2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships

20th World Athletics Indoor Championships
Edition	20th
Dates	21–23 March 2025
Host city	Nanjing, China
Venue	Nanjing's Cube at Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park
Events	26
Participation	517 athletes from 118 nations
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The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 21 to 23 March 2025 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China, at the newly built Nanjing's Cube gymnasium in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park. ^{[1] [2]}

Nanjing was originally due to host the World Athletics Indoor Championships in 2020, then in 2021, and then again in 2023, but all these dates were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic regulations in China. ^{[3] [4]} The 2022 edition took place in Belgrade, Serbia, and the 2024 edition in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Bidding process

On 26 November 2017, delegations from the three candidate cities made their presentations at the 212th IAAF Council Meeting: Nanjing, Serbia's capital Belgrade, and Toruń, Poland. Nanjing won the bid for the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships. ^[5]

Venue

The facility, a brand new purpose-built gymnasium at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park, known as Nanjing's Cube, was the centrepiece of the event. Construction started in September 2017 and was completed in time for the event. The venue for track and field, along with swimming, were located in Block A of the park, and to the east was the Yangtze River complex. It provided catering and hotels, as well as security work for the event. ^[6]

Schedule

All times were local (UTC+8). ^[7]

R1	Round 1	SF	Semi-finals	F	Final
M = morning session, E = evening session

Men

Date →	21 March				22 March				23 March
Event ↓	M		E		M		E		M		E
60 m	R1		S	F
400 m	R1		S				F
800 m	R1				S						F
1500 m			R1								F
3000 m							F
60 m hurdles					R1		S	F
4 × 400 m											F
High jump			F
Pole vault							F
Long jump											F
Triple jump	F
Shot put											F
Heptathlon					F

Women

Date →	21 March				22 March				23 March
Event ↓	M		E		M		E		M		E
60 m					R1		S	F
400 m			S				F
800 m	R1				S						F
1500 m			R1								F
3000 m							F
60 m hurdles									R1		S	F
4 × 400 m											F
High jump									F
Pole vault					F
Long jump									F
Triple jump							F
Shot put			F
Pentathlon	F

Event detailed schedule ^[7]

Day 1 — Friday, 21 March 2025
Time	Event	Gender	Round
10:05	60 metres hurdles	W	Pentathlon
10:23	400 metres	M	Round 1
10:45	High jump	W	Pentathlon
11:05	Triple jump	M	Final
11:15	800 metres	W	Round 1
11:55	800 metres	M	Round 1
12:55	60 metres	M	Round 1
13:15	Shot put	W	Pentathlon
18:30	High jump	M	Final
18:33	1500 metres	W	Round 1
18:42	Long jump	W	Pentathlon
19:18	1500 metres	M	Round 1
19:50	Shot put	W	Final
20:03	60 metres	M	Semi-final
20:26	400 metres	W	Round 1
20:47	400 metres	M	Semi-final
21:15	800 metres	W	Final pentathlon
21:24	60 metres	M	Final
Day 2 — Saturday, 22 March 2025
Time	Event	Gender	Round
10:05	60 metres	M	Heptathlon
10:10	Pole vault	W	Final
10:25	60 metres hurdles	M	Round 1
10:45	Long jump	M	Heptathlon
11:15	60 metres	W	Round 1
12:05	800 metres	W	Semi-final
12:10	Shot put	M	Heptathlon
12:31	800 metres	M	Semi-final
18:34	Pole vault	M	Final
18:37	High jump	M	Heptathlon
19:10	3000 metres	W	Final
19:15	Triple jump	W	Final
19:33	3000 metres	M	Final
19:50	60 metres hurdles	M	Semi-final
20:15	60 metres	W	Semi-final
20:44	400 metres	W	Final
20:55	400 metres	M	Final
21:05	60 metres hurdles	M	Final
21:18	60 metres	W	Final
Day 3 — Sunday, 23 March 2025
Time	Event	Gender	Round
10:05	60 metres hurdles	M	Heptathlon
10:19	Long jump	W	Final
10:25	60 metres hurdles	W	Round 1
11:10	Pole vault	M	Heptathlon
11:35	High jump	W	Final
19:35	60 metres hurdles	W	Semi-final
19:38	Shot put	M	Final
19:40	Long jump	M	Final
20:02	1000 metres	M	Final heptathlon
20:15	1500 metres	M	Final
20:28	1500 metres	W	Final
20:40	800 metres	M	Final
20:54	800 metres	W	Final
21:01	60 metres hurdles	W	Final
21:11	4 x 400 metres relay	M	Final
21:21	4 x 400 metres relay	W	Final

