By Chris Chavez
October 8, 2024
The 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships will be held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island, New York, from Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb. 23.
Here’s what you need to know:
– The 2025 U.S. Indoor Championships will serve the national championships as well as the team selection event for the 2025 World Indoor Championships. 2025 Worlds are set to take place in Nanjing, China from Friday, March 21st through Sunday, March 23rd.
– Most of the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex facility records were set when the stadium hosted the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in 2021 and 2022. The $112 million building – managed by New York City’s Parks Department and often open for public use – has also hosted hundreds of collegiate, high school, and all-comers meets since it opened in 2015.
– Nanjing was originally slated to host the World Indoor Championships in 2020 before World Athletics postponed it to 2021 and then 2023 due to COVID regulations in China. The 2022 World Indoor Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia. The 2024 year’s World Indoor Championships took place in Glasgow, Scotland.
– The qualifying period for World Indoors opened on Sept. 1 and runs through March 9th.
– This will be the first time the U.S. Indoor Championships take place in New York since Ocean Breeze hosted the 2019 U.S. Indoor Championships.
– The past two editions of the U.S. Indoor Championships have been held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico, at an elevation of over 5,000 feet.
Here are the entry standards for the 2025 World Indoor Championships:
- 60m: Women 7.15 / Men 6.55
- 100m: Women 10.90 / Men 9.92
- 400m: Women 51.00 / Men 45.20
- 800m: Women 2:00.00 / Men 1:45.00
- 1500m: Women 4:03.00 (4:22.50 Mile) / Men 3:33.50 (3:50.50 Mile)
- 3000m: Women 8:33.00 (14:25.00 5000) / Men 7:31.00 (12:45.00 5000)
- 60m Hurdles: Women 7.94 / Men 7.57
- High Jump: Women 1.97 / Men 2.34
- Pole Vault: Women 4.75 / Men 5.85
- Long Jump: Women 6.90 / Men 8.26
- Triple Jump: Women 14.60 / Men 17.40
- Shot Put: Women 19.50 / Men 22.00
Chris Chavez
Chris Chavez launched CITIUS MAG in 2016 as a passion project while working full-time for Sports Illustrated. He covered the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and grew his humble blog into a multi-pronged media company. He completed all six World Marathon Majors and is an aspiring sub-five-minute miler.
