Botswana, Kenya confirmed among nations to host 2023 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meetings
Two African nations, Botswana and Kenya have been confirmed by World Athletics to host two of the 14 Gold level meetings in 2023.
While Kenya hosted one of the legs last year, Botswana is among the three new additions to expand the meetings to 14 legs. The other two nations are Australia (Melbourne) and Grenada.
According to the 2023 calendar confirmed by World Athletics on Monday, Gold level action will kick off in Melbourne, Australia, on 23 February when the Maurie Plant Meet will welcome some of the world’s top athletes to the Lakeside Stadium.
Two months later, the Grenada Invitational will take place at the Kirani James Athletic Stadium (22 April), before events in Gaborone in Botswana (29 April), Nairobi in Kenya (13 May), Yokohama in Japan and Devonshire in Bermuda (both 21 May).
The Gold tour then moves on to Los Angeles, USA (27 May), before events in Hengelo in the Netherlands (4 June), Bydgoszcz in Poland (6 June), Turku in Finland (13 June), New York in USA (24 June) and Ostrava in Czech Republic (27 June).
Jamaica’s reigning World 100m champion, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce set the 100m meeting record and Continental Tour best of 10.67 at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi last May.
It was the 36 year old’s first outdoor race of 2022 and one that opened the way for her record seven sub-10.70 100m races of the year.