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	6	4	6	16
2	Norway  (NOR)	3	0	1	4
3	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2	3	0	5
4	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	1	1	4
5	Italy  (ITA)	2	1	0	3
6	Australia  (AUS)	1	2	4	7
7	Switzerland  (SUI)	1	2	1	4
8	Cuba  (CUB)	1	1	0	2
	France  (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	1	0	2
11	South Africa  (RSA)	1	0	1	2
12	Bahamas  (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Canada  (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	1	0	0	1
17	Jamaica  (JAM)	0	2	2	4
18	China  (CHN)*	0	1	1	2
19	Belgium  (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia  (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Greece  (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia  (SLO)	0	1	0	1
26	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	3	3
27	Burkina Faso  (BUR)	0	0	1	1
	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg  (LUX)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine  (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		26	26	26	78

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Jeremiah Azu   Great Britain	6.49 =PB	Lachlan Kennedy   Australia	6.50	Akani Simbine   South Africa	6.54
400 metres details	Christopher Bailey   United States	45.08	Brian Faust   United States	45.47 =PB	Jacory Patterson   United States	45.54
800 metres details	Josh Hoey   United States	1:44.77	Eliott Crestan   Belgium	1:44.81	Elvin Josué Canales   Spain	1:45.03
1500 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	3:38.79	Neil Gourley   Great Britain	3:39.07	Luke Houser   United States	3:39.17
3000 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	7:46.09 SB	Berihu Aregawi   Ethiopia	7:46.25 SB	Ky Robinson   Australia	7:47.09
60 metres hurdles details	Grant Holloway   United States	7.42	Wilhem Belocian   France	7.54	Liu Junxi   China	7.55
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Elija Godwin Brian Faust Jacory Patterson Christopher Bailey	3:03.13 SB	Jamaica  (JAM) Rusheen McDonald Jasauna Dennis Kimar Farquharson Demar Francis	3:05.05 SB	Hungary  (HUN) Patrik Simon Enyingi Zoltán Wahl Árpád Kovács Attila Molnár	3:06.03 NR
High jump details	Woo Sang-hyeok   South Korea	2.31 m =SB	Hamish Kerr   New Zealand	2.28 m	Raymond Richards   Jamaica	2.28 m
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis   Sweden	6.15 m	Emmanouil Karalis   Greece	6.05 m NR	Sam Kendricks   United States	5.90 m =SB
Long jump details	Mattia Furlani   Italy	8.30 m	Wayne Pinnock   Jamaica	8.29 m SB	Liam Adcock   Australia	8.28 m
Triple jump details [a]	Andy Díaz   Italy	17.80 m WL	Zhu Yaming   China	17.33 m SB	Hugues Fabrice Zango   Burkina Faso	17.15 m SB
Shot put details	Tom Walsh   New Zealand	21.65 m SB	Roger Steen   United States	21.62 m SB	Adrian Piperi   United States	21.48 m
Heptathlon details	Sander Skotheim   Norway	6475 pts	Johannes Erm   Estonia	6437 pts NR	Till Steinforth   Germany	6275 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

