Indian athletics calendar 2025: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has announced a busy schedule for the 2025 season, starting with the Cross Country Nationals in January. One of the biggest events on the calendar is the Indian Open World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour, which will be held in India for the first time.
The senior track and field season will begin with the Indian Open Throws event in March in Mumbai. The World Athletics Continental Tour will be a major highlight, with top Indian athletes, including Neeraj Chopra, expected to compete.
It is still unclear when Neeraj Chopra will start his season. The two-time Olympic medalist has usually started his season abroad, but there are suggestions that he may compete more in India this time, as the AFI would like to see him compete on home soil.
Highlighting the calendar is the inaugural Indian Open World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour in August. “The Continental Tour will be a good opportunity for the Indian team to showcase their potential on home ground before the World Championships in September,” said AFI President Adille Sumariwalla.
The World Athletics Championships, scheduled for September 13-21 in Tokyo, Japan, will be the main focus of the year. Other significant international events include the World Athletics Relays on May 10-11 in China and the Asian Athletics Championships from May 27-31 in Korea.
Sumariwalla also explained that India’s top race walkers will not participate in the Asian Race Walking Championships in March, emphasizing the importance of peak performance at the World Championships later in the year. “The core group of Indian race walkers clock a good time in March but aren’t able to repeat the performance later in the season. Since the main focus in 2025 is the global competition in September, we have decided not to send the elite team to Japan in March,” he said.
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) 2025 Calendar
January
- 12th: 59th National Cross-Country Championships – Uttar Pradesh
- 19th: Mumbai Marathon – Mumbai
February
- TBD: 20th National Inter District Junior Athletics Meet (NIDJAM) – Hyderabad
- 23rd: National Marathon – New Delhi
March
- 18th–20th: National Youth Championships – Patna, Bihar
- 20th: Fourth Indian Open Throws Competition – Reliance Academy, Mumbai
- 22nd: Fourth Indian Open Jumps Competition – Anju Bobby Foundation, Bengaluru
- 24th: Fourth Indian Open 400m Competition – Trivandrum
- 28th: Indian Grand Prix 1 – Bengaluru
April
- 1st: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Sangrur, Punjab
- 5th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- 10th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Ranchi
- 15th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Chennai
- 19th: 12th Indian Open Race Walking Competition – Chandigarh
- 21st: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- 21st–24th: National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships – Panchkula, Haryana
- 27th: TCS World 10K – Bengaluru
- 30th: National Relay Carnival – Chandigarh
May
- 17th: Indian Grand Prix 2 – Trivandrum
- 27th–29th: Junior Federation Cup – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
June
- 10th–25th: Senior State Championships – Various locations
July
- 12th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Pune (ASI), Maharashtra
- 19th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Patna, Bihar
- 27th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Himachal Pradesh
- 28th: Indian Open Athletics Meetings – Bengaluru
August
- 7th: Fourth National Javelin Day Competition – All States & Union Territories
- 10th: First Indian Open World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour – Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- 20th–24th: 64th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships – Chennai, Tamil Nadu
September
- 9th–30th: Junior & National Open Meets – Various locations
October
- 2nd–4th: Fifth Indian Open U23 Athletics Competition – Harmond, Warangal
- 10th–14th: 29th National Junior Athletics Championships – Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- 12th: Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon – New Delhi
December
- 21st: Tata Steel World 25K – Kolkata, West Bengal
World Athletics: Major International Events in 2025
February
- 1st–12th: South Asian Games – Lahore, Pakistan
March
- 21st–23rd: World Indoor Championships – Nanjing, China
May
- 10th–11th: World Athletics Relays – Guangzhou, China
May
- 27th–31st: Asian Athletics Championships – Gumi, South Korea
July
- 16th–27th: World University Games – Ruhr, Germany
September
- 10th–25th: Asian Youth Games – Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- 13th–21st: World Athletics Championships – Tokyo, Japan
Diamond League 2025 Meetings
April
- 26th: Xiamen – People’s Republic of China
May
- 3rd: Shanghai/Suzhou – People’s Republic of China
- 16th: Doha – Qatar
- 25th: Rabat – Morocco
June
- 6th: Rome – Italy
- 12th: Oslo – Norway
- 15th: Stockholm – Sweden
- 20th: Paris – France
July
- 5th: Eugene – USA
- 11th: Monaco – Monaco
- 19th: London – Great Britain
August
- 16th: Silesia – Poland
- 20th: Lausanne – Switzerland
- 22nd: Brussels – Belgium
August
- 27th–28th: Final – Zurich, Switzerland
Neeraj Chopra’s Diamond League Events 2025 (Men’s Javelin Throw)
- 16th May: Doha – Qatar
- 20th June: Paris – France
- 16th August: Silesia – Poland
- 22nd August: Brussels – Belgium
- 27th–28th August: Final – Zurich, Switzerland
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