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UK Athletics Indoor and Outside Championships to be held in Birmingham

Subsequent 12 months’s two largest home occasions will happen on the Utilita Enviornment and Alexander Stadium

Each the 2025 UK Athletics Indoor and Outside Championships will happen in Birmingham.

Athletes, coaches and followers will make the journey to the town, with the nationwide showpiece occasions going down on February 22-23 and August 2-3 respectively.

Birmingham has lately been the house of the UK Athletics Indoor Championships and hosted the occasion in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The one different metropolis to have held the championships in that interval was Glasgow in 2020, whereas they had been cancelled in 2021 due to Covid-19.

The UK Athletics Indoor Championships had been held on the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from 2007 to 2017, with the Metal Metropolis having additionally performed host to the changed AAA Indoor Championships on a number of events.

Keely Hodgkinson (Getty for BA)

In the meantime, the UK Athletics Outside Championships will return to Birmingham after a five-year absence.

Manchester performed host to the occasion in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 however they was once on the outdated Alexander Stadium, earlier than it was renovated for the 2022 Commonwealth Video games.

Though the additional stands at both finish of the bends received’t be up for subsequent 12 months’s UK Athletics Outside Championships, nonetheless anticipate an awesome ambiance in a 18,000 capability stadium.

Birmingham hosted the occasion in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The Alexander Stadium additionally held the AAA Championships on greater than a dozen events, after it moved away from Crystal Palace within the Nineteen Eighties.

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