The Southeast Asian Youth Athletics Championships is an annual

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

competition between youth athletes (under-18) from

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

n nations which is organised by the Southeast Asian Athletics Association. The event, first held in 2006, was formerly known as the Southeast Asian Junior Championships,Southeast Asian Junior Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-04-23. though entries have always been for under-18 athletes, rather than the international standard of "junior" signifying

under-20 athletics Junior is a category of athletics in which athletes compete under the age of 20 years. Countries all around the world compete in athletics. World Junior Athletics Competitions are held every two years which contain the best junior competitors in ...

. The competition serves as a regional complement to the biennial, continental Asian Junior Athletics Championships. Since 2009, athletics has also been held for youths in the region at the annual

ASEAN School Games ASEAN School Games (ASG) (also known as the Youth SEA Games) is an annual games for secondary schools student athletes in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN ( , ), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a p ...

. A separate ASEAN Schools Athletics Championships was first held in 1977.SINGAPORE SCHOOLS SPORTS COUNCIL (SSSC) HISTORY & MILESTONES
National School Games. Retrieved 2018-04-23.

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Official website 2012
(archived) {{Southeast Asian Championships Under-18 athletics competitions Athletics competitions in Asia Youth sport in Southeast Asia Recurring sporting events established in 2006 Annual sporting events International athletics competitions Asian youth sports competitions