Live Streaming Links

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Friday 14th April to Monday 17th April:

Sorry, I don't have time to do teaser notes this time.

Friday (already taken place)

• Cape Milers Club/Endurocad Middle Distance Invitational - Meet 1 (Cape Town, RSA) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting

Saturday

• Two Oceans Marathon (Cape Town, RSA) - 56km International road race
• Indian Grand Prix - Meet 4 (Bangalore, IND)
• Spanish Women's Club Championship - Match A: Division of Honour - Day 1 (Valencia, ESP)
• Spanish Men's Club Championship - Match A: Division of Honour - Day 1 (Cornellà, ESP)
• 10k Huelva Puerta del Descubrimiento incl Spanish 10km Championships (Huelva, ESP)
• Pardubice Wine Half Marathon incl Czech Half Marathon Championships (Pardubice, CZE)

Sunday

• Japanese 35km Race Walking Championships incl World Ch & Asian Games trials (Wajima, JPN)
• Takanori Yoshioka Memorial Izumo Meet (Izumo, JPN) - Japan GP Series
• Zaragoza Marathon incl Spanish Marathon Championships & Zaragoza 10km (Zaragoza, ESP)
• Linz Danube Marathon (Linz, AUT)
• Poznań Half Marathon (Poznań, POL)
• Manchester Marathon (Manchester, GBR)
• Rotterdam Marathon (Rotterdam, NED) - WA Gold Label race
• Enschede Marathon (Enschede, NED) - WA Label race

Monday

• Boston Marathon (Boston, MA, USA) - WA Elite Platinum Label race
• Cape Milers Club/Endurocad Middle Distance Invitational - Meet 2 (Cape Town, RSA) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3mkozuzi4o...04-17.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Tuesday evening for Wednesday's ASA Athletics Grand Prix 2 in South Africa and possibly for the African U20 & U18 Championships in Zambia.

[LuckySpikes]

I'm not sure enough of live streaming happening for tomorrow evening's Cape Milers Club/Endurocad Middle Distance Invitational so I'm not posting details/links for it. However, if it does happen to be streamed I will add it retrospectively to the weekend's listings.

[LuckySpikes]

Live stream for Wednesday 12th April:

The Mt Sac Relays starting tomorrow isn't being streamed for free (it's on Runnerspace, subscription needed) and the Grand Prix Sudamericano meetings in Venezuela aren't being streamed.

Wednesday

• ASA Athletics Grand Prix 1 (Tshwane nr Pretoria, RSA) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; There's a number of big names competing including Omanyala, Sekgodiso, E Manangoi, Alkana & Zeney van der Walt. The Men's 400 looks like the event of the meeting with Makwala, Abderrahman Samba, Lythe Pillay & Zakithi Nene

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x4j9yo4e7...04-12.odt?dl=0

Next major post possibly on Thursday evening for Friday's Cape Milers Club/Endurocad Middle Distance Invitational in South Africa, a Conti Tour Challenger meeting.

[LuckySpikes]

I looked all over but couldn't find any coverage of it.

[Aussiestatman]

Gabon 10k in two hours from now. Mo Farah?

[cooperw02]

Absolutely excited for the Japanese track season, thank you for covering it so well. It's really fascinating to watch and amazing to have so many top athletes competing at these great meets.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 8th April to Monday 10th April:

As you'll probably gather from my extensive teaser notes below, I'm very excited for the start of the Japanese season "proper". I hope that at least one or two of you will join me in following the Japanese season on the live streams - there's much to recommend it! Saturday's Kanaguri Memorial Distance Meeting kicks off the 2023 Japan GP series which is larger than ever at 18 meetings this year, the usual mix of sprints & field meetings, mid/long distance meetings and "general" meetings (with some historic meetings first run over 70 years ago). Six or 7 of them also have Continental Tour Bronze or Challenger status. They are very well supported by nearly all the best athletes in Japan and the vast majority of the meetings are very easy to watch for free on the internet (mostly YouTube). There's loads to look forward to, especially with Japan having a ton of young talent right now in the mid & long distances, both emerging and established. There's also a lot of very good young Kenyans based there, some of them World U20 champions/medalists. Sometimes (but not always) Kenyans do run away with the races but Japanese live streams are generally very good at also showing what's happening further down the field.
Just between now and mid-July alone, I'm estimating there will be at least 20 good Japanese meetings on the live streams - around 10 of them Japan GP series meetings, the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, the terrific Hokuren Distance Challenge series of 5 meetings in July and various championships, national, corporate & university. And Japanese athletes generally aren't race-shy so you get to see most of the top athletes competing many times (even many of their top marathoners run quite a few track races). In the 2023 Outdoors thread I'm going to try to report regularly on the Japanese action, and will also try to pay more attention to the non-distance stuff! Any observations/commentary by others is welcome too.

