{"id":28,"date":"2026-09-19T17:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:38:23","slug":"nairobi-to-host-2029-world-athletics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"NAIROBI TO HOST 2029 WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nairobi has been selected to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, making it the first African city to stage the competition.<br>The announcement was made by World Athletics on September 15 following a council meeting in Budapest. The championships are expected to be held at Kasarani Stadium, which is undergoing renovations.<br>Kenya has previously hosted major athletics events, including the World U18 Championships in 2017 and the World U20 Championships in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" data-id=\"37\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202524-1024x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202524-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202524-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202524-767x582.jpg 767w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_20260919_202524.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi has been selected to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, making it the first African city to stage the competition.The announcement was made by World Athletics on September 15 following a council meeting in Budapest. The championships are expected to be held at Kasarani Stadium, which is undergoing renovations.Kenya has previously hosted major athletics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}