• ^{triple jump} Bronze medalist Almir dos Santos of Brazil was disqualified for wearing non-regulation shoes.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Mujinga Kambundji   Switzerland	7.04	Zaynab Dosso   Italy	7.06	Patrizia van der Weken   Luxembourg	7.07
400 metres details	Amber Anning   Great Britain	50.60	Alexis Holmes   United States	50.63	Henriette Jæger   Norway	50.92
800 metres details	Prudence Sekgodiso   South Africa	1:58.40 WL	Nigist Getachew   Ethiopia	1:59.63 PB	Patricia Silva   Portugal	1:59.80 NR
1500 metres details	Gudaf Tsegay   Ethiopia	3:54.86 CR	Diribe Welteji   Ethiopia	3:59.30	Georgia Hunter Bell   Great Britain	3:59.84 PB
3000 metres details	Freweyni Hailu   Ethiopia	8:37.21	Shelby Houlihan   United States	8:38.26	Jessica Hull   Australia	8:38.28
60 metres hurdles details	Devynne Charlton   Bahamas	7.72 SB	Ditaji Kambundji   Switzerland	7.73	Ackera Nugent   Jamaica	7.74 SB
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Quanera Hayes Bailey Lear Rosey Effiong Alexis Holmes	3:27.45	Poland  (POL) Justyna Święty-Ersetic Aleksandra Formella Anastazja Kuś Anna Gryc	3:32.05 SB	Australia  (AUS) Ellie Beer Ella Connolly Bella Pasquali Jemma Pollard	3:32.65 SB
High jump details	Nicola Olyslagers   Australia	1.97 m SB	Eleanor Patterson   Australia	1.97 m	Yaroslava Mahuchikh   Ukraine	1.95 m
Pole vault details	Marie-Julie Bonnin   France	4.75 m =NR	Tina Šutej   Slovenia	4.70 m	Angelica Moser   Switzerland	4.70 m
Long jump details	Claire Bryant   United States	6.96 m PB	Annik Kälin   Switzerland	6.83 m	Fátima Diame   Spain	6.72 m
Triple jump details	Leyanis Pérez Hernández   Cuba	14.93 m WL	Liadagmis Povea   Cuba	14.57 m =SB	Ana Peleteiro-Compaoré   Spain	14.29 m
Shot put details	Sarah Mitton   Canada	20.48 m	Jessica Schilder   Netherlands	20.07 m	Chase Jackson   United States	20.06 m
Pentathlon details	Saga Vanninen   Finland	4821 pts	Kate O'Connor   Ireland	4742 pts	Taliyah Brooks   United States	4669 pts PB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Qualification

The qualification period for all events ran from 1 September 2024 to 9 March 2025 (midnight Monaco time). Athletes could qualify by achieving the Entry Standard within the qualification period or by World Indoor Tour Wildcard, or by virtue of their position in the World Rankings as of 9 March 2025 to complete, where necessary, the target number of athletes in each event. In total no more than two male and two female athletes from any one Member were invited. The winners of the World Indoor tour received wildcards to the championships, allowing nations with wildcards to enter up to 3 athletes into individual events. ^[8]

Entry Standards and target numbers of athletes / teams per event

Event	Women		Men		Quota
	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor
60 metres	7.15	10.90 for 100 m	6.55	9.92 for 100 m	56
400 metres	51.00	51.00	45.20	45.20	30
800 metres	2:00.00	2:00.00	1:45.00	1:45.00	30
1500 metres (Mile)	4:03.00 (4:22.50)	4:03.00 (4:22.50)	3:33.50 (3:50.50)	3:33.50 (3:50.50)	30
3000 metres (5000 metres)	8:33.00	8:33.00 (14:25.00)	7:31.00	7:31.00 (12:45.00)	15
60 m hurdles	7.94	100 mH	7.57	110 mH	48
High jump	1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in)		2.34 m (7 ft 8 in)		12
Pole vault	4.75 m (15 ft 7 in)		5.85 m (19 ft 2+1⁄4 in)		12
Long jump	6.90 m (22 ft 7+1⁄2 in)		8.26 m (27 ft 1 in)		16
Triple jump	14.60 m (47 ft 10+3⁄4 in)		17.40 m (57 ft 1 in)		16
Shot put	19.50 m (63 ft 11+1⁄2 in)		22.00 m (72 ft 2 in)		16
Combined events	see above				14
Relays	see above

