Live Streaming Links

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Friday 2nd June:

The Meeting Memorial José Luis Hernández, a Conti Tour Challenger meeting in Pamplona, is being broadcast but unfortunately on a regional TV channel that's not available to watch online.

Friday to Sunday

• Days 2 to 4 of the Japanese Championships & U20 Championships (Osaka, JPN) - See the post above

Friday

• Festival of Miles (St Louis, MO, USA) - There's quite a good field for the Women's Mile here with the likes of Hanna Hermansson, Alexina Teubel, Abby Nichols, Rachel McArthur & Britain's Ellie Leather. The Men's Mile includes Jack Anstey (AUS), Thomas Vanoppen (BEL; 3.54.8 PB) & Olin Hacker. The High School Boys' Championship race is a big deal since it includes 3 sub-4 athletes for the first time ever in a US High School-only race and is being paced by Erik Sowinski, hoping to help them get as close as they can to Alan Webb's 3:53.43 US High School record
• Schönebecker SoleCup (Schönebeck, GER) - International Throwing meeting; WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; The line-ups are mostly just decent here with not many foreign athletes entered but both the Men's and Women's Discus fields have a strong domestic contingent. In the Javelin Thomas Rohler continues on the comeback trail. It's 3 and a half years since he's thrown over 76 metres!
• Golden Gala Pietro Mennea - Rome/Florence Diamond League (Florence, ITA)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ww8vq72nfo...06-02.odt?dl=0

Next major post tomorrow (Friday) evening for the weekend's streams including the European 10,000m Cup, various T&F meetings such as Hengelo (Gold) & the Silver meeting in Chorzów, the greatest invitational Race Walking event in the world in La Coruña, the České Budějovice Half Marathon and hopefully the Asian U20 Championships.

[LuckySpikes]

In the document, under the "On-demand TV broadcast action" heading, I have now linked to the Japanese Federation's YouTube videos from the TV broadcasts (finals, sprint semis,some field events) .

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for event starting on Thursday 1st June:

For anyone reading my latest round-up of Japanese action elsewhere on this forum, I abandoned the Road the Budapest document that might have enhanced your viewing experience of the Japanese Championships. It was getting too complex and difficult to present the info in an easy-to-digest way.

Thursday to Sunday

• Japanese Championships & U20 Championships (Osaka, JPN) - Events to watch out for include the Women's 5000 with Nozomi Tanaka, Ririka Hironaka and a load of other good women, the Women's 100 Hurdles (competition for the Budapest team is hot - Japan has 5 sub-13 women this season, 3 of them sub-12.9), the Women's Javelin with Haruka Kitaguchi and other good throwers, the Men's 110 Hurdles with Izumiya, Takayama & Ishikawa, the Men's 5000 including brilliant 19yo Keita Sato and the Men's Long Jump with several athletes who could join Hiromichi Yoshida with the Budapest standard. Excluding the possibility of athletes on relay teams, Japan currently have 29 women & 40 men who would qualify for Budapest 2023 by entry standard or in a World Rankings quota spot. There's also a number of athletes just outside the World Rankings quota spots and, with Asia being only one of 2 continents to have an Area Championships before the 30th July deadline, with the Rankings points boost that can provide, there is a possibility that several more athletes will be added to those numbers. As well as being Budapest trials these championships are also trials for those Asian Championships and the Asian Games in early October. Broadly speaking, all the heats, semis and field events in Osaka are live on YouTube with track finals on Japanese TV which is very easy to watch using the site I link to. Currently one of the TV channel streams is down (only 2 hours 50 mins of coverage) but sometimes, shortly afterwards, there are YouTube uploads of recordings of the TV broadcasts of track finals

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcx57kmryg...06-01.odt?dl=0

Next major post tomorrow (Thursday) evening for Friday's Florence DL, the Festival of Miles in St Louis, USA and possibly a couple of other meetings.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Wednesday 31st May:

Wednesday

• Papaflessia (Kalamata, GRE) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; Some of the line-ups here are quite good, such as the Women's 100 Hurdles and the Women's Long Jump including Gardasevic, Johansson & Filippa Kviten (nee Fotopoulou). Elina Tzengko is also competing
• Talsu Spears (Talsi, LAT) - International Javelin meeting; There's decent fields here with Bekah Walton, Muze & Palameika in the Women's. In the Men's comp there's all the best Latvians plus Douw Smit (RSA)
• Montreuil International Meeting (Montreuil, FRA) - WA Continental Tour Silver meeting; The line-ups here are good. For example, there's five 6.90+ women in the Long Jump, Camacho-Quinn & Ali in the 100 Hurdles and strong mid-distance races. New 19yo Kenyan sensation Nelly Chepchirchir (1:58.23 800 on Sunday) goes in the 1500 against the likes of Alemu, Hiltz, Klein & Guerrero. Eliot Giles faces a good field in the 800 including Sedjati & Ngeny but the strongest event is probably the loaded Women's 800 with Almanza, Reekie, Sekgodiso, Werro, Hoffmann & Shanahan. Other big names competing are Bracy & Martinot-Lagarde. There's a total of 7 Brits entered

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7g5n7ybre...05-31.odt?dl=0

Next major post tomorrow (Wednesday) evening for the start on Thursday of the Japanese Sen & U20 Championships and possibly also for Friday's events if sufficient info is available.

