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As well as the Diamond Leagues and Budapest World Championships there's other big events in 2023 including the World Cross Country Championships (18 Feb), Pan American Games (Santiago, starting late Oct), Asian Games (starting late Sep, if China opens up sufficiently) and the first edition of the World Road Running Championships (Riga, 30 Sep - 1 Oct) which combines the Half Marathon World Championships with new world championships for the Road Mile and 5km.
The Continental Tour continues to expand with 165 meetings currently on the schedule compared to 154 last year and that's even without the 4 late April/early May Japanese meetings to be added and several US meetings & a few other notable meetings so far missing. I presume the dates for those meetings have yet to be confirmed. The first Gold meeting is the Grenada Invitational on 22 April and the first European meetings on the Tour are currently Challenger meetings in Belfast and Greece on 13 May. Great Britain has a further 7 meetings on the Tour - the 5 BMC Grand Prix (all Challenger), the Manchester Silver meeting and Loughborough LEAP. New locations on the Tour are Slovenia, Portugal, Estonia & Serbia and it's noticeable how many more German meetings there are (27 in total now though 21 of them are Challenger meetings).
I haven't counted up and compared the numbers of World Label Road Races but there's a few new stops including the Doha Marathon, MonacoRun (5km), the Ghent Half Marathon, Atlanta Women's 5km, BAA 5k (Boston), Kaunas Marathon and the Belfast Marathon as well as the restoration of all the RunCzech races to label status. One thing to note - WA have been messing with the category system again so races are now (in order of importance) Platinum, Gold, Elite or Label. Why they don't go back to a much-easier-to-understand Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, I'll never understand!! 14 races (all marathons) now have the Platinum label - the 6 marathon majors plus the Xiamen Marathon, Osaka Women's, Nagoya Women's, Seoul, Sydney, Amsterdam, Shanghai & Valencia.
The World Cross Country Tour continues with a further 10 meetings this season plus there's the European Champion Clubs Cross Country on 5 February and a couple of other good Spanish meetings also on the live streams.
There's currently 12 events on the World Combined Events Tour (2 of them indoors soon) with the first outdoor meeting the Multistars in Italy on 29-30 April.
The World Race Walking Tour schedule doesn't look fully fleshed out yet but it starts on New Years' Day with a new stop at the old Tokyo New Year Race Walking Tourmanent. Although the first live streaming of the meetings currently listed probably won't be until the Dudinska 50 meeting on 25 March, there will be good action on the live streams from Spain and Japan in February & March. Also, it's an odd-numbered year so it's time again for the European Team RW Championships in Poděbrady on 21 May.
All the Calendars for the various Tours along with Results links are available via https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions
January to March outdoors is dominated by the roads and cross country but there is track action Down Under with 10 Continental Tour meetings in New Zealand and Australia as well as other good Aussie meetings like the Box Hill Burn, Box Hill Classic, Vic Milers' meets & their national Championships. All are live streamed.
To kick off 2023 there's some big events in the first couple of weeks, all on the live streams ...
2 - 3 Jan - Hakone Ekiden
6 Jan - Campaccio International Cross Country - World XC Tour Gold meeting
8 Jan - Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza - World XC Tour Gold meeting
14 Jan - Carrera Urbana Internacional Noche de San Antón (Jaén, ESP) - International 10km road race
15 Jan - All Japan Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden Championship (Men's event to follow the week after)
15 Jan - Cinque Mulini - World XC Tour Gold meeting
15 Jan - 10k Valencia
15 Jan - Houston Marathon & Half Marathon
The Continental Tour continues to expand with 165 meetings currently on the schedule compared to 154 last year and that's even without the 4 late April/early May Japanese meetings to be added and several US meetings & a few other notable meetings so far missing. I presume the dates for those meetings have yet to be confirmed. The first Gold meeting is the Grenada Invitational on 22 April and the first European meetings on the Tour are currently Challenger meetings in Belfast and Greece on 13 May. Great Britain has a further 7 meetings on the Tour - the 5 BMC Grand Prix (all Challenger), the Manchester Silver meeting and Loughborough LEAP. New locations on the Tour are Slovenia, Portugal, Estonia & Serbia and it's noticeable how many more German meetings there are (27 in total now though 21 of them are Challenger meetings).
I haven't counted up and compared the numbers of World Label Road Races but there's a few new stops including the Doha Marathon, MonacoRun (5km), the Ghent Half Marathon, Atlanta Women's 5km, BAA 5k (Boston), Kaunas Marathon and the Belfast Marathon as well as the restoration of all the RunCzech races to label status. One thing to note - WA have been messing with the category system again so races are now (in order of importance) Platinum, Gold, Elite or Label. Why they don't go back to a much-easier-to-understand Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, I'll never understand!! 14 races (all marathons) now have the Platinum label - the 6 marathon majors plus the Xiamen Marathon, Osaka Women's, Nagoya Women's, Seoul, Sydney, Amsterdam, Shanghai & Valencia.
The World Cross Country Tour continues with a further 10 meetings this season plus there's the European Champion Clubs Cross Country on 5 February and a couple of other good Spanish meetings also on the live streams.
There's currently 12 events on the World Combined Events Tour (2 of them indoors soon) with the first outdoor meeting the Multistars in Italy on 29-30 April.
The World Race Walking Tour schedule doesn't look fully fleshed out yet but it starts on New Years' Day with a new stop at the old Tokyo New Year Race Walking Tourmanent. Although the first live streaming of the meetings currently listed probably won't be until the Dudinska 50 meeting on 25 March, there will be good action on the live streams from Spain and Japan in February & March. Also, it's an odd-numbered year so it's time again for the European Team RW Championships in Poděbrady on 21 May.
All the Calendars for the various Tours along with Results links are available via https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions
January to March outdoors is dominated by the roads and cross country but there is track action Down Under with 10 Continental Tour meetings in New Zealand and Australia as well as other good Aussie meetings like the Box Hill Burn, Box Hill Classic, Vic Milers' meets & their national Championships. All are live streamed.
To kick off 2023 there's some big events in the first couple of weeks, all on the live streams ...
2 - 3 Jan - Hakone Ekiden
6 Jan - Campaccio International Cross Country - World XC Tour Gold meeting
8 Jan - Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza - World XC Tour Gold meeting
14 Jan - Carrera Urbana Internacional Noche de San Antón (Jaén, ESP) - International 10km road race
15 Jan - All Japan Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden Championship (Men's event to follow the week after)
15 Jan - Cinque Mulini - World XC Tour Gold meeting
15 Jan - 10k Valencia
15 Jan - Houston Marathon & Half Marathon
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