The race to host the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships is heating up!

The three candidate cities were first greeted by ITTF Deputy President Mr. Khalil Al Mohannadi, who is responsible for the World Championships portfolio, and by Gabor Felegyi, ITTF interim Competition Director.

Then, they had a chance to showcase their bid during the 2021 ITTF AGM Videoconferences series with 20-minute presentations.

While the Member Associations of Argentina and South Korea put forwards bids from Buenos Aires and Busan respectively, India introduced a multi-city concept including Bhubneshwar and Panchkula for the preliminary rounds and Delhi for the knockout phase.

It has been 34 years since India last welcomed the World Championships, and Argentina never hosted the event. Meanwhile Busan was supposed to be the host for the 2020 event before it was cancelled due to COVID-19.

The host city of the 2024 World Championships will be elected at the ITTF Annual General Meeting, held in Houston, Texas, on 24 November 2021. With strong presentations from all candidate cities, the bidding process has already been hailed a success.

Watch the full presentation here

The Annual General Meeting of the International Table Tennis Federation will be held on 24 November 2021, on the occasion of the 2021 ITTF World Championship Finals in Houston, Texas. Prior to it, the ITTF Group is hosting a series of videoconferences from 18 October to 15 November, featuring presentations for the global Table Tennis community. Delegates registered officially for the 2021 Annual General Meeting will be receiving the invitations for each of the videoconferences. The schedule of the 2021 ITTF AGM Videoconferences series is available here.

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