[LuckySpikes]

Now the next major post will be tomorrow (Tuesday) evening for Wednesday's Montreuil International Meeting (CT Silver), Papaflessia in Greece (CT Challenger) and the Talsu Spears international Javelin meeting in Latvia.

[Occasional Hope]

That seems a fairer c9mparsion, They streamed the England multis last year, maybe it’s a cost thing.

[felix51]

It is disappointing, especially as they’ve streamed it before, but to be fair, Gotzis is an elite international field rather than a domestic comp.

Agree that Gotzis is special, but even the Portarathlon Multi Events Bronze meet in Naxos, Greece, could be viewed live on YouTube, and that was hardly an elite competition. The coverage wasn't fantastic, but at least it was shown.

[Occasional Hope]

It is disappointing, especially as they’ve streamed it before, but to be fair, Gotzis is an elite international field rather than a domestic comp.

[felix51]

Yeah, re the English Combined Events Champs it seems they're not streaming it this year. I included it with the question mark because they did stream it last year.

Yes, compare and contrast: Orf TV streams Gotzis free to all and sundry. UK couldn't be bothered to stream and follow the (hopefully) next big star, Sammy Ball.

[LuckySpikes]

Yeah, re the English Combined Events Champs it seems they're not streaming it this year. I included it with the question mark because they did stream it last year.

[RunUnlimited]

Can't see the English Combined Events Champs on the link provided. It just takes you to the EA Youtube page, but the live event isn't on there.

[Grassmarket]

The Los Angeles Continental Gold meet gets an early FTA repeat at 07:30 on Sunday on VP Xtra, so set your VHS.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 27th May to Sunday 28th May:

For combined events junkies it's a helluva weekend. Maybe cast one stream to your telly, have one going on your computer and the other on your tablet/mobile? Line them all up next to each other and you're sorted!

Elsewhere on the streams we have a cracking weekend and we're starting to get into the meat of the European outdoor season with Pfingstsportfest in Rehlingen (CT Silver) looking like the highlight of those meetings.

You may have seen my post elsewhere on the forum from earlier today ... European Athletics are live streaming all the top French meetings on the Conti Tour for free so they're no longer only available behind a paywall.

Finally, the British takeover of Oordegem (Belgium) is being live streamed but it's pay-per-view at 5 Euros. Hence, I haven't included it here.

Saturday to Sunday

• Taiwan Athletics Open (New Taipei City, TPE) - This has been a decent international meeting in the past. I don't know too much about who's competing this year, except that Anita Wlodarczyk is there as well as some good athletes from various Asian countries. It's a very full programme of events
• Défi'Athlon (Montpellier, FRA) - World Combined Events Tour Bronze meeting; The fields aren't terribly deep here but there's one huge name competing, Kevin Mayer. Two other men have 8000+ PBs - Auzeil & Hubert. Geraldine Ruckstuhl heads the Women's field with Solene Ndama & Rita Nemes (HUN) the only other athletes over 6000 points
• Hypomeeting (Götzis, AUT) - World Combined Events Tour Gold meeting; No need to tease this, it's Götzis!
• ? England Athletics Senior and U20 Combined Events Championships (Manchester, GBR) - Heading the fields here are Jodie Smith, Abigail Pawlett, Lewis Church, Elliot Thompson and, in the U20s, Sammy Ball
• Nordic Athletics Championships (Copenhagen, DEN) - This is a new championships (individual not team-scoring) and, judging by the teams selected, most of Scandinavia's best athletes are keen to compete here (with the exception of, say, their dozen or so very biggest names). So, it looks like a pretty good meeting overall

