<p>The 2025 World Athletics Championships will return to Tokyo, the sport's global governing body announced Thursday.</p>.<p>The World Athletics Council confirmed that Tokyo would stage the championships for the second time after beating out competition from Kenya, Poland and Singapore.</p>.<p>It means Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will get the chance to host a major athletics event in a packed venue, four years after staging the pandemic-delayed Olympic games in an empty arena.</p>.<p>"Within an extremely strong field of candidates to host the World Athletics Championships 2025, Tokyo offered a compelling bid," World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.</p>.<p>"I hope this will be a shining light for Japan as they celebrate 100 years of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) in 2025, by bringing world-class athletics back to the people in Tokyo."</p>.<p>Tokyo last hosted the World Championships in 1991, in an event best remembered for American long-jumper Mike Powell's world record-breaking leap of 8.95m (29ft 4.4in) to eclipse Bob Beamon's long-standing 1968 mark.</p>.<p>"History has shown that we have the ability and energy to host the world's top athletes and to inspire international audiences," JAAF President Mitsugi Ogata said in a statement.</p>.<p>"We promise that the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will be full of fans to become an unforgettable experience for the athletes and everyone involved," Ogata added.</p>.<p>The decision was announced on the eve of this year's World Championships, which start on Friday at Eugene's Hayward Field in Oregon.</p>
<p>The 2025 World Athletics Championships will return to Tokyo, the sport's global governing body announced Thursday.</p>.<p>The World Athletics Council confirmed that Tokyo would stage the championships for the second time after beating out competition from Kenya, Poland and Singapore.</p>.<p>It means Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will get the chance to host a major athletics event in a packed venue, four years after staging the pandemic-delayed Olympic games in an empty arena.</p>.<p>"Within an extremely strong field of candidates to host the World Athletics Championships 2025, Tokyo offered a compelling bid," World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.</p>.<p>"I hope this will be a shining light for Japan as they celebrate 100 years of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) in 2025, by bringing world-class athletics back to the people in Tokyo."</p>.<p>Tokyo last hosted the World Championships in 1991, in an event best remembered for American long-jumper Mike Powell's world record-breaking leap of 8.95m (29ft 4.4in) to eclipse Bob Beamon's long-standing 1968 mark.</p>.<p>"History has shown that we have the ability and energy to host the world's top athletes and to inspire international audiences," JAAF President Mitsugi Ogata said in a statement.</p>.<p>"We promise that the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will be full of fans to become an unforgettable experience for the athletes and everyone involved," Ogata added.</p>.<p>The decision was announced on the eve of this year's World Championships, which start on Friday at Eugene's Hayward Field in Oregon.</p>