Live Streaming Links

[Grassmarket]

The Madrid & Melbourne meets get FTA repeats on Viaplay Xtra over the next few days.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Wednesday 22nd February to Thursday 23rd February:

Wednesday

• DNA Indoor U20 Match (Madrid, ESP) - ESP v GBR v FRA v CZE v IRL v POR; It looks like the fields are competitive here with Spain & Great Britain the favourites to take the overall win
• Memorial Josip Gašparac (Osijek, CRO) - World Indoor Tour Bronze meeting; International Pole Vault meeting; Whilst these aren't top fields it's an opportunity to see some good vaulters not often seen on the "circuit" such as Eleni-Klaoudia Polak (GRE), Sonia Malavisi (ITA), Caroline Bonde Holm (DEN) & Hanga Klekner (HUN). The Men's comp has a bit more star power with Lisek & Karalis heading the field
• World Indoor Tour Madrid (Madrid, ESP) - World Indoor Tour Gold meeting

Thursday

• Maurie Plant Meet (Melbourne, VIC, AUS) - WA Contintental Tour Gold meeting; Although there's a decent number of nations represented, some of the fields are not very "Gold-ie". However, the Women's 1500 & 3000 do look very good and have benefited from athletes staying behind after World Cross. In the Men's Mile hopefully Centrowitz improves hugely on the pathetic 1:55 800 he ran in Adelaide 12 days ago! There's a few Brits competing including Alex Bell in the (!) 3000

Thursday to Saturday

• Mountain West Indoor Championships (Albuquerque, NM, USA) - Overall, this is a decent conference where the strength resides mainly in the distances, the Mile up to 5000; Unis in this conference include New Mexico, Boise State, Colorado State & Air Force

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/22220ubpb7...02-23.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Thursday evening for the BUCS Indoor Championships starting in Friday and possibly a NCAA D1 conference championship or two.

[cooperw02]

Thank you! Very busy weekend. As for Seville it looks like there will hopefully also be an English commentary livestream on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87Z...ist=LL&index=4

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 18th February to Sunday 19th February:

Saturday to Sunday

• ? Ongoing Ukrainian Indoor Championships (Kyiv, UKR) - See the post above. However, it seems that it's not being streamed this year. Maybe tomorrow though?
• Ongoing Spanish Indoor Championships (Madrid, ESP) - See the post above
• USA Indoor Championships (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
• Italian Indoor Championships (Ancona, ITA)
• Polish Indoor Championships (Toruń, POL)
• French Indoor Championships (Aubiere, FRA)
• Romanian Senior & U23 Indoor Championships (Bucharest, ROU)
• Irish Indoor Championships (Dublin, IRL)
• British Indoor Championships (Birmingham, GBR)
• German Indoor Championships (Dortmund, GER)
• Czech Indoor Championships (Ostrava, CZE)
• Dutch Indoor Championships (Apeldoorn, NED)
• Swiss Indoor Championships (St. Gallen, SUI)
• Conference USA (C-USA) Indoor Championships (Birmingham, AL, USA)- NCAA D1 conference; Most of the NCAA D1 conference championships are next week but this is one of a couple of decent ones this weekend. In this conference the sprints are stronger than most of the other events
• Finnish Indoor Championships (Helsinki, FIN)
• America East Conference Indoor Championships (Boston, MA, USA) - NCAA D1 conference; This is a solid conference across the board and includes universities such as Albany, Binghampton & UMass Lowell

Saturday

• RAK Half Marathon (Ras Al Khaimah, UAE) - WA Gold Label race; As always, there's loaded fields here. Especially in the Women's this year which includes Brigid Kosgei, Obiri, Senbere Teferi, Gotytom Gebreslase (and Samantha Harrison). The Men's race includes 5 sub-59 athletes such as Kennedy Kimutai & Daniel Mateiko
• World Cross Country Championships (Bathurst, NSW, AUS) - Although the overall entry is weakened by the absence of most of Europe, the head of the fields are absolutely loaded

late Saturday into Sunday

• Kumanichi 30km Road Race & Kumamoto Castle Marathon (Kumamoto, JPN) - The 30km Road Race is the main event here with an elite field of 150 athletes. The Men's line-up is pretty good including a number of sub-28 / 28-low 10,000m athletes such as Yuki Sato, Kazuto Kawabata & Ayumu Kobayashi
• International Track Meet (Christchurch, NZL) - WA Contintental Tour Bronze meeting; There's no startlists yet but from the Preview article it seems like there's some decent domestic fields with a number of New Zealand's top athletes competing
• Umashikuni Mie Inter-Municipal Ekiden (Tsu to Isu, JPN) - This seems like a decent quality ekiden for ages from the top end of elementary school (10 & 11 yo's?) to over 40s
• Japanese 20km & U20 Race Walking Championships (Kobe, JPN) - These are selection races for the World Championships & Asian Games. It almost goes without saying that the men's race is loaded! Missing are Yamanishi and Suzuki but pretty much everyone else is there. In the Women's race, sadly Sonoda & Kawazoe have withdrawn to focus on the 35km but still left are Japan's two best - Nanako Fujii and Kumiko Okada. There's also a group of three 20yo's who are showing good promise - Miyu Naito, Yukiko Umeno & Hitomi Shimoka. 2022 World U20 bronze medalist Ayane Yanai is making her 20km debut - she has a 45:21 10km best. The U20 races are quality too

