Monte Carlo – With its deadline having passed, the IAAF has received letters from a number of member federations wishing to host the outdoor World Athletics Championships, due to be held in 2017, with the IAAF receiving bids from five countries:
1) Germany (Berlin)
2) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (London)
3) Hungary (Budapest)
4) Qatar (Doha)
5) Spain (host city to be determined later)
Detailed documents on the bidding and evaluation procedures will be provided to candidates in the coming weeks, and on 1 September the IAAF will announce the official list of candidates, after which the country winning the honour of hosting the 2017 World Championships will be chosen during the IAAF Council’s meeting in November in Monaco.
The World Championships are the biggest event on the IAAF’s calendar of championships; the most recent edition, in Berlin in 2009, ran for 9 days and featured 2,000 athletes representing 200 countries, along with 10,500 officials and volunteers, with prize money exceeding 7 million US dollars.
The Berlin 2009 edition saw huge global viewership among audiences numbering in the billions; in host country Germany, the event drew an audience of 70 million over more than 46 hours of coverage, while it was watched by viewers in 201 countries around the world
The next three editions of the World Championships will be held in:
Daegu, South Korea (2011).
Moscow, Russia (2013).
Beijing, China (2015).
The previous editions of the World Championships were held in:
Berlin, Germany (2009), Osaka, Japan (2007), Helsinki, Finland (2005), Paris Saint-Denis, France (2003), Edmonton, Canada (2001), Seville, Spain (1999), Athens, Greece (1997) , Gothenburg, Sweden (1995), Stuttgart, Germany (1993), Tokyo, Japan (1991), Rome, Italy (1987), Helsinki, Finland (1983).
