Date Early March Event type Track and field athletics | Location Melbourne, Australia | |
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Official site Melbourne Track Classic | ||
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The Melbourne Track Classic is an annual outdoor track and field meeting which takes place in early March in Melbourne, Australia. Currently held at the Lakeside Stadium, prior to 2012 the meeting was held at the Olympic Park Stadium.
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The competition was inaugurated in the late 1980s at the Olympic Stadium and gained a place on the IAAF Grand Prix circuit in its formative years. It has remained on the major international outdoor track and field circuit, featuring as the opening race of the year on the IAAF World Athletics Tour from 2005 to 2009. It is currently the first race of the IAAF World Challenge series. The event is also the foremost meet of the Australian Athletics Tour.
The Melbourne Track Classic has featured many high level performances including continental Oceanian records by Tim Forsyth in the men's high jump, Nathan Deakes in the men's 5000m walk, Scott Martin in the shot put, Lisa Corrigan in the mile run and Bronwyn Thompson in the women's long jump. National records have also been set at the meeting by New Zealand and Australia's athletes.