PZLA news agency reports that Torun is a candidate to host the 2026 European Athletics Championships.
The city has already hosted the 2026 World Indoor Championships and the 2021 European Indoor Championships, the first major sporting event held during the pandemic; for both editions, a Mondo athletics track was ready to welcome the athletes.
"We already hosted the European Indoor Championships in 2021. Unfortunately, we had to organize the event under very strict sanitary conditions. The pandemic was ongoing, there were no spectators in the stands, and as a result, the atmosphere at the event itself was quite sad. Hence the idea of bidding for such an event again. We want to give back to the fans what the pandemic took away from them five years ago," said Krzysztof Wolsztyński, responsible for all activities related to Bydgoszcz and Toruń and vice president of the Polish Athletics Federation.