most recent | 2024 |
Next event | 2025 |
Organised by | World Athletics |
Website | worldathletics.org |
They have been held every two years except for when they were held in consecutive years 2003 and 2004 to facilitate the need for them to be held in alternate years to the main World Athletics Championships (outdoors) in the future.