World indoor athletics championships to take start in Istanbul

ISTANBUL (A.A) - March 8, 2012 - The 14th World Indoor Athletics Championships will begin in Istanbul on Friday. The championships will last for three days at the Atakoy Athletics Hall and end after medal ceremony on Sunday night. Ten men and eight female athletes will represent Turkey at the championships.  A total of 1,299 athletes and officials are also expected to attend what will be the IAAF's most important event of the 2012 World Athletics Series.  The World Indoor Championships, which were first contested under the guise of the World Indoor Games in Paris in 1985 when 69 nations took part, attracted 142 nations for their last edition in Doha 2010.