Athletics Canada: Ottawa to host track and field championships in 2025, 26
Ottawa will play host to one of the best monitor and subject athletes in Canada in 2025 and 2026.
Athletics Canada has introduced the Canadian Observe and Area Championships can be held on the Terry Fox Athletic Facility on Riverside Drive, marking the competitors’s return to the nation’s capital.
Ottawa final hosted the Canadian Observe and Area Championships in 2017 and 2018.
“We’re happy to return to Ottawa, the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Canadian Observe and Area Championships had been a few of the finest editions ever staged,” mentioned Athletics Canada CEO Mathieu Gentès in a information launch. “Spectator attendance, grassroots integration, and a first-rate sport and leisure expertise had been main focus factors, the Athletics Canada workforce seems ahead to working with the Ottawa Lions and nationwide and native companions to springboard off these 2017 and 2018 success tales.”
The Canadian Observe and Area Championships function the nationwide championship for U20, Open and Para Athletics classes. Athletics Canada says the 2025 version will function World Trials for the 2025 World Athletics Championships to be held in Tokyo, Japan.
Richard Johnston, government director of the Ottawa Lions monitor and subject membership, mentioned the membership is wanting ahead to the occasion.
“The expansive Ottawa Lions Observe and Area packages and companions in the neighborhood, can be important to the volunteer base and operations, whereas serving as an amazing platform to include grassroots programming into the occasion, appeal to a brand new fan base and create a memorable expertise for these competing and people attending,” he mentioned.
The 2022 Canadian Observe and Area Championships had been held in June in Langley, B.C., the place they are going to be held once more in July 2023. The 2024 Bell Olympic and Paralympic Observe and Area Trials will happen in Montreal.
