The World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Indoor Athletics Championships’) will be held from 21 to 23 March 2025 in Nanjing. As the Indoor Athletics Championships draw closer, Nanjing, a city with a long history of culture, is welcoming the world's track and field athletes with unprecedented enthusiasm and vigour.Why Nanjing? Why is Nanjing's track and field industry booming? What is the atmosphere of Nanjing sports? ...... With questions, let's go into the group of Nanjing track and field coaches, and feel the city's vigorous development and unlimited potential in the field of track and field from their point of view.

‘Excited, proud, proud!’ When the first time to learn that Nanjing held such a high profile track and field events, for the Nanjing Athletics Association, vice president of the Nanjing Athletics Team, the leader of the Nanjing Athletics Team Li Xinli mood is undoubtedly excited. In his opinion, this Indoor Athletics Championships is not only an international test of Nanjing's comprehensive strength, but also an important milestone in the development of Nanjing Athletics and even China's track and field career.

From field events to track and field events, in walking, running, jumping and throwing, the Nanjing track and field team has a layout. ‘Our current configuration of coaches covers world champions, Asian champions as well as national champions.’ Li Xinli introduced, at present, the Nanjing track and field team has nearly 450 registered personnel, including 16 coaches, and the training programme contains sprinting, long-distance running, throwing, high jump, long jump and so on. In terms of reserve talent training, Nanjing Sports School through the campus track and field league held, the integration of sports and education and other diversified ways to build a professional, diversified selection and training chain.

As a matter of fact, this is not the first time Nanjing has hosted a large-scale international event. Over the past ten years, from the 2017 World All-Sport Roller Skating Championships, to the 2018 World Badminton Championships, to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Nanjing has demonstrated to the world its unique charms as a famous city of sports with one international event after another.

What is the significance of the organisation of high-profile, multi-disciplinary sports events for the construction of Nanjing as a famous sports city? ‘The organisation of this Indoor Athletics Championships means that top athletes from all over the world will gather in Nanjing to showcase athletics.’ Nanjing Sports School short cross group leader Cheng Yafan said, for the people of Nanjing, especially for the youth group, this is not only an opportunity to open up the vision of sports, but also to promote more young people to understand track and field, love sports important ‘window’.

Sports is not only a professional competition on the field, but also a way of life that more and more people recognise. Nanjing sports school track and field project selection team leader, middle and long-distance running group coach Zhang Wenjia has a deep understanding of this, ‘regardless of the weekdays or weekends, in the Xuanwu Lake are a lot of people in the trail running exercise.’ Zhang Wenjia introduced that in Nanjing, the types of sports are constantly enriched, and the fitness scene is increasingly diversified. In addition to running, hiking, cycling and other traditional projects, such as tennis, skateboarding and other emerging projects have also attracted more and more people to participate.

In recent years, Nanjing continues to improve the ‘ten-minute sports and fitness circle’, and actively explore the potential of the city, streets and communities in the vacant land, according to local conditions to promote sports parks, fitness parks, fitness trails, lighted ballparks and other convenient sports facilities, so that the public in the ‘doorstep’! ‘Fitness and sports more convenient. In the past three years, the city's new reconstruction of 141 pieces of lighted stadiums, of which, 112 pieces of basketball courts, football field 6 pieces, gateball court 3 pieces, badminton court 10 pieces, tennis court 4 pieces, table tennis field 6 pieces ...... With the continuous expansion of sports and fitness venues and space in Nanjing, sports ‘out of the door accessible! ‘The national fitness is ‘striding’.

In 2025, when the world's attention is focused on Nanjing, with the World Indoor Athletics Championships as an opportunity, Nanjing will continue to promote the high-quality development of sports undertakings, writing down the construction of the world's sports city a colourful one.

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