India to Host First-Ever World Athletics Continental Tour Event in August 2025.

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The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has confirmed that India will host its first-ever World Athletics Continental Tour, a bronze level global meet, on August 10, 2025, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. This will be the first time India hosts such a prestigious global event since organizing the 2004 World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi.


      - A bronze-level meet in the World Athletics Continental Tour is a mid-tier event where athletes compete for world ranking points (category C).

      - The World Athletics Championships 2025 will be held from September 13 to 21, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan.

     

Main Point :-   (i) The World Athletics Continental Tour, established in 2020, consists of events at different levels: bronze, silver, and gold. These levels represent the standard of competition and the prize money offered at each event.

      (ii) World Athletics (formerly known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF) is the organizer of the event.


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