With one year to go until next year’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, the logo and slogan for the event has been launched ©Glasgow 2024

With one year to go until next year’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Eilidh Doyle, one of Scotland’s most successful athletes, has been named as event ambassador.

The biennial event is due to take place from March 1 to 3 at the Emirates Arena, which successfully hosted the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2019.

The 2024 Championships will take on added significance as they fall within the qualification period for next year's Olympic Games in Paris, offering athletes the chance to sharpen their form for the key year ahead, and up to 700 competitors from more than 130 countries are expected to take part.

The arena has a capacity of 5,000, and and ticket preregistration is now open online.

Doyle won 17 major international medals in the 400 metres hurdles, 400m and 4x400m relay.

She was European 400m hurdles champion in 2014 and as a member of the British 4x400m relay team she won an Olympic bronze medal at Rio 2016, two World Championships silver and a bronze, European Championships gold in 2016 and European Indoor Championships gold in 2013.

"I am thrilled to be announced as ambassador for the Championships, it is a real honour," Doyle said.

"I am excited that, as well as promoting the event, I will be contributing to the event steering group, ensuring that the operational plans put in place meet the needs of the athletes, creating the right environment to enable them to compete at their very best.

"Glasgow and Scotland have always been committed to innovation and delivering sport focused, athlete centred events, which is why athletes love to come here, so I am sure Glasgow will step up yet again, taking the 2024 world indoors to the next level.

"I know from competing at the Emirates regularly that the atmosphere will be incredible, so I urge all athletics fans to preregister for tickets while they can!"

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: "What makes the World Athletics Indoor Championships unique is the intimacy of the competition.

"The fans really get up close to the world’s best athletes and can appreciate just how amazing their performances are.

"That creates an incredibly exciting atmosphere for athletes and fans alike.

"I’ll never forget the finale to the most recent World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, where Ivana Vuleta delighted her home crowd with victory in the long jump and Mondo Duplantis brought the house down by breaking the world pole vault record - something that Glasgow fans also experienced from Mondo in 2020.

"Glasgow has a fine record of hosting great athletics events, from the 2014 Commonwealth Games to the 2019 European Indoors, so we already know this will be an exceptional stop on the journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games."

Also unveiled today was the event’s new brand mark, created by Scottish design agency Brand Oath. 

Sitting within the World Athletics brand outline, it brings a Scottish flavour to the event with a contemporary twist to the nation’s iconic emblem the thistle.

The flower head, represented by the running track lanes, sits on a diamond tartan pattern also reflecting the Arena’s geometric architecture, all underpinned by the classic victory pose with arms aloft, universal to sport at all levels, as winners cross the finish line.

Eilidh Doyle, centre, one of Scotland's most successful athletes, helped launch the year to go celebrations for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships at the the Emirates Arena in Glasgow ©Glasgow 2024
Eilidh Doyle, centre, one of Scotland's most successful athletes, helped launch the year to go celebrations for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships at the the Emirates Arena in Glasgow ©Glasgow 2024

It will be third time that the United Kingdom that hosted the World Athletics Indoor Championships following 2003 and 2018, when both times it was held in Birmingham. 

Scotland's Culture Minister Neil Gray said: "Glasgow is world renowned as an incredible host city.

"It’s fantastic that the city and its people will once again be in the international spotlight next year."

Ian Beattie, chair of UK Athletics and co-chair of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 steering group said: "UKA were incredibly proud to be awarded the opportunity to host the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships and with just one year to go it’s exciting to see such great progress in preparations has been made."

Paul Bush director of events at VisitScotland, added: “Scotland is one of the best places in the world to experience events and we are looking forward to welcoming athletes, officials and fans to Glasgow in one year’s time for the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

"The Championships joins an enviable portfolio of major events to be hosted across the country over the last 10 years and will reinforce our reputation as a world leading destination and the perfect stage for events."

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