Having successfully hosted the 9th World U18 Championships in 2015, Cali, Colombia, has been selected host the 2022 World U20 Athletics Championships, which will be the 19th edition of the biennial championships.
The 18th edition was initially billed to hold in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2020, but had to be postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Speaking about the choice of Cali as host, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said, “Our World U20 Championships are vibrant and youthful, so it’s entirely fitting that they should be held in a vibrant and youthful city. Cali now has substantial experience hosting major events and I’m sure will produce a championships with a typical Latin flavour.
“Athletics in South America has a proud history going back more than a century and has produced some of the great stars of our sport, including the 2018 World Female Athlete of the Year Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia. I would hope that hosting the World U20 Championships will inspire a generation of young Colombians and South Americans to follow in her footsteps.”
