As night falls, the streets of Nanjing are brightly lit. Touch high challenge, street pole, 100 metres Battle ......On the night of 18th May, a city carnival with a passionate collision of sports and trend met the citizens in Qixia Xianlin Golden Eagle Lakeside World unexpectedly. That night, 2024 China Athletics Street Tour Nanjing Station and Nanjing Sports Carnival opened synchronously, and the blood-curdling process of the game and the energetic atmosphere of the event attracted a large number of people to watch and feel the charm of sports up close.

This 2024 China Athletics Street Tour Nanjing Station competition for the pole vault, which is also the first time that Nanjing held a street pole vault competition. Asian record-holder Li Ling, national record-holder Yao Jie led the domestic women and men pole vault "group", in Nanjing, presenting the "Chinese street height". The "smoky" neighbourhood and the enthusiastic audience also stimulated the athletes to show a better level of competition. After a fierce competition, Li Ling won the women's title, and the men's crown was won by Zhong Tao, a "post-00" youngster from Anhui Province.

Representatives of the World Athletics and officials of the Chinese Athletics Association, who came to Nanjing to inspect the preparations for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025, also came to the scene to watch the competition. They said: "This competition let the pole vault on the street, the track and field moved to the public side, so that the public close acquaintance with track and field, feel track and field, experience track and field, for the beautiful city of Nanjing to add a strong atmosphere of track and field sports, this is all done very well!"

World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025 Competition Venue

World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2025 will be held from 21 to 23 March 2025 at the Nanjing Sports Training Centre's indoor arena, the "Nanjing Rubik's Cube", marking the first time that the World Indoor Athletics Championships will be held in China. As the 300-day countdown to the Championships approaches, the successful organisation of the street race has added to the city's welcoming atmosphere.

For this high-level track and field event to be held in China, Li Ling also expressed her expectation: "I very much hope to participate in the World Indoor Athletics Championships to be held in Nanjing next year, to create excellent results and to compete for our country." Ms Wang, a member of the public, was very excited after watching the game that night. She said it was the first time for her to experience athletics up close, "It was very shocking to be able to watch the game up close and personal at the scene! Looking forward to next year's Nanjing World Indoor Athletics Championships!"

Sports events make Nanjing more "sporty" and allow every citizen to embrace sports in their favourite way after dinner. Athletics street experience space has been set up at the competition site, where the public can experience interactive programmes such as table curling, dynamic cycling and relay law. In addition, Nanjing will hold 93 provincial sports events this year, including 12 international events, launching a "sports feast" for the public, and constantly making fascinating sports events a novel memory of the city's landmarks, and carving Nanjing's imprint in the construction of a healthy China and a strong sports nation.

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