The European Athletics U18 Championships (named as European Athletics Youth Championships in 2016) are a biennial

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competition for European athletes under the age of eighteen ( youth category). The creation of the competition stemmed from the 2013

European Athletics The European Athletic Association (more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 ...

Congress. The event was created to promote the sport among young people in Europe. Each country may send a maximum of two athletes per event. The European U18 Championships will be the third age category championships organised by the European Athletic Association, following on from the long-running

European Athletics U20 Championships The European Athletics U20 Championships (formerly named the European Athletics Junior Championships up to 2015) are the European championships for athletes who are under-20 athletes, which is the age range recognised by World Athletics as jun ...

(first held in 1970) and the

European Athletics U23 Championships The European Athletics U23 Championships is a biennial athletics competition for European athletes under the age of 23, which is organized by the European Athletic Association. The oldest of the 'age-group' track and field events held by Europe ...

(first held in 1997). The first iteration of the championships is set to take place in 2016. This will mean that the event will serve in the alternate years between the

European Youth Olympic Festival The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fir ...

, another biennial under-18s event hosted by the

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Editions

Championships records

Boys

Girls

All-time medal table

''Updated after 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships.'' * Medals won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes were not included in the official medal table.

References

External links

European Athletic Association

European Athletics U18 Championships – European Athletic Association
{{Records in athletics U18 Under-18 athletics competitions Continental athletics championships Biennial athletics competitions