The 2019

Asian Youth Athletics Championships The Asian Youth Athletics Championships (U18) (Asian Youth U18 Athletics Championships) is a biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. First held in 2015, it a youth category ev ...

was the third edition of the biennial, continental

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competition for Asian athletes aged 15 to 17. It was held at the

Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground (), located in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, is a multi-purpose sports ground and home of Hong Kong Premier League club Eastern. It was the main venue for track and field events for the 2009 Hong Kong Games, 2009 East Asia ...

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from 15 to 17 March. Organised by the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association, a total of forty events will be contested with the events divided evenly between the sexes. The host was announced in January 2019 by Asian Athletics Association. Each Federation can enter maximum of 2 athletes in each individual event, while host team can enter maximum of 3 athletes in each individual event. For relay event, each Federation can only enter 1 team to participate. This championship was the first large scale competition situated in Hong Kong since the

2009 East Asian Games ) , Host city = Hong Kong , Teams participating = 9 , Athletes participating = 2,377 , Events = 262 events in 22 sports , Opening ceremony = December 5, 2009 , Closing ceremony = December 13, 2009 , Officially opened by = State Councilor L ...

. Kwan Kee, the Chairman of Hong Kong Amateur Athletics Association was satisfied with the performance of Hong Kong team (1 gold medal and 2 silver medals) and planned to bid for more international track and field events to promote the growth of this sport in Hong Kong.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Medal table

References

External links

2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships Official website

Asian Athletics Association website
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Asian Athletics Championships The Asian Athletics Championships is an event organized by the Asian Athletics Association. History The competition courted controversy with the IAAF when political in-fighting arose after Israel was excluded from participation in 1977. That e ...