The outdoor World Cup in Budapest (Hungary), which will take place from August 19 to 27, will mark the pre-Olympic year of athleticswhere the Cross World Championships in Bathurst (Australia) and the European Indoor Track Championships in Istanbul (Turkey) also stand out.
After an atypical year 2022, with an accumulation of championships due to postponements arising from the pandemicespecially with the European and World Cup in the same summer, this 2023 continues as normal with a more spaced calendar between the big events.
The first major international event will be on February 5 with the European Team Cross Country Cup in Oropesa (Castellón) and thirteen days later, on the 18th, the Cross Country World Cup will arrive in Bathurs.t, which was initially scheduled for 2021 and will be held four years after the last edition. That World Cup will coincide with the Spanish Indoor Championships in Madrid (17-19) and almost the International Indoor Meeting (22), also in the Spanish capital, of the World Indoor Tour.
A week later, all eyes will be on the European indoor track in Istanbul (March 2-5)with Spain seeking to surpass 2021’s five medals in Torun, where it is tenth in the medal table.
The high point of the season is the World Cup in Budapest, in Augustwhere the world’s best athletes will be chasing glory less than a year before the Olympic Games in Paris, where many will be chasing their ticket to Hungary.
In the summer, almost the entire Diamond League calendar will be compressed, consisting of fifteen tests, starting in Doha (Qatar) on May 5 and ending, for the first time, away from Europe. It will be in Eugene (United States) on September 16 and 17.
The calendar of ‘six majors’, the six best marathons in the world, opens in Tokyo on March 5 and ends in New York on November 5. Between Boston (April 17), London (April 23), Berlin (September 24) and Chicago (October 8).
On September 30 and October 1, the Half Marathon World Championship will be held again, after three years, in Riga (Latvia). In addition, it will have the novelty of being a World Championship over five kilometers and one mile in what promises to be a great athletics celebration.
The year enters its final phase with two great events in the athletic calendar. A the Valencia Marathon (December 3), which continues to grow every year and is considered one of the best in the worldand the rest of the European cross country in Brussels (Belgium) on December 10.
The 2023 farewell will focus all eyes on San Silvestre Vallecana, which in its last edition counted 43,000 participants on the streets of Madrid, and the mythical San Silvestre de Sao Paulo, the pioneer, who a few days ago along with 32,000 runners at their starting line.
Source: La Verdad
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