Saturday

• Final day of the Kansai Region University Championships (Nagai, JPN) - See 2 posts above
• USATF Distance Classic at LA Grand Prix (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - The Men's 5000 looks like the strongest field of the night, including Addisu Yihune (ETH), Abdi Nur and a bunch of men in the mid-13:10s, including Neil Gourley. In the Women's 5000 Schweizer, Cranny & Frerichs return to action. If Lizzie Bird is in decent shape she should win the Steeple. Seddon, Coleman & Staines go in their main events against OK fields. The 800 & 1500 'A' races are during the LA Grand Prix on Sunday
• ? Women's Challenge 10km Grand Prix series Round 2 (Gqeberha, RSA) - This good series regularly pits some of the best South Africans against good Ethiopians such as Tadu Teshome (called Nare in this series) & Selam Gebre here. This time Irvette van Zyl & Glenrose Xaba are in the home contingent trying to keep up
• Czech Super League Round 2 (Plzeň, CZE) - As usual this is well-supported by many of Czechia's best athletes and in many of the events there's a good head-to-head. On the Women's side there's more depth in the sprints and 100 Hurdles and Lada Vondrova is entered in all 3 flat sprints (it's not uncommon for her to do 2 events at these Super League meetings)
• Okpekpe Road Race (Okpekpe, NGR) - WA Gold Label race; It looks like the fields will be strong here with Daniel Simiu Ebenyo & Yasin Haji headlining the Men's race and Edith Jepchumba (30:53 PB) & Birtukan Welde in the Women's
• International Meeting Slovenska Bistrica - Milan Stepišnik Memorial & Marjan Štimec Memorial (Slovenska Bistrica, SLO) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; The Hammer comps are good here, especially the Women's with a load of Chinese athletes & Rosa Rodrigues (VEN). The Women's LJ isn't bad with Neja Filipic and talented 17yo Brina Likar (SLO) and the Men's LJ includes top Croatians Pravdica & Ceko. In the Men's Shot Sinancevic & Pezer are competing. However, the action on the track is disappointing. I was hoping for a bit more given the meeting's Challenger status
• Grifone Meeting - Memorial Angelo Belli (Grosseto, ITA) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; This is the meeting formerly known as the International Meeting di Castiglione della Pescaia. Whilst there's some decent fields on the Men's side, it's a few of the Women's events that catch the eye. The 800 is good with some top Italians (Sabbatini, Coiro & del Buono) facing a good Polish contingent and 2023 Euro Indoor finalist, Lorea Ibarzabal (ESP; 2:00.8 indoors). The Women's 100 Hurdles includes Siciarz and Wojtunik against Errandonea (ESP), McIntosh & 4 good Italians. The W 1500 field looks pretty sharp with a couple of very good Ethiopian youngsters, Martyna Galant (POL), Elena Bello & Walcott-Nolan. Five other Brits are entered in the meeting including Haydock-Wilson
• British Milers Club Grand Prix Round 1 (Manchester, GBR) - WA Continental Tour Challenger meeting; The event of the night is definitely the Women's 800 'A' race including Abbey Caldwell (AUS), Mageean, Sharp, Harmilan Bains (IND; 2.02.5 & 4:05.4 PBs) and a group of good British youngsters. In the 1500 'A', Sarah McDonald continues her comeback against Abigail Ives. The standout Men competing are probably Cairess in the 5000 and Copeland against a decent field in the Emsley Carr Mile
• Los Angeles Grand Prix (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - WA Continental Tour Gold meeting
• Final day of the NCAA D2 Championships (Pueblo, CO, USA) - See post above
• Ottawa 10k incl Canadian 10km Championships (Ottawa, CAN) - The big story here is the match-up of Mo Ahmed & Cam Levins, the first time they've faced each other for 7 years. Being realistic though, at 10k there's only one outcome. Rory Linkletter & Tristan Woodfine are amongst the best of the rest. The line-up in the Women's championship is quite good, including Wodak, Leslie Sexton (32:04 PB), Alexandra Lucki, Cleo Boyd, Katelyn Ayers, Sasha Gollish & Maria Bernard-Galea
• Final day of the NCAA D1 East Preliminary Rounds AKA East Regionals (Jacksonville, FL, USA) - See 2 posts above; There's not really been any free live streaming options but there are some broadcast recordings of races being uploaded to YouTube

