The WorldSkills Flag Relay has reached Atlanta city in the United States of America. The WorldSkills Kazan 2019 team representatives arrived in Atlanta, the city that hosted WorldSkills Competition almost 40 years ago.
In a Flag Relay ceremony which was held in terms of Closing Ceremony of State Leadership & Skills Conference at Georgia International Convention Centre the previous WorldSkills Competition in Atlanta (1981) was remembered, and a patch from this Competition added to the WorldSkills flag.
There was also a presentation of the next global skills competition, WorldSkills Kazan 2019, which will be held in Russia in August next year. The WorldSkills Competition brings together the very best young talent in vocational skills and trades, to compete to be world champions in more than 50 different skills.
The Flag Relay started last year when the WorldSkills Flag was handed to Kazan, the next WorldSkills host city, on 20 October during the Closing Ceremony of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. After that it was delivered to Sochi and officially transferred to the Flag Relay project. It was then launched into space and kept on board the International Space Station for more than two months, before returning at the end of February. After the ceremony in Madrid the Flag started its journey to all 20 countries that have ever taken part in the WorldSkills Competitions.
Since March 12 the WorldSkills Fag has been traveling around the world, as it continues its journey across the 20 countries that have hosted the WorldSkills Competition previously.
The Flag will travel to Ireland, Belgium, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Chinese Taipei, Finland, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Japan.
After the international phase of the relay is complete the flag will travel across Russia: 85 regions of the country, including 43 municipal districts and 2 cities of the Republic of Tatarstan. The relay is scheduled to culminate in Kazan on the day of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Opening Ceremony.
Press Office of WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Competition Organizer
