UK Sport and UK Athletics are planning a bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships.
Speaking to BBC Sport, UK Athletics Chief Executive, Jack Buckner, has revealed that the UK is “determined” to host the biennial athletics competition.
Organised by World Athletics and considered alongside the Olympics as the highest-level championships for track and field athletics globally, the World Athletics Championships was last hosted by the UK in 2017, taking place in London.
Beckner told BBC Sport, “We’d love to have another crack at 2029 and a World Championships,”
“We just do a great job. Everyone talks about the atmosphere and every event we’ve done.
“We first of all have to do a feasibility study and look at what the various options are.”
A feasibility study will still need to take place before a bid can be submitted but Buckner has suggested London would be top of the list of potential host cities again.
Buckner continued, “We can’t definitely say it’ll be London, but it would be in our mind given the success of it before. I think London [2017] was transformational and it built off 2012 [the Olympic Games]. It was transformational in all sorts of ways.”
The UK’s role in athletics has been significant in recent times. Glasgow hosted the World Indoor Championships last week and Birmingham is set to host the 2026 European Championships.
The next World Athletics Championships, in 2025, is set to take place in Tokyo, Japan before China’s capital Beijing plays host in 2027.
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