I'm hopeful that I'll also be able to add details for live streams of the Gunsan Saemangeum International Marathon in Korea and the Balkan Race Walking Championships.

Late Friday to Monday

• Stawell Gift (Stawell, VIC, AUS) - A famous old meeting with handicap races, run on a grass track. The marquee races are the Stawell Gift 120m on Monday; There's a lot of good sprinters involved and the Women's 1000m Handicap includes Linden Hall, Bisset & Caldwell

Saturday to Sunday

• Ongoing Brazilian U20 Championships (Cascavél, BRA) - See post above
• Arcadia Invitational (Arcadia, CA, USA) - Big US High School meeting; There's a load of top high schoolers competing here. The Preview articles linked in the document cover it all pretty well

Saturday to Monday

• CARIFTA Games (Nassau, BAH) - International (Caribbean) U20 & U17 meeting; This is a huge meeting for Caribbean juniors so a lot of very good athletes will be competing (sorry, the current entry lists - organised by country not event - are very hard to work through)

Saturday

• Kanaguri Memorial Distance Meeting (Kumamoto, JPN) - Japan GP series; There's quality right across the board here in the senior GP 1500, 5000 & 10,000s with both the Men's & Women's 5000s particularly loaded. A word of caution though - there was quite a number of DNS's at last year's meeting (perhaps athletes not feeling quite ready to start their season?). Hopefully, that doesn't happen as much this year. Anyway, as it stands, there's some big names in the 1500s. In the Men's, star steeplechaser Ryuji Miura faces NR-holder Kazuki Kawamura and # 4 JPN A-T, Nanami Arai. Japan's best 3 face-off in the Women's 'A' race - Nozomi Tanaka, Ran Urabe & Yume Goto - although given Tanaka's superiority it should be another comfortable win for her. In this race - a bit on the short side for her - Yuma Yamamoto, the 2023 Asian Indoor bronze medalist at 3000 and recent collegian, makes her professional debut for one of the very best distance teams, Sekisui Chemical - the team of Hitomi Niiya, Sayaka Sato, Rina Nabeshima etc. The Men's 5000 'A' race has 6 of the fastest 15 Kenyans from 2022, headed by Isaac Kibet Ndiema (13:06 PB). The leading Japanese athletes are the lanky Yuta Bando (13:18 PB) and Keita Satoh who last year, aged 18, ran a 13:22.91 NU20R (as well as 3:37.2 at 1500). Joining them is another super-fast junior, Hiroto Yoshioka, who ran 13:22.99 last year, also aged 18 then. The Women's 5000 features 4 sub-15 Kenyan women including Eva Cherono (14:30.8 in 2021). 18yo Caroline Kariba (KEN) makes her 5000 debut - she ran 8:42 for 3000 last year. But perhaps the most intriguing entrant of the whole meeting is Uganda's 21yo Sarah Chelangat (30:24 10km in Valencia recently). It seems that she's moved to Japan now to run for Hitachi. Her 15:00 PB & NR is due some serious revision. Heading the Japanese contingent should be Momoka Kawaguchi & Nanami Watanabe, both 15:20's athletes, Kawaguchi coming off 2022 with PBs at 3, 5 & 10 and then representing Japan at World Cross this year. One of Japan's top marathoners, Mao Uesugi, also goes in the 5000 (although JRN says she's in the 10,000 instead). Her track PBs should really be a lot better than they are (15:41 PB). The 'B' races in Japanese long-distance are usually worth watching too. Given the great depth in distance running in Japan they're often good races - reasonably speedy and featuring lots of closely matched athletes. The Men's 5000 'B' race here has 5 athletes with a sub-13:22 PB. The Men's 10,000 line-up includes two sub-27 men, Rodgers Kwemoi & Bedan Karoki, although Karoki is not the athlete he once was. Tomoki Ota is the leading Japanese entrant with a 27:33 PB. The Women's 10,000 field is decent, headed by Dolphine Nyaboke Omare (KEN; 15:11 5000 PB) & Wakana Itsuki (31:58 PB). The fields for the High School 'A' races (Girls 3000 & Boys 5000) that precede the senior races are also very good quality. By the way, when tidying up the (translated) startlists for the Grand Prix 'A' & 'B' races and the Non-GP Women's 3000, I also added each athlete's PB
• Paderborner Osterlauf (Paderborn, GER) - International 10km road race; There's at least 3 good Kenyans in the Men's race, including Bravin Kiprop who ran 59:22 at last weekend's Berlin Half Marathon. Tsigie Gebreselama will be the favourite in the Women's race
• Miramar Invitational (Miramar, FL, USA) - WA Continental Tour Silver meeting; Many of the fields are stacked for this mostly sprints & field meeting (the 800s aren't so strong). For example, in the Men's 200 there's Bednarek, Gardiner, Hughes, Tebogo & Coleman and in the Women's 400 Shericka Jackson, McPherson, Little & Whitney. Other big names competing include Seville, Steiner, Hudson-Smith, McMaster & Richardson

