{"id":42032,"date":"2026-08-10T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42032"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:58:54","slug":"nairobi-submits-bid-to-host-2029-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nairobi-submits-bid-to-host-2029-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi submits bid to host 2029 World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Nairobi has formally submitted its bid to host \u200bthe 2029 World Athletics Championships, \u200cseeking to become the first African city to stage the \u200bsport&#8217;s flagship event.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Kenyan \u200bcapital faces competition from London, \u2060Rome and Munich for \u200bhosting rights.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya&#8217;s government has committed \u200bfull backing for the bid, including the infrastructure, security and organisational support \u200brequired to stage the \u200bchampionships.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya has previously hosted the 2007 \u200cWorld \u2060Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, the World Under-18 Championships in Nairobi in 2017 and \u200bthe World \u200bUnder-20 \u2060Championships in the capital in 2021.<\/div>\n<div>Nairobi also \u200bstaged the African Athletics \u200bChampionships \u2060in 2010.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>World Athletics is expected to announce the host \u2060city \u200bfor the 2029 \u200bchampionships in September.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34734,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-42032","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Kenyan \u200bcapital faces competition from London, \u2060Rome and Munich for \u200bhosting rights.","published_date":"","news_description":"The Kenyan \u200bcapital faces competition from London, \u2060Rome and Munich for \u200bhosting rights.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42033,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42032\/revisions\/42033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}