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Why in the news?
New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium has been finalised as the venue for the 2025 Para Worlds slated for 26 September to 5 October 2025.
Key Points:
📍This is the first time India will host para athletics’ biggest sporting event. The development was announced by the World Paralympic Association (WPA) on their official website.
📍The 2025 event is the 12th edition of the championships and the fourth time it is hosted in Asia, following Doha 2015, Dubai 2019 and Kobe 2024. 
📍As per WPA, the capital will also host a World Para Athletics Grand Prix from 11 to 13 March at the same venue in 2025. The Grand Prix event will serve as a trial event before the big competition scheduled for October.
📍The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, set to host the event, will also witness an inaugural World Para Athletics Grand Prix between the 11th and the 13th of March.
📍The premier event is set to go down as the largest international Para sporting event ever to take place in the peninsular nation.
📍India finished in the top six of the Para World Championships in the previous edition in Kobe, Japan 2024 for the first time with 17 medals including six gold.
📍The 2025 Para Athletics World Championships will be the largest international Para sport event ever to take place in India.
📍“NPC India is privileged to host the Para Athletics World Championships for the first time in India. This historic event marks a significant milestone in India’s journey to becoming a global sporting powerhouse and strengthens our bid to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games,”.

Useful information for all competitive exams:
Head of World Para Athletics: Paul Fitzgerald
International Paralympic Committee:
Headquarters: Bonn, Germany
Membership: 183
President: Andrew Parsons (Brazil)
International Olympic Committee (IOC):
Formation: 23 June 1894
Founders: Pierre de Coubertin, Demetrios Vikelas
Headquarters: Olympic House, Lausanne, Switzerland
President: Thomas Bach (Germany) (9th President of the International Olympic Committee)