Tokyo to host 2025 World Championships.

Tokyo will organize the 2025 World Championships in the wake of beating rival offers from Nairobi, Silesia, and Singapore.

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"Inside an incredibly impressive field of up-and-comers, Tokyo offered a convincing bid," World Athletics president Lord Coe said.

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Tokyo facilitated the Olympics in 2021, with occasions occurring a year after the fact than planned and in secret due to the Covid pandemic.

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The current year's Championships, postponed from 2021, starting in Oregon on Friday.

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The 2023 Championships will be held in Budapest.

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The cutting edge Mondo track laid at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium got generally sure surveys from competitors.

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New world records were set in both the people's 400m obstacles by Norway's Karsten Warholm and the United States' Sydney McLaughlin.

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Coe said he still wants a landmark World Championships staged in Africa for the first time, despite Nairobi being overlooked for 2025.

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