Glasgow Wins World Gymnastics Bid
The City of Glasgow has won the hosting rights for the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – the main qualifying competition for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeriro – beating rivals Paris and Orlando to secure the event.
The International Gymnastics Federation Council voted out Paris in the first round, before Glasgow polled 23 votes, to Orlando’s 13 in the second and final round of voting.
The event is scheduled to be held in the National Arena Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre – due to open in 2013, it will also host the gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which Glasgow is hosting.??
British Gymnastics developed the bid with the support of UK Sport, Event Scotland and the City of Glasgow’s major event teams.??
It will be the third occasion that Britain has staged the event, which has been held annually since 1903 – except in Olympic years.??
Britain first held it in Birmingham in 1993 and then again in 2009 in London, when they took place in the O2, which is due to host gymnastics during next year’s Olympics.?
?The 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were awarded to Stuttgart and the 2015 Trampoline World Championships to Odense in Denmark.
