The World Athletics Council confirmed the hosts for 3 World Athletics Sequence occasions and made a sequence of different selections through the 237th World Athletics Council Assembly in Nanjing, China, on March 24-25.
The World Athletics Council has awarded the 2026 World Athletics Relays to Gaborone in Botswana ( Could 2-3, 2026) and the 2028 World Athletics Relays to Nassau within the Bahamas (April 22-23, 2028).
The 2026 World Athletics Race Strolling Staff Championships can be staged in Brasília in Brazil (April 12, 2026).
“I’m delighted that Botswana’s dedication to athletics, each by means of their elite athletes and their occasion internet hosting capabilities, has led them to internet hosting the World Athletics Relays subsequent 12 months,” stated World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.
“That is the fourth World Championship occasion Africa has staged during the last decade, along with the Diamond League and Continental Tour Gold occasions, and we’re seeing an actual enhance in expertise, experience and abilities. We’re decided to assist Member Federations of their ambitions to develop by means of internet hosting our occasions. Each the Bahamas and Brazil have hosted occasions previously and their gifted athletes will, I do know, generate native and worldwide pleasure.”
The World Athletics Relays in Gaborone will see Botswana host a World Athletics Sequence occasion for the primary time.
The nation’s capital metropolis held a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold assembly for the primary time in 2023 and this 12 months’s Botswana Golden Grand Prix, going down in Gaborone on April 12, may even be a Gold-level assembly.
Jacob Kelebeng, Minister of Sport and Arts, stated: “It is a second of immense delight for Botswana. The World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 will ignite a nationwide ardour, drawing the world to our shores and showcasing our distinctive spirit. We humbly welcome athletes and followers alike, understanding that this occasion will encourage generations and go away a long-lasting legacy of triumph and unity.”
The World Athletics Relays will return to Nassau for the fifth time in 2028, following town’s internet hosting of the occasion in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2024. – worldathletics.com/Sports activities Reporter.
