British Gymnastics Bids for 2015 World Gymnastics Championships

Last week during the World Gymnastics Championships, British Gymnastics submitted a bid to host the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

BG submitted the paperwork to bid for the event just one year after the Worlds were held at the O2 arena in London which will also be the gymnastics venue for the London 2012 Olympics. Under proposals, the event would be staged at the 12,500 capacity £125 million Scottish National Arena in Glasgow. it’s due to open in 2013 and stage the Commonwealth Games gymnastic events in 2014. Organisers expect that the arena would look like the below:

The location of the host venue will be voted on during the FIG’s council meeting in May next year.

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