London 2017 Wants Paralympic World Champs
London 2017 are hoping to host the International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships – if they are awarded the 2017 World Athletics Championships later this year, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner.
The capital is currently in competition with Doha for the event with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) set to decide on where the 2017 competition is staged at their Council meeting in Monte Carlo on 11th November.
In an interview with insidethegames, Warner said: ‘UK Athletics have approached the IPC and we told them that if we are awarded the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships, we would also like to host the 2017 IPC World Athletics Championships in London’.
‘We received a letter back for the IPC President Sir Philip Craven that was very supportive of our plan of hosting the two events back-to-back which we were delighted to receive’.
‘We haven’t yet considered any of the logistics such as whether the IPC event will be in the same stadium as the IAAF event but the competition is six years away so that is not a major issue at present’.
‘The important thing with the IPC Championships is that we have a full stadium and a well-supported event and we are very confident that would happen in London which is a city full of passionate athletics fans and passionate Paralympic sport fans’.
