All comers track meets have been long standing traditions held in most major cities across the United States and Canada.
In June 2009, this site listed over fifty active all comer track meet series in North America.
[7] Occasionally meets are called "all comers" but are actually limited by the age groups served or have qualifying standards that entrants must have achieved in order to enter.
[8] Fortune Gordien set the world record in the discus throw at a 1953 all-comers meet in Pasadena, California that lasted almost six years.
Guinness Book of Track and Field: Facts and Feats called the audience of 48, the smallest crowd ever to witness a world record.