Sunday

• Japanese University Mixed-Sex Invitational Ekiden (Osaka, JPN) - There's plenty of mixed-sex ekidens at the prefectural (state/county) level but this recent addition to the calendar is the only national mixed-sex ekiden in Japan. Although it's missing a few of the best universities, it's still a good quality event with a lot of top collegians running. Juntendo University (all blue strip) won the first 2 editions but not without a good battle last year with Chuo University on the last leg. By the way, the last leg is given as 5km but it seems a bit longer to me (given the times and the quality of athletes competing)
• Barcelona Half Marathon (Barcelona, ESP) - WA Gold Label race; Like the RAK Half, the headline action could be in the Women's race with Joyciline Jepkosgei, Genezebe Dibaba & Irine Kimais. The Men's race includes 7 sub-60 athletes, headed by two-time reigning champ Haftu Teklu, as well as the likes of Richard Ringer & Phil Sesemann
• Sevilla Marathon (Sevilla, ESP) - WA Elite Label race; It seems like this race is trying to equal Valencia for the depth of its fields although the top few aren't quite as strong as in Valencia. There's a load of different nationalities represented in the elite fields (including 3 British 2:30/31 women competing)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/4t8ll82714...02-19.odt?dl=0

Phew, that's a mad 4 weeks over! Thankfully, it calms down again from now on. Next major post on Tuesday evening for the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Madrid, the DNA Indoor U20 Match (including a GBR team), the Indoor Tour Pole Vault (Bronze) meeting in Croatia and on Thursday, the first WA Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season in Melbourne.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for events starting on Friday 17th February:

For the national championships events this weekend I'm not providing any teaser notes because you probably already know what you're getting with each one.

Last time I promised you the Swedish Indoor Championships not realising at the time that they're not on Swedish TV this year. Instead they're subscription/pay-per-view on the Swedish Federation's streaming service.

Re the USA Indoor Championships that start today, there's no TV coverage for that but on the weekend's document I will link to videos of the track finals.

Finally, I've decided to spare you the test of viewing endurance that is the Gunichi City Round-the-Country Ekiden, a 3 day Ekiden totalling 272.9km! And, TBH, the previous live stream coverage hasn't been great.

Friday to Sunday

• Ukrainian Indoor Championships (Kyiv, UKR) - It's amazing that since last summer there's been competitions going on in the West of the country even though that area has been far from immune from Putin's missiles
• Spanish Indoor Championships (Madrid, ESP)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxihdx8t3e...02-17.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Friday (tomorrow) evening for the weekend's streams including the World Cross Country Championships, a load of national indoor championships, the RAK Half Marathon, Barcelona Half Marathon, Sevilla Marathon, the really loaded Japanese 20km & U20 Race Walking Championships and the Japanese National University Mixed-Sex Invitational Ekiden.

[LuckySpikes]

You'll have to help me out here. How would we access those? Are they on Freeview or online? If the latter, are there any links yet?

[Grassmarket]

There are some FTA repeats of Lievin & Madrid scheduled on the ViaplaXtra EPG at the moment, but these things tend to come & go a bit.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Tuesday 14th February to Wednesday 15th February:

Both the Banská Bystrica and Belgrade meetings are live on the European Athletics YouTube channel, so will have English commentary.

Tuesday to Wednesday

• Indian Open Race Walking Championships (Ranchi, IND) - India is a gradually rising force in Race Walking and the entry of over 200 athletes in the 6 races reflects this. These championships feature pretty much all their best walkers such as Priyanka Goswami & Bhawna Jat in the Women's 20km and Sandep Kumar & 2021 World U20 silver medalist Amit Khatri in the Men's 20km. There are also 35km races and 10km for the U20s

Tuesday

• Banskobystrická latka (Banská Bystrica, SVK) - World Indoor Tour Silver meeting; International High Jump meeting; Probably the best High Jump fields of the indoor season so far. In the Women's comp Mahuchikh & Patterson face off and that field also includes Vukovic, Tabashnyk & super 18yo Karmen Bruus (EST). The Men's comp includes Starc, Kerr, Protsenko & Zayas

Wednesday

• Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (Liévin, FRA) - World Indoor Tour Gold meeting; Without a doubt, the best indoor meeting so far this year!
• Belgrade Indoor Meeting (Belgrade, SRB) - World Indoor Tour Silver meeting; There's no entry lists at the time of writing but amongst the athletes confirmed are Dina Asher-Smith, Kayla White (both 60), Britany Anderson, Mario Burke, Angelina Topić and a strong Men's Shot Put field

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ftbwcqkpl...02-15.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Thursday evening for some events starting on Friday including the Spanish and Swedish Indoor Championships.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 11th February to Sunday 12th February:

The Balkan Indoor Championships were due to be held in Istanbul on Saturday but have been cancelled because of the earthquakes.

