Nairobi to host World Athletics Championships in 2029, a first for an African country

The 2029 World Athletics Championships will take place in Africa for the first time after Nairobi won the bid to stage the event, with the Kenyan capital surprisingly winning out over rival bids from London and Rome.

It was also announced that Munich will host the event in 2031, returning to Germany for the third time, following what World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said was the “one of the strongest bidding processes in the history of the sport’s flagship event”.