The Maurie Plant Meet at Melbourne’s Lakeside Stadium can be streamed reside and free on 7plus type 6.50pm AEDT.
The Gold Tour athletics occasion will function an Olympic champion, the world’s quickest man, Australia’s latest world medalists, plus a slew of Australia’s most prolific Olympians and Paralympians.
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The Maurie Plant Meet is Australia’s first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold degree meet and can provide Australian sports activities followers an athletics occasion like no different. It begins on Thursday evening, February 23, from 6.50pm AEDT.
Seven’s Olympic and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games commentary group entrance the protection, with iconic sports activities broadcaster Bruce McAveney main the line-up.
McAvaney can be joined by Olympians Tamsyn Lewis-Manou and David Culbert within the field, and reporter Jason Richardson can be on the bottom for each the published and in-stadium commentary.
Seven has continued its three-year deal to broadcast the 100th version of the Australian Monitor and Area Championships.
The Continental Tour Gold collection is the uppermost degree on the World Athletics Continental Tour calendar, sitting slightly below the Diamond League in standing.
Every meet attracts the very best athletes throughout the globe, with 14 current meets provided in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas and for the subsequent three years, in Oceania.
The 200m dash is essentially the most extremely anticipated occasion of the evening and can see the quickest man on the earth Fred Kerley (USA) in motion.
The world champion will tackle Australia’s quickest man Rohan Browning, World Athletics Championships consultant Jake Doran and World under-20 bronze medalist Calab Regulation.
Kerley’s private better of 19.76-seconds locations him in a league of his personal on paper, however the uncooked expertise of Regulation and Australian under-20 document holder at 20.41-seconds Aidan Murphy may have nothing to lose.
A head-to-head matchup to not be missed is the ladies’s lengthy bounce, with Australian document holder and 2022 world chief Brooke Buschkuehl (nee Stratton) lining up in opposition to American sensation Tara Davis-Woodhall.
Davis-Woodhall can be fired as much as impress the Australian crowds after lately setting a brand new world lead of 6.99m at the US Indoor Championships.
Olympic 1500m champion Matthew Centrowitz (USA) takes on Commonwealth champion Oliver Hoare within the John Landy Mile, with the race that includes 16-year-old prodigy Cameron Myers, Paralympic star Jaryd Clifford and Kiwi Samuel Tanner.
A world affair awaits within the girls’s 1500m with US Olympic stars Heather MacLean and Emma Coburn, together with Ethiopian World Underneath 20 medalists Medina Eisa and Melknat Wudu, however nobody can be extra common than Australia’s trio of Jessica Hull, Abbey Caldwell and Georgia Griffith .
World Cross Nation bronze medalists Hull and Caldwell will look to construct upon their success of the weekend simply gone, whereas World Championship finalist Griffith possesses contemporary legs and robust credentials. MacLean looms as the foremost hazard to spoil the Australian occasion, whereas compatriot and steeplechase world champion Coburn has solid a protracted resume as a fierce competitor.
The 3000m race begins at 8.24pm AEDT with Aussie Stewart McSweyn taking over a world-class discipline.
The Maurie Plant Meet was beforehand generally known as the Melbourne Monitor Basic. It is title was modified to honor the athletics stalwart who died in 2020.
