2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships

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. ==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. == Schedule ==

All times were local (UTC+8). ==Medal table==

United States won the placing table. ==Medal summary==

Men • Almir dos Santos of Brazil originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified for wearing non-regulation shoes. Women • Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified due to anti-doping violations. == 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. ==Participating nations==

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