Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix

When: 20th February 2016
Location: Emirates Arena

The world’s biggest indoor athletics Grand Prix is coming to Glasgow’s Emirates Arena in February 2016!

The cream of the worlds athletic crop will descend on Glasgow’s Emirates Arena on the 20th of February 2016 for the Glasgow Indoor Athletics Grand Prix!

The Sainsbury’s Indoor Grand Prix, ranked the No. 1 indoor event in the world for the last 10 years, will be alternately hosted by Glasgow and Birmingham between 2016 and 2020, following this year’s event in Birmingham on Feb 21st.

It means that top-class athletics is coming to Glasgow’s Emirates Arena three times in the next five years with a major event to be staged there in 2016, 2018 and 2020.

With British Athletics having won the bid to host the world indoor championships in Birmingham in 2018, and Glasgow looking to secure the European Indoor Championships in 2019, it is fitting that Glasgow hosts the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix in 2018 – enabling Birmingham to concentrate on staging a fantastic World Indoor Championships.

The Sainsbury’s Indoor Grand Prix is part of a British Athletics broadcast rights deal with the BBC which guarantees live television coverage of the event on the BBC through to at least 2020.

World class indoor athletics will be coming to Scotland every other year for the immediate future, the increase in the quality of competitor fields, the competition programme and the profile will enhance both the spectator and television audience experience.

This is your chance to see some amazing athletes right here at home in Glasgow, in Glasgow’s Emirates Arena, on the 20th of February 2016. Get your tickets soon!