Sunday

• Final day of the NCAA D1 West Preliminary Rounds AKA West Regionals (Sacramento, CA, USA) - See 2 posts above; There's not really been any free live streaming options but there are some broadcast recordings of races being uploaded to YouTube
• Ottawa International Marathon (Ottawa, CAN) - WA Elite Label race; The fields are good here with Gadisa Shumie heading 6 sub-2:08 men. He won in Sevilla this February in 2:04:59. Part of the race's intrigue is, with 3 days of their window to go, how many of the 11 Japanese men racing here will achieve the individual times they need to qualify for their Olympic Trials in December? Hint: Not all of them will do it - the standards are tough. I've linked in the document to a separate Preview article about those Japanese men. Heading the Women's field with 6 sub-2:25 athletes is Aberu Ayana Mulisa (2:21:54 PB) and this race also includes Sarah Pagano (USA) and Germany's Melat Kejeta, returning after giving birth and hoping to start to match her HM prowess (65:18 PB) in the marathon
• Meeting International de Forbach (Forbach, FRA) - WA Continental Tour Bronze meeting; There's several events here with a few good (or very good athletes) lining up. For example, the Women's 800 includes Almanza & Habitam Alemu, and the 400 Roxana Gomez, Swiety-Ersetic, Vaicule (LAT) & Lacoste. Gierisch, Eckhardt & Danismaz face-off in the Women's Triple Jump and the Men's equivalent includes Cristian Napoles (CUB). In the Men's 800 there's 7 athletes who've run 1:46-flat or faster within the last year or so. Other big names competing including Fajdek, Belocian & Happio
• Venizeleia - Chania International Meeting (Chania, Crete, GRE) - WA Continental Tour Bronze meeting; There's some nice competitive fields here such as the Women's 100 Hurdles with Forster, Tjin A-Lim, Batista (BRA) & Nesteriuc, the Women's 400 Hurdles and a pretty strong Men's Hammer
• International Pentecost Sport Meeting Rehlingen AKA Pfingstsportfest (Rehlingen, GER) - WA Continental Tour Silver meeting; The local folk always pack this little stadium out on a holiday weekend for this meeting; There's some very good multi-national fields here, especially in the mid-distances and field events. The Women's 1500 includes Klein, Marta Perez, Mismas-Zrimsek & Vanderelst and the Men's equivalent features Stonier & Mills against the likes of Jye Edwards, Farken, Baptiste Mischler, Elmer & Meslek. The Women's 800 field (split into 2 races) has 15 women who've run 2:01.5 or faster, including young Swiss talent Audrey Werro, Boffey, Baker & Anna Wielgosz. In the Men's 800 the British invasion of Giles, Pattison, Webb & Hussey face Marc Reuther, Tshepo Tshite & Joseph Deng (rubbish last week). Of the field events, both the Javelin comps are particularly loaded (especially the Men's). In addition to those mentioned there's another 4 good Brits due to compete
• ? Scalata al Castello (Arezzo, ITA) - International Men's 10km & Women's 5km road races; There's good fields for the 50th edition of "Climbing the Castle" with the likes of Lucy Muli Mawia, Caroline Gitionga, Rebecca Lonedo & Verity Ockenden in the Women's 5km (6 laps around the town) and Eyob Faniel, Hosea Kiplangat (UGA) & Celestin Ndikumana (BDI) in the Men's 10km
• Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme de Rabat - Rabat Diamond League (Rabat, MAR)

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqhqinx1l1...05-28.odt?dl=0

Next major post possibly on Sunday evening. If not, likely on Monday evening.

[LuckySpikes]

Live streams/broadcasts for Thursday 25th May to Friday 26th May:

Thursday

• Cyprus International Athletics Meeting (Limassol, CYP) - Sprints & field meeting; WA Continental Tour Bronze meeting; There's quite good fields here, pretty much across the board, such as the Women's Long Jump that includes Agate de Sousa, Nguyen, Tilde Johansson, Yuliana Angulo (ECU) & Irozuru. Tentoglou & Montler face off in the Men's. There's 11 Brits entered

Thursday to Saturday

• NCAA D2 Championships (Pueblo, CO, USA) - Sorry, I'm not up on NCAA D2 at the moment but I always find these championships to be a good watch
• Ongoing Kansai Region University Championships (Nagai, JPN) - See post above
• ? Ongoing NCAA D1 East Preliminary Rounds AKA East Regionals (Jacksonville, FL, USA) - See post above
• ? Ongoing NCAA D1 West Preliminary Rounds AKA West Regionals (Sacramento, CA, USA) - See post above

Friday

• Meeting Jaén Paraíso Interior (Andújar, ESP) - WA Continental Tour Bronze meeting; There's decent line-ups in most events here, possibly the pick of them the Men's 1500 including Kamar Etyang, Grice, James West, Stijn Baeten (NOR), Federico Riva & Archie Davis. In total, there's 8 Brits due to compete here

All the details and links at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxnr4lnaf0...05-26.odt?dl=0

Next major post on Friday evening for a busy weekend including Hypomeeting in Götzis, the Rabat Diamond League, the Los Angeles Grand Prix (Conti Tour Gold), various other good track & field meetings and the Ottawa International Marathon.

[LuckySpikes]

A reminder for anyone who follows Japanese athletics more closely. There's 2 good websites you should bookmark ...

The English-language Japan Running News site is very good for mid/long-distance stuff (Google it since this forum unapproves the link for some reason).

And for news, reports & interviews regarding the whole gamut of events year-round at Senior, University & High School level, there's Getsuriku Online at https://www.rikujyokyogi.co.jp/ which is pretty good. It's in Japanese but translates reasonably well in Google Chrome.
I imagine they'll have a good amount of new content ahead of the Japanese Championships which start in 8 days' time.

And, of course, there's my regular in-depth reporting over on the 2023 OUTdoors thread, currently stretching to 10 posts since 8th April.