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Duplantis headlines stellar cast as world indoors finally get Nanjing green light
Gulf Today
|March 20, 2025
Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis headlines a stellar cast in the Chinese city of Nanjing for a world indoor athletics championships delayed three times by the Covid-I9 pandemic.
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Nanjing was picked to host the biennial event back in 2020, then in 2021 and again in 2023.
They were all moved due to coronavirus rules.
In 2022 the event was instead held in Belgrade and in 2093 in Glasgow.
It now has the green light and Nanjing’s Cube will play host to 576 athletes from 127 countries competing in 96 events over three days of action from March 1-23.
That number includes I! individual defending champions notably world record holders Duplantis (pole vault), Devynne Charlton and Grant Holloway (6Om hurdles) and 20 medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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