Monday

• Indian Grand Prix - Meet 3 (Bengaluru, IND) - These are usually good events. Hima Das (W 200) is amongst the entrants

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ejb7uhwdda...04-10.odt?dl=0

Next major post possibly on Monday evening. If not, definitely on Tuesday evening.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams for event starting on Friday 7th April:

It turns out that the Arcadia Invitational high school meeting in the US starts in the early hours UK time on Saturday so that will be included in the weekend's post instead.

Friday to Sunday

• Brazilian U20 Championships (Cascavél, BRA) - All the champions here will be guaranteed selection for the South American U20 Championships taking place in Bogotá from 19th May. One of the stars competing is Renan Gallina who, aged 19, has already run 20.12 for 200

Details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mi2t3bb97h...04-07.odt?dl=0

The next major post will be tomorrow (Friday) evening for a quieter weekend that includes the loaded Miramar Invitational Silver meeting in Florida, the really good Kanaguri Memorial mid & long distance meeting in Japan and the CARIFTA Games.

[cooperw02]

No problem, I'm ever grateful for the amazing work you do each week! Thank you for making finding race coverage easier and less stressful, it's very much appreciated.

[LuckySpikes]

Xiamen Marathon live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7euXYt96vJs

Thanks! You're a very useful person to have around ! 😁 I searched and searched on YouTube (including using what I thought was the Chinese for Xiamen Marathon) but this stream didn't come up.

[cooperw02]

Xiamen Marathon live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7euXYt96vJs

[LuckySpikes]

Added to the document above is Sunday's Milano Marathon (streaming on YouTube for the first time). It's possible, however, that the stream starts 1 hour into the race.
Yeman Crippa is making his marathon debut here and the fields are otherwise decent.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 1st April to Sunday 2nd April:

I said in my last major post that this weekend includes the third round of the Indian Grand Prix. However, that meeting has been rescheduled to 10th April.

Saturday to Sunday

• Ongoing Australian Senior & U20 Track and Field Championships (Brisbane, QLD, AUS) - See 2 posts above
• Brazilian Mid & Long Distance Cup (Bragança Paulista, BRA) - The entry/startlists aren't out yet but the Preview article linked in the document highlights some good athletes competing, including Tatiane Raquel da Silva (9:25 South American Record holder last year in the Steeple) and Eduardo Ribeiro (1:46.6 800m PB)

Saturday

• Ongoing South African Track & Field Championships (Potchefstroom, RSA) - See 2 posts above
• Prague Half Marathon (Prague, CZE) - WA Elite Label race; The Women's field includes 5 sub-67 athletes, headed by # 8 all-time, Irine Kimais (64:37). There's just 3 sub-60 Men competing, led by Benard Kimeli (59:07 PB). Also competing are GB's Paulos Surafel, Parker Stinson (USA) & Moira Stewartova (CZE)
• Cooper River Bridge Run (Charleston, SC, USA) - International 10km road race; It's really only worth mentioning the Men's field here because the TV broadcast doesn't have a camera on the Women's leaders (the first you see of them is the last 50 metres!) The Men's elite field is Kenyan-heavy and includes defending champ David Bett, Dominic Ondoro, recent collegian Athanas Kioko as well as Jacob Riley & Tyler McCandless
• Felix Sánchez Classic (Monte Plata, DOM) - WA Continental Tour Bronze meeting; There's very little info about this but the Preview article mentions that "stars of the Dominican Republic including Paulino, Ogando, Cofil and many more" will compete against athletes from 16 countries. It lists all those countries including the USA, Jamaica & England and Damion Thomas, Erick Edwards Jr & Cassandra Tate are amongst the foreign athletes

