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WORLD ATHLETICS CONTINENTAL TOUR RETURNS FOR 2024

The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar has been published, with two months to go until the first Gold level meeting of the season in Australia. More than 190 meetings are included in next year’s tour, which is divided into four levels – Gold, Silver, Bronze and Challenger. The status of each meeting is determined by the quality of competition and prize money on offer.

The tour’s top tier comprises 12 events spread across five of the six continental areas. The full calendar also currently includes 27 Silver, 62 Bronze and 89 Challenger meetings and will be added to as the season progresses.

Gold level action kicks off in Melbourne, Australia, on 15 February when the Maurie Plant Meet will again welcome some of the world’s top athletes to the Victorian capital. Among them will be Britain’s 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman. In February of this year more than 7500 fans packed into the Lakeside Stadium to see athletes such as world 100m champion Fred Kerley open their season and ticket demand for next year suggests that another full stadium is in expected.

After Melbourne, the next Gold level meeting takes place in Gaborone in Botswana on 14 April, before stops in Nairobi in Kenya (20 April), Los Angeles in USA (18 May), Tokyo in Japan (19 May) and Ostrava in Czechia (28 May). As athletes continue their preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris in August, the Gold tour will continue on to New York in USA (9 June), Turku in Finland (18 June), Bydgoszcz in Poland (21 June), Hengelo in the Netherlands (7 July) and Szekesfehervar in Hungary (9 July). Following the Olympics, Zagreb in Croatia will welcome athletes for the final Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season on 8 September.

In 2023 15,552 athletes from 173 countries competed in the Continental Tour, setting one world record, nine area records, 181 national records and 5610 personal bests.

Highlights included USA’s Ryan Crouser improving his own world shot put record to 23.56m in Los Angeles, New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs taking the Oceania 100m record to 10.97 and then 10.96 in Sydney and La Chaux-de-Fonds, respectively, and USA’s Brooke Andersen becoming the third woman to surpass 80 metres in the hammer with a throw of 80.17m in Tucson.

USA’s KC Lightfoot cleared 6.07m to break the North American pole vault record in Nashville, while Kenya’s world 3000m steeplechase record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech set a world 2000m steeplechase best of 5:47.42 to ensure that the 2023 Continental Tour Gold season ended on a high in Zagreb.

Currently TV rights for the 2024 Gold level meetings have been sold in 145 territories across the globe. For territories where broadcast coverage is not available either live or as delayed highlights, a live stream will be shown on the World Athletics YouTube channel.

Gold level meetings in the 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour

15 February – Maurie Plant Meet, Melbourne (AUS) 14 April – Botswana Golden Grand Prix, Gaborone (BOT) 20 April – Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (KEN) 18 May – USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix, Los Angeles (USA) 19 May – Seiko Golden Grand Prix, Tokyo (JPN) 28 May – Ostrava Golden Spike, Ostrava (CZE) 9 June – USATF New York City Grand Prix, New York (USA) 18 June – Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku (FIN) 21 June – Irena Szewinska Memorial, Bydgoszcz (POL) 7 July – FBK Games, Hengelo (NED) 9 July – Gyulai István Memorial, Szekesfehervar (HUN) 6-8 September – Boris Hanžeković Memorial, Zagreb (CRO)

Full 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar

Source: World Athletics

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Grant Holloway and Marvy Bracy triumphant at the World Athletics Continental Tour 2022 Gold meeting in Zagreb - Results

 The Americans were among several World Championship medallists who won at the memorial meeting which was held over three days between September 9-11.

Americans Grant Holloway and Marvin Bracy wrapped up their 2022 season on a high, with dominating victories on Sunday (September 11) at the Hanzekovic Memorial, the final World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the year, in Zagreb, Croatia.

Fresh from winning at the Diamond League Final, the double world gold medallists Holloway eased to an easy 13.19 win in the men's 110m hurdles, while Bracy won the 100m dash in a personal best of 9.57 seconds.

There were also wins for reigning world champions Kristjan Ceh in the men’s discus, and Ryan Crouser in the shot put respectively.

Holloway, who won his second world title in Oregon, sprinted to his fifth win in a final this season, leading an American sweep of the podium.

Freddie Crittenden, the 2022 NACAC champion finished second to the Olympic silver medallist in 13.31 with Robert Dunning third in 13.36.

In the women’s 100m hurdles, Jamaica’s Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper finished third in 13.03 behind the winner Tonea Marshall of the USA who timed 12.74. Devyanne Charlton from the Bahamas also dipped ahead of Tapper for second in 12.86.

Double world silver medallist Bracy was the clear winner in the men’s 100m ahead of Britain’s Jeremiah Azu who closed in for second in 10.14 with Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya third in 10.19.

Hugues Fabrice Zango , second in Oregon, also returned to winning ways in the men’s triple jump. The Burkinabe’s opening round leap of 16.86m placed him ahead of Frenchman Jean-Marc Pontvianne with 16.59 and third placed two-time Olympic champion Christian Taylor (16.26m).

Another gold medallist from the worlds, Slovenian Kristjan Ceh topped the men’s discus with a best throw of 68.60. Sam Mattis of the USA and Sweden’s Simon Petterson finished second and third with 67.19 and 66.93, respectively.

Croatia's Sandra Perkovic delighted the home crowd with her final round throw of 68.46m to win women's discuss. The double Olympic champion beat Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Valarie Allman to second place with 67.55 as another American Laulauga Tausaga finished third (63.59).

On Saturday at a street event held on the sidelines of the Zagreb meeting, world record holder Crouser bounced back to winning ways clinching the men’s shot put title in a rematch of the 2022 World Championships in Oregon.

The American world champion heaved 22.19m to beat his US compatriots Joe Kovacs , winner of the Diamond League Final who threw 21.97m to second as Josh Awotunde with 21.73 rounded off the top three positions, a repeat of the podium at the worlds in July.

Jamaica’s 2019 world champion Tajay Gayle finished fourth in Friday’s men’s long jump won by Australia’s Henry Frayne with a leap of 8.11m.

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