The Polish city of Toruń will host the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2021, the sport’s European governing body announced on Friday.

The Toruń Arena venue where the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held. Photo: arenatorun.pl

European Athletics made the announcement at a meeting in Berlin, Germany.

Toruń beat out the Dutch city of Apeldoorn in a close race to host the track-and-field event, European Athletics said.

It added that the north-central Polish city had won 11 votes versus Apeldoorn's four votes.

The event will be held at the city's Toruń Arena venue in early March 2021, Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

This will be the second time the European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Poland, following the 1975 championships in its southern city of Katowice.

European Athletics Indoor Championships are held every two years. The next such event will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 1-3, 2019.

Poland won 12 medals, including seven gold, and topped the medal table at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Source: IAR, european-athletics.org</s>Yeeeeeeeeeeessssss! Yeeeeeeesss! Yeeeeeeeesss! Toruń will host European Indoor Championships in 2021!@monikapyrek, @MaciejGrzes, @ArenaTorun and the whole team behind that application - we did it! #itsTimeForTorunpic.twitter.com/0Sbk4xUNDi — Marek Plawgo (@maras400) 27 kwietnia 2018
The city of Toruń in Poland wins the right to host the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, defeating Apeldoorn in the Netherlands.