Yecheon-gun to host 2022 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

Yecheon County Mayor Kim Hak-dong held a press conference at the conference room of Yecheon Public Stadium on the 24th and announced that it had successfully bid for the '2022 Asian Junior Athletics Championships' scheduled to be held in 2022.

The event, hosted by the Asian Athletics Federation, will be held for four days in June 2022.

About 1,500 players and executives from 45 countries will participate.

Yecheon-gun, called the 'mecca of athletics', is expected to become a new center of Korean athletics as well as Asian athletics by hosting this tournament.