Saturday to Sunday

• Ongoing Asian Indoor Championships (Astana, KAZ) - See 2 posts above
• Ongoing Polish U20 & U18 Indoor Championships (Rzeszów, POL) - See 2 posts above
• England Athletics U20, U17 & U15 Indoor Championships (Sheffield, GBR) - There are others here who are far more qualified than me to comment on this so if anyone wants to leave some teaser notes in the comments below, please feel free! Otherwise, there's a decent Preview article linked in the document
• French U23 & National Indoor Championships (Miramas, FRA) - Well this is a bit confusing! These are not the main French indoor championships (they're next weekend) but instead there's 2 categories competing here - U23 and National, the latter all ages and open too, accepting international entrants. Maybe the "National" events are for athletes who didn't make the cut for next weekend's championships?? Anyway, there's too much going on for me to get my head around but the overall quality in the U23s is kind of what you'd expect for a French U23 Championships!

Saturday

• Porritt Classic (Hamilton, NZL) - Outdoor meeting; Not the deepest of the Kiwi meetings but there's still a number of good athletes dotted around the events. The Women's 1500 looks good with Rebekah Greene, Angie Petty, Laura Nagel and, returning after childbirth, Camille French (nee Buscomb)
• Riyadh Marathon (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - WA Elite Label race; I've no idea who's competing but I think the fields will be good. The first edition last year was won in 2:06 and 2:26, the Women's race by Tadu Teshome who has since run 2:17; Last year's stream had English commentary
• New South Wales State 5000m Championships (Sydney, NSW, AUS) - with various supporting events; Holly Campbell will be a hot favourite for the Women's title but the Men's race looks more competitive and includes St Lawrence & De Canto; In the supporting races there's some good names in the 400s (Cowie, Thornton & Halpin) and the Women's 800 'A' race inlcudes Georgia Wassell and Davina Smith
• Adelaide Invitational (Adelaide, SA, AUS) - WA Contintental Tour Challenger meeting; There's a some pretty good fields here with a number of internationals supplementing the Aussie entry, e.g., from Japan, Canada, the USA & Britain. Standout events include the 100s, the Women's 800 including Griffith, Billings, Sanford, Mehra (USA) & Keely Small, and the Men's 800 including Matt Centrowitz in the first of 3 Aussie races along with Perrott, Lunn, Mathas (NZL) & Micallef. The Women's Steeple field is small but good, including Winkcup, Erbacher & Japanese collegiate record holder Reimi Yoshimura
• Meeting Metz Moselle Athlelor (Metz, FRA) - World Indoor Tour Silver meeting; This is loaded! The big headline names are probably Bol (both 200 & 400), Mahuchikh & Kendricks but everywhere you look there's quality. I could list names but I'd feel bad leaving out a lot of very, very good athletes! Just 2 Brits competing here - Copeland (1500) & Rowe (3000)
• Copa Iberdrola - Women's Spanish Club Indoor Championships (Ourense, ESP) - There's a good number of quite strong athletes competing here, the likes of Jael Bestue (60), Solange Pereira (1500), Xenia Benach (60H) and Jennifer Rodriguez (COL; High Jump)
• Copa Joma - Men's Spanish Club Indoor Championships (Ourense, ESP) - Likewise for the Men's equivalent here with athletes such as Lucas Bua (400), Pablo Sanchez-Valledares (800), Enrique Llopis (60H) & Carlos Tobalina (SP)
• Meeting de Paris Indoor (Paris, FRA) - World Indoor Tour Silver meeting; 60, 60H & Jumps; There's some loaded fields here, especially for both the 60 Hurdles. The Women's event seems quite hot right now and here it includes Samba-Mayela, Hurske, Alaysha Johnson, Visser & Kambundji
• Millrose Games (New York, USA) - World Indoor Tour Gold meeting

