The outdoor World Cup in Budapest (Hungary), which will take place from August 19 to 27, will mark the pre-Olympic year of athleticsin which 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 the postponements derived from the pandemicespecially with the European and World Cup in the same summer, this 2023 resumes normality 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, initially scheduled for 2021 and to be held four years following the last edition. That World Cup will coincide with the Spanish Indoor Championships in Madrid (17-19) and almost with 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)in which Spain aspires to surpass the five medals of 2021 in Torun, in which it was tenth in the medal table.
The high point of the season will be the World Cup in Budapest, in Augustin which the best athletes in the world will seek glory less than a year before the Olympic Games in Paris, for which many will seek their ticket in Hungary.
In summer, almost the entire Diamond League calendar will be compressed, made up of fifteen tests, starting in Doha (Qatar) on May 5 and concluding, for the first time, far from Europe. It will be in Eugene (United States) on September 16 and 17.
The calendar of the ‘six majors’, the six best marathons in the world, will open in Tokyo on March 5 and will end in New York on November 5. In 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 once more, following three years, in Riga (Latvia). In addition, it will have the novelty of also being a World Championship for five kilometers and a mile in what promises to be a great athletics festival.
The year will enter its final stretch with two great events on the athletic calendar. A the Valencia Marathon (December 3), which continues to grow year following year and is already considered one of the best in the worldand the other the European cross country in Brussels (Belgium) on December 10.
The farewell to 2023 will make all eyes be on the San Silvestre Vallecana, which in its last edition counted 43,000 participants through the streets of Madrid, and the mythical San Silvestre de Sao Paulo, the pioneer, which a few days ago together with 32,000 runners at their starting line.
