Boston is set to host the World Figure Skating Championships in 2025 ©Getty Images

Boston in the United States is set to host the World Figure Skating Championships in 2025.

Scheduled to be held from March 24 to 30, the International Skating Union (ISU) announced provisionally that the American city will play host, one year prior to the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Boston first hosted the World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden in 2016 and US Figure Skating confirmed that the same venue will host again in three years’ time.

The 2025 World Figure Skating Championships in Boston will be expected to play a significant role in qualification for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

For Beijing 2022, the majority of figure skating quota places were allocated at the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships in Swedish capital Stockholm.

It was also announced that Prague will host the 2026 edition of the World Championships, after the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Prague has staged the World Figure Skating Championships twice before, but not since 1993.

Boston first hosted the World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden in 2016 ©Getty Images
Boston first hosted the World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden in 2016 ©Getty Images

Next year’s World Championships will be held in Saitama in Japan followed by Montreal in Canada in 2024.

The ISU also announced that Zagreb in Croatia will be welcoming skaters for the 2025 European Figure Skating Championships in January.

Hungarian city Debrecen has been awarded the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 2025 and Tampere in Finland will be hosting the 2025 World Synchronized Skating Championships.

Finally, for the 2025-2026 season, Sheffield in Britain has been allotted the European Figure Skating Championships.

A decision on the hosts for the Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Championships will be announced after the ISU's next Council meeting.