Athletics Canada to launch National Track & Field Tour

Six of Canada’s premier track and field meets will now be featured on the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver, Bronze and Challenger series. With the addition of these events, Athletics Canada will launch its own National Track and Field Tour, which is made up of 10 meets in 10 cities across Canada, with a total prize purse of $400,000 for competing athletes. The tour hopes to provide more opportunities for Canadian athletes and attract international talent to Canadian meets.

This high-performance track and field series is scheduled to start in time for the 2022 outdoor season, with the first meet on May 14 in Burnaby, B.C. and running until the 2022 World Athletics Championship in Oregon in mid-July.

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‘This move will help provide meaningful competition for developing athletes at home,” says Athletics Canada director of domestic programs Chris Winter. “We do not want our athletes to feel they have to leave Canada to compete.”

ATHLETICS CANADA ANNOUNCES NATIONAL TRACK AND FIELD TOUR FOR MAY – JULY 2022

10 Races
10 Cities
4 Provinces
$400,000 in prize money

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After two years of postponements and cancellations, the National Track & Field Tour hopes to build off the success of the 2021 Tokyo Qualifying Series, which helped provide competitive opportunities for Canadian athletes during the pandemic.

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According to the World Athletics Continential Tour, silver label events have a total purse of $50,000, bronze $25,000 and challenger $5,000-10,000. Here is the schedule of meets for the Athletics Canada National Track and Field Tour. 

NATIONAL TRACK AND FIELD TOUR SCHEDULE: