WACT Gold 2021 announced

Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium will set the scene for the start of 2021 @WorldAthletics #ContinentalTourGold meeting series.

— Continental Tour Gold (@ContiTourGold) November 27, 2020

I loved the 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold. We had athletics to watch, and with the Diamond League meets, athletics fans had exceptional athletes and performances in this pandemic year. We look hopefully to 2021.

Karston Warholm, photo by Getty Images / European Athletics

WACT Gold 2021 announced

MONACO (MON): The new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will host the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of next year. The meeting will be a test event for Tokyo 2020 12 weeks later. The 2nd edition of the series was officially confirmed and comprise 11 meetings in 10 countries. New meet is Irena Szewinska Memorial in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It starts with Tokyo and ends with Nairobi. The dates: 9 May – Continental Tour Meeting, Tokyo (JPN); 19 May – 60th Golden Spike, Ostrava (CZE); 5 Jun – Racers Adidas Grand Prix, Kingston (JAM); 6-Jun – FBK Games, Hengelo (NED); 8 Jun – Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku (FIN); 30 Jun – Irena Szewinska Memorial/Bydgoszcz Cup, Bydgoszcz (POL); 6-Jul – Gyulai IstvÃ¡n Memorial, SzÃ©kesfehÃ©rvÃ¡r (HUN); 5 Sep – Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, ChorzÃ³w (Silesia) (POL); 14 Sep – Zagreb Hanzekovic Memorial, Zagreb (CRO); 18 Sep – Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (KEN); Date TBC – Continental Tour Meeting, Nanjing (CHN).

.@LylesNoah completes the double today with his win in the 200m in 20.13, just over an hour after winning the 100m at @GyulaiMemorial in Hungary!! #gyulaimemorial pic.twitter.com/3Cx2lUEnVa

— Global Athletics (@gamupdates) August 19, 2020

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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