Sunday

• Dubai Marathon (Dubai, UAE) - WA Gold Label race; Great to see Dubai back! As usual it's Ethiopian-heavy including Gelete Burka & Ruti Aga and on the Men's side, Tsegaye Mekonnen, Abera Kuma and Fikre Bekele who has won 5 of his 6 marathons; Hutchings and Paula are doing comms
• Wakayama Prefecture Inter-Municipal Junior Ekiden (Wakayama, JPN) - This is 10 legs totalling 21.1km for high school boys & girls down to upper primary aged athletes; Other than that I don't know a lot about this race; The winning time in the last edition (2021) was 67:27 with 6 teams inside 70:40 so it looks to be a pretty good quality race given the age of the participants
• Kumanichi Ekiden (Amakusa to Kumamoto, JPN) - Men's & high school boys Ekiden; Again another new one to me but the winning times for the 103.3km total suggest it's decent quality (usually around 5:23 to 5:33)
• Japanese Corporate Half Marathon Championships (Yamaguchi, JPN) - M & W Half Marathon & W 10km; Another super-deep Men's Half in Japan ... Hey, what's new! I wonder if the Japanese will be inspired by last week's Marugame Half to again give the NR a scare (it's 60:00). Andrew Lorot (KEN) was 3rd last week running 59-high. He's down to compete here as well. The Women's field, as usual, doesn't have the depth of the Men's but there's still a good number of good athletes lining up - 8 of them have sub-71 PBs including Chikako Mori & Wakana Itsuki. Further down the list Kaede Hagitani (14:59/31:35 PBs) is making her HM debut alongside a couple of other interesting debutantes
• Nordic Indoor Match AKA Nordkampen (Karlstad, SWE) - SWE vs FIN vs NOR vs DEN/ISL; World Indoor Tour Challenger meeting; Quite a lot of Scandinavia's best are turning out here, e.g. in the 400 there's Bengstrom & Vedel and in the Women's 800, Hedda Hynne & Wilma Nielsen
• Indoor Meeting Dortmund (Dortmund, GER) - World Indoor Tour Bronze meeting; There's some good fields here, especially I think on the Women's side. There's several Brits competing including Ama Pipi in the 400 with Swiety-Ersetic. The W 1500 is another good-looking race with Josephine Chelangat, Maki, Ellie Baker, Galant, Marusa Mismas & Hermansson
• Nobeoka West Japan Marathon (Nobeoka, JPN) - The Elite race is Men's only; The field is headlined by Kenta Murayama (2:08-high PB) and also features a few 62 min Half guys making their debuts. It's an important race because it potentially contributes to qualifying for the MGC in October (their Olympic trials)
• Cross della Vallagarina (Rovereto, ITA) - World Cross Country Tour Bronze meeting; The fields are good without being stellar. In the Women's there's Niyomukunzi (BDI), Amebaw (ETH), Elena Burkard, Giovanna Selva, Gaia Colli, Rebecca Lonedo and very interestingly, Harumi Okamoto (JPN; 15:20 / 31:28 PBs). The Men's field features a bunch of Burundians including Irabaruta as well as Neka Crippa and Spain's Victor Ruiz (8:16 Steepler)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/woe8c37cyi...02-12.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Monday evening for the big High Jump meeting in Banská Bystrica and possibly, if there's sufficient details, for Wednesday's Liévin Gold meeting and Belgrade Silver meeting.

[LuckySpikes]

Thank you!

[Aussiestatman]

We all appreciate your efforts

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I'm hoping to get tonight's post up before 11pm.

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CONFIRMED: No geo-blocking for the Berlin meeting.

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Live streams/broadcasts for Friday 10th February:

Friday to Sunday

• Asian Indoor Championships (Astana, KAZ) - I'm looking forward to this! I'm pretty sure it's the first time these championships have been live streamed. So far only the startlists for Day 1 are out but there's some quite good fields, e.g., with five 8m men in the LJ and four 800m men at 1:46.3 or faster. In the Women's 3000 Ririka Hironaka (JPN) has a tough race because Norah Jeruto & Caroline Kipkirui are being wheeled out for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Polish U20 & U18 Indoor Championships (Rzeszów, POL) - There's some very good athletes competing here including big 16yo talent Zuzanna Wiernicka in the U18 2000m. She's already run sub-6:00 indoors for the distance

Friday

• ISTAF Indoor (Berlin, GER) - World Indoor Tour Silver meeting; 60, 60H & Jumps; This is quite loaded. The Women's LJ features the first 4 from Munich 2022 along with Iapichino. Amongst others competing are Duplantis, Britany Anderson & Luckenkemper. There's 6 Brits due to line up - Sawyers, Neita, Prescod, Azu, Philip & King

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9bc0dwrvr...02-10.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Friday (tomorrow) evening for the weekend's live streaming including the Millrose Games, the meetings in Metz & Paris (both Silver), the Dortmund meeting (Bronze), the Nordic Indoor Match, the Dubai Marathon, Cross della Vallagarina (Bronze), the England Athletics U20, U17 & U15 Indoor Championships and the Adelaide Track Classic.

[LuckySpikes]

Added to the latest document above are the Armagh International Road Races in Northern Ireland on Thursday evening, live streaming for the first time. A lot of good athletes taking part.