World Athletics Continental Tour Gold 2024 - Melbourne
The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold kicks off in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday (15) and here's how you can watch and follow the action.
Strong fields have been announced for the first Gold level meeting of this year's Continental Tour. Britain's 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman will race Australian record-holder Stewart McSweyn and New Zealand’s Samuel Tanner in the John Landy Mile, while Oceanian record-holder Nicola Olyslagers, the Olympic silver medallist, continues her campaign in the high jump. Other athletes in action include Matt Denny in the discus, Sasha Zhoya in the 110m hurdles and rising sprint star Torrie Lewis in the 100m.
Many athletes will use the World Athletics Continental Tour as part of their preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris, where athletics will star as the No.1 sport.
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A two-hour live stream of the meeting, on Thursday 15 February, will be available in a number of territories via World Athletics Inside Track. The live stream will start at 7:00pm local time (8:00am GMT / 9:00am CET).
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The live stream will be geoblocked in the following territories:
American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, 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, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, St. Barthélemy, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, São Tomé & Príncipe, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Coverage of the meeting will be available in the territories listed below. This list is subject to change. Be sure to check local listings – some broadcasts may be live while others will consist of highlights.
| FloSports (FloTrack) | American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States of America, Northern Mariana Islands |
| Maximo 360 / SuperSport GOtv Select 2 / SuperSport Liyu / SuperSport Variety 3 / SuperSport Variety 4 Africa | 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, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines VIN, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, Bonaire, Guadaloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin |
| Directv Latin America | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| 7plus | Australia |
| TV Arena Sport 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia |
| ESPN Star+ | Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
| CBC | Canada |
| Ceska televize | Czechia |
| MTV Urheilu 1 | Finland |
| SPOTV2 | Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam |
| AMC Sport 2 | Hungary |
| Viacom 18 JioCinema / Sports18 - 3 | India |
| The Sports Channel | Israel |
| Sky Sport Arena | Italy, San Marino, Vatican City |
| TV Arena Sport 3 | Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia |
| Ziggo Sport | Netherlands |
| VG+ Sport | Norway |
| Polsat Sport Extra | Poland |
| Match Arena / Match Igra | Russia |
| JOJ Sport | Slovakia |
| TV Arena Sport 2 | Slovenia |
| Elta Sports 2 | Taiwan |
| Poverkhnost Sport 1 / Sport 3 | Ukraine |
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2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar
15 February – Maurie Plant Meet, Melbourne (AUS)
14 April – Botswana Golden Grand Prix, Gaborone (BOT)
20 April – Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (KEN)
18 May – USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix, Los Angeles (USA)
19 May – Seiko Golden Grand Prix, Tokyo (JPN)
28 May – Ostrava Golden Spike, Ostrava (CZE)
9 June – USATF New York City Grand Prix, New York (USA)
18 June – Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku (FIN)
21 June – Irena Szewinska Memorial, Bydgoszcz (POL)
7 July – FBK Games, Hengelo (NED)
9 July – Gyulai István Memorial, Szekesfehervar (HUN)
8 September – Memorial Borisa Hanzekovica, Zagreb (CRO)