Late Saturday into Sunday

• Daegu International Marathon (Daegu, KOR) - WA Gold Label race; We've had some very good Korean marathons on the live streams lately and here's another one. The Men's field is particularly deep with 5 sub-2:06 athletes and a further 10 sub-2:08. Asefa Mengstu (2:04:06 PB) heads the field that has a number of quite familiar athletes such as Tadesse Abraham, Milkesa Mengesha (in his 2nd marathon), Abel Kirui and multiple 10,000m medalist behind Sir Mo, Paul Tanui, is making his marathon debut. Mongolian athletes love Korean marathons and they're here in force again, including Jamsran Olonbayar who 5 weeks ago in Osaka missed honorary Geordie Ser-Od Bat-Ochir's 2:08:50 NR by just 8 seconds. The Women's field has 6 athletes at 2:26 or faster, including Helalia Johannes, as well as others such as Mongolia's 2:28:03 NR-holder, Munkhzaya Bayartsogt

Sunday

• Xiamen Marathon (Xiamen, CHN) - WA Platinum Label race; This race never quite meets the Label it's given by WA but the fields are still good. In the Men's race Sammy Kitwara (2:04:28 PB) heads a field that includes 6 sub-2:07 athletes. There's 5 sub-2:25 Women, headed by Gutemi Shone (2:20:11 PB). Pre-COVID the live stream always had English commentary so hopefully that returns now that this race has foreign athletes competing again
• Paris Marathon (Paris, FRA) - WA Elite Label race; There's more strong marathon fields here with 9 sub-2:07 Men, headed by Guye Adola & 2021 champ Elisha Rotich, and 7 sub-2:23 women as well as Linet Masai and new Croatian 2:23:39 NR-holder, Bojana Bjeljac
• Run Your City Gqeberha 10k (Gqeberha, RSA) - International road race; There's some very good athletes here but not particularly deep fields. Daniel Simiu Ebenyo & Isaac Kibet (UGA) are the favourites in a race that also includes Stephen Mokoka. Kenya's Diana Chesang (31:55 PB) is a hot favourite in the Women's race
• Berlin Half Marathon (Berlin, GER) - The big interest for Brits here will be the performances of McColgan, Sam Harrison & Thackery. They're up against Tsigie Gebreselama (65:46 PB). The Men's field is headed by Sebastian Sawe & Philemon Kiplimo, both 58-low athletes
• Azkoitia-Azpeitia International Half Marathon - Diego Garcia Memorial (Azpeitia, ESP) - WA Label race; This took place last weekend but there's 30 mins of highlights of it; The fields competing were decent, headed by Timothy Toroitich (61:01 PB) and Cynthia Kosgei (69:49 PB) respectively
• São Paulo International Marathon (São Paulo, BRA) - WA Label race; There's no info on who's competing here!
• Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run incl USA 10 Mile Championships (Washington DC, USA) - The line-ups here are good, headed by Uganda's 21yo Sarah Chelangat (30:24 10km PB), Sara Hall, the Bor brothers, Pat Tiernan & Woody Kincaid

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/t344wcztjt...04-02.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Thursday evening for the start, on Friday, of the Brazilian U20 Championships and the Arcadia Invitational, a big US High School meeting.

[LuckySpikes]

It turns out that the Australian Championships are being live streamed by their federation on YouTube. The latest document above has been amended with the link.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for events starting on Thursday 30th March:

There's loads of big names in action at the first outdoor championships on our live streams this year.

Thursday to Sunday

• Australian Senior & U20 Track and Field Championships (Brisbane, QLD, AUS)

Thursday to Saturday

• South African Track & Field Championships (Potchefstroom, RSA)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/is86ced59k...03-30.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Friday evening for the weekend's streams including the Paris and Daegu Marathons, the Prague and Berlin Half Marathons, the USA 10 Mile Championships, the Gqeberha 10k (RSA) and the third round of the Indian Grand Prix.