Nafi Thiam, the three-time Olympic heptathlon champion, has preferred to skip the 2025 Indoor Athletics Season to concentrate on preparations for World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, her management said Tuesday.
“We can confirm that Nafi will not be in action during the indoor season and will therefore not participate in the upcoming European Championships and World Indoor Championships,” they told the Belga news agency.
The European Indoor Championships will run from March 6 to 9 in n Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, while the World Indoor Championships will follow in Nanjing, China, from March 21-23.
The World Athletics Championships will take place from September 13 to 21.
Thiam, a three-time European indoor pentathlon champion, won the event in 2017, 2021 and 2023. She has not won the World Indoor title, competing only once at the event in 2014, Poland where she finished at the eighth spot in high jump.
The Belgian bagged her third successive gold at the Paris 2024.