Competition at the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne (© Getty Images)
The 2023 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series kicks off on Thursday (23) with the Maurie Plant Meet at the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne.
World 100m champion Fred Kerley headlines the men's 200m and takes on most of Australia’s crop of rising young sprint talent. Tara Davis-Woodhall and Brooke Buschkuehl clash in the women's long jump, while Nicola Olyslagers leads the women’s high jump field and many middle-distance stars will be racing after the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst.
Here’s how you can follow the action in Melbourne.
Follow and watch
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A two-hour live stream of the meeting, on Thursday 23 February, will be available in a number of territories via the World Athletics YouTube channel. The live stream will start at 19:00 local time (08:00 GMT).
The YouTube stream will be geoblocked in the following territories:
Albania, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Czechia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St. Barthélemy, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, São Tomé & Príncipe, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Coverage of the meeting will be available in the territories listed below. Be sure to check local listings - some broadcasts may be live while others will consist of highlights.
| OverSport (OverSport 1) | Albania, Kosovo |
| Super Sport (GSL1 / LIYU / SSME / VR3 / VR3A) | Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo DR, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Flow Sports | Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos |
| DirecTV (VC 618/1618) | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| 7plus | Australia |
| Viacom 18 (TV: S18 - 1 + S18 - 1 HD / Digital: JioCinema) | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives |
| Arena Sport (AP3) | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia |
| ESPN (STAR+) | Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
| SPOTV (SPOTV 2) | Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam |
| CBC (digital channels) | Canada |
| Arena Sport (AS2) | Croatia |
| Czech TV (CT Sport and ceskatelevize.cz/sport) | Czech Republic |
| Viaplay | Denmark |
| MTV (CMore Sport 1) | Finland |
| Cosmote (COSMOTE Sport 9HD) | Greece |
| AMC (Sport2) | Hungary |
| Viaplay | Iceland |
| Sport 5 (5SPORT) | Israel |
| Sky (Sky Sport Arena / Channel 204) | Italy |
| Ziggo (Ziggo Sport & Ziggo Sport Select) | Netherlands |
| Viaplay (V sport +) | Norway |
| Polsat (Polsat Sport) | Poland |
| SPORT.TV (SPORT.TV2) | Portugal |
| Match TV (ARENA) | Russia |
| JOJ TV (TV JOJ Sport) | Slovakia |
| Arena Sport (AS1) | Slovenia |
| Viaplay (V sport 1) | Sweden |
| Swiss Sport TV | Switzerland |
| ELTA (ELTA SPORTS 2) | Taiwan |
| Poverkhnost (Sport 1) | Ukraine |
| Viaplay (Viaplay Sports 2) | United Kingdom |
| FloSports (FloTrack) | USA |
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