^[9]

Participating nations

576 athletes from 127 countries were entered. ^[10] Of that number 517 athletes from 118 countries actually got to compete. ^[11]

•   Algeria (1)
•   Angola (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Argentina (1)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Australia (20)
•   Austria (2)
•   Bahamas (5)
•   Bangladesh (1)
•   Barbados (4)
•   Belgium (4)
•   Benin (1)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Brazil (17)
•   British Virgin Islands (2)
•   Bulgaria (2)
•   Burkina Faso (2)
•   Canada (14)
•   Chile (2)
•   China (32)
•   Chinese Taipei (1)
•   Cook Islands (1)
•   Croatia (2)
•   Cuba (3)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   Czech Republic (10)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Dominica (1)
•   Egypt (3)
•   Eritrea (1)
•   Estonia (5)
•   Eswatini (1)
•   Ethiopia (12)
•   Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•   Fiji (1)
•   Finland (5)
•   France (9)
•   French Polynesia (1)
•   Georgia (1)
•   Germany (8)
•   Great Britain (11)
•   Greece (5)
•   Guam (1)
•   Honduras (1)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (11)
•   Iran (1)
•   Ireland (6)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (21)
•   Ivory Coast (2)
•   Jamaica (20)
•   Japan (13)
•   Kenya (9)
•   Kiribati (1)
•   Kuwait (2)
•   Kyrgyzstan (1)
•   Laos (1)
•   Latvia (3)
•   Liberia (1)
•   Lithuania (2)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   Macau (1)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Maldives (1)
•   Mali (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Mauritius (1)
•   Morocco (3)
•   Mozambique (1)
•   Nauru (1)
•   Nepal (1)
•   Netherlands (6)
•   New Zealand (11)
•   Niger (1)
•   Nigeria (1) ^[12]
•   Norway (4)
•   Oman (1)
•   Papua New Guinea (1)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Poland (13)
•   Portugal (7)
•   Puerto Rico (3)
•   Qatar (1)
•   Republic of the Congo (1)
•   Romania (5)
•   Rwanda (1)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   Senegal (1)
•   Serbia (6)
•   Seychelles (1)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Slovakia (5)
•   Slovenia (6)
•   Solomon Islands (1)
•   South Africa (4)
•   South Korea (1)
•   Spain (12)
•   Sri Lanka (10)
•   Sweden (11)
•   Switzerland (11)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   Tonga (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•   Turkey (4)
•   Turkmenistan (1)
•   Uganda (2)
•   Ukraine (7)
•   United States (50) ^[13]
•   Uruguay (1)
•   Uzbekistan (1)
•   Vanuatu (1)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

References

1. "World Indoor Athletics Championships 2023 in China postponed to 2025 due to COVID-19". Firstpost . 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
2. "World Athletics Council competition decisions announced". World Athletics . 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
3. "World Athletics to postpone World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2020". World Athletics . 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
4. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2023 to be postponed". World Athletics . 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
5. "Nanjing is Awarded 2020 World Indoor Championships – IAAF Council, Day 2". IAAF. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
6. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2020 Organising Committee". www.worldathleticsnanjing2020.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
7. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025 Timetable". World Athletics . 5 December 2024. Archived from the original on 11 December 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
8. "Timetable and qualification system approved for WCH Tokyo 25 and WIC Nanjing 25".
9. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics . Retrieved 19 March 2025.
10. "World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 – Athletes by Country" (PDF). World Athletics. 15 March 2025. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
11. Official database of participating athletes
12. Adewale, Abiodun (24 March 2025). "Nigeria's sole rep Enekwechi fifth at World Indoor Champs". punchng.com. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
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External links

• World Athletics website