15 Days After Disappointment, World Athletics Announces Fresh Update for World Indoor Championship 2024

The 2023 track and field season was a rollercoaster ride for the sporting world. The athletics world was treated to some great track and field competitions. Be it the USATF championships, the Miramar Invitational, or even the World Athletics Championships, it was a hell of a season. However, the athletics realm was left heartbroken when the Birmingham World Indoor Tour was cancelled following the ignorance of the $100,000,000 City Council Fine in Birmingham. The event that was supposed to be organized next year in February no longer exists.

Amid this disappointment, World Athletics has announced a new update for the fans, and it is going to be a major step in the world of track and field. It is also going to be a ray of hope for the athletes and the sports enthusiasts.

The silver lining for track and field

Rori Dunk, a track and field enthusiast and Rio 2016 Olympics medalist, took it to Twitter (now X) to share an update. He shared the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024 schedule in the caption of the post, which reads, “The World Indoor Championship will be back again in 2024! It will be held in Glasgow on March 1?4.” It was also added in the caption that the fans will get an early preview of what is coming for them in the next year’s summer. It is also going to be a perfect meet for the athletes to test themselves before the big 2024 Paris Olympics.

The timetable for the meet was already released by the World Athletics in July of this year. The event will be hosted at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena from Friday, March 1, to Sunday, March 3, 2024. Going by the “ladies first” tradition, the competition will kick off with the women’s pentathlon, followed by the women?s shot-put final on the first day. The qualification system for the championships has also been decided, and the athletes will have to go through a whole long process to participate in the event.

What are the qualification criteria

The three-day event that the Scottish city is going to host will witness some of the best athletes locking their horns for gold. To qualify for these competitions, the athletes will have to go through a very long process. First of all, they’ll have to meet the entry standard. Second, the overall winners of the 2023 and 2024 World Indoor Tour events will get a World Indoor Tour wild card.

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Third and last way to get their spot fixed in the championships, the track stars will qualify on the basis of their position in the world rankings. The pentathlon and heptathlon events will have 12 each, and they will be decided through their rankings in the 2023 world outdoor lists; only the top five will be selected, and the same process will be followed for the 2024 world indoor lists.

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