Glasgow wins its bid to host the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024

Glasgow has received its bid to stage the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024.

It is known UK Athletics confronted competitors from Torun, Poland and Kazakhstan to land the biennial occasion, which follows Glasgow’s profitable internet hosting of the European Indoors in 2019.

The Championships will likely be held at the Emirates Arena.

Glasgow has received its bid to stage the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024

The biennial competitors will likely be held at the metropolis’s Emirates Arena (pictured above)

UKA chair Ian Beattie stated: ‘World Athletics have demonstrated their confidence in the UK to host international athletics championships as soon as once more, and historical past has proven time and time once more our skill to ship superb occasions.

‘We’re thrilled with the consequence and look ahead to a profitable Championships working alongside our companions that may actually give all athletes a incredible stage upon which to carry out.’

Dame Katherine Grainger, the chair of UK Sport, added: ‘I’m delighted that with our occasion internet hosting companions, we’ve got secured one other world class occasion to happen in Scotland. 

‘As a part of our new technique to attain, encourage and unite communities throughout the UK, making certain a large geographical attain is of utmost significance to us. The National Lottery funding into this occasion will assist guarantee a really inspirational occasion.’

Dame Katherine Grainger, the chair of UK Sport, stated she was ‘